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cocoon (Paperback): Russell Jones cocoon (Paperback)
Russell Jones; Contributions by Mark Toner, Edward Ross, Sara Julia Campbell, Caroline Grebbel, …
R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Public Criminology - Reimagining Public Education and Research Practice (1st ed. 2024): Debbie Jones, Mark Jones, Katie... Public Criminology - Reimagining Public Education and Research Practice (1st ed. 2024)
Debbie Jones, Mark Jones, Katie Strudwick, Anthony Charles
R3,606 Discovery Miles 36 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book discusses the role and impact of ‘Public Criminology’. It brings together a collection of key scholars who have been at the fore of empirical and practice work in relation to understanding how ‘Public Criminology’ can engender academic activism. Split into two parts, it focusses on academic activism and research methodologies, and public criminology and pedagogical practice. It includes chapters on a range of topics including Inside-Out teaching, it discusses the role of social scientists and stepping outside of established research practices, and how students, the public and children can be engaged in criminological learning and issues to become agents of social change. It includes a reflection on how ‘Public Criminology’ has developed both in the UK and USA. It speaks to students, researchers and academics alike involved in teaching and learning within the discipline of Criminology and those who wish to evaluate practice and ensure their interventions have impact on commissioners and policymakers.

The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries (Hardcover): Candace Jones, Mark Lorenzen, Jonathan Sapsed The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries (Hardcover)
Candace Jones, Mark Lorenzen, Jonathan Sapsed
R4,416 Discovery Miles 44 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries is a reference work, bringing together many of the world's leading scholars in the application of creativity in economics, business and management, law, policy studies, organization studies and psychology. Creative industries research has become a regular theme in academic journals and conferences across these subjects and is also an important agenda for governments throughout the world, while business people from established companies and entrepreneurs revaluate and innovate their models in creative industries. The Handbook is organized into four parts: Following the editors' introduction, Part One on Creativity includes individual creativity and how this scales up to teams, social networks, cities, and labour markets. Part Two addresses Generating and Appropriating Value from Creativity, as achieved by agents and organizations, such as entrepreneurs, stars and markets for symbolic goods, and considers how performance is measured in the creative industries. Part Three covers the mechanics of Managing and Organizing Creative Industries, with chapters on the role of brokerage and mediation in creative industry networks, disintermediation and glocalisation due to digital technology, the management of project-based organzations in creative industries, organizing events in creative fields, project ecologies, Global Production Networks, genres and classification and sunk costs and dynamics of creative industries. Part Four on Creative Industries, Culture and the Economy offers chapters on cultural change and entrepreneurship, on development, on copyright, economic spillovers and government policy. This authoritative collection is the most comprehensive source of the state of knowledge in the increasingly important field of creative industries research. Covering emerging economies and new technologies, it will be of interest to scholars and students of the arts, business, innovation, and policy.

Linear Models in the Mathematics of Uncertainty (Hardcover, 2013 ed.): Carol Jones, Mark J Wierman, Terry D. Clark, Alex Pham,... Linear Models in the Mathematics of Uncertainty (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
Carol Jones, Mark J Wierman, Terry D. Clark, Alex Pham, Michael A. Redmond
R4,466 R3,609 Discovery Miles 36 090 Save R857 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The purpose of this book is to present new mathematical techniques for modeling global issues. These mathematical techniques are used to determine linear equations between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables in cases where standard techniques such as linear regression are not suitable. In this book, we examine cases where the number of data points is small (effects of nuclear warfare), where the experiment is not repeatable (the breakup of the former Soviet Union), and where the data is derived from expert opinion (how conservative is a political party). In all these cases the data is difficult to measure and an assumption of randomness and/or statistical validity is questionable. We apply our methods to real world issues in international relations such as nuclear deterrence, smart power, and cooperative threat reduction. We next apply our methods to issues in comparative politics such as successful democratization, quality of life, economic freedom, political stability, and failed states. Finally, issues involving deaf and hard of hearing children are explored.

Agency, Norms, Inquiry, and Artifacts: Essays in Honor of Risto Hilpinen (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