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A Grammar of the English Language (Hardcover): William Fewsmith, Edgar A. Singer A Grammar of the English Language (Hardcover)
William Fewsmith, Edgar A. Singer
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R1,533 Discovery Miles 15 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Living Untethered - Beyond the Human Predicament (Paperback): Michael A. Singer Living Untethered - Beyond the Human Predicament (Paperback)
Michael A. Singer
R471 R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Save R71 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The book you need right now is finally here! From beloved spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Untethered Soul-this transformative and highly anticipated guide will be your compass on an exciting new journey toward self-realization and unconditional happiness. Now more than ever, we're all looking to feel more joy, happiness, and deeper meaning in our lives. But are we looking in all the wrong places? When our sense of wholeness depends on things or people outside ourselves- whether it's a coveted job, a new house, a lavish vacation, or even the perfect relationship-sooner or later we're bound to feel unsatisfied. That's why we must look inside for real freedom, love, and inspiration. But how do we begin, and what do we do if we don't like what we find there? Living Untethered is the book to reach for. At once profoundly transcendent and powerfully practical, it provides clear guidance for moving beyond the thoughts, feelings, and habits that keep you stuck-so you can heal the pain of the past and let your spirit soar. On each page you'll discover a deeper understanding of your emotions, learn where your thoughts and moods come from, and uncover your natural energy flow. Finally, you'll find freedom from the psychological scars, or samskaras, that block you and keep you from reaching your highest potential. It's time to stop struggling and start experiencing. This miraculous book will show you how to put the spiritual teachings of Michael A. Singer into practice every day, and propel you toward a life of liberation, serenity, openness, and self-knowledge. Isn't it time you started Living Untethered?

Your Daily Walk with The Great Minds - Wisdom and Enlightenment of the Past and Present (3rd Edition) (Hardcover, 3rd edition):... Your Daily Walk with The Great Minds - Wisdom and Enlightenment of the Past and Present (3rd Edition) (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
Jr., Richard, A. Singer; Foreword by David J. Powell
R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Do you desire to change the world? It all starts with you so let's begin your transformation today
"Your Daily Walk with the Great Minds" is a daily journey based on psychological and spiritual principles that have been scientifically confirmed and shown to help create lasting change and personal growth. When each human being changes and grows it directly affects humanity. If each individual being is committed to change and self actualization the Universe will directly feel this peace and universal transformation will occur. There is no better time than Now to take part in Universal peace and enlightenment. Have you ever wondered? What your purpose and meaning in life is? How to combat anxiety and depression in your daily life? How to begin pursuing your dreams and taking action to achieve them? How to maintain peace of mind in a world of conflict and strife? How to transcend the monotony of daily life and truly embrace what life has to offer you?
I invite you to find the answers to these and other questions through meditations and journaling exercises on "Your Daily Walk with the Great Minds: Wisdom and Enlightenment of the Past and Present, 3rd Edition"
About the Author
Richard Singer is first of all a real human being who is quite faulty and still struggles with life on a daily basis, however on a worldly basis he is an award winning author, trained psychotherapist, Asst. Professor of Human and Social Science, and most importantly a seeker of truth. He continuously searches for wisdom to use in his life, as well as helping other human beings in their precious journey. He has studied Eastern Psychology, Buddhist Healing, and Non-Violence at the Doctoral Level; in addition, he has spent years devoted to the study of wisdom recorded throughout history. He seeks to impart this knowledge to the world through his writing. For more information please visit www.EmbracingthePresent.com
"Having used this book daily for several months, I can honestly recommend it to anyone seeking a path to spiritual growth."
--Rev. J Francis Stroud, S.J., Director DeMello Spirituality Center
"I have spent my life studying lots and lots of self-development books and I can say emphatically that "Your Daily Walk with the Great Minds" ranks in the top ten. I whole heartedly recommend this book to any seeker of self-development." --C. Kumarbabu, MD, former chair of Psychiatry, Govt. Stanley Hospital, India
From Loving Healing Press www.LovingHealing.com
SELF-HELP / Meditations

