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Radical Philosophy, Issue 2.07, Spring 2020: EDITORIAL Protests, lockdowns - and then? ARTICLES From one Arab Spring to another, Gilbert Achcar Chilean revolts and the cirsis of neoliberal governance, Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott Nationalisms by, against and beyond the indian state, Rahul Rao Critique without ontology,...

The most violent American and European anti-Semites in the 21st century, including not only Jihadists but also white (and black) supremacist terrorist, made some reference to religion in their hatred of Jews. This is surprising. Religious antisemitism is often seen as a relic of...

What is this thing called Global Justice? is a clear and engaging introduction to this widely studied and important topic. It explores the fundamental concepts, issues and arguments at the heart of global justice, including: world poverty economic inequality nationalism human rights humanitarian intervention...

With reference to traditional film theory and frameworks drawn from fields such as screenwriting studies and anthropology, this book explores the challenges and opportunities for both practitioners and viewers offered by the 360-degree storytelling form. It focuses on cinematic virtual reality (CVR), a format...

This book provides explanations for a broader audience as to what the obstacles are to the peace process and offers thoughtful perspectives that could help further the peace initiative. It analyzes factors that transcend the negotiations process, mostly relying on a broad sociological analysis....

Reproduction of this work published 1833. Containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry, and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family;...

DescriptionIn early 2020 the first cases of Covid-19 infection were confirmed in India, andon 24 March the country's prime minister announced a nationwide lockdown, giving the population of over 1.3 billion just four hours' notice. Within days, it became evident that India had plunged...

In this work by F. Willard Brown, the author presents established facts on a range of topics - from education to religious belief to health and wellness - that are crucial for an understanding of life, but often remain strikingly unknown to the public....

Contemporary Issues in Policing: Foundational Readings provides students with insights into modern challenges and opportunities within law enforcement and policing.The first reading in the collection introduces students to the function of the police, the various levels of law enforcement, and the evolution of American...

Author, Eiram, provides a detailed account of bizarre occurrences she experienced (over a 15-year time period), as a young woman starting her career in the South. She risks everything to share this story, including her career and close associations with colleagues, friends, and even...

+"The EMPLOYMENTOF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, 1803-1865," examines pertinent primary source and secondary data on police, justices of the peace, and militia duties entrusted to African Americans in Louisiana and in selected Northern states before the Civil War and during the Civil War....

Why didn't someone tell me this would be so hard?Everyone says being a parent is a joy, a blessing, thrilling & so rewarding.Nobody mentions the part about exhausting, terrifying & SO confusing. And just when you think you've got it all figured out there's...

"Dimensions of Shared Agency" investigates the way in which standard philosophical accounts have been dealing with the issue of collective actions. In particular, the book focuses on the 'Big Five' of analytical social ontology (namely, Michael Bratman, Margaret Gilbert, Philip Pettit, John R. Searle...

Dance If Ye Can is an introduction to the huge variety of battles fought in Scotland, or fought by the Scots in the nearly nine hundred years when they were an independent nation.The first part of the book serves as an introduction to Scottish...

There is very little discussion of socially just approaches to speech-language pathology. Within other fields of clinically-oriented practice, social justice is a topic that has received a great deal of attention within the last few years. Pedagogy for addressing social justice has been developed...

This is the epic story of Escape and Evasion during World War Two. Main character is Donald Kenyon Willis, an American pilot who fought with the Fins against the Russians in 1940, then joined the Norwegian Naval Air Arm against the Germans, escaped to...

This book brings together a total of six papers in an interdisciplinary way at the border of natural disasters and cultural heritage. There is a need for studying and documenting cultural heritage in Arctic landscapes, as these are the most affected by climate change....

This book argued that social enterprise is not only the new tool for doing the usual business in an unusual way, but also the 'magic bullet' for addressing some of the most precarious challenges in our times. Because unlike the conventional development narrative which...

In Ethics for Evaluation the diverse perspectives on ethical guidance in evaluation are untangled and ordered in a theoretical framework focusing on evaluations doing no harm, tackling bad and doing good. Divided into four parts a diverse group of subject experts present a practical...

Human Nature And ConductJohn Dewey "Give a dog a bad name and hang him." Human nature has been the dog of professional moralists, and consequences accord with the proverb. Man's nature has been regarded with suspicion, with fear, with sour looks, sometimes with enthusiasm...

Author: John Quincy Former Ow AdamsISBN-10: 148395448XISBN-13: 9781483954486Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/26/2013Pages: 324Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d

This book, with the collaboration of Dr. Bak Nguyen, DMD, and special guest author, my mentor Sharon Lechter, CPA, CGMA, is written for the women friends who share the journey with me wanting it all - wonderful family life, great personal growth, and successful...

ICCEDI is an international seminar that is held every two years organized by the Law and Citizenship Department, Faculty of Social Science Universitas Negeri Malang. The activities aim to discuss the theoretical and practical citizenship education that becomes needed for democracy in Indonesia and...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

In the past three decades, a stream of criminological inquiry has emerged which explores, measures, and theorizes crimes and harms to the environment at the micro-, mezzo-, and macro-levels. This "green criminology", as it has come to be known, has widened the criminological gaze...

