J Michael: 2158 books

In Anthropological Futures, Michael M. J. Fischer explores the uses of anthropology as a mode of philosophical inquiry, an evolving academic discipline, and a means for explicating the complex and shifting interweaving of human bonds and social interactions on a global level. Through linked essays,...

In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon. In this book, one of America's foremost theorists of culture and politics treats those aspects of the "geopolitical aesthetic"...

Environmentalists and the timber industry do not often collaborate, but in the years immediately following gray wolf reintroduction in the interior American West, a plan to reintroduce grizzly bears to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness of Idaho and Montana brought these odd bedfellows together. The...

Medical Genetics is the clearest and most concise text on the subject, providing state-of-the-art coverage of clinically relevant molecular genetics. Lynn B. Jorde, PhD; John C. Carey, MD; and Michael J. Bamshad, MD integrate recent developments with clinical practice and emphasize the central principles...

In Godly Letters, Michael J. Colacurcio analyzes a treasury of works written by the first generation of seventeenth-century American Puritans. Arguing that insufficient scrutiny has been given this important oeuvre, he calls for a reevaluation of the imaginative and creative qualities of America's...

Learn to Think Critically and Make Better Decisions Addiction professionals make decisions everyday that impact peoples lives. Sometimes these decisions are solid, and sometimes they are the result of flawed thinking, which often results from myths and generalizations that are perpetuated in...

Early Andean historiography reveals a subaltern history of indigenous gender and sexuality that saw masculinity and femininity not as essential absolutes. Third-gender ritualists, Ipas, mediated between the masculine and feminine spheres of culture in important ceremonies and were recorded in fragments...

What do we know about war crimes and justice? What are the discursive practices through which the dominant images of war crimes, atrocity and justice are understood? In this wide ranging text, Michael J. Shapiro contrasts the justice-related imagery of the war crimes trial (for example the...

Catastrophic events like the bombing of Hiroshima, Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, and drone strikes periodically achieve renewed political significance as subsequent developments summon them back to public awareness. But why and how do different conceptions of time inform and challenge...

如果《正義》鍛練了你的思辨能力， 那麼，《錢買不到的東西》將讓你明白自己真正想要的！ 當金錢買不到的東西愈來愈少， 我們面對的，不只是財富的分配不公， 而是必須去思考市場的極限，以及我們要選擇怎樣的人生！ 當每樣東西都能買賣，是否有錢就有了天壤之別？ 當生命中各種美好事物都被標上價格，事物的價值也跟著變質了？   三十年前，沒有人認為： ．囚犯只要付費，就可以升等住進好的牢房； ．病患只要多付費，可以獲得醫師的手機號碼，全年無休醫療諮詢； ．役男不想當兵，政府可以花錢請外國傭兵去打仗； ．富國的獵人只要付費，可以射殺瀕臨絕種的非洲黑犀牛。 然而如今，這一切都已成真。   金錢交易的市場機制，已經滲透到日常生活的各面向，大舉侵入了原本非屬市場的領域。從健康醫療、教育、法律、政治到人際關係，一旦事物變成了「商品」，就會失去某個很重要的「什麼」。過去我們不曾關注過這個問題，但也許這個「什麼」，正是建構一個美好社會所不可或缺的。 桑德爾教授提醒，我們應該自問：世上有什麼東西是無論如何都不該用錢去買的？我們也必須決定，應該以什麼樣的價值來管理社會及公民生活的各領域。當今的市場機制已與道德脫鉤，而我們需要將兩者重新連結起來－－面對金錢的蔓延，我們必須選擇，如何劃定正義的防線，以守護我們都渴求實現的美好生活！   【作者簡介】 邁可．桑德爾　Michael...

The men who fought in Napoleon’s Grande Armée built a new empire that changed the world. Remarkably, the same men raised arms during the French Revolution for liberté, égalité, and fraternité. In just over a decade, these freedom fighters, who had once struggled to overthrow tyrants, rallied...

Heritage preservation is a broad term that can include the protection of a wide range of human-mediated material and cultural processes ranging from specific artifacts, ancient rock art, and features of the built environment and modified landscapes. As a region of multiple independent nations and...

A complete guide to Parkinson's from two people with the disease who cofounded a national support and advocacy organization. In Living Well with Parkinson's Disease, Gretchen Garie and Michael J. Church, a couple who both have Parkinson's and live daily with the effects of the disease, thoroughly...

"The Devil Inside the Beltway". This chilling and personal story that reveals, in detail, how the Federal Trade Commission repeatedly bungled a critically important cybersecurity investigation and betrayed the American public. Michael J. Daugherty, author and CEO of LabMD in Atlanta, uncovers...