The Essential Addiction Recovery Companion - A Guidebook for the Mind, Body, and Soul (Hardcover): Richard A. Singer The Essential Addiction Recovery Companion - A Guidebook for the Mind, Body, and Soul (Hardcover)
Richard A. Singer
R718 R610 Discovery Miles 6 100 Save R108 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
101 Tips for Recovering from Addictions - Practical Suggestions for Creating a New Life (Hardcover): Richard A. Singer 101 Tips for Recovering from Addictions - Practical Suggestions for Creating a New Life (Hardcover)
Richard A. Singer; Foreword by Michael Donahue
R531 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R88 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Surrender Experiment - My Journey into Life's Perfection (Paperback): Michael A. Singer The Surrender Experiment - My Journey into Life's Perfection (Paperback)
Michael A. Singer 2
R360 R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Save R72 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Michael A. Singer, author of The Untethered Soul, tells the extraordinary story of what happened when, after a deep spiritual awakening, he decided to let go of his personal preferences and simply let life call the shots. As Singer takes you on this great experiment and journey into life's perfection, the events that transpire will both challenge your deepest assumptions about life and inspire you to look at your own life in a radically different way. Spirituality is meant to bring about harmony and peace. But the diversity of our philosophies, beliefs, concepts, and views about the soul often leads to confusion. To reconcile the noise that clouds spirituality, Michael Singer combines accounts of his own life journey to enlightenment - from his years as a hippie-loner to his success as a computer program engineer to his work in spiritual and humanitarian efforts - with lessons on how to put aside conflicting beliefs, let go of worries, and transform misdirected desires. Singer provides a road map to a new way of living not in the moment, but to exist in a state of perpetual happiness.

Brief Therapy for Clients with Challenging or Unique Issues - A Clinician’s Guide to Enhancing Outcomes: Saul A. Singer Brief Therapy for Clients with Challenging or Unique Issues - A Clinician’s Guide to Enhancing Outcomes
Saul A. Singer
R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Brief Therapy for Clients with Challenging or Unique Issues offers clinicians, interns, and students a unique look into the creative and effective application of foundational concepts and innovative clinical processes that lead to successful outcomes with even the most challenging clients. Chapters illustrate complex interventions such as those involving clients court ordered or coerced into therapy, first-generation immigrant families in the criminal justice system, families at risk of losing custody of their children, foster children in the child welfare system, clients of multigenerational poverty, and families requiring in-home family therapy, and more. Each of these includes moment-by-moment co-constructive processes that document effective intervention ideas and strategies. Rich in neurolinguistics, innovative approaches, and the application of advanced solution-oriented strategies, Brief Therapy for Clients with Challenging or Unique Issues weaves together the stories of courageous clients and offers innovative tools that empower and motivate even the most reluctant clients to engage and identify solutions that fit for them.

Brief Therapy for Clients with Challenging or Unique Issues - A Clinician’s Guide to Enhancing Outcomes: Saul A. Singer Brief Therapy for Clients with Challenging or Unique Issues - A Clinician’s Guide to Enhancing Outcomes
Saul A. Singer
R3,538 Discovery Miles 35 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Brief Therapy for Clients with Challenging or Unique Issues offers clinicians, interns, and students a unique look into the creative and effective application of foundational concepts and innovative clinical processes that lead to successful outcomes with even the most challenging clients. Chapters illustrate complex interventions such as those involving clients court ordered or coerced into therapy, first-generation immigrant families in the criminal justice system, families at risk of losing custody of their children, foster children in the child welfare system, clients of multigenerational poverty, and families requiring in-home family therapy, and more. Each of these includes moment-by-moment co-constructive processes that document effective intervention ideas and strategies. Rich in neurolinguistics, innovative approaches, and the application of advanced solution-oriented strategies, Brief Therapy for Clients with Challenging or Unique Issues weaves together the stories of courageous clients and offers innovative tools that empower and motivate even the most reluctant clients to engage and identify solutions that fit for them.

