De Virtutibus Et Vitiis
Title | De Virtutibus Et Vitiis PDF eBook |
Author | Aristotle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Ethics |
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Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing
Title | Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing PDF eBook |
Author | Paola Spinozzi |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 550 |
Release | 2017-11-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1315306573 |
Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing: Theories, Histories and Policies examines and assesses the interdependence between sustainability and wellbeing by drawing attention to humans as producers and consumers in a post-human age. Why wellbeing ought to be regarded as essential to sustainable development is explored first from multifocal theoretical perspectives encompassing sociology, literary criticism and socioeconomics, second in relation to institutions and policies, and third with a focus on specific case studies across the world. Wellbeing and its sustainability are defined in terms of biological and cultural diversity; stages of advancement in science and technology; notions of citizenship and agency; geopolitical scenarios and environmental conditions. Wellbeing and sustainability call for enquiries into human capacities in ontological, epistemological and practical terms. A view of sustainability that revolves around material and immaterial wellbeing is based on the assumption that life quality, comfort, happiness, security, safety always posit humans as both recipients and agents. Risk and resilience in contemporary societies define the intrinsically human ability to make and consume, to act and adapt, driving the search for and fruition of wellbeing. How to sustain the dual process of exploitation and regeneration is a task that requires integrated approaches from the sciences and the humanities, jointly tracing a worldwide cartography with clear localisations. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers interested in sustainability through conceptual and empirical approaches including social theory, literary and cultural studies, environmental economics and human ecology, urbanism and cultural geography.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Title | Arts & Humanities Citation Index PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1626 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Arts |
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A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century
Title | Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Kaye |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2000-10-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521793865 |
This book provides perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought.
Philosophy and the City
Title | Philosophy and the City PDF eBook |
Author | Sharon M. Meagher |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2008-01-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0791479048 |
The definitive source book on philosophy and the city. Using philosophical works from ancient Greece to contemporary times, Philosophy and the City demonstrates both why philosophy matters to the city and how cities matter to philosophy. The collection addresses questions that remain central to urban planning and everyday urban life, such as, What is a city? What does it mean to be a good citizen? By bringing various perspectives together, Sharon M. Meagher provides readers the opportunity to better understand key philosophical debates concerning not only social and political philosophy but also place and identity formation, aesthetics, philosophy of race and diversity, and environmental philosophy. Sharon M. Meagher is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women?s Studies at the University of Scranton. She is the coeditor (with Patrice DiQuinzio) of Women and Children First: Feminism, Rhetoric, and Public Policy, also published by SUNY Press.
Deviance
Title | Deviance PDF eBook |
Author | Earl Rubington |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 854 |
Release | 2015-10-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317348796 |
This highly successful reader presents the interactionist approach to the study of deviance, examining deviance as a phenomenon that is constituted through social interpretations and the reactions of persons caught up in this social process. This book focuses on issues such as how individuals interpret and label people, how people relate to one another based on these interpretations, and the consequences of these social processes. This perspective helps students understand both social process in general and the sociology of deviance in particular.
The Creation of Dangerous Violent Criminals
Title | The Creation of Dangerous Violent Criminals PDF eBook |
Author | Lonnie H Athens |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 135158443X |
Lonnie H. Athens’ path-breaking work examines a problem that has baffled experts and the general public alike: How does a person become a predatory violent criminal? In the original edition, the process that Athens labeled “violentization” encompassed four stages: brutalization, defiance, dominative engagements, and virulency. In this edition, Athens identifies a new final stage, violent predation, as the culmination of the violent criminal’s development. He uses vivid first-person accounts gleaned from in-depth interviews and participant observation of nascent and hardened violent criminals to back up his theory. In this vastly expanded edition, Athens examines how his thinking and ideas have evolved over the past thirty years and renames and clarifies two stages of development. Athens also addresses, for the first time, criticisms of his original theory. Milestones of this important work are discussed, as well as the paradoxes surrounding its present-day status in the field of criminology. Athens proposes a revised theoretical model that will be useful for classroom use, as well as for interested general readers and professionals.