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Human Extension: An Alternative to Evolutionism, Creationism and Intelligent Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 118

Human Extension: An Alternative to Evolutionism, Creationism and Intelligent Design

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-08-11
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book proposes a new angle on the controversy over evolution as a biological theory, creation as a theological/worldview doctrine and evolutionism, creationism and Intelligent Design theory as social ideologies. Rather than presenting a polemic that will enrage or delight one camp or another, this book proposes that a cease-fire is possible.

Evolution: Development within Big History, Evolutionary and World-System Paradigms
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Evolution: Development within Big History, Evolutionary and World-System Paradigms

The application of the evolutionary approach to the history of nature and society has remained one of the most effective ways to conceptualize and integrate our growing knowledge of the Universe, life, society and human thought. The present volume demonstrates this in a rather convincing way. This is the third issue of the Almanac series titled ‘Evolution’. The first volume came out with the sub-heading ‘Cosmic, Biological, and Social’, the second was entitled ‘Evolution: A Big History Perspective’. The present volume is subtitled Development within Big History, Evolutionary and World-System Paradigms. In addition to the straightforward evolutionary approach, it also reflects suc...

Securing Pension Provision
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Securing Pension Provision

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  • Published: 2014-08-08
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  • Publisher: Springer

By comparing Germany, France, the UK and the USA this study explores how governments have tackled the increased pressure of financing state pensions. Specifically, it looks at the approach of each of these countries to raising the age of entitlement in order to understand the ways in which this policy was introduced in different countries.

Philosophy and Childhood: Critical Perspectives and Affirmative Practices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

Philosophy and Childhood: Critical Perspectives and Affirmative Practices

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  • Published: 2014-08-21
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  • Publisher: Springer

Kohan offers a transformative, revolutionary, and more radical alternative theory and practice of philosophy for children. He critiques the current state of philosophy for children and demonstrates alternative ways of thinking and practicing philosophy in childhood education.

Sex and the Posthuman Condition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 107

Sex and the Posthuman Condition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-08-20
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book looks at how sexuality is framed in enhancement scenarios and how descriptions of the resulting posthuman future are informed by mythological, historical and literary paradigms. It examines the glorious sex life we will allegedly enjoy due to greater control of our emotions, improved capacity for pleasure, and availability of sex robots.

Preparing for Life in Humanity 2.0
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

Preparing for Life in Humanity 2.0

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-10-30
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  • Publisher: Springer

Developing directly from Fuller's recent book Humanity 2.0, this is the first book to seriously consider what a 'post-' or 'trans'-' human state of being might mean for who we think we are, how we live, what we believe and what we aim to be.

Communicating Politics Online
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 165

Communicating Politics Online

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-09-16
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  • Publisher: Springer

The world of political communication is morphing almost constantly into new areas and realities. Online-only news, Web 2.0 user-created content, hyperlocal news, and the rise of the Twittersphere have all contributed to an ever-changing media environment. Communicating Politics Online captures the constant change of new online media.

Reforming Social Sciences, Humanities and Higher Education in Eastern Europe and CIS after 1991
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Reforming Social Sciences, Humanities and Higher Education in Eastern Europe and CIS after 1991

This volume consists of articles prepared after two conferences organized by the European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2011 and in 2012. The focus of both conferences was concentrated on the development of reforms and changes in higher education in the social sciences and humanities in Eastern Europe during the last two decades. The collapse of the communist system in Eastern Europe was followed by the enormous expansion of institutions of higher learning, especially in the ...

Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 133

Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-08-22
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book builds on the idea that peer-to-peer infrastructures are gradually becoming the general conditions of work, economy, and society. Using a four-scenario approach, the authors seek to simplify possible outcomes and to explore relevant trajectories of the current techno-economic paradigm within and beyond capitalism.

Payday Lending
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 155

Payday Lending

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-09-16
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  • Publisher: Springer

Payday Lending looks at the growth of the high cost credit industry from the early payday lending industry in the early 1990s to its development in the US as a highly profitable industry around the world.