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  • The Tango of Ethics

    Intuition, Rationality and the Prevention of Suffering

    de Jonathan Leighton ...
    Despite existing for thousands of years, the field of ethics remains strongly influenced by several largely unquestioned assumptions and cognitive biases that can dramatically affect our priorities. The Tango of Ethics: Intuition, Rationality and the Prevention of Suffering proposes a deep, rigorous reassessment of how we think about ethics. Eschewing the traditional language of morality, it ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Battle for Compassion: Ethics in an Apathetic Universe

    de Jonathan Leighton ...
    Jonathan Leighton takes a hard look at the challenge of reducing suffering in a world propelled by self-interest and takes a brutally honest approach to answering fundamental questions about our existence. Written in a personal, sometimes irreverent tone, The Battle for Compassion synthesizes recent thinking from science, philosophy, psychology and economics with the author's own reflections. The ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Battle for Compassion

    de Jonathan Leighton ...
    Reflecting on freedom, identity and morality, this book offers a fresh, sweeping perspective on the human condition and a deep contemplation of the basis for our priorities at this critical moment in our history. What matters, where are we heading, and what would it really take to improve the prospects for our future? ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

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  • Hospicing Modernity

    Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

    de Vanessa Machado de Oliveira ...
    A thought-provoking guide to facing global pandemics, climate change, and other modern crises with maturity, humility, and integrity—for fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against PurityThis book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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  • Modernity and Self-Identity

    Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

    de Anthony Giddens ...
    This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed institutional reflexivity. In the current period, the globalising tendencies of modern institutions are accompanied by a transformation of day-to ... Leer más

    $23.00 USD

  • Matters of Care

    Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds

    de María Puig de la Bellacasa ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds of technoscience and ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Engaging Minds

    Cultures of Education and Practices of Teaching

    de Brent Davis, Dennis Sumara, Rebecca Luce-Kapler ...
    Engaging Minds: Cultures of Education and Practices of Teaching explores the diverse beliefs and practices that define the current landscape of formal education. The 3rd edition of this introduction to interdisciplinary studies of teaching and learning to teach is restructured around four prominent historical moments in formal education: Standardized Education, Authentic Education, Democratic ... Leer más

    $99.99 USD

  • Is That True?

    Critical Thinking for Sociologists

    de Joel Best ...
    Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of sociology and beyond.With inimitable style that melds ethnographic verve with dry humor, Best examines ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Another Science is Possible

    A Manifesto for Slow Science

    de Isabelle Stengers ...
    Traducido por Stephen Muecke ...
    Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good, and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues have been stymied by conflict within the scientific community and mixed messages symptomatic of a rushed approach. What is more, scientific research is being shaped by the bubbles and crashes associated with economic speculation and the market. A focus on ... Leer más

    $19.00 USD

  • Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication

    Paradigms, Principles, and Practices

    de Milton J. Bennett ...
    In the long-awaited second edition of Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication, Milton J. Bennett provides a comprehensive overview of the field from a constructivist perspective. In addition to his insightful analysis, Bennett offers a full complement of classic readings on the topic of intercultural communication, including:"Science and Linguistics," by Benjamin Lee Whorf"The Power of ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds

    Crisis and emergence in metamodernity

    de Jonathan Rowson, Layman Pascal ...
    Series Libro 1 - Dispatches
    No doubt the 21st century will continue to surprise us, but the battle for the soul of humanity appears to be quickening. Do we have what it takes to save ourselves from ourselves? The internet has fundamentally changed our experience of shared life, for good and bad. The spiritual and ecological exhaustion of modernity is watched and discussed in a public realm mostly controlled by private ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Effective Altruism: How Can We Best Help Others?

    de Magnus Vinding ...
    This book is part introduction to, part reflective examination of, the idea and ideal of effective altruism. Its aim is to examine the core question of effective altruism: How can we best help others? This question in turn forces us to contemplate what helping others ultimately entails. Here the book argues that the greatest help we can provide is to reduce extreme suffering for all sentient ... Leer más

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