Based on hundreds of interviews with promoters, DJs and ravers from over thirty countries, Rave Culture; an insider's overview is a comprehensive guidebook to the rave phenomenon for ravers and non-ravers alike. In the last ten years rave has grown from an underground subculture...

The overall focus, scope, and purpose of this Special Issue on outdoor adventure is to provide the current and anticipated future trends, offer innovative ideas for new programs, support decision making for managers to move plans and intentions into action, inspire pioneering staff training...

Militancy continues to be characteristic of many supporters of the Russian far right, encompassing a belligerent rhetoric, a strong perception of participants as political warriors and often the use of physical violence. How serious a threat does Russian militant right-wing extremism pose to Russia...

This unique combination of local, cultural and family history explores the lives of the men and women who worked in the baking trade in the regional Queensland town of Warwick during the century after the town's establishment in 1861. What emerges is a microcosm...

Brendan Joyce's full-length poetry collection Love & Solidarity examines the powder keg of the pre-pandemic American political economy, the sudden destabilization of mass unemployment in the pandemic and the brief but beautiful solutions put forth by the masses in June 2020. Author: Brendan JoyceISBN-10:...

This book takes an innovative approach to the study of memories of transit and exile in Portugal between 1933 and 1945 in artistic media. Informed by contemporary debates within memory and translation studies, it develops a translational perspective on transcultural memory and explores its...

Over the past 15 years the author, Ron Williams, has written this series of books that present a Social Historysocial history of Australia in the post-war period. They cover the period for 1939 to 1972, with one book for each year. Thus there are...

Tristan and Isolda is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus...

A specimen of printing types - Cast in the Letter Foundery is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1786. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine,...

Dancing and its relations to education and social life is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...

Lohengrin - A romantic opera in three acts is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres....

The devilish has long been integral to myths, legends, and folklore, firmly located in the relationships between good and evil, and selves and others. But how are ideas of evil constructed in current times and framed by contemporary social discourses? Modern Folk Devils builds...

A story of social injustice since thousand years At the end of 19th century, Hansen's disease was criminalized in the name of "An act to prevent the spread" that lasted almost a century later. Under the law, anyone suspected of having Hansen's disease was...

The legacy of physical artifacts as well as intangible attributes of a society that have been inherited from past generations is referred to as cultural heritage. Conservation science for cultural heritage refers to the study of conservation of art, technical art history and other...

In the forty years before the Civil War, America was awash in political and social reform movements. Abolitionists stormed against the cruelties of slavery. Temperance zealots hounded producers and consumers of strong drink. Sabbatarians fought to make Sunday an officially recognized sacred day. Woman's...

The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, was first published in 1848. It formed the basis for the modern communist movement as we know it, arguing that capitalism would inevitably self-destruct, to be replaced by socialism and ultimately communism. The Manifesto...

The present investigation has as title public transport modernization and urban problems in Cartagena which alludes to the changes and transformation that Cartagena and the country in general experienced during the period 1914 to 1939. In where Cartagena arrived to progress thanks to the...

This book takes a wide-ranging and non-dogmatic view of SDG12, tackling various approaches as to how production and consumption can provide for human well-being while minimizing destructive effects on the biophysical environment.Author: Jennifer Moore Bernstein, Robert O. VosISBN-10: 178973102XISBN-13: 9781789731026Publisher: Emerald Publishing LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Research Methods for Social and Legal Studies that seeks to harness insights from both social and legal methods to promote interdisciplinary research. This is important because of the increasingly close relationship between social and legal issues in contemporary times. Chapters include: "Research Design," "A...

Author: Bobby NewmanISBN-10: 0879757272ISBN-13: 9780879757274Publisher: Prometheus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1992Pages: 130Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.28w x 0.69d

Cultural policy intersects with political, economic, and socio-cultural dynamics at all levels of society, placing high and often contradictory expectations on the capabilities and capacities of the media, the fine, performing, and folk arts, and cultural heritage. These expectations are articulated, mobilised and contested...

This is the first scholarly monograph marking the social justice turn in technical and professional communication (TPC). Social justice often draws attention to structural oppression, but to enact social justice as technical communicators, first, we must be able to trace daily practice to the...

Traditional quilts serve many purposes over the course of a useful life. Beginning as a beautiful bed covering, a quilt may later function as a ground cover at picnics until years of wear relegate it to someone's ragbag for scrap uses.Observing this life cycle...

The twenty-first century is characterized by the global circulation of cultures, norms, representations, discourses, and human rights claims; the arising conflicts require innovative understandings of decision making. Deliberative Acts develops a new, cogent theory of performative deliberation. Rather than conceiving deliberation within the familiar...

Here, adequately presented for the first time in English, is the fascinating story of a splendid culture that flourished thirty-five hundred years ago in the empire on the Nile: kings and conquests, gods and heroes, beautiful art, sculpture, poetry, architecture. Significant archeological discoveries are...