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  • Speaking Management

    How to Spot Language Traps and Resolve Contested Management Terms

    by Stephen Keith McGrath ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book identifies ten linguistic traps in our everyday language usage and provides philosophical justification for a method of determining internally consistent definitions of groups of related terms that avoid all ten traps. Various examples and applications of this method are given throughout.The book demonstrates how the seemingly straightforward matter of our understandings of the meaning ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

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  • Discourse: The Basics

    by Angela Goddard, Neil Carey ...
    Series series The Basics
    Humans are social animals and are constantly interacting with each other through conversation, written communication, symbols and other expressions . Discourse: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the analysis of those interactions and the many forms and meanings they can take. The book draws on a range of international case studies and examples from literature, political ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Non-Representational Theory

    Space, Politics, Affect

    by Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. It revolves around three key functions. It:introduces the rather dispersed ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Social Epistemology

    Essential Readings

    Edited by Alvin Goldman, Dennis Whitcomb ...
    What if anything justifies us in believing the testimony of others? How should we react to disagreement between ourselves and our peers, and to disagreement among the experts when we ourselves are novices? Can beliefs be held by groups of people in addition to the people composing those groups? And if so, how should groups go about forming their beliefs? How should we design social systems, such ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of Information

    by Luciano Floridi ...
    Luciano Floridi develops an original ethical framework for dealing with the new challenges posed by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). ICTs have profoundly changed many aspects of life, including the nature of entertainment, work, communication, education, health care, industrial production and business, social relations, and conflicts. They have had a radical and widespread impact ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Great Endarkenment

    Philosophy in an Age of Hyperspecialization

    by Elijah Millgram ...
    Human beings have always been specialists, but over the past two centuries division of labor has become deeper, ubiquitous, and much more fluid. The form it now takes brings in its wake a series of problems that are simultaneously philosophical and practical, having to do with coordinating the activities of experts in different disciplines who do not understand one another. Because these problems ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Texts, Facts and Femininity

    Exploring the Relations of Ruling

    by Dorothy E. Smith ...
    'A crucial book for feminists, for sociology and the new "political anthropological historical school". It informs us how we are differently "situated" in and through social relations, which texts and images mediate, organise and construct.' Philip Corrigan, Professor of Applied Sociology, Exeter UniversityDorothy E. Smith is Professor of Sociology in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Wittgenstein, Rules and Institutions

    by David Bloor ...
    Clearly and engagingly written, this volume is vital reading for students of philosophy and sociology, and anyone interested in Wittgenstein's later thought. David Bloor provides a challenging and informative evaluation of Wittgenstein's account of rules and rule-following. Arguing for a collectivist reading, Bloor offers the first consistent sociological interpretation of Wittgenstein's work for ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Manager's Guide to Systems Practice

    Making Sense of Complex Problems

    by Frank Stowell, Christine Welch ...
    This book is an ideal resource on the subject of systems practice for busy managers whose time is scarce. It provides a rapid introduction to straightforward, yet powerful ideas that enable users to address real world problems. Systems theory and practice is predominantly a framework for thinking about the World, in which holistic views are maintained. In this respect it contrasts with some ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Language, Society and Power

    An Introduction

    by Annabelle Mooney, Betsy Evans ...
    Language, Society and Power provides an accessible introduction to the study of language in a variety of social contexts. This book examines the ways language functions, how it influences the way we view society, and how it varies according to age, ethnicity, class, and gender. Readers are encouraged to consider whether representations of people and their language matter, explore how identity is ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

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  • The Logic of Education (RLE Edu K)

    Edited by R S Peters, Paul Hirst ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This book explores the implications for the curriculum, for teaching and for the authority structure of schools and colleges of an analysis of ‘education’ in which the development of knowledge and understanding is accorded a central position. The book explains what philosophy of education is, and by concentrating on its central concepts, initiates readers into exploring it for themselves. It also ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Creativity and Advertising

    Affect, Events and Process

    by Andrew McStay ...
    Creativity and Advertising develops novel ways to theorise advertising and creativity. Arguing that combinatory accounts of advertising based on representation, textualism and reductionism are of limited value, Andrew McStay suggests that advertising and creativity are better recognised in terms of the ‘event’. Drawing on a diverse set of philosophical influences including Scotus, Spinoza, Vico, ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD