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A Wall Street Journal Bestseller Explore the power of communication
to heal hurt, overcome adversity, and build a unified team In The
Locker Room, bestselling author Damon West and player development
coach Stephen Mackey team up to explore difficult conversations
about eliminating both discrimination and the cancel culture, as
well as overcoming adversity. The book tells the story of four
characters: two high school football coaches and two players, each
of whom must deal with the fallout of an offensive comment that
severely disrupts the unity and cohesion of their locker room and
threatens to destroy their team. In The Locker Room, you'll find: A
guide to building an inclusive culture The blueprint for using
servant leadership and a willingness to listen to break down
barriers Encouragement to have the difficult conversations that lie
at the heart of modern life Strategies for navigating your personal
and professional life in a way that gracefully deals with the
realities of prejudice, discrimination, and cancel culture
Techniques for giving all people an equal voice and an equal chance
at success through learning with humility and teaching with grace
An indispensable exploration of some of the most critical and most
difficult issues faced by professionals, coaches, athletes, and
students today, The Locker Room is a must-read resource that
belongs in the libraries of anyone who seeks a life or culture that
can not only overcome adversity, but can also use it to reach their
goals and improve their communities.
Discover how to achieve success together with this hands-on guide
to the lessons found in The Locker Room In The Locker Room
Playbook: A Practical Guide to Heal Hurt, Overcome Adversity, and
Build Unity, bestselling author Damon West and player development
coach Stephen Mackey teach you how to apply the principles and
concepts found in The Locker Room. You'll find lists of core
lessons, chapter summaries, detailed lesson breakdowns, discussion
questions, exercises, and key takeaways in every chapter. You'll
also discover: Insightful commentary on key concepts, including
respect, loyalty, character, teamwork, prejudice, integrity, and
mental health Crucial blueprints for helping athletes,
professionals, and students learn how to navigate all aspects of
their lives How to rely on your teammates, coaches, colleagues,
leaders, and partners to achieve success together Filled with
must-have team building and coaching resources, this book proves
that there's always a path teams can take that allows them to work
together. The Locker Room Playbook is your roadmap to finding that
path and staying on it as you and your team work together to
overcome adversity.
'A necessary book for our times. But also just great fun' Saul
Perlmutter, Nobel Laureate The world is awash in bullshit, and
we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts.
Science is conducted by press release. Start-up culture elevates
hype to high art. These days, calling bullshit is a noble act.
Based on a popular course at the University of Washington, Calling
Bullshit gives us the tools to see through the obfuscations,
deliberate and careless, that dominate every realm of our lives. In
this lively guide, biologist Carl Bergstrom and statistician Jevin
West show that calling bullshit is crucial to a properly
functioning social group, whether it be a circle of friends, a
community of researchers, or the citizens of a nation. Through six
rules of thumb, they help us recognize bullshit whenever and
wherever we encounter it - even within ourselves - and explain it
to a crystal-loving aunt or casually racist grandfather.
Social Movements in Global Politics is a timely new account of the
unconventional, extra-institutional activities of social movements.
In the face of impending global crises and stubborn conflicts, a
conventional view of politics risks leaving us confused and
fatalistic, feeling powerless because we are unaware of all that
can be achieved by political means. By contrast, a variety of
recent social movements, ranging from those of women, gays and
lesbians and anti-racists, to environmentalists, the Occupy
movement and the Arab Spring, demonstrate the enormous potential of
political action beyond the institutional sphere of politics. At
the same time, religious fundamentalists, racial supremacists and
ultra-nationalists make clear that movements are not necessarily
progressive and are often at odds with one another. West highlights
the many ways in which national and global institutions depend on a
broader context of extra-institutional action or what is, in
effect, the formative dimension of politics. He explores some of
the major contributions of social movements: from the genealogy of
liberal democratic nation-states, sixties radicalism and the new
social movements to the politics of sexuality, gender and identity,
the politicization of nature and climate, and alter-globalization.
The book also considers current theoretical approaches and sets out
the basis for a critical theory of social movements. This is a
fresh and original account of social movements in politics and will
be essential reading for any students and scholars interested in
the challenges and the unpredictable potential of political action.
This book is a fully updated and expanded new edition of "An
Introduction to Continental Philosophy," first published in 1996.
It provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to
philosophy in the continental tradition. It is a wide-ranging and
reliable guide to the work of such major figures as Nietzsche,
Habermas, Heidegger, Arendt, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida and Zižek.
At the same time, it situates their thought within a coherent
overall account of the development of continental philosophy since
the Enlightenment.
Individual chapters consider the character of modernity, the
Enlightenment and its continental critics; the ideas of Marxism,
the Frankfurt School and Habermas; hermeneutics and phenomenology;
existentialism; structuralism, post-structuralism and
postmodernism. In addition to the thinkers already mentioned, there
is extended discussion of the ideas of Kant, Hegel, Dilthey,
Husserl, Gadamer, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir and Lyotard. The new
edition includes an additional, full-length chapter on continental
philosophy in the twenty-first century focusing on Giorgio Agamben,
Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zižek.
"Continental Philosophy: An Introduction" is an invaluable
introductory text for courses on continental philosophy as well as
courses in the humanities and social sciences dealing with major
figures or influential approaches within that tradition.
Lawsuits are rare events in most people's lives. High-stakes cases
are even less commonplace. Why is it, then, that scholarship about
the Japanese legal system has focused almost exclusively on epic
court battles, large-scale social issues, and corporate governance?
Mark D. West's "Law in Everyday Japan" fills a void in our
understanding of the relationship between law and social life in
Japan by shifting the focus to cases more representative of
everyday Japanese life.
Compiling case studies based on seven fascinating
themes--karaoke-based noise complaints, sumo wrestling, love
hotels, post-Kobe earthquake condominium reconstruction,
lost-and-found outcomes, working hours, and debt-induced
suicide--"Law in Everyday Japan" offers a vibrant portrait of the
way law intermingles with social norms, historically ingrained
ideas, and cultural mores in Japan. Each example is informed by
extensive fieldwork. West interviews all of the participants-from
judges and lawyers to defendants, plaintiffs, and their families-to
uncover an everyday Japan where law matters, albeit in very
surprising ways.
We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we?
Two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data
Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Start-up culture elevates hype to high art. The world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it.
Based on a popular course at the University of Washington, this book gives us the tools to see through the obfuscations, deliberate and careless, that dominate every realm of our lives. In this lively, provocative guide, biologist Carl Bergstrom and data scientist Jevin West show that calling out nonsense is crucial to a properly functioning social group, whether it be a circle of friends, a community of researchers, or the citizens of a nation.
Through six rules of thumb, they help us to recognize when numbers are being manipulated, to cut through the crap wherever we encounter it - even within ourselves - and learn how to give the real facts to a crystal-loving friend or climate change denier uncle.
Calling Bullshit is an indispensable handbook to the art of scepticism.
This book traces the genealogy of ideas of reason, self and
sexuality in the West, opening the way to a richer and more diverse
understanding of sexual experience.
Western philosophy and religion have distorted and continue to
distort our experience of sex and love through three far-reaching
constellations of reason, self and sexuality. Thinkers like Plato,
Aquinas and Kant helped to fashion an ascetic ideal of reason
hostile to bodily pleasures and sexual diversity. By contrast,
philosophical hedonism advocates a less demanding conception of
rationality and defends sexual pleasure. But this approach of
thinkers like Hume, Bentham, La Mettrie and de Sade is still
one-sided and limiting. A third constellation, Romanticism avoids
the limitations of both forms of rationalism, but in the name of a
religion of love and passion that ultimately threatens the
integrity of the self.
In Reason and Sexuality in Western Thought, a richer understanding
of sexual experience is traced to a dissident philosophical
tradition. In their different ways Montaigne, Spinoza, Hegel and
Kierkegaard, Marcuse and Foucault contribute to a more holistic,
multi-layered and open conception of reason, sexuality and the
self. This book will be essential reading for all students of
philosophy and gender studies.
This book traces the genealogy of ideas of reason, self and
sexuality in the West, opening the way to a richer and more diverse
understanding of sexual experience.
Western philosophy and religion have distorted and continue to
distort our experience of sex and love through three far-reaching
constellations of reason, self and sexuality. Thinkers like Plato,
Aquinas and Kant helped to fashion an ascetic ideal of reason
hostile to bodily pleasures and sexual diversity. By contrast,
philosophical hedonism advocates a less demanding conception of
rationality and defends sexual pleasure. But this approach of
thinkers like Hume, Bentham, La Mettrie and de Sade is still
one-sided and limiting. A third constellation, Romanticism avoids
the limitations of both forms of rationalism, but in the name of a
religion of love and passion that ultimately threatens the
integrity of the self.
In Reason and Sexuality in Western Thought, a richer understanding
of sexual experience is traced to a dissident philosophical
tradition. In their different ways Montaigne, Spinoza, Hegel and
Kierkegaard, Marcuse and Foucault contribute to a more holistic,
multi-layered and open conception of reason, sexuality and the
self. This book will be essential reading for all students of
philosophy and gender studies.
Social Movements in Global Politics is a timely new account of the
unconventional, extra-institutional activities of social movements.
In the face of impending global crises and stubborn conflicts, a
conventional view of politics risks leaving us confused and
fatalistic, feeling powerless because we are unaware of all that
can be achieved by political means. By contrast, a variety of
recent social movements, ranging from those of women, gays and
lesbians and anti-racists, to environmentalists, the Occupy
movement and the Arab Spring, demonstrate the enormous potential of
political action beyond the institutional sphere of politics. At
the same time, religious fundamentalists, racial supremacists and
ultra-nationalists make clear that movements are not necessarily
progressive and are often at odds with one another. West highlights
the many ways in which national and global institutions depend on a
broader context of extra-institutional action or what is, in
effect, the formative dimension of politics. He explores some of
the major contributions of social movements: from the genealogy of
liberal democratic nation-states, sixties radicalism and the new
social movements to the politics of sexuality, gender and identity,
the politicization of nature and climate, and alter-globalization.
The book also considers current theoretical approaches and sets out
the basis for a critical theory of social movements. This is a
fresh and original account of social movements in politics and will
be essential reading for any students and scholars interested in
the challenges and the unpredictable potential of political action.
This book is a fully updated and expanded new edition of An
Introduction to Continental Philosophy, first published in 1996. It
provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to philosophy
in the continental tradition. It is a wide-ranging and reliable
guide to the work of such major figures as Nietzsche, Habermas,
Heidegger, Arendt, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida and i ek. At the same
time, it situates their thought within a coherent overall account
of the development of continental philosophy since the
Enlightenment. Individual chapters consider the character of
modernity, the Enlightenment and its continental critics; the ideas
of Marxism, the Frankfurt School and Habermas; hermeneutics and
phenomenology; existentialism; structuralism, post-structuralism
and postmodernism. In addition to the thinkers already mentioned,
there is extended discussion of the ideas of Kant, Hegel, Dilthey,
Husserl, Gadamer, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir and Lyotard. The new
edition includes an additional, full-length chapter on continental
philosophy in the twenty-first century focusing on Giorgio Agamben,
Alain Badiou and Slavoj i ek. Continental Philosophy: An
Introduction is an invaluable introductory text for courses on
continental philosophy as well as courses in the humanities and
social sciences dealing with major figures or influential
approaches within that tradition.
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