This book offers a novel theory of the roles narrative plays in cognition by arguing that we can develop rich interdisciplinary research by thinking of narrative as a form of processing.
In 1844, a young merchant from Shiraz called Sayyid ';Ali-Muhammad declared himself the ';gate' (the Bab) to the Truth and, shortly afterwards, the initiator of a new prophetic cycle.
';Immensely learned and ambitiousseam-bursting eclecticism and polymathic brio This is by any standards a significant book and its author deserves high praise.
The true story of the police investigation into the 'honour' killing of Banaz MahmodWhen Rahmat Sulemani reported his girlfriend Banaz missing, it quickly became clear to DCI Caroline Goode that something was very wrong.
New York Times Notable Books of 2018 Financial Times Book of the Year Award-winning journalist Rania Abouzeid presents reportage of unprecedented scope in this engaging, character-driven investigation that exposes the secret dealings that armed and betrayed an uprising.
Probing Human Dignity from multiple disciplinary backgrounds by scholars from a variety of countries and different cultures is an intense intellectual and emotional venture.
The father of modern scepticism and perhaps the most important English philosopher, Hume was lauded within his own lifetime as a pivotal figure of the Enlightenment, with his highly original theories of perception, personal identity, causation, politics, morality, and religion.
An accessible and jargon-free introduction breathing new life into the achievements of Karl MarxAlthough one of the most influential thinkers of the last millennium, Karl Marx was relatively unheralded during most of his lifetime.
The book that is providing a storm of controversy, from ';Israel's bravest historian' (John Pilger)Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel.
This book introduces a standpoint approach to phenomenology and reconceives the phenomenological project as not an individual but a communal endeavor-one that, importantly, requires insight from across the spectrum of human experience and especially experiences of those who have traditionally been absent from the discipline.
This book is a machine-generated literature overview of the legal and ethical debates over privacy and data protection measures in the last three decades, showcasing the expectations vis-à-vis realities of their presence and application in different sectors.
This book seeks to navigate between the optimism that has arisen from the promise of the potential of machine learning (ML) in healthcare, and the lack of clarity about what realistic risks and benefits we can foresee.
This book presents selected essays on the epistemological foundation of the Islamic world-system, in the light of the exegesis of the Qur'an, to develop existing understandings of Islamic economics.
This book is a machine-generated literature overview of the legal and ethical debates over privacy and data protection measures in the last three decades, showcasing the expectations vis-à-vis realities of their presence and application in different sectors.
This book aims to give an account of the origin and the historical evolution of the philosophical tradition of the "e;Way of Zhong,"e; or "e;zhongdaology,"e; which represents not only the basic characteristic of Confucian philosophical thinking but also the core spirit of Chinese culture in general.
This concise book examines the decline and erosion of UMNO as a dominant political party of Malaysia through the perspective of Ibn Khaldun's theory of asabiyyah and umran.
This concise book examines the decline and erosion of UMNO as a dominant political party of Malaysia through the perspective of Ibn Khaldun's theory of asabiyyah and umran.
This book traces the history and coherence of the use of the word 'representations' from its origins, particularly in the description of artefacts, to its use in the description of so-called mental and neural representations in the mind and in the brain.
This book connects recent developments in speculative realism, new materialism, and eco-phenomenology to articulate an approach to wonder that escapes the connected traps of anthropocentrism and correlationism.
Probing Human Dignity from multiple disciplinary backgrounds by scholars from a variety of countries and different cultures is an intense intellectual and emotional venture.
The rise of a significantly large (and young) Muslim population in the West, possessing no historical tradition of being a minority in a non-Muslim environment, has led to a recurring debate about the integration of Muslims into Western societies and the compatibility of Islam with Western values.
Eine heute mit Horkheimer ‚traditionell‘ zu nennende Kritische Theorie hatte einst betont, dass nur Theorie allein richtige Praxis in einer falschen Welt sein könne.
Constructing the Present: An Investigation into Time-Consciousness investigates what time is like for us as subjects and answers the question of how our experiential present comes to be.
This book offers an innovative approach to evaluating information and knowledge and its relation to the good life, in the Age of Autonomous Intelligent Machines, through the concept of Wisdom.
Focusing on the work of Hartmut Rosa, this book provides an in-depth account of the extent to which we, as humans, are obliged to face up to the uncontrollability of the world.
This book presents selected essays on the epistemological foundation of the Islamic world-system, in the light of the exegesis of the Qur'an, to develop existing understandings of Islamic economics.
This book develops and defends a subjectivist account of meaning in life, which holds that the only place that meaning can ever be found is in the way we experience the living of our lives.
