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Toward a More Natural Science
ISBN: 9780029170717 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relation between the pursuit of knowledge and the conduct of life—between science and ethics, each broadly conceived—has in recent years been greatly complicated by developments in the science of life. This book examines the ethical questions involved in prenatal screening, in vitro fertilization, artificial life forms, and medical care, and discusses the role of human beings in nature.
The relation between the pursuit of knowledge and the conduct of life—between science and ethics, each broadly conceived—has in recent years been ...
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Ethical Issues in Nursing
ISBN: 9780415081450 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to take nursing ethics beyond stock 'moral concepts' to a critical examination of the fundamental assumptions underlying the very nature of nursing. It takes as its point of departure the difficulties nurses experience practising within the confines of a bioethical model of health and illness and a hierarchical, technocratic health care system. The contributors go on to deal openly and honestly with controversial issues faced by nurses, such as euthanasia and HIV.
This is the first book to take nursing ethics beyond stock 'moral concepts' to a critical examination of the fundamental assumptions underlying the ve...
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Spaces of Mobility: Essays on the Planning, Ethics, Engineering and Religion of Human Motion
ISBN: 9781845533397 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Human mobility is dramatically on the rise; globalization and modern technology have increased transportation and migration. Frequent journeys over large distances cause huge energy consumption, severely impact local and global natural environments and raise spiritual and ethical questions about our place in the world. 'Spaces of Mobility' presents an analysis of the socio-political, environmental, and ethical aspects of mobility. The volume brings together essays that examine why and how modern modes of transport emerge, considering their effect on society. The religious significance of...
Human mobility is dramatically on the rise; globalization and modern technology have increased transportation and migration. Frequent journeys over la...
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710,17 |
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Spaces of Mobility: Essays on the Planning, Ethics, Engineering and Religion of Human Motion
ISBN: 9781845533403 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Human mobility is dramatically on the rise; globalization and modern technology have increased transportation and migration. Frequent journeys over large distances cause huge energy consumption, severely impact local and global natural environments and raise spiritual and ethical questions about our place in the world. 'Spaces of Mobility' presents an analysis of the socio-political, environmental, and ethical aspects of mobility. The volume brings together essays that examine why and how modern modes of transport emerge, considering their effect on society. The religious significance of...
Human mobility is dramatically on the rise; globalization and modern technology have increased transportation and migration. Frequent journeys over la...
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Farmers of Forty Centuries or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan
ISBN: 9781905246809 / Angielski / Twarda / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1926, this classic survey, which includes nearly 250 photographs, examines the traditional farming methods of the densely populated lands of China, Korea and Japan and shows how fertility can be maintained over many centuries through conserving and utilizing natural resources. In the Introduction, the author notes: 'The United States as yet a nation of but few people widely scattered over a broad virgin land with more than twenty acres to the support of every man, woman and child, while the people whose practices are to be considered are toiling in fields tilled more than...
First published in 1926, this classic survey, which includes nearly 250 photographs, examines the traditional farming methods of the densely populated...
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Education's End
ISBN: 9780300138641 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making a passionate call for colleges and universities to prepare young people for lives of fulfillment, not just successful careers, Kronman urges a revival of the humanities lost tradition of studying the meaning of life through the careful critical reading of great works of literary and philosophical imagination.
Making a passionate call for colleges and universities to prepare young people for lives of fulfillment, not just successful careers, Kronman urges a ...
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The Varieties of Transition: The East European and East Geman Experience
ISBN: 9780745616094 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years the countries of eastern Europe have been undergoing a process of rapid social and political transformation. This process has brought with it common problems experienced on different levels: economic crisis, growing social insecurity and injustice, ethnic conflicts and civil strife. In addition, post-communist societies have encountered political, legal and social difficulties in coming to term with their own past.
In this book, Claus Offe provides a lucid and insightful account of this complex process of transformation. In a wide-ranging discussion he analyses... In recent years the countries of eastern Europe have been undergoing a process of rapid social and political transformation. This process has brought ...
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The Little Big i Book
ISBN: 9780595475971 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the meaning of life, which is defined by its purpose. Life's purpose is found in the Five Prime Es (5Es) of ennoblement, enlightenment, engagement, enjoyment, and enrichment.
This book is about the meaning of life, which is defined by its purpose. Life's purpose is found in the Five Prime Es (5Es) of ennoblement, enlightenm...
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Unveiling the Mystery of Life and Death
ISBN: 9781425768218 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Honest story of personal devastation, healing and spiritual search. Wonderful blending: personal narrative, life lessons, poetry and philosophy, river and ocean as one; river of life flowing into the ocean. -"Brother Satyananda Self-Realization Fellowship
"This book is one of the noblest works that I have ever read. Its theme reveals the magic and inner beauty of the soul of a queen of beauty." -Ghada Samman, a writer, a poetess, and a novelist. Her work has been translated to many languages. "I was enticed to read the book with an avid desire and taste its overwhelming grief, as... "Honest story of personal devastation, healing and spiritual search. Wonderful blending: personal narrative, life lessons, poetry and philosophy, rive...
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The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity
ISBN: 9780415910989 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The theme of the gift can be located at the centre of current discussions of deconstruction, gender and feminist theory, ethics, philosophy, anthropology and economics. This text offers several essays on gifts and gift-giving, and adds to them new essays written for this collection. The list of contributors includes Emerson Helene Cixous, Marshall Sahlins, Pierre Bourdieu, Gayatri Chakrovrty Spivak and Allan Stoekl.
