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  • Senicide and Old Age Killing

    An Overdue Discourse

    by Raimund Pousset ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Raimund Pousset gives in this essential a concise account of senicide, the modern form of cultural killing of the elderly. He sheds light on both the history and the current situation of an ancient method. Practiced for millennia almost everywhere in the world, this custom of actively disposing of old 'useless' people or passively putting oneself to death is increasingly being revived today. ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Limits to Medicine

    Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

    by Ivan Illich ...
    The medical establishment has become a major threat to health'. So begins Ivan Illich's spirited and reasoned attack upon the mythic prestige of contemporary medicines, examining the customs and rituals conducted by the medical profession. Relentlessly and with full documentation taken from recognized medical sources Illich proves the impotence of medical services to change life expectancy, the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essence of Waldorf Education

    by Peter Selg ...
    Translated by Margot Saar ...
    "It is a simple but essential principle: education aims at the future, at a time that we as educators do not yet know and cannot foresee. The challenges that will confront the children in the future are not those of the past--of our past, of our life story and our horizon. Times change, so do the realities of life, and in our times they change quickly and dramatically. Education aims at the future ... Read more

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  • The Therapeutic Eye

    How Rudolf Steiner Observed Children

    by Peter Selg ...
    Rudolf Steiner's extraordinary ability to perceive the inner nature and development of children provided insights at many levels and areas of the creative learning process. He spoke of this ability as a precondition for all forms of healthy childhood education--including special education--and suggested that teachers should develop such a capacity within themselves.This process involves the ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • Rudolf Steiner's Intentions for the Anthroposophical Society

    The Executive Council, the School for Spiritual Science, and the Sections

    by Peter Selg ...
    Translated by Christian von Arnim ...
    Although the fruits of Anthroposophy--Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, Camphill, anthroposophic medicine, and so on--are relatively well known and moderately successful, their relationship to Anthroposophy and its vehicle for transmission, the General Anthroposophical Society, and the School for Spiritual Science, remains mysterious and unclear; sadly, the same is true of the meaning and ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • The Future of Ahriman and the Awakening of Souls

    The Spirit-Presence of the Mystery Dramas

    by Peter Selg ...
    In 1919 Rudolf Steiner spoke about the future physical incarnation of the being of Ahriman. This would take place before 'a part' of the third millennium had passed, and was inevitable – but it was also necessary that people were aware of this event and recognized it, for earthly culture would be destroyed if the world were to fall completely to Ahriman. The situation we find ourselves in today ... Read more

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  • Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany

    Edited by Richard F. Wetzell ...
    Series Book 16 - Studies in German History
    The history of criminal justice in modern Germany has become a vibrant field of research, as demonstrated in this volume. Following an introductory survey, the twelve chapters examine major topics in the history of crime and criminal justice from Imperial Germany, through the Weimar and Nazi eras, to the early postwar years. These topics include case studies of criminal trials, the development of ... Read more

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  • Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture

    by Carol Poore ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Comprehensively researched, abundantly illustrated and written in accessible and engaging prose . . . With great skill, Poore weaves diverse types of evidence, including historical sources, art, literature, journalism, film, philosophy, and personal narratives into a tapestry which illuminates the cultural, political, and economic processes responsible for the marginalization, stigmatization, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Inventing the Criminal

    A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945

    by Richard F. Wetzell ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of biological research into the causes of crime, but the origins of this kind of research date back to the late nineteenth century. Here, Richard Wetzell presents the first history of German criminology from Imperial Germany through the Weimar Republic to the end of the Third Reich, a period that provided a unique test case for the perils associated with ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Nurses in Nazi Germany

    Moral Choice in History

    by Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke ...
    This book tells the story of German nurses who, directly or indirectly, participated in the Nazis' "euthanasia" measures against patients with mental and physical disabilities, measures that claimed well over 100,000 victims from 1939 to 1945. How could men and women who were trained to care for their patients come to kill or assist in murder or mistreatment? This is the central question pursued ... Read more

    $126.49 CAD

  • The Corrigible and the Incorrigible

    Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany

    by Greg Eghigian ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    The Corrigible and the Incorrigible explores the surprising history of efforts aimed at rehabilitating convicts in 20th-century Germany, efforts founded not out of an unbridled optimism about the capacity of people to change, but arising from a chronic anxiety about the potential threats posed by others. Since the 1970s, criminal justice systems on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Thieves in Court

    The Making of the German Legal System in the Nineteenth Century

    by Rebekka Habermas ...
    Translated by Kathleen Mitchell Dell'Orto ...
    Series series Publications of the German Historical Institute
    From the seemingly insignificant theft of some bread and a dozen apples in nineteenth century rural Germany, to the high courts and modern-day property laws, this English-language translation of Habermas' Diebe vor Gericht explores how everyday incidents of petty stealing and the ordinary people involved in these cases came to shape the current legal system. Habermas draws from an unusual cache of ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD