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  • Global Sustainability, Cultural Perspectives and Challenges for Transdisciplinary Integrated Research

    Edited by Benno Werlen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers new perspectives of transdisciplinary research, in methodological as well as theoretical respects. It provides insights in the two-fold bio-physical and the socio-cultural global embeddedness of local living conditions on the basis of selected empirical studies from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe. The theoretical foundations of ecological research and ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Society, Action and Space

    by Benno Werlen ...
    This is the first English translation of a book which has been widely recognized in Europe as a major contribution to the interface between geography and social theory. Ambitious, crackling with original ideas and persuasively argued, it raises exciting new implications for the study of space and social theory. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Knowledge and Action

    Edited by Peter Meusburger, Benno Werlen, Laura Suarsana ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume explores interdependencies between knowledge, action, and space from different interdisciplinary perspectives. Some of the contributors discuss knowledge as a social construct based on collective action, while others look at knowledge as an individual capacity for action. The chapters contain theoretical frameworks as well as experimental outcomes.Readers will gain insight into key ... Read more

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    Desire and Death in the Phenomenology of Spirit

    by Robert B. Pippin ...
    Series series Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
    In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that "self-consciousness is desire itself" and that it attains its "satisfaction" only in another self-consciousness. Hegel on Self-Consciousness presents a groundbreaking new interpretation of these revolutionary claims, tracing their roots to ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Methodology

    by Kerry E Howell ...
    This book provides students with a concise introduction to the philosophy of methodology. The book stands apart from existing methodology texts by clarifying in a student-friendly and engaging way distinctions between philosophical positions, paradigms of inquiry, methodology and methods. Building an understanding of the relationships and distinctions between philosophical positions and paradigms ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Luhmann Explained

    From Souls to Systems

    by Hans-Georg Moeller ...
    Series series Ideas Explained
    What are systems? What is society? What happens to human beings in a hypermodern world? This book is an introduction to Niklas Luhmann's social system theory which explains specific functions like economy and mass media from a cybernetic perspective. Integrating various schools of thought including sociology, philosophy and biology Luhmann Explained results in an overall analysis of "world society ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Discovery of Grounded Theory

    Strategies for Qualitative Research

    by Barney Glaser, Anselm Strauss ...
    Most writing on sociological method has been concerned with how accurate facts can be obtained and how theory can thereby be more rigorously tested. In The Discovery of Grounded Theory, Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss address the equally Important enterprise of how the discovery of theory from data—systematically obtained and analyzed in social research—can be furthered. The discovery of theory ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Beyond Objectivism and Relativism

    Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis

    by Richard J. Bernstein ...
    Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analytic traditions, Richard Bernstein examines a number of debates and controversies exemplified in the works of Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty, and Arendt. He argues that a "new conversation" is emerging about human rationality—a new understanding that emphasizes its practical character and has important ramifications both for thought and action. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry

    The Birth of Postpsychiatry

    by Bradley Lewis ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Interesting and fresh-represents an important and vigorous challenge to a discipline that at the moment is stuck in its own devices and needs a radical critique to begin to move ahead."--Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine"Remarkable in its breadth-an interesting and valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature of the philosophy of psychiatry."--Christian Perring, ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Theories of Learning

    Learning Theorists … In Their Own Words

    Edited by Knud Illeris ...
    This tenth anniversary edition of Knud Illeris’s classic 2008 text is an updated and definitive collection of today’s most influential learning theorists, now containing additional chapters from John Hattie and Gregory Donoghue, Sharan Merriam, Gert Biesta and Carolyn Jackson. This book brings together world-renowned experts, who each present their understanding of what learning is and how human ... Read more

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  • Time and the Other

    How Anthropology Makes Its Object

    by Johannes Fabian ...
    Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live in the "here and now," that their subjects live in the "there and then," and that the "other" exists ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Ambiguities of Experience

    by James G. March ...
    Series series Messenger Lectures
    The first component of intelligence involves effective adaptation to an environment. In order to adapt effectively, organizations require resources, capabilities at using them, knowledge about the worlds in which they exist, good fortune, and good decisions. They typically face competition for resources and uncertainties about the future. Many, but possibly not all, of the factors determining ... Read more

    $7.99 USD