The Untethered Soul Guided Journal - Writing Practices to Journey Beyond Yourself (Paperback): Michael A. Singer The Untethered Soul Guided Journal - Writing Practices to Journey Beyond Yourself (Paperback)
Michael A. Singer
R681 R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Save R75 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this beautiful guided journal, you'll find brand-new exercises and prompts paired with original passages from The Untethered Soul. These prompts encourage you to fully relate Michael A. Singer's teachings to your personal experiences, allowing you to dive into the teachings and make them a part of your daily life. You'll also discover practices to help you gain distance from your noisy mind, tap into the deeper awareness that is your true essence, and work through the negative emotions that limit your potential. Grounded in traditions of meditation and mindfulness, the new exercises in this transformational journal will show you how to live more fully in the present moment, and achieve lasting joy and self-realisation. If you're ready to open the door to limitless possibilities, The Untethered Soul Guided Journal will lead you to a richer understanding of your relationship to your mind, emotions, and inner energies. And by letting go of difficult past experiences you've held within yourself, you'll learn to access the profound happiness of your true, innermost Self.

Positive Couple Therapy - Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience (Paperback): Jefferson A. Singer, Karen Skerrett Positive Couple Therapy - Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience (Paperback)
Jefferson A. Singer, Karen Skerrett
R1,008 Discovery Miles 10 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Positive Couple Therapy: Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience is a significant step forward in the couple literature. Utilizing a strengths-based approach, it teaches therapists and couples a unique method for uncovering positive potential within a relationship. The authors demonstrate how We stories created, recovered and made anew provide essential elements of connection. With vivid imagery, these stories capture the couple s sense of We-ness, highlighting memorable moments of compassion, acceptance, and respect. A shared commitment to the We simultaneously builds the relationship and enables each individual in the partnership to feel a greater degree of both accountability and autonomy. Couples that can find their stories, share them with each other, and then carry them forward to family, friends, and a larger community are likely to preserve a sense of mutuality that will thrive over a lifetime of partnership.

Positive Couple Therapy provides simple and practical instruction for reclaiming positive stories that can catalyze hope in relationships that have become stressed and strained. The authors weave together cutting edge thinking and research in attachment theory, narrative therapy, neuroscience, and adult development, as well as their own research and clinical experience to present vivid case histories, step-by-step strategies, exercises, questionnaires, and interview techniques. They cover a range of contemporary couple experiences: couples in conflict, LGBT partnerships, deployed and discharged military couples, and couples at various points across the life span. The authors unique Me (to US) Scale, a 10-item tool that assesses the degree of mutuality a couple possesses at the start of treatment, gives therapists of any theoretical orientation the ability to put this intervention to immediate use.
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Positive Couple Therapy - Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience (Hardcover, New): Jefferson A. Singer, Karen Skerrett Positive Couple Therapy - Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience (Hardcover, New)
Jefferson A. Singer, Karen Skerrett
R4,267 Discovery Miles 42 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Positive Couple Therapy: Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience is a significant step forward in the couple literature. Utilizing a strengths-based approach, it teaches therapists and couples a unique method for uncovering positive potential within a relationship. The authors demonstrate how "We stories"-created, recovered and made anew-provide essential elements of connection. With vivid imagery, these stories capture the couple's sense of "We-ness," highlighting memorable moments of compassion, acceptance, and respect. A shared commitment to the "We" simultaneously builds the relationship and enables each individual in the partnership to feel a greater degree of both accountability and autonomy. Couples that can find their stories, share them with each other, and then carry them forward to family, friends, and a larger community are likely to preserve a sense of mutuality that will thrive over a lifetime of partnership. Positive Couple Therapy provides simple and practical instruction for reclaiming positive stories that can catalyze hope in relationships that have become stressed and strained. The authors weave together cutting edge thinking and research in attachment theory, narrative therapy, neuroscience, and adult development, as well as their own research and clinical experience to present vivid case histories, step-by-step strategies, exercises, questionnaires, and interview techniques. They cover a range of contemporary couple experiences: couples in conflict, LGBT partnerships, deployed and discharged military couples, and couples at various points across the life span. The authors' unique Me (to US) Scale, a 10-item tool that assesses the degree of mutuality a couple possesses at the start of treatment, gives therapists of any theoretical orientation the ability to put this intervention to immediate use.

Literary Aesthetics - A Reader (Hardcover): A. Singer Literary Aesthetics - A Reader (Hardcover)
A. Singer
R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It is one of the ironies of contemporary literary study that as it has moved toward greater interdisciplinarity it has grown sceptical of the aesthetic. This anthology reasserts the continuing relevance of the aesthetic and to reintegrate it into the widening repertoire of contemporary literary critical practices.

From its inception literary aesthetics has been engaged in the full range of debates generated by the criticism of culture. Unlike the more restricted discourse of philosophical aesthetics, it has explored the ways in which value commitments extend across disciplinary domains by reckoning with the practical concerns of art production and consumption.

The readings in this anthology reach back to classical sources of philosophical aesthetics and forward to the most current accounts of the utility/value of the literary artwork in post-modern culture. The organization of the text is designed to engage the reader in the shaping debates of literary aesthetic theory and demonstrate their continuing relevance for our understanding of the ways literature sustains and critiques culture.

At Play in the Fields of Consciousness - Essays in Honor of Jerome L. Singer (Paperback): Jefferson A. Singer, Peter Salovey At Play in the Fields of Consciousness - Essays in Honor of Jerome L. Singer (Paperback)
Jefferson A. Singer, Peter Salovey
R1,650 Discovery Miles 16 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The primary purpose of this book is to provide a state-of-the-art look at the study of consciousness, which is in the midst of a great renaissance. While honoring Jerome Singer's impressive career in psychology, this volume demonstrates the broad and integrative influence the study of consciousness is having across a variety of subdisciplines of psychology--experimental, personality, developmental, social, and clinical. The contributors to this volume represent both pioneers in the study of consciousness and contemporary researchers whose work has followed in the spirit of their predecessors' seminal work. This book will serve as a landmark end-of-the-century statement about psychology's understanding of the role of consciousness in affective and cognitive processes, the development of imagination in children, and its application to the practice of psychotherapy.

The Untethered Soul - The Journey Beyond Yourself (Paperback): Michael A. Singer The Untethered Soul - The Journey Beyond Yourself (Paperback)
Michael A. Singer 3
R479 R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Save R75 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Who are you? When you start to explore this question, you find out how elusive it really is. Are you a physical body? A collection of experiences and memories? A partner to relationships? Each time you consider aspects of yourself, you realize that there is much more to you than any of these can define. In this book, spiritual teacher Michael Singer explores the question of who we are and arrives at the conclusion that our identity is to be found in our consciousness, the fact of our ability to observe ourselves and the world around us. By tapping into traditions of meditation and mindfulness, Singer shows how the development of consciousness can enable us all to dwell in the present moment and let go of painful thoughts and memories that keep us from achieving happiness and self-realization. Divided into five parts, the book offers a frank and friendly discussion of consciousness and how we can develop it.

In part one, he examines the notion of self and the inner dialogue that all of us live with. Part two examines the experience of energy as it flows through us and works to show readers how to open their hearts to the energy of experience that permeates their lives. Ways to overcome tendencies to close down to the rest of the world are the subject of part three. Enlightenment and the embrace of universal consciousness are the subject of part four. And finally, in part five, Singer returns to daily life and the pursuit of "unconditional happiness." Throughout, the book maintains a light and engaging tone, free from heavy dogma and prescriptive religious references. The easy exercises that figure in each chapter help readers experience the ideas that Singer presents.

At Play in the Fields of Consciousness - Essays in Honor of Jerome L. Singer (Hardcover, New): Jefferson A. Singer, Peter... At Play in the Fields of Consciousness - Essays in Honor of Jerome L. Singer (Hardcover, New)
Jefferson A. Singer, Peter Salovey
R4,003 Discovery Miles 40 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The primary purpose of this book is to provide a state-of-the-art look at the study of consciousness, which is in the midst of a great renaissance. While honoring Jerome Singer's impressive career in psychology, this volume demonstrates the broad and integrative influence the study of consciousness is having across a variety of subdisciplines of psychology--experimental, personality, developmental, social, and clinical. The contributors to this volume represent both pioneers in the study of consciousness and contemporary researchers whose work has followed in the spirit of their predecessors' seminal work. This book will serve as a landmark end-of-the-century statement about psychology's understanding of the role of consciousness in affective and cognitive processes, the development of imagination in children, and its application to the practice of psychotherapy.

