This pioneering study introduces readers to key themes from animal studies, as a frame within which it examines the representation of animals and animality in the work of a range of authors.
Most histories of the American South describe the conflict between evangelical religion and honor culture as one of the defining features of southern life before the Civil War.
A revised and amplified edition, with a new introduction, of the three books "e;Broadcast Talks,"e; "e;Christian Behaviour,"e; and "e;Beyond Personality"e; by the acclaimed author of "e;The Chronicles of Narnia.
This book offers a fresh and timely exploration of the intersections between ecology, media, and culture in Asian contexts, with particular attention to audiovisual narratives.
Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France is the first book-length publication on women-authored literature of this period, and comprises a collection of challenging critical essays that engage with the themes, trends and issues, and with the writers and their texts, of the first decade of the twenty-first century.
'The message of this book is both highly liberating and optimistic', Rory SutherlandDrawing on six decades of pioneering research and a sweeping reexamination of the last 2500 years-from Periclean Athens and the Hebrew Torah to the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the Civil Rights Movement-Martin Seligman shows how rises and falls in agency have steered the course of history.
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Ethics, grade: A, University of Helsinki (Department of Social and Moral Philosophy), course: Seminar on Normativity, language: English, abstract: The essay is a critique of Joseph Raz' concept of second order reasons, especially exclusionary reasons, as presented in chapter one of his 1975 book "e;Practical Reason and Norms"e;.
The second edition of From Dust to Ashes brings up-to-date this classic text investigating the replacement of burial by cremation in England and Wales.
A revised and amplified edition, with a new introduction, of the three books "e;Broadcast Talks,"e; "e;Christian Behaviour,"e; and "e;Beyond Personality"e; by the acclaimed author of "e;The Chronicles of Narnia.
This book offers a fresh and timely exploration of the intersections between ecology, media, and culture in Asian contexts, with particular attention to audiovisual narratives.
Go Tell the World: Practical Steps for Modern Evangelism is a compelling call for believers to rediscover evangelism as a way of life rather than a one-time event.
This edited volume discusses the contribution of Thomas Charles of Bala (1755-1814) to the life of Wales on the occasion of the bicentenary of his death.
From Brokenness to Redemption: Experiencing True Salvation is a heartfelt guide for anyone who has felt the weight of life's pain, mistakes, or disappointments.
For months, increasingly capable artificial systems have been described as if a new kind of actor has entered the world—one that plans, deceives, persists, protects itself, crosses boundaries, and seeks freedom.
Although Thomas Reid (1710-96) is widely recognised as a leading figure of the Enlightenment, his life has not been analysed in depth since the Victorian era.
En este ensayo que es también una novela extraordinaria, el historiador revolucionario Jules Michelet (1798-1874) desentierra de los archivos la historia de la persecución más letal que se haya llevado a cabo en Occidente contra las mujeres: la caza de brujas que entre los siglos XV y XVII condenó a decenas de miles de mujeres a la hoguera y que trató de erradicar una sabiduría pacientemente cultivada por ellas a lo largo de la Edad Media.
This edited volume brings together scholars from diverse theoretical traditions to present and discuss their perspective on theory-building in psychology.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Philosophy - Theoretical (Realisation, Science, Logic, Language), grade: A- (=1,25), University of California, Berkeley (Department of Philosophy), course: Collective Intentionality (John Searle), language: English, abstract: Free will is one of the most fundamental presuppositions that we make in our everyday lives.
