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The Self and its Shadows: A Book of Essays on Individuality as Negation in Philosophy and the Arts
The Self and its Shadows: A Book of Essays on Individuality as Negation in Philosophy and the Arts

Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays which together make up an original study of selfhood (subjectivity or personal identity). He explores a variety of articulations (in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the arts) of the idea that selfhood is best conceived as a matter of non-self-identity--for example, as becoming...

Gaming, Simulations and Society: Research Scope and Perspective
Gaming, Simulations and Society: Research Scope and Perspective
This book presents a current research scope and perspective of Simulation and Gaming. Theoretical problems of Simulation and Gaming will be examined with a view to improving the social sciences through the introduction of the techniques and concepts of Simulation and Gaming. The fields of economics, political science, psychology and business...
Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East
Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East
Part I: Analysis 1. The Interaction between Religion and Culture in Peace and Conflict 2. Family Myths and Cultural Conflict 3. Political and Mythic Interdependencies 4. Patterns of Abrahamic Incrimination 5. Conflict, Injury, and Transformation Part II: Practical Applications 6. Patterns of Abrahamic Reconciliation: Act, Ritual, and Symbol as...
Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century (California Series in Public Anthropology, 10)
Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century (California Series in Public Anthropology, 10)
"This should be made into a movie!"-Katia Lund, Co-director of City of God "Carolyn Nordstrom destroys the categories through which we normally look at war. This is a major achievement. Her eyewitness reporting, when contrasted with the official histories later compiled of the same events, is a revelation. The amount of...
Gray Hat Hacking, Second Edition
Gray Hat Hacking, Second Edition
Uncover, plug, and ethically disclose security flaws

Prevent catastrophic network attacks by exposing security flaws, fixing them, and ethically reporting them to the software author. Fully expanded to cover the hacker's latest devious methods, Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Second Edition lays out...

Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success
Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success

"The authors offer a timely, important, and practical personal guidance system that anyone in the business world would do well to adopt. The world of business would be vastly improved if Moral Intelligence became required reading.”

Daniel Goleman, Author of...

Activist Business Ethics
Activist Business Ethics
“The truth can wait, for it lives a long life”
(Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860)

The philosopher Schopenhauer believed in the eventual triumph of truth, despite the disappointments engendered by his indifferent contemporaries. Two centuries later, we live in a time of accelerated changes, and we do not
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Adolescent Psychological Development: Rationality, Morality, and Identity
Adolescent Psychological Development: Rationality, Morality, and Identity
Review from the first edition:

...I wish to note how pleasantly surprised I was in becoming acquainted with this volume, after 30 years of teaching adolescence courses. Here students are offered a real vision of a period of life that, in most cases, they have just traversed or are still experiencing. Each part is very precise,...

Conflict, Contradiction, and Contrarian Elements in Moral Development and Education
Conflict, Contradiction, and Contrarian Elements in Moral Development and Education
The premise of this book is that individuals and societies have an inexorable urge to morally develop by challenging the assumptions of the previous generation in terms of what is right and wrong. The focus is on the nature and functional value of conflicts and challenges to the dominant moral and social values framework. Through this analysis,...
God, Suffering, and the Value of Free Will
God, Suffering, and the Value of Free Will
For many of us, the question of whether or not God exists is one of the most perplexing and profound questions of our lives, and numerous philosophers and theologians have debated it for centuries. Laura Ekstrom here takes a new look at the issue of God's existence by examining it against the
reality of human suffering, bringing
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Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance
Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance

The power of the Web lies in the fact that anyone and everyone can access it, and this should also extend to users with disabilities. Accessibility is about making websites accessible to those with aural, visual, or physical disabilities, or rather, constructing websites that don't exclude these people from accessing the content or services...

Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief
Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief

“I raised my own freethinking sons not that long ago, and I had little choice but to do it without much practical support. This book is the best, most comprehensive com­pendium of secular parenting strategies and tips I can imagine. It shows how, without the aid of any supernatural overseer, you can raise kids who...

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