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  • Moral Jeopardy

    Risks of Accepting Money from the Alcohol, Tobacco and Gambling Industries

    de Peter J. Adams ...
    Series series International Research Monographs in the Addictions
    Tobacco, alcohol and gambling corporations have been highly effective in stalling, diverting and blocking public health measures. This book provides an original and engaging exposé of the ethical issues faced by people and organizations when they accept industry money in ways that facilitate corporate influence with the public and with policy makers. It starts with a detailed examination of the ... Leer más

    $122.99 USD

  • Addiction and the Medicalisation of Conspicuous Behaviour

    New Critical Perspectives

    Edición de Bruce M. Z. Cohen, Martin Harbusch, Jo Reichertz ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This volume critically interrogates the dominant understanding of ‘addiction’ and ‘addicts’. It examines the proliferation of the addiction concept by psychiatry and other psy-professions, exploring the processes and underlying drivers of this form of medicalisation. Through discussions from leading scholars in the field on gambling, smoking, opioids, and drug use, as well as the passionate ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Theory and Philosophy in Applied Research

    de Peter J Adams ...
    The use of theory and philosophy in research can be unfamiliar terrain. Embark on a journey through such perspectives and concepts with this engaging and approachable guide.Making what theorists are talking about more accessible and demystifying some of their key ideas, this book offers a guided tour of philosophy to kickstart your own exploration. Breaking from traditional paths through ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD

  • Monster Metaphors

    When Rhetoric Runs Amok

    de Peter J. Adams ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
    This book explores ways in which common metaphors can play a detrimental role in everyday life; how they can grow in outsized importance to dominate their respective terrains and push out alternative perspectives; and how forms of resistance might act to contain their dominance.The volume begins by unpacking the dynamics of metaphors, their power and influence and the ways in which they are ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • How to Talk About Spiritual Encounters

    de Peter J. Adams ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book develops a new and innovative way of understanding how language is used when people describe their spiritual and mystical encounters. Early chapters provide overviews of the nature of spiritual encounters, how commonly they occur, and the role of language. The book then develops a unique way of understanding the dynamics of talking about spirituality, using original research to support ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Reflecting on the Inevitable

    Mortality at the Crossroads of Psychology, Philosophy, and Health

    de Peter J. Adams ...
    Death studies have, over the last twenty years, witnessed a flourishing of research and scholarship particularly in areas such as dying and bereavement, cultural practices and fear of dying. But, despite its importance, a specific focus on the nature of personal mortality has attracted surprisingly little attention. Reflecting on the Inevitable combines evidence from several disciplinary fields to ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Navigating Everyday Life

    Exploring the Tension between Finitude and Transcendence

    de Peter J. Adams ...
    Navigating Everyday Life explores the special moments, big and small, that rupture the surface of everyday life and that can help readers adjust to the disrupting effects of major life crises. Peter Adams delves into the two forces, finitude (the aspects that constrain a person to a situation) and transcendence (those aspects that enable movement beyond such constraints). Building on this ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Gambling, Freedom and Democracy

    de Peter J. Adams ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    As a consequence of the rapid proliferation of commercial gambling in Western-style democracies, governments and communities are encountering a complex array of economic, social and cultural harms associated with this expansion. This book focuses specifically on harms to democratic systems. It examines how people with key roles in democratic structures are vulnerable to subtle influence from the ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

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    Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter

    de Cass R. Sunstein, Reid Hastie ...
    Why are group decisions so hard?Since the beginning of human history, people have made decisions in groups—first in families and villages, and now as part of companies, governments, school boards, religious organizations, or any one of countless other groups. And having more than one person to help decide is good because the group benefits from the collective knowledge of all of its members, and ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Educational Goods

    Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making

    de Harry Brighouse, Helen F. Ladd, Susanna Loeb, Adam Swift ...
    "An ambitious effort that succeeds in providing a fundamentally new way to talk about and . . . think about policy choices in education." —Jeffrey R. Henig, Teachers College, Columbia UniversityWe spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education—what exactly should those who make ... Leer más

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  • Abductive Analysis

    Theorizing Qualitative Research

    de Iddo Tavory, Stefan Timmermans ...
    "A major contribution to both the pragmatist renaissance and the transnational turn toward theorizing in qualitative research." —Adele E. Clarke, author of Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory after the Postmodern TurnIn Abductive Analysis, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for theorizing qualitative research. They outline a way to think about observations, methods, ... Leer más

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