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Strong Community Service Learning: Philosophical Perspectives
ISBN: 9781433112430 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.
Community Service Learning (CSL) is, potentially, the most powerful and far-reaching educational reform movement in recent memory. Yet, that potential has yet to be realized. One major reason for CSL's limited success is found in its runaway conceptual confusion: in becoming everything to everyone, CSL has lost its philosophical bearings and, not surprisingly, its practical value. This study attempts to restore CSL's philosophical bearings, arguing that there are particular... This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.
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Euthanasia, Morality, and the Law
ISBN: 9780820456676 / Angielski / Miękka / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book assesses the desirability of legalising euthanasia. From the ethical perspective, euthanasia raises many important issues including the right to life, the right to liberty, the avoidance of unnecessary pain, the appropriate allocation of medical resources, and the rights and duties of doctors. Other relevant considerations include the improving standard of palliative care and the -slippery slope- argument. The central arguments for and against euthanasia are evaluated against the background of the leading contemporary moral theories. This book seeks to cut through the rhetoric that...
This book assesses the desirability of legalising euthanasia. From the ethical perspective, euthanasia raises many important issues including the righ...
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«Currere» and the Environmental Autobiography: A Phenomenological Approach to the Teaching of Ecology
ISBN: 9780820463698 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book documents a high school ecology class that employs currere, William Pinar s idea for curriculum as autobiographical text, and analyzes the course s success from the author s point of view as both the practitioner and the curriculum developer. Discussing individual students responses to currere in a project termed the Environmental Autobiography (EA) a twist on currere that emphasizes environmental experience this book examines how ecology is taught in high schools; how ecologists are produced, along with the importance of ecology in school curriculum today; the...
This book documents a high school ecology class that employs currere, William Pinar s idea for curriculum as autobiographical text, and analyze...
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Evolution, History, and Destiny: Letters to Alain Locke (1886-1954) and Others
ISBN: 9780820449708 / Angielski / Miękka / 401 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presented in an epistolary form addressed mainly to the African American philosopher Alain Locke (1886-1954), evolution, history and destiny constitute the main themes of this book. Destiny, the controlling theme, is defined as an ideal of transcendent unity toward which a people strives in successive generations. Destiny includes four modalities: the ethnic, the national, the world, and the cosmic. Destiny is both immanent and transcendent, the one pertaining to the actual world, the other, to the ideal world. Part I focuses on the first three modalities, devoting special attention to the...
Presented in an epistolary form addressed mainly to the African American philosopher Alain Locke (1886-1954), evolution, history and destiny constitut...
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Simone Weil: A Study in Christian Responsiveness
ISBN: 9783039102532 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book is the first major study to bring together the two early twentieth-century theologians Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran pastor, and Simone Weil, French philosopher and convert to Christianity. Both were victims of Nazi oppression, and neither survived the war. The book explores the two theologians reflections on Christian responsiveness to God and neighbour, being the interdependence of the two great commandments of the Jewish Law reiterated by Jesus. It sets out the common ground and the differing emphases in their interpretations. For Bonhoeffer, responsiveness was the...
The book is the first major study to bring together the two early twentieth-century theologians Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran pastor, and Simon...
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Relations; Ethics and the Modernist Subject in James Joyce's Ulysses, Virginia Woolf's The Waves and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
ISBN: 9783039105748 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Relations, AnnKatrin Jonsson develops a new understanding of ethics and subjectivity within high modernism. The author analyzes Joyce s Ulysses, Woolf s The Waves, and Barnes s Nightwood as narratives that depict a subject turning towards the other and the world, a movement that seriously questions the sovereignty of the subject as cogito, instead opening up for otherness, excess, and indeterminacy.
The author points to convergences between a phenomenological manner of thinking found in modernist literature and the notion of an ethics and an ethical... In Relations, AnnKatrin Jonsson develops a new understanding of ethics and subjectivity within high modernism. The author analyzes Joyce s U...
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Yearbook of the Artificial. Vol. 4; Nature, Culture & Technology- Kyosei, Culture and Sustainable Technology
ISBN: 9783039109722 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We all are users of technology and services, but the way we use them strongly depends on who our interlocutor is: a machine, a software application or a person. The contributions of this volume look at the concept of the user from various perspectives and continue to discuss the theme started in volume three on the user of the artificial. Topics include: man-machine relations such as the user and the virtual world of the internet or users in various cultural contexts of the artificial. The second part of the book focuses on man-nature relations and introduces the Japanese concept of Kyosei...
We all are users of technology and services, but the way we use them strongly depends on who our interlocutor is: a machine, a software application or...
