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  • Crossing the Postmodern Divide

    by Albert Borgmann ...
    In this eloquent guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, Albert Borgmann charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption. Borgmann connects the fundamental ideas driving his understanding of society's ills to every sphere of contemporary social life, and goes beyond the language of postmodern discourse to offer a powerfully articulated ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Philosophy of Language

    Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues

    by A. Borgmann ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book deals with the philosophy of language and with what is at issue in the philosophy of language. Due to its intensity and diversity, the philosophy of language has attained the position of first philosophy in this century. To show this is the task of Part Two. But the task can be accomplished only if it is first made clear how language came to be a problem in and for philosophy and how ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life

    A Philosophical Inquiry

    by Albert Borgmann ...
    Blending social analysis and philosophy, Albert Borgmann maintains that technology creates a controlling pattern in our lives. This pattern, discernible even in such an inconspicuous action as switching on a stereo, has global effects: it sharply divides life into labor and leisure, it sustains the industrial democracies, and it fosters the view that the earth itself is a technological device. He ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Literacy Tools in the Classroom

    Teaching Through Critical Inquiry, Grades 5-12

    by Richard Beach, Gerald Campano, Melissa Borgmann, Brian Edmiston ...
    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    This innovative resource describes how teachers can help students employ “literacy tools” across the curriculum to foster learning. The authors demonstrate how literacy tools such as narratives, question-asking, spoken-word poetry, drama, writing, digital communication, images, and video encourage critical inquiry in the 512 classroom. This dynamic text will inspire teachers to:Work together to ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • De Havilland DH.106 Comet

    A Legends of Flight Illustrated History

    by Wolfgang Borgmann ...
    This book is the perfect addition to the A Legends of Flight Illustrated History seriesAs the first jetliner operated in scheduled service, the de Havilland Comet is a very important aircraft type in airline history. It set the standards for modern air transport and is therefore a MUST for this book series ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moral Cosmology

    On Being in the World Fully and Well

    by Albert Borgmann ...
    A moral cosmology was the ordinary background knowledge of prescientific peoples, who took the divinity and the moral rules of the heavenly bodies for granted. That unified world view was disrupted by the European Enlightenment, which divided moral cosmology into physics and ethics: physics tells us what is, ethics tells us what we ought to do. While knowledge of physics has become hard, and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • ONE YEAR

    Volume IV

    by Kari Borgmann ...
    Sydnie and Mahlon are taking the biggest step of their lives: moving in together. But the quiet life they envisioned in a century-old farmhouse is quickly becoming a beautiful, crowded chaos. As Sydnie's son Randy returns home to navigate life as a single father and her daughter-in-law Cassidy prepares for a wedding and a new baby, the farmhouse walls are bursting with the complexities of a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Real American Ethics

    Taking Responsibility for Our Country

    by Albert Borgmann ...
    America is a wonderful and magnificent country that affords its citizens the broadest freedoms and the greatest prosperity in the world. But it also has its share of warts. It is embroiled in a war that many of its citizens consider unjust and even illegal. It continues to ravage the natural environment and ignore poverty both at home and abroad, and its culture is increasingly driven by ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Stocks and ETF Guide: The Complete Guide for Intelligent Investing in the Stock Market, Targeted Wealth Building, and Secure Retirement Planning - Including Workbook and Day Trading Instructions

    by Moritz Borgmann ...
    The inflation is eating away at your savings, and everything is getting more expensive? Riester and savings accounts no longer contribute to building wealth but only bring wrinkles of concern? And you're wondering if it's even possible to build wealth on an average salary? Luckily, yes – and how this is possible with stocks and ETFs, even for financial market novices, you'll learn in this book! ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Community in the Digital Age

    Philosophy and Practice

    by Andrew Feenberg, Phillip E. Agre, Maria Bakardjieva, Bruce Bimber, Albert Borgmann, Hubert Dreyfus, Amitai Etzioni, Tetsuji Iseda, Diane Elizabeth Johnson, Richard Kahn0, Douglas Kellner1, Yumiko Nara2, Mark Poster3, Douglas Schuler4, Leslie Regan Shade5, Sherry Turkle6 ...
    Is the Internet the key to a reinvigorated public life? Or will it fragment society by enabling citizens to associate only with like-minded others? Online community has provided social researchers with insights into our evolving social life. As suburbanization and the breakdown of the extended family and neighborhood isolate individuals more and more, the Internet appears as a possible source for ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Contemporary Issues in Corporate Social Responsibility

    by Laurent Borgmann, Anne Burke, João M. S. Carvalho, Nikolay A. Dentchev, Wim J. L. Elving, Réka Jablonkai, Jan Jonker, Nadezda Kokareva, Gökay Özerim, Janusz Reichel, Agata Rudnicka, Ayselin Yildiz ...
    As a result of the industrialization, urbanization, and population increase during the last two centuries, the global landscape has been irreversibly damaged. These anthropological pressures have create endless problems on the global level, and individuals and organizations are beginning to realize their own ever-increasing responsibility to consider the welfare and interests of all stakeholders ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Moral Soundings

    Readings on the Crisis of Values in Contemporary Life

    by Richard Rorty, Steven Fesmire, Stanley Kurtz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jerry Weinberger, Leon Kass, Jane Smiley, Thomas Pogge, Richard Pipes, James Twitchell, David Marsland, David Bosworth, Christina Hoff Sommers, Edward W. Said, Janet C. Gornick, Isabel V. Sawhill, Albert Borgmann, Jerry L. Walls, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Cornel West ...
    Moral Soundings takes a fresh new approach to introducing students and general readers to contemporary ethics. Rather than surveying the standard fare in a typical anthology format, Furrow collects diversified essays around a structured theme: does Western culture face a moral crisis of values? Prominent voices in the humanities and social sciences provide a range of perspectives on a concentrated ... Read more

    $55.99 USD