Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Liberating People, Planet, and Religion
There is growing consensus that life on the planet is in peril if climate change continues at its current pace. At stake is not only the future of many species but of humanity itself. As an increasing number of ecological economists have emphasized, these problems will only be adequately addressed by re-examining economic systems from an ecological perspective, fundamentally calling into question assumptions of unlimited growth and the maximization of shareholder profit foundational to neoliberal capitalism. Religion and ecology scholars have also increasingly emphasized the ways climate change challenges assumed divides between nature and culture, religion and labor, economy and ecology, an...
East Asia, Latin America, and the Decolonization of Transpacific Studies
In this collective work, researchers from different disciplines reflect upon the challenges and opportunities of decolonizing transpacific studies through the lens of a few paradigmatic case-studies that deal with connections between East Asia and Latin America. The present book offers a productive problematization of the idea of the transpacific as a concept and a space that is not restricted to a single definition. We defend that the transpacific can instead promote an understanding of agents and experiences that share many common traits that have been generally overlooked by a hegemonic interpretation of knowledge and the relationship between regions.By fostering an environment that not o...
Lesson Plans
In Lesson Plans, Judson G. Everitt takes readers into the everyday worlds of teacher training, and reveals the complexities and dilemmas teacher candidates confront as they learn how to perform a job that many people assume anybody can do. Using rich qualitative data, Everitt analyzes how people make sense of their prospective jobs as teachers, and how their introduction to this profession is shaped by the institutionalized rules and practices of higher education, K-12 education, and gender. Trained to constantly adapt to various contingencies that routinely arise in schools and classrooms, teacher candidates learn that they must continually try to reconcile the competing expectations of their jobs to meet students’ needs in an era of accountability. Lesson Plans reveals how institutions shape the ways we produce teachers, and how new teachers make sense of the multiple and complicated demands they face in their efforts to educate students.
¿Revolucion(es) moral(es)? De la necesidad de pensar otros “mundos posibles”.Una mirada reflexiva al transhumanismo
En esta obra se describen analítica, reflexiva, comprensiva y críticamente los principales planteamientos de la corriente transhumanista, el mejoramiento humano y la humanidad mejorada (Humanity+), a la luz de las implicaciones éticas, filosóficas, educativas, tecnológicas, religiosas, sociales y culturales de dichos desarrollos. A través del método fenomenológico, los autores buscan establecer conexiones de sentido entre el enfoque transhumanista y la(s) revolucion(es) moral(es) que trae aparejadas, la expansión de la técnica, la tecnología, los desarrollos biotecnológicos, la biogenética y los avances en neurociencia que son pilares en el desarrollo científico actual.
Undone Science
Introduction -- Repression, ignorance, and undone science -- The epistemic dimension of the political opportunity structure -- The politics of meaning: from frames to design conflicts -- The organizational forms of counterpublic knowledge -- Institutional change, industrial transitions, and regime resistance politics -- Contemporary change: liberalization and epistemic modernization -- Conclusion
As War Ends
For decades a bitter civil war between the Colombia government and armed insurgent groups tore apart Colombian society. After protracted negotiations in Havana, a peace agreement was accepted by the Colombian government and the FARC rebel group in 2016. This volume will provide academics and practitioners throughout the world with critical analyses regarding what we know generally about the post-war peace building process and how this can be applied to the specifics of the Colombian case to assist in the design and implementation of post-war peace building programs and policies. This unique group of Colombian and international scholars comment on critical aspects of the peace process in Colombia, transitional justice mechanisms, the role of state and non-state actors at the national and local levels, and examine what the Colombian case reveals about traditional theories and approaches to peace and transitional justice.
The Case for Marriage
A groundbreaking look at marriage, one of the most basic and universal of all human institutions, which reveals the emotional, physical, economic, and sexual benefits that marriage brings to individuals and society as a whole. The Case for Marriage is a critically important intervention in the national debate about the future of family. Based on the authoritative research of family sociologist Linda J. Waite, journalist Maggie Gallagher, and a number of other scholars, this book’s findings dramatically contradict the anti-marriage myths that have become the common sense of most Americans. Today a broad consensus holds that marriage is a bad deal for women, that divorce is better for childr...
Por qué el derecho es violento (y debería reconocerlo)
El derecho es lo opuesto a la violencia: nace para detener el ejercicio de la venganza en un mundo sin ley. A la vez, el derecho es en sí mismo violencia: sus fallos la ejercen necesariamente sobre los condenados. Ambas afirmaciones son verdaderas, dice el autor de este libro, y en esa contradicción descansa un desafío filosófico con consecuencias prácticas centrales en el ámbito jurídico. Christoph Menke –académico y profesor formado en filosofía, estética y literatura, una de las figuras europeas contemporáneas más interesantes de la teoría crítica– acepta el reto y en estas páginas hace transparente y comprensible esta paradoja. Así, demuestra cómo, aunque el derecho se ha convertido en una fuerza que manda desde dentro de los propios sujetos que la obedecen, la violencia (y moderar) esa violencia inevitable. Este libro, que sin dudas encontrará su lugar en las bibliotecas de lectores y lectoras del ámbito jurídico, de las filosofía y del análisis literario, es una invitación al pensamiento crítico y alternativo sobre el derecho, especialmente necesario en tiempos en que la legitimidad de la ley se pone con frecuencia en entredicho.
Vanishing Bees
In 2005, beekeepers in the United States began observing a mysterious and disturbing phenomenon: once-healthy colonies of bees were suddenly collapsing, leaving behind empty hives full of honey and pollen. Over the following decade, widespread honeybee deaths—some of which have come to be called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)—have continued to bedevil beekeepers and threaten the agricultural industries that rely on bees for pollination. Scientists continue to debate the causes of CCD, yet there is no clear consensus on how to best solve the problem. Vanishing Bees takes us inside the debates over widespread honeybee deaths, introducing the various groups with a stake in solving the myste...
Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements
"The prayers of those of us who have long hungered for a comprehensive, historically deep, learned and accessible account of international agrarian movements have finally been answered in full. We will long be in debt to Edelman and Borras for this exceptional and lasting contribution to agrarian scholarship." - James C. Scott, founding Director, Yale University Agrarian Studies Program, author of The Art of Not Being Governed
