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  • Reinhold Niebuhr against Racism

    by Ronald H. Stone ...
    This is Ronald Stone's fifth book on his mentor and friend Reinhold Niebuhr. For the first time he analyzes all of Niebuhr's writings on race to correct the academic work of critics of Niebuhr who have ignored Niebuhr's creation of institutions fighting white supremacy in the South and who commented on Niebuhr while not reading his complete works. It also publishes the text of his work as chairman ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reinhold Niebuhr in the 1960s

    Christian Realism for a Secular Age

    by Ronald H. Stone ...
    The Civil Rights Movement. The Cuban Missile Crisis. The assassination of a president and a senator, both from the same family. Praise turns into protest; hope into disenchantment, as democracy's new day goes up in flames. The 1960's was an era born in hope and ends in deep conflict.During this era, Reinhold Niebuhr, once dubbed "America's theologian," retires from Union Seminary in New York. ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moral Reflections on Foreign Policy in a Religious War

    by Ronald H. Stone ...
    Moral Reflections on Foreign Policy in a Religious War argues that foreign policy thinkers and actors must take religion more seriously than they have in analysis and action. The tragedy of U.S. policy in Iraq is in part due to the dangers of ignoring religious conflicts in that country until it was too late, and then responding too lightly. Working as a philosopher of religion and politics, Stone ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Between Two Rivers

    A Memoir of Christian Social Action and Ethics

    by Ronald H. Stone ...
    Between Two Rivers chronicles the life of noted scholar of religion, politics, and philosophy, Ronald H. Stone. From his childhood between the East and West banks of the Des Moines River through graduate work in New York between the Hudson and the East Rivers through his scholarly career and retirement in Pittsburgh, between the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, the book highlights Stone’s focus ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • The Political Crisis and Christian Ethics

    by Ronald H. Stone ...
    The Political Crisis and Christian Ethics addresses themes in political philosophy in the context of a crisis in democracy after the denial of the 2020 election by the Republican candidate for president. The refusal to accept the results of the election divided the electorate and drove the president's followers to fail in their attempted coup attempt in January of 2020. Democracy is defended in ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Political Theology of Paul Tillich

    by Rachel Sophia Baard, Gary Dorrien, Ronald H. Stone, Mark Lewis Taylor, Scott Paeth, Andre L. Price, Rubén Rosario Rodriguez, Michele E. Watkins, Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir, Ilona Nord0, Verna Ehret1, Mary Ann Stenger2, Ben Siu-pun Ho3, Matthew Lon Weaver4 ...
    Series series Faith and Politics: Political Theology in a New Key
    The Political Theology of Paul Tillich explores the political theology of one of the foremost thinkers of the 20th century, Paul Tillich, whose life and scholarship were decisively shaped by his experiences during World War I, his resistance to the rising scourge of Nazism in Germany, and his subsequent immigration to the United States. Tillich’s discerning analysis of fascism, grounded in his ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Multi-Objective Decision Making

    by Diederik M. Roijers, Shimon Whiteson, Ronald Brachman, Peter Stone ...
    Series series Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
    Many real-world decision problems have multiple objectives. For example, when choosing a medical treatment plan, we want to maximize the efficacy of the treatment, but also minimize the side effects. These objectives typically conflict, e.g., we can often increase the efficacy of the treatment, but at the cost of more severe side effects. In this book, we outline how to deal with multiple ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Applied Christian Ethics

    Foundations, Economic Justice, and Politics

    by Matthew Lon Weaver, Charles C. Brown, Randall K. Bush, Guyton B. Hammond, Christian T. Iosso, John C. Raines, Carol S. Robb, Samuel K. Roberts, Harlan Stelmach, Laura Stivers0, Randall W. Stone1, Ronald H. Stone2, Robert L. Stivers3, Gary Dorrien4, Edward LeRoy Long Jr.5 ...
    Applied Christian Ethics addresses selected themes in Christian social ethics. The book is divided in three parts. In the first section, “Foundation,” several contributors reveal their Christian realist roots and discuss the prophetic origins and multifarious agenda of social ethics. Thus, the names of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich come up frequently. In the second section, “Economics and ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Adversarial Machine Learning

    by Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Murat Kantarcioglu, Ronald Brachman, Peter Stone, Francesca Rossi ...
    Series series Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
    This is a technical overview of the field of adversarial machine learning which has emerged to study vulnerabilities of machine learning approaches in adversarial settings and to develop techniques to make learning robust to adversarial manipulation.After reviewing machine learning concepts and approaches, as well as common use cases of these in adversarial settings, we present a general ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Predicting Human Decision-Making

    From Prediction to Action

    by Ariel Rosenfeld, Sarit Kraus, Ronald Brachman, Peter Stone ...
    Series series Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
    Human decision-making often transcends our formal models of "rationality." Designing intelligent agents that interact proficiently with people necessitates the modeling of human behavior and the prediction of their decisions. In this book, we explore the task of automatically predicting human decision-making and its use in designing intelligent human-aware automated computer systems of varying ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • Resistance and Theological Ethics

    by Frances S. Adeney, Brian K. Blount, F E. Bonkovsky, Robert A. Chesnut, Gordon K. Douglass, Lora M. Gross, Heidi Hadsell, Paul Hertig, Young Lee Hertig, Edward LeRoy Long, Ronald E. Peters, John C. Raines, Laura Stivers, Matthew Lon Weaver, Dana W. Wilbanks, Scott C. Williamson, Mark Douglas ...
    Protestantism, at its best, grounds both its religious and its social critique in the faith of the prophets and the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as understood and lived by the church. Its teachings and desired practice stand in start contrast to complacent religion that seems to be at ease with imperial greed, domination, and violence. Resistance and Theological Ethics collects the edited ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Markov Logic

    An Interface Layer for Artificial Intelligence

    by Pedro Domingos, Daniel Lowd, Ronald Brachman, William W. Cohen, Peter Stone ...
    Series series Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
    Most subfields of computer science have an interface layer via which applications communicate with the infrastructure, and this is key to their success (e.g., the Internet in networking, the relational model in databases, etc.). So far this interface layer has been missing in AI. First-order logic and probabilistic graphical models each have some of the necessary features, but a viable interface ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD