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Book A List of Cyclopedias and Dictionaries

Download or read book A List of Cyclopedias and Dictionaries written by John Crerar Library and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aeronautical English

Download or read book Aeronautical English written by Alfred Oppermann and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Overcoming School Refusal

Download or read book Overcoming School Refusal written by Joanne Garfi and published by Australian Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School refusal affects up to 5% of children and is a complex and stressful issue for the child, their family and school. The more time a child is away from school, the more difficult it is for the child to resume normal school life. If school refusal becomes an ongoing issue it can negatively impact the child’s social and educational development. Psychologist Joanne Garfi spends most of her working life assisting parents, teachers, school counsellors, caseworkers, and community policing officers on how best to deal with school refusal. Now her experiences and expertise are available in this easy-to-read practical book. Overcoming School Refusal helps readers understand this complex issue by explaining exactly what school refusal is and provides them with a range of strategies they can use to assist children in returning to school. Areas covered include: • types of school refusers • why children refuse to go to school • symptoms • short term and long term consequences • accurate assessment • treatment options • what parents can do • what schools can do • dealing with anxious high achievers • how to help children on the autism spectrum with school refusal

Book Postfoundational Phenomenology

Download or read book Postfoundational Phenomenology written by James Richard Mensch and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crib Sheets

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sylvia Lavin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781580931588
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Crib Sheets written by Sylvia Lavin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural discourse today is characterized by an overlapping conversation between architects and academics, teachers and students, theorists and practitioners. Crib Sheets is a guide - a crib - to twenty-two of those buzzwords (diagram; extreme form; autonomy and the generic), framing contemporary currents and trajectories.

Book Phenomenologies of Violence

Download or read book Phenomenologies of Violence written by Michael Staudigl and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phenomenologies of Violence presents phenomenology as an important method to investigate violence, its various forms, meanings, and consequences for human existence. On one hand, it seeks to view violence as a genuine philosophical problem, i.e., beyond the still prevalent instrumental, cultural and structural explanations. On the other hand, it provides the reader with accounts on the many faces of violence, ranging from physical, psychic, structural and symbolic violence to forms of social as well as organized violence. In this volume it is argued that phenomenology, which has not yet been used in interdisciplinary research on violence, offers basic insights into the constitution of violence, our possibilities of understanding, and our actions to contain it. Contributors include:Michael D. Barber, Debra Bergoffen, Robert Bernasconi, James Dodd, Eddo Evink, Kathryn T. Gines, James Mensch, Stefan Nowotny, Michael Staudigl, Anthony J. Steinbock, and Nicolas de Warren.

Book Horrorism

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  • Author : Adriana Cavarero
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0231144571
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Horrorism written by Adriana Cavarero and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words like 'terrorism' and 'war' are no longer capable of encompassing the scope of cntemporary violence. With this book, Cavarero effectively renders such terms obsolete. She introduces a new word, 'horrorism', to capture the experience of violence.

Book Folds  Blobs   Boxes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Rosa
  • Publisher : Heinz Architectural Center Carnegie Museum of Art
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book Folds Blobs Boxes written by Joseph Rosa and published by Heinz Architectural Center Carnegie Museum of Art. This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Random Violence

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  • Author : Joel Best
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1999-03-02
  • ISBN : 0520215729
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Random Violence written by Joel Best and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-03-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A major contribution to the literature on social problems, crime, and social deviance, and a fine example of what is currently the best-established theoretical approach to this material. It is laudably interdisciplinary, draws admirably from 'high' and 'low' culture, and over all asks some very challenging questions."—Philip Jenkins, Pennsylvania State University "Random Violence extends the growing scholarly literature on the social construction of social problems by showing us how currently trendy folk knowledge obscures the most perplexing problems in American society and how it serves to foster a climate of social distrust."—Donileen Loeske, University of South Florida

Book Foucault  Politics  and Violence

Download or read book Foucault Politics and Violence written by Johanna Oksala and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politicization of ontology -- Foundational violence -- Dangerous animals -- The politics of gendered violence -- Political life -- The management of state violence -- The political ontology of neoliberalism -- Violence and neoliberal governmentality -- Terror and political spirituality.

Book Carnage and Culture

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  • Author : Victor Davis Hanson
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2007-12-18
  • ISBN : 0307425185
  • Pages : 546 pages

Download or read book Carnage and Culture written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world. Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography or superior technology, Hanson argues that it is in fact Western culture and values–the tradition of dissent, the value placed on inventiveness and adaptation, the concept of citizenship–which have consistently produced superior arms and soldiers. Offering riveting battle narratives and a balanced perspective that avoids simple triumphalism, Carnage and Culture demonstrates how armies cannot be separated from the cultures that produce them and explains why an army produced by a free culture will always have the advantage.

Book Gesammelte Aufs  tze III

Download or read book Gesammelte Aufs tze III written by A. Schutz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der vorliegende Band der "Gesammelten Aufsatze" tragt den Titel "Studien zur Phanomenologischen Philosophie." In ihm sind Alfred Schutz' Interpretationen phanomenologischer Haupt them en enthalten. An dieser Stelle soIl nun nicht die Interpreta tion noch einmal ausgelegt werden. Vielmehr wollen wir fragen, we1che Stellung der Autor in der sogenannten "Phanomenolo gischen Bewegung" einnimmt. Schutz selbst bestimmt in einer personlichen Tonbandaufzeich nung! seinen Standort in der Phanomenologie und seine Herkunft aus den philosophischen Schulen der Studienzeit. "Ich traf den groBen Denker zum erstenmal 1932, als er schon lange keine Vorlesungen mehr hielt, zwolf Jahre nach dem Ende meines Studiums an der Universitat Wien. Mein Weg zur Philo sophie Husserls war, wie er selbst einmal sagte, hochst ungewohn lich. Seit meinen fruhesten Studientagen galt mein Interesse am meisten der philosophischen Grundlegung der Sozialwissenschaf ten, besonders der Soziologie. Zu jener Zeit stand ich noch ganz im Banne Max Webers, insbesondere war ich von seinen methodo logischen Schriften fasziniert. Ich erkannte jedoch bald, daB Max Weber die Werkzeuge, we1che er fur seine konkrete Forschung benotigte, zwar geschmiedet hatte, daB aber sein Hauptproblem - das Verstehen des subjektiven Sinnes einer sozialen Handlung fur den Handelnden selbst - noch der philosophischen Begriin dung bedurfe. Mein Lehrer der Rechtsphilosophie, Hans Kelsen, hatte den Versuch unternommen, eine so1che philosophische 1 Tonbandaufzeichnung.

Book Suffering Witness

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  • Author : James Hatley
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 2000-10-19
  • ISBN : 9780791447055
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Suffering Witness written by James Hatley and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-10-19 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceptualizes the question of witness and responsibility, following the Holocaust, using continental philosophy, theology, and literary theory.

Book Meanings of Violence

Download or read book Meanings of Violence written by Jon Abbink and published by Berg Publishers. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are good reasons to look at violence from new perspectives. In its endless manifestations violence is part and parcel of human existence, and is very probably a constituting element of human society. And yet violent action - warfare, penalties, insults, feuding, assault, murder, rape, suicide, sports - remains in all its complexity one of the least understood fields of human social life.The book's contributors identify the symbolic and ritualized aspects of violence, and suggest ways of 'reading' violence as it occurs in the world, whether as violent duelling and age-group violence in Southern Ethiopia, bullfighting in Iberia, cattle rustling in Kenya, guerrilla and militia wars in Colombia, or public executions in China.These case studies suggest that 'violence' is not a simple, universal urge, but is contingent and context-dependent, shaped by social relations of power, force and dominance. To be the victim of violence is a humiliating and frightening experience. But the many ambiguities that occur in the use of violence must be considered, to understand why peace seems only to exist as a contrast to the violation of peace.

Book In the Name of Humanity

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  • Author : Alain Finkielkraut
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780231110204
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book In the Name of Humanity written by Alain Finkielkraut and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unsettling reflection on the twentieth century in its twilight hours in which we are asked to rethink our assumptions about universalism and humanism. While many people look to humanist ideals as a deterrent to nationalist chauvinism, Finkielkraut challenges the abstract idea of universalism by describing the terrible crimes "civilized" Europe has committed in its name.

Book The Architecture of Aftermath

Download or read book The Architecture of Aftermath written by Terry E. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book Negative Certainties

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  • Author : Jean-Luc Marion
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2020-10-28
  • ISBN : 022680710X
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Negative Certainties written by Jean-Luc Marion and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, Jean-Luc Marion's groundbreaking philosophy of human uncertainty. In Negative Certainties, renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions we have developed about knowledge: that it is categorical, predicative, and positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, he looks toward our finitude and the limits of our reason. He asks an astonishingly simple—but profoundly provocative—question in order to open up an entirely new way of thinking about knowledge: Isn’t our uncertainty, our finitude, and rational limitations, one of the few things we can be certain about? Marion shows how the assumption of knowledge as positive demands a reductive epistemology that disregards immeasurable or disorderly phenomena. He shows that we have experiences every day that have no identifiable causes or predictable reasons and that these constitute a very real knowledge—a knowledge of the limits of what can be known. Establishing this “negative certainty,” Marion applies it to four aporias, or issues of certain uncertainty: the definition of man; the nature of God; the unconditionality of the gift; and the unpredictability of events. Translated for the first time into English, Negative Certainties is an invigorating work of epistemological inquiry that will take a central place in Marion’s oeuvre.