The Untethered Soul - The Journey Beyond Yourself (Hardcover, Gift W/ Ribbon): Michael A. Singer The Untethered Soul - The Journey Beyond Yourself (Hardcover, Gift W/ Ribbon)
Michael A. Singer
R626 R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Save R98 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Who are you? When you start to explore this question, you find out how elusive it really is. Are you a physical body? A collection of experiences and memories? A partner to relationships? Each time you consider these aspects of yourself, you realize that there is much more to you than any of these can define. In The Untethered Soul--now a New York Times bestseller--spiritual teacher Michael Singer explores the question of who we are and arrives at the conclusion that our identity is to be found in our consciousness. By tapping into traditions of meditation and mindfulness, Singer shows how the development of consciousness can enable us all to dwell in the present moment and let go of painful thoughts and memories that keep us from achieving happiness and self-realization. This book, co-published with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), offers a frank and friendly discussion of consciousness and how we can develop it. In part one, he examines the notion of self and the inner dialogue we all live with. Part two examines the experience of energy as it flows through us and works to show readers how to open their hearts to the energy of experience that permeates their lives. Ways to overcome tendencies to close down to the rest of the world are the subject of part three. Enlightenment, the embrace of universal consciousness, is the subject of part four. And finally, in part five, Singer returns to daily life and the pursuit of unconditional happiness. Throughout, the book maintains a light and engaging tone, free from heavy dogma and prescriptive religious references. The easy exercises that figure in each chapter help readers experience the ideas that Singer presents. Visit www.untetheredsoul.com for more information.

The Surrender Experiment - My Journey into Life's Perfection (Paperback): Michael A. Singer The Surrender Experiment - My Journey into Life's Perfection (Paperback)
Michael A. Singer
R465 R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Save R101 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Untethered Soul - The Journey Beyond Yourself (16pt Large Print Edition) (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print... The Untethered Soul - The Journey Beyond Yourself (16pt Large Print Edition) (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Michael A. Singer
R905 Discovery Miles 9 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Drawn to the Flame - Teachers’ Stories of Burnout: Erin A. Singer, Matthew J Etchells, Cheryl J. Craig Drawn to the Flame - Teachers’ Stories of Burnout
Erin A. Singer, Matthew J Etchells, Cheryl J. Craig
R2,489 Discovery Miles 24 890 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Teacher attrition and burnout have been researched in school districts all over the country for several decades. Characterised by physical and psychological exhaustion, cynicism (as an interpersonal and emotional indication of built-up aggression), and a sense of helplessness and low self-efficacy, burnout can lead to anxiety, depression, diminished job performance, absenteeism, and attrition. Drawn to the Flame investigates incidences of burnout and burnout avoidance among educators in both K-12 and higher education spheres during the COVID-19 pandemic – a period that saw an intensification and increased frequency of polarizing sociocultural and socio-political conditions, resulting in psychosocial and emotional strain among those invested in education. Through narrative inquiry, the chapters present the stories of teachers in a variety of settings (e.g. urban, suburban, rural) and sociological conditions (economic, racial, sex/gender), who experienced first-hand the impact of the pandemic and the chaotic transition to remote learning, the impact of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and racial strife, on students and curricular planning processes.

Directions in Human Factors for Interactive Systems (Paperback, 1st ed. 1981. 3rd printing 1984): Henry Ledgard, A. Singer, J.... Directions in Human Factors for Interactive Systems (Paperback, 1st ed. 1981. 3rd printing 1984)
Henry Ledgard, A. Singer, J. Whiteside
R1,387 Discovery Miles 13 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Studies in the History of Science (Hardcover, Reprint 2016 ed.): E. A Speiser, Otto E. Neugebauer, Hermann Ranke, Henry E... Studies in the History of Science (Hardcover, Reprint 2016 ed.)
E. A Speiser, Otto E. Neugebauer, Hermann Ranke, Henry E Sigerist, Richard H. Shryock, …
R2,284 Discovery Miles 22 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Literary Aesthetics - A Reader (Paperback): A. Singer Literary Aesthetics - A Reader (Paperback)
A. Singer
R1,354 Discovery Miles 13 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It is one of the ironies of contemporary literary study that as it has moved toward greater interdisciplinarity it has grown sceptical of the aesthetic. This anthology reasserts the continuing relevance of the aesthetic and to reintegrate it into the widening repertoire of contemporary literary critical practices.

From its inception literary aesthetics has been engaged in the full range of debates generated by the criticism of culture. Unlike the more restricted discourse of philosophical aesthetics, it has explored the ways in which value commitments extend across disciplinary domains by reckoning with the practical concerns of art production and consumption.

