Download or read book The Birth of Hedonism written by Kurt Lampe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus wasn't convinced. Instead, he and his followers espoused the most radical form of hedonism in ancient Western philosophy. Before the rise of the better known but comparatively ascetic Epicureans, the Cyrenaics pursued a way of life in which moments of pleasure, particularly bodily pleasure, held the highest value. In The Birth of Hedonism, Kurt Lampe provides the most comprehensive account in any language of Cyrenaic ideas and behavior, revolutionizing the understanding of this neglected but important school of philosophy. The Birth of Hedonism thoroughly and sympathetically reconstructs the doctrines and practices of the Cyrenaics, who were active between the fourth and third centuries BCE. The book examines not only Aristippus and the mainstream Cyrenaics, but also Hegesias, Anniceris, and Theodorus. Contrary to recent scholarship, the book shows that the Cyrenaics, despite giving primary value to discrete pleasurable experiences, accepted the dominant Greek philosophical belief that life-long happiness and the virtues that sustain it are the principal concerns of ethics. The book also offers the first in-depth effort to understand Theodorus's atheism and Hegesias's pessimism, both of which are extremely unusual in ancient Greek philosophy and which raise the interesting question of hedonism's relationship to pessimism and atheism. Finally, the book explores the "new Cyrenaicism" of the nineteenth-century writer and classicist Walter Pater, who drew out the enduring philosophical interest of Cyrenaic hedonism more than any other modern thinker.
Download or read book Bilingual Sentence Processing written by Eva M. Fernández and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cross-linguistic differences documented in studies of relative clause attachment offer an invaluable opportunity to examine a particular aspect of bilingual sentence processing: Do bilinguals process their two languages as if they were monolingual speakers of each? This volume provides a review of existing research on relative clause attachment, showing that speakers of languages like English attach relative clauses differently than do speakers of languages like Spanish. Fernández reports the findings of an investigation with monolinguals and bilinguals, tested using speeded ("on-line") and unspeeded ("off-line") methodology, with materials in both English and Spanish. The experiments reveal similarities across the groups when the procedure is speeded, but differences with unspeeded questionnaires: The monolinguals replicate the standard cross-linguistic differences, while bilinguals have language-independent preferences determined by language dominance — bilinguals process stimuli in either of their languages according to the general preferences of monolinguals of their dominant language.
Download or read book Five Faces of Modernity written by Matei Călinescu and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism. The concept of modernity--the notion that we, the living, are different and somehow superior to our predecessors and that our civilization is likely to be succeeded by one even superior to ours--is a relatively recent Western invention and one whose time may already have passed, if we believe its postmodern challengers. Calinescu documents the rise of cultural modernity and, in tracing the shifting senses of the five terms under scrutiny, illustrates the intricate value judgments, conflicting orientations, and intellectual paradoxes to which it has given rise. Five Faces of Modernity attempts to do for the foundations of the modernist critical lexicon what earlier terminological studies have done for such complex categories as classicism, baroque, romanticism, realism, or symbolism and thereby fill a gap in literary scholarship. On another, more ambitious level, Calinescu deals at length with the larger issues, dilemmas, ideological tensions, and perplexities brought about by the assertion of modernity.
Download or read book Sudoku Consecutivo Extremo Volume 5 276 Jogos written by Nick Snels and published by PuzzleBooks.net. This book was released on 2015-06-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ao comprar este livro, você recebe uma versão eletrônica (arquivo PDF) do interior deste livro. O Sudoku Consecutivo é jogado da mesma forma que o Sudoku, excepto que algumas células apresentam marcações especiais que indicam que estas células contêm números consecutivos. Este livro é ideal se você é um especialista Sudoku Consecutivo. Neste livro, você encontra os jogos de Sudoku Consecutivo mais difíceis do mundo. Uma vez que você pegar este livro nas mãos, não será capaz de colocá-lo de volta na mesa. Você foi avisado! Sudoku Consecutivo - Extremo é uma coleçao 276 jogos: 216 jogos Sudoku Consecutivo 9x9 extremo 60 jogos lógicos extras Eu garanto que todos os jogos de lógica neste livro de jogos Sudoku Consecutivo foram cuidadosamente verificado para garantir que cada um tenha apenas uma solução. Nenhum dos jogos neste livro vai aparecer em qualquer dos outros livros portugueses. Este livro é a versão portuguesa de 'Consecutive Sudoku - Extreme - Volume 5 - 276 Logic Puzzles'.
Download or read book Compassion and Empathy in Educational Contexts written by Georgina Barton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the importance of compassion and empathy within educational contexts. While compassion and empathy are widely recognised as key to living a happy and healthy life, there is little written about how these qualities can be taught to children and young people, or how teachers can model these traits in their own practice. This book shares several models of compassion and empathy that can be implemented in schooling contexts, also examining how these qualities are presented in children’s picture books, films and games. The editors and contributors share personal insights and practical approaches to improve both awareness and use of compassionate and empathetic approaches to others. This book will be of interest and value to all those interested in promoting compassion and empathy within education.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Learning Italian 3rd Edition written by Gabrielle Euvino and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the language of la dolce vita! For anyone who wants to learn and enjoy the most expressive and romantic of languages, the third edition of The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Learning Italian is the first choice for a whole new generation of enthusiastic students of Italian. This updated edition includes two new quick references on verbs, grammar, and sentence structure; two new appendixes on Italian synonyms and popular idiomatic phrases; and updated business and money sections. • First two editions have sold extraordinarily well • Italian is the fourth most popular language in the United States
Download or read book Sudoku N o Consecutivo Extremo Volume 5 276 Jogos written by Nick Snels and published by PuzzleBooks.net. This book was released on 2015-06-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ao comprar este livro, você recebe uma versão eletrônica (arquivo PDF) do interior deste livro. O Sudoku Não Consecutivo é jogado da mesma forma que o Sudoku, excepto que duas células adjacentes não podem ter valores consecutivos. Este livro é ideal se você é um especialista Sudoku Não Consecutivo. Neste livro, você encontra os jogos de Sudoku Não Consecutivo mais difíceis do mundo. Uma vez que você pegar este livro nas mãos, não será capaz de colocá-lo de volta na mesa. Você foi avisado! Sudoku Não Consecutivo - Extremo é uma coleçao 276 jogos: 216 jogos Sudoku Não Consecutivo 9x9 extremo 60 jogos lógicos extras Eu garanto que todos os jogos de lógica neste livro de jogos Sudoku Não Consecutivo foram cuidadosamente verificado para garantir que cada um tenha apenas uma solução. Nenhum dos jogos neste livro vai aparecer em qualquer dos outros livros portugueses. Este livro é a versão portuguesa de 'Non-Consecutive Sudoku - Extreme - Volume 5 - 276 Logic Puzzles'.
Download or read book Deadly Dust written by David Rosner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Depression, silicosis, an industrial lung disease, emerged as a national social crisis. Experts estimated that hundreds of thousands of workers were at risk of disease, disability, and death by inhaling silica in mines, foundries, and quarries. By the 1950s, however, silicosis was nearly forgotten by the media and health professionals. Asking what makes a health threat a public issue, David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz examine how a culture defines disease and how disease itself is understood at different moments in history. They also consider who should assume responsibility for occupational disease.