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Schoenberg, Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle: Second Printing
ISBN: 9783039112876 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2006, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle received a Lewis Lockwood Award (Finalist) from the American Musicological Society, for outstanding new books on musicological topics.
This study examines relativistic aspects of Arnold Schoenberg s harmonic and aesthetic theories in the light of a framework of ideas presented in the early writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the logician, philosopher of language, and Schoenberg s contemporary and Austrian compatriot. The author has identified correspondences between the writings of Schoenberg, the early Wittgenstein (the... In 2006, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle received a Lewis Lockwood Award (Finalist) from the American Musicological Society,...
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The Fall of the Word and the Rise of the Mental Model: A Reinterpretation of the Recent Research on Spatial Cognition and Language
ISBN: 9783631521779 / Angielski / Miękka / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Theory of the Leisure Class
ISBN: 9783842438781 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Principles of Visual Anthropology
ISBN: 9783110126273 / Angielski / Twarda / 573 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and film makers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the filed. The book covers ethnographic filming and its relations to the cinema and television; applications of filming to anthropological research, the uses of still photography, archives, and videotape; subdisciplinary applications in ethnography, archeology, bio-anthropology, museology and ethnohistory; and overcoming the funding problems of film production. This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and film makers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the filed... |
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Die Prinzipien der Ethik Emanuel Hirschs
ISBN: 9783110144291 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Historisierte Subjekte - Subjektivierte Historie: Zur Verfügbarkeit Und Unverfügbarkeit Von Geschichte
ISBN: 9783110178050 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die zunehmende Skepsis in der 2. Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts gegenuber ganzheitlichen Konzepten von Subjekt und Geschichte (z.B. als "Ende der Geschichte" und als "Tod des Subjekts") ist in den vergangenen Jahren im Zuge der Wenden zur Anthropologie und zur Geschichte - insbesondere in den Kulturwissenschaften - einer neuen Aktualitat beider Begriffe gewichen. Die internationalen Beitrage des Bandes skizzieren als erste ubergreifende systematische Auseinandersetzung das durch neuere Subjektkonzeptionen und Geschichtsmodelle eroffnete theoretische Feld, in dem die Vielfaltigkeit des... Die zunehmende Skepsis in der 2. Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts gegenuber ganzheitlichen Konzepten von Subjekt und Geschichte (z.B. als "Ende der Gesc... |
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Fichtes Leben, Werke und Lehre
ISBN: 9783846025918 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 746 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed worksworldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.++++The below...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, er...
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Aesthetics, Empathy and Education
ISBN: 9781433120107 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Empathy must be part of education because knowledge without it is incomplete- (Swanger, Essays in Aesthetic Education, 1990).
Aesthetics, Empathy and Education pursues Swanger s assertion in myriad ways. The text is divided into four sections. The first addresses research methodology from widely differing perspectives. The second section scrutinizes research again, this time addressing the self as the research subject. The third section takes a more specifically philosophical approach to the topic, challenging some underlying assumptions about education and empathy.... -Empathy must be part of education because knowledge without it is incomplete- (Swanger, Essays in Aesthetic Education, 1990).
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Immanuel Kant und seine Lehre
ISBN: 9783846024058 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 646 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
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Spinozas Leben, Werke und Lehre
ISBN: 9783846026151 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 594 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kuno Fischer (1824-1907) war ein deutscher Philosoph und Anhanger des Neukantianismus. Nachdruck des Originals von 1898.
Kuno Fischer (1824-1907) war ein deutscher Philosoph und Anhanger des Neukantianismus. Nachdruck des Originals von 1898.
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Evaluation Practice Reconsidered
ISBN: 9780820457055 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Evaluation Practice Reconsidered encourages a new way of thinking about the activity of judging the merit, worth, or significance of some human action, such as a policy, program, or project. Yet, it is not about another model or methodology for evaluation. Taken collectively, the ideas explored here suggest a way of reasoning about and engaging in evaluation that is not bound either to the characterization of evaluation as applied social science that is not bound either to the characterization of evaluation as a professional practice of experts. Rather, the book explores evaluation as...
Evaluation Practice Reconsidered encourages a new way of thinking about the activity of judging the merit, worth, or significance of some human...
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Aviation in Crisis
ISBN: 9781138709744 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Über Das Denken Und Seine Beziehung Zur Anschauung: Erster Teil: Über Den Funktionalen Zusammenhang Zwischen Auslösendem Erlebnis Und Enderlebnis Bei
ISBN: 9783642517822 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben."
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen...
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