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Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

An incisive and revealing history of how Yugoslavia plunged into violence in the 1990s Over the past two years, the entire world watched in horror as one of Europe's most stable countries plunged into an orgy of violence and bloodshed that has invoked comparisons to the Holocaust. Aside from empty threats and diplomatic hand wringing, the West has done little to stop the ethnic cleansing, the sieges, and the brutality that has characterized the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Contrary to common wisdom, the hyper-violent disintegration of the former Yugoslavia is not simply and exclusively the product of inherent and irrational ethnic animosities and centuries of strife. In this engaging b...

The Ethics of Social Punishment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 181

The Ethics of Social Punishment

This book critically evaluates the way ordinary people enforce morality in everyday life.

What is this thing called Ethics?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

What is this thing called Ethics?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-02-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

What is morality? How do we define what is right and wrong? How does moral theory help us deal with ethical issues in the world around us? This second edition provides an engaging and stimulating introduction to philosophical thinking about morality. Christopher Bennett provides the reader with accessible examples of contemporary and relevant ethical problems, before looking at the main theoretical approaches and key philosophers associated with them. Topics covered include: life and death issues such as abortion and global poverty; the meaning of life; whether life is sacred and which lives matter; major moral theories such as utilitarianism, Kantian ethics and virtue ethics; critiques of morality from Marx and Nietzsche. What is this Thing Called Ethics? has been thoroughly revised and updated throughout, with a new final chapter on meta-ethics. With boxed case studies, discussion questions and further reading included within each chapter this textbook is the ideal introduction to ethics for philosophy students coming to the subject for the first time.

Only Superhuman
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

Only Superhuman

In the future, genetically engineered superhumans, inspired by classic Earth comic book heroes, fight to keep the peace in the wild and wooly space habitats of the Asteroid Belt

Pterosaurs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 78

Pterosaurs

Using photographs of fossil evidence and visual reconstructions, provides a survey of pterosaur history and their way of living, and of their disappearance.

Bosnia's Paralysed Peace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Bosnia's Paralysed Peace

Two decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement came into force, Bosnia is not at war. However, the absence of war is not peace. Bosnia has failed to move on from conflict. Political processes are deadlocked. The country is in a state of political, social and economic paralysis. As the international community has downgraded its presence, conditions have deteriorated, irredentist agendas have resurfaced and the outlook is increasingly negative. War remains a risk because of myriad unresolved issues, zero-sum politics and incompatible positions among rival ethno-national elites.In the face of paralysis, international officials repeat the mantra that there is no alternative to Bosnia's European pa...

The Apology Ritual
  • Language: en

The Apology Ritual

Christopher Bennett presents a theory of punishment grounded in the practice of apology, and in particular in reactions such as feeling sorry and making amends. He argues that offenders have a 'right to be punished' - that it is part of taking an offender seriously as a member of a normatively demanding relationship (such as friendship or collegiality or citizenship) that she is subject to retributive attitudes when she violates the demands of that relationship. However, while he claims that punishment and the retributive attitudes are the necessary expression of moral condemnation, his account of these reactions has more in common with restorative justice than traditional retributivism. He argues that the most appropriate way to react to crime is to require the offender to make proportionate amends. His book is a rich and intriguing contribution to the debate over punishment and restorative justice.

The Face of the Unknown
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

The Face of the Unknown

"Based upon Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry."

Star Trek: DTI: Forgotten History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Star Trek: DTI: Forgotten History

In a universe where history as we know it could be wiped out at any moment, only the most disciplined, obsessive, and unimaginative government employees have what it takes to face the existential uncertainty of it all: Lucsly and Dulmur with the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations. Original.

Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder

The ongoing conflict between Spider-Man and crusading newspaper publisher J. Jonah Jameson takes on a new, personal dimension after a robot attack on Manhattan injures Peter Parkers students and Jameson blames Spider-Man. Original.