The theme of the gift can be located at the centre of current discussions of deconstruction, gender and feminist theory, ethics, philosophy, anthropol...
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710,17 |
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The Philosophy of Physics
ISBN: 9780521562591 / Angielski / Twarda / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This magisterial study of the philosophy of physics both introduces the subject to the nonspecialist and contains many original and important contributions for professionals in the area. Modern physics was born as a part of philosophy and has retained to this day a properly philosophical concern for the clarity and coherence of ideas. Any introduction to the philosophy of physics must therefore focus on the conceptual development of physics itself. This book pursues that development from Galileo and Newton through Maxwell and Boltzmann to Einstein and the founders of quantum mechanics. There...
This magisterial study of the philosophy of physics both introduces the subject to the nonspecialist and contains many original and important contribu...
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465,65 |
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Experts in Science and Society
ISBN: 9780306479038 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In today's complex world, we have come to rely increasingly on those who have expertise in specific areas and can bring their knowledge to bear on crucial social, political and scientific questions. Taking the viewpoint that experts are consulted when there is something important at stake for an individual, a group, or society at large, Experts in Science and Society explores expertise as a relational concept. How do experts balance their commitment to science with that to society? How does a society actually determine that a person has expertise? What personal traits are...
In today's complex world, we have come to rely increasingly on those who have expertise in specific areas and can bring their knowledge to bear on cru...
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402,53 |
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Origin of Species
ISBN: 9781604592436 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Origin of Species is the landmark book that for better of worse put science and religion at odds. Very few people who have read this book and come away not believing in evolution. The detail of research is even by today's standards stunning; and the writing is still eminently readable. Second only to the Bible in its scope of influence, this book is a pertinent today as when it was first written.
The Origin of Species is the landmark book that for better of worse put science and religion at odds. Very few people who have read this book and come...
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Origin of Species
ISBN: 9781604592443 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Origin of Species is the landmark book that for better of worse put science and religion at odds. Very few people who have read this book and come away not believing in evolution. The detail of research is even by today's standards stunning; and the writing is still eminently readable. Second only to the Bible in its scope of influence, this book is a pertinent today as when it was first written.
The Origin of Species is the landmark book that for better of worse put science and religion at odds. Very few people who have read this book and come...
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56,06 |
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Searching for Cioran
ISBN: 9780253352675 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston's critical biography of the Romanian-born French philosopher E. M. Cioran focuses on his crucial formative years as a mystical revolutionary attracted to right-wing nationalist politics in interwar Romania, his writings of this period, and his self-imposed exile to France in 1937. This move led to his transformation into one of the most famous French moralists of the 20th century. As an enthusiast of the anti-rationalist philosophies widely popular in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century, Cioran became an advocate of the fascistic Iron Guard. In her... Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston's critical biography of the Romanian-born French philosopher E. M. Cioran focuses on his crucial formative years as a mys... |
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My Motion Offense at 16
ISBN: 9780595440269 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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My Motion Offense at 16
ISBN: 9780595711987 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An innovative and diverse football playbook can be the difference between winning and losing. In today's game, fresh and unpredictable plays are crucial, so it's vital to pick your plays from a wide and creative arsenal. Sixteen-year-old Warren Erdmann provides just that for coaches everywhere.
In "My Motion Offense at 16," Erdmann has compiled an original array of offensive plays based on a philosophy of spreading out the defense, using the entire field, keeping the play-calling simple, making the defense adjust to the offense, and using the team's strengths to exploit the opponents'... An innovative and diverse football playbook can be the difference between winning and losing. In today's game, fresh and unpredictable plays are cruci...
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An Essay on the History of Civil Society
ISBN: 9781605973203 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andrew Ferguson was born in 1723 in Scotland. He was an historian and philosopher of the Scottish "common sense" school,l which was a forerunner of t modern sociology. Ferguson was a clergyman and then a librarian and finally a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. An Essay on the History of Civil Society was a concise history tracing humanity from barbaric times to modern society. Ferguson believed that society was the basis for human morals and deeds. He traces the social and political refinement of man and the cultural influences on society.
Andrew Ferguson was born in 1723 in Scotland. He was an historian and philosopher of the Scottish "common sense" school,l which was a forerunner of t ...
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Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: An Essay in Legal Epistemology
ISBN: 9780521730358 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book treats problems in the epistemology of the law. Beginning with the premise that the principal function of a criminal trial is to find out the truth about a crime, Larry Laudan examines the rules of evidence and procedure that would be appropriate if the discovery of the truth were, as higher courts routinely claim, the overriding aim of the criminal justice system. Laudan mounts a systematic critique of existing rules and procedures that are obstacles to that quest. He also examines issues of error distribution by offering the first integrated analysis of the various mechanisms the...
This book treats problems in the epistemology of the law. Beginning with the premise that the principal function of a criminal trial is to find out th...
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136,22 |
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
ISBN: 9781605974446 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Karl Marx was commissioned by the Communist League along with Friederich Engels to write The Communist Manifesto. The manifesto is considered to be one of the world's most influential political tracts. The Manifesto established a course of action for the working class revolution to overthrow the bourgeois social order and bring about a classless society. In the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Marx discusses the historical events leading up to Louis Bonaparte's coup d'etat. Marx's interpretation of Bonaparte's rise and fall is an excellent example of fascist interpretation. Scholars...
Karl Marx was commissioned by the Communist League along with Friederich Engels to write The Communist Manifesto. The manifesto is considered to be on...
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