Download or read book The School to Prison Pipeline written by Nancy A. Heitzeg and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School to prison pipeline: education on lockdown -- School to prison pipeline: education, race, and social control -- School to prison pipeline: segregated schools, sociopolitical shifts and education under siege -- School to prison pipeline: the context of social control -- School to prison pipeline and racialized control in the era of color blindness -- School to prison pipeline and the prison industrial complex: profit, race and the prison track -- School to prison pipeline and the medical industrial complex: race and the double standards of diagnosis -- School to prison pipeline: punitive policies and transformative alternatives -- Criminalized education, schoolhouse as jailhouse -- Education not incarceration: ending the school to prison pipeline
Download or read book Image Building written by Therese Lichtenstein and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This generously illustrated examination of architectural photography from the 1930s to the present shows how the medium has helped shape familiar views of iconic buildings. Photography has both manipulated and bolstered our appreciation of modern architecture. With beautiful photographs of private and public buildings by Julius Shulman, Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, and others, this book examines the central and active role that photography plays in defining and perpetuating the iconic nature of buildings and places. This volume shows how different photographers represent the same building, offers commentaries on the "American dream," and explores changes in commercial architectural photography. Placing decades-old images alongside modern ones, Image Building depicts the idea of the comfortable middle-class home and the construction of suburbia as an ironic ideal. It presents the ways that public spaces such as libraries, museums, theaters, and office buildings are experienced differently as photographers highlight the social, cultural, psychological, and aesthetic conditions to reveal the layered meanings of place and identity. Looking at how photography shapes and frames our understanding of architecture, this volume offers thought-provoking points of view through an exploration of social and cultural issues. Published in association with the Parrish Art Museum
Download or read book The Connector Manager written by Jaime Roca and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are four distinct types of managers. One performs much worse than the rest, and one performs far better. Which type are you? Based on a first-of-its-kind, wide-ranging global study of over 9,000 people, analysts at the global research and advisory firm Gartner were able to classify all managers into one of four types: Teacher managers, who develop employees' skills based on their own expertise and direct their development along a similar track to their own. Cheerleader managers, who give positive feedback while taking a general hands-off approach to employee development. Always-on managers, who provide constant, frequent feedback and coaching on all aspects of the employee's performance. Connector managers, who provide feedback in their area of expertise while connecting employees to others in the team or organization who are better suited to address specific needs. Although the four types of managers are more or less evenly distributed, the Connector manager consistently outperforms the others by a significant margin. Meanwhile, Always-on managers tend to see their employees struggle to grow within the organization. Why is that? Drawing on their groundbreaking data-driven research, as well as in-depth case studies and extensive interviews with managers and employees at companies like IBM, Accenture, and eBay, the authors show what behaviors define a Connector manager, and why they are able to build powerhouse teams. They also show why other types of managers fail to be equally effective, and how they can incorporate behaviors of Connector managers in order to be more effective at building teams.
Download or read book Education under attack 2010 written by Brendan O'Malley and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a global study on targeted political and military violence against education staff, students, teachers, union and government officials and institutions.
Download or read book Heraclitus written by Heraclitus and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2005 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spanish in the United States written by Ana Roca and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a 1988 conference in Miami, 11 papers explore both linguistic and social aspects of the Spanish language in the US, including discussions of civil strife, loan translation, dialects, language choice in schools, literacy, creoloid phenomena, proficiency testing, and other topics. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Law Security and the State of Perpetual Emergency written by Linda S. Bishai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting diverse contributors from legal, academic, and practitioner sectors, this book illustrates how the distinctions between international and domestic law are falling away in the context of security, particularly in the responses to terrorism, and explores the implications of these dramatic shifts in the normative order. Fundamental changes in the powers of the state and the rights of populations have accelerated since the globalized response to 9/11, creating effects that spread beyond borders and operate in a new, as yet under-conceptualized space. Although these altered practices were said to be in response to exceptional circumstances — a response to terrorism — they have become increasingly established in an altered baseline norm. This book explores the (inter)national implications of exceptional legal efforts to protect states’ domestic space in the realm of security.
Download or read book Political Socialization of Youth written by Janette Habashi and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-12-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book increases the awareness of youth political agency and how it relates to adults, governments, communities, and local and global discourse. It reveals the complexity of youth’s political lives as it intersects with social identifiers such as location, gender, and political status, and interacts with neoliberal discourse embedded in media, local politics, education, and religious idioms. This book fills a gap in existing research to provide a body of literature on the political socialization and its manifestation in youth political agency. The research findings aid in understanding the abilities of youth to reason, reflect upon, articulate, and act upon their political views. This research is not only pertinent to children in Palestine, but can also be applied to children living everywhere as global discourse of oppression is not limited to a location, age or a group.
Download or read book Sextus Empiricus Against the Logicians written by Sextus (Empiricus) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and accurate translation of an important work of ancient Greek scepticism.
