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Ethics for a Digital Era
Deni Elliott · Wiley-Blackwell
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
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"Elliott and Spence have produced a tight, teachable, and timely primer on media ethics for users and creators of information in the digital age. Pitched at just the right depth of detail to provide a big picture contextualization of changing media practices grounded in concerns for democracy... |
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
JASON STANLEY · Random House
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Nations don't have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics. A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history in the United States and around the world, to conclude that fascism is alive in America today.Fascism means... |
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Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
Soraya L Chemaly · Atria Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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"How many women cry when angry because we've held it in for so long? How many discover that anger turned inward is depression? Soraya Chemaly's Rage Becomes Her will be good for women, and for the future of this country. After all, women have a lot to be angry about."... |
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I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering
Janelle Hanchett · Hachette Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of the blog "Renegade Mothering," Janelle Hanchett's forthright, darkly funny, and ultimately empowering memoir chronicling her tumultuous journey from young motherhood to abysmal addiction and a recovery she never imagined possible. Pregnant at 21 by a man she'd... |
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Understanding Child Development: Psychological Perspectives and Applications
Sara Meadows · Routledge
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover
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Understanding Child Development introduces the main areas of developmental psychology in childhood. Drawing on content which first appeared in 'Understanding Child Development', published in 1986, the book includes new bases of evidence and offers an interdisciplinary approach to the subject.... |
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Jung's Ethics: Moral Psychology and his Cure of Souls
Dan Merkur · Routledge
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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This volume presents the first organized study of Jung's ethics. Drawing on direct quotes from all of his collected works, interviews, and seminars, psychoanalyst and religious scholar Dan Merkur provides a compendium of Jung's thoughts on various topics and themes that comprise... |
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On purpose
Michael Ruse · Princeton University Press
Pages: 294
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A brief, accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the present Can we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck with purpose, and even Darwin's theory of natural selection, which profoundly shook the idea,... |
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How to Write
Gertrude Stein · Dover Publications
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
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First published in 1931, this volume offers Gertrude Stein's reflections on the art and craft of writing. Although written in her distinctive experimental style, the book is remarkably accessible and easy to read. The modernist author's characteristic humor is borne out by some... |
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Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude
Stephanie Rosenbloom · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of travelling soloIn our increasingly frantic daily lives, many people are genuinely fearful of the prospect of solitude, but time alone can be both rich and restorative, especially when travelling. Through on-the-ground reporting and recounting... |
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Arguments about Abortion: Personhood, Morality, and Law
Kate Greasley · Oxford University Press
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover
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Does the morality of abortion depend on the moral status of the human fetus? Must the law of abortion presume an answer to the question of when personhood begins? Can a law which permits late abortion but not infanticide be morally justified? These are just some of the questions this book... |
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Reading Marx
Slavoj Zizek · Polity
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback
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Marx's critique of political economy is vital for understanding the crisis of contemporary capitalism. Yet the nature of its relevance and some of its key tenets remain poorly understood. This bold intervention brings together the work of leading Marx scholars Slavoj ?i?ek, Frank... |
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Narcissism at Work: Personality Disorders of Corporate Leaders
Marie-Line Germain · Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 177
Format: Hardcover
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This book explores the damaging effects of personality disorders in corporate leaders, particularly inregard to organizational variables including employee productivity, motivation, well-being,retention, and ultimately, the organization's bottom line. While helping employees recognizeand... |
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Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidity among Men
Ritch C Savin-Williams · Harvard University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Most of us assume that sexuality is fixed: either you're straight, gay, or bisexual. Yet an increasing number of young men today say that those categories are too rigid. They are, they insist, "mostly straight." They're straight, but they feel a slight but enduring romantic... |
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Going Beyond Mom: How to Activate Your Mind, Body & Business After Baby
Randi Zinn · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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Born out of her popular website Beyond Mom, Randi's book is a guide for mothers looking to jump-start their business ideas by finding connection from within. The 1.2 million women in America each year who choose not to return to traditional work after having children have found themselves... |
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