The readings in this anthology reach back to classical sources of philosophical aesthetics and forward to the most current accounts of the utility/value of the literary artwork in post-modern culture. The organization of the text is designed to engage the reader in the shaping debates of literary aesthetic theory and demonstrate their continuing relevance for our understanding of the ways literature sustains and critiques culture.

The Proper Pirate - Robert Louis Stevenson's Quest for Identity (Hardcover): Jefferson A. Singer The Proper Pirate - Robert Louis Stevenson's Quest for Identity (Hardcover)
Jefferson A. Singer
R1,073 Discovery Miles 10 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Exploring the life and times of author Robert Louis Stevenson, The Proper Pirate takes readers on a psychological journey from the writer's clerical and constricted upbringing to a life of imagination and wonder culminating in the South Seas island of Samoa. Drawing on contemporary theories of identity development, Jefferson A. Singer traces how Stevenson overcame Victorian dualities of piety versus passion in both his personal life and artistic works, gradually edging toward a more Modernist and complicated moral vision. This first full-length psychobiographical study of Stevenson follows the trajectory of his life, all while highlighting how key memories and conflicts within his personality shaped the narrative structure and themes of some of his most celebrated works, including: Treasure Island, (The) Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Child's Garden of Verses, and Kidnapped. Stevenson's relationships to his parents, his wife Fanny, and circle of intimate friends also play a prominent role in this investigation of his emerging identity and artistic body of work. Drawing on Stevenson's own treasure trove of personal correspondence, memoirs, essays, novels, stories and poems, as well as historical documents, biographies, and critical studies, Singer utilizes his background as a clinical psychologist and researcher in personality science to provide new and informative insights into the great writer's psychological development. In doing so, he helps to unlock the mystery of how a sickly youth confined to the "land of the counterpane" grew up to become the author of some of the world's most beloved and enduring works of adventure and fantasy.

Are Chronic Degenerative Diseases Part of the Ageing Process? - Insights from Comparative Biology (Paperback): Michael A. Singer Are Chronic Degenerative Diseases Part of the Ageing Process? - Insights from Comparative Biology (Paperback)
Michael A. Singer
R2,713 Discovery Miles 27 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Most of the DNA in the human genome does not encode proteins but is involved in regulatory functions. In addition, the human genome is characterized by an extensive array of structural DNA variants arising from de novo mutations plus accumulated structural variants transmitted through an individual's lineage. The result is that each person has a unique genome which is expressed as that person's unique phenotype. Ageing can be understood on both the species and individual level. Each species has a programmed ageing and mortality pattern, but within those broad species-specific boundaries there is considerable individual variation. At the individual level, ageing reflects the integrated effects of that individual's unique mix of DNA structural variants, unique experience-specific epigenetic marks and imperfectly repaired genomic and cellular damage. This book examines human "chronic degenerative" diseases which are not diseases, but rather variations of the ageing process across individuals.

The Form of the Firm - A Normative Political Theory of the Corporation (Hardcover): Abraham A. Singer The Form of the Firm - A Normative Political Theory of the Corporation (Hardcover)
Abraham A. Singer
R2,060 Discovery Miles 20 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Contemporary discussions of the corporation tend to divide into one of two camps: On one side are scholars who treat the firm as a purely economic and contractual entity, while another set of scholars look at corporations in purely political terms. Therefore, the corporation is not merely an economic endeavor; it is a political institution and must therefore serve social ends and not merely profit. In The Form of the Firm, Abraham Singer contends that both of these approaches overstate their cases dramatically, resulting in two wrongheaded, influential accounts of the corporation. He offers a third way that sees the corporation as being both economic and political. First, it is true that corporations exist primarily to increase economic efficiency. However, they do this in ways that distinguish them from the markets in which they operate. Corporations are not natural outgrowths of the free market, but institutions that we have developed to correct market inefficiencies through mechanisms normally associated with politics. Corporations use social power, norms, and state-sanctioned authority to establish economic cooperation in ways that markets cannot. But, Singer argues that they also have an obligation to uphold the norms of liberal democracy that enable their existence and smooth-running in the first place. A profound rethinking of what a corporation actually is and how power within it ought to be structured and exercised, The Form of the Firm will reshape our understanding of corporate governance, corporate law, and business ethics.

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