Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Lively Capital
Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Lively Capital is an urgent and important collection of essays addressing the reconfigured relations between the life sciences and the market. Exploring the ground where social and cultural anthropology intersect with science and technology studies, prominent scholars investigate the relationship...
Quantum Shift in the Global Brain
How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2008
The shift from scientific materialism to a multidimensional worldview in harmony with the world’s great spiritual traditions
• Articulates humanity’s critical choice--to be the last decade of an outgoing, obsolete world, or the first of a new and viable one
• Presents a new “reality...
by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
The first book of its kind internationally, Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools explores the experiences of bisexual students, mixed sexual orientation families, and polyamorous families in schools. For the first time, a book foregrounds the voices and experiences of these students and...
by Jenny Funkmeyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2016
Lucid dreaming is what happens when you become aware that you're dreaming while you're dreaming. Normally, we wake up and think "wow, that was a dream." But it can be really fun and interesting to wake up while you're still dreaming and realize "wow, this is a dream!"Once you wake up...
The Source of the River
The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
African Americans and Latinos earn lower grades and drop out of college more often than whites or Asians. Yet thirty years after deliberate minority recruitment efforts began, we still don't know why. In The Shape of the River, William Bowen and Derek Bok documented the benefits of affirmative action...
For the Love of Cinema
Teaching Our Passion In and Outside the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
What role does love—of cinema, of cinema studies, of teaching and learning—play in teaching film? For the Love of Cinema brings together a wide range of film scholars to explore the relationship between cinephilia and pedagogy. All of them ask whether cine-love can inform the serious study of...
Genes and the Bioimaginary
Science, Spectacle, Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Genes and the Bioimaginary examines the dramatic rise and contemporary cultural apotheosis of 'the gene'. The book traces not only the genetification of modern life but is also a journey through the complex relationship between science and culture. At the heart of this book are three interlinked questions....
An Introduction to Steiner Education
The Waldorf School
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
"To educate youth ... is to ennoble the mind, to fire the imagination, to fortify the will and to quicken initiative for life.' So writes Francis Edmunds in this inspiring, authoritative and popular introduction to Steiner (Waldorf) Education. Rudolf Steiner's educational system, well established...
by Peter Kosso
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A Summary of Scientific Method is a brief description of what makes science scientific. It is written in a direct, clear style that is accessible and informative for scientists and science students. It is intended to help science teachers explain how science works, highlighting strengths without ignoring...
Education Policy and Social Reproduction
Class Inscription & Symbolic Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
This book takes a theoretically informed look at British education policy over the last sixty years when secondary schooling for all children became an established fact for the first time. Comprehensive schools largely replaced a system based on academic selection. Now, under choice and competition...
by David Tresemer; Robert Schiappacasse
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
From the book: We are each meant to discover the connection from our individual soul to spiritual realities not encompassed by the normal senses, requiring supersensible perception. Images can offer powerful assistance.... However, we have forgotten about our own imagination, the creation of our own...
by Michael Le Page
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Once upon a time, a student of molecular biology became curious about why his ideas should be the way they are. The ideas lived happily ever after. This text started as a collection of thoughts and ideas aimed at achieving personal clarity. It developed into something more ambitious: What if someone...
Turn On and Tune In
Psychedelics, Narcotics and Euphoriants
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Timothy Leary's advice to "tune in, turn on and drop out" was a 1960s exhortation to experiment with LSD, but humans had been consuming ergot alkaloids related to lysergic acid diethylamide for at least a thousand years. Opium has been around even longer with its medicinal uses being known to the...
Social Linguistics and Literacies
Ideology in Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
This fully-updated new edition engages with topics such as orality and literacy, the history of literacy, the uses and abuses of literacy in that history, the analysis of language as cultural communication, and social theories of mind and meaning, among many other topics. It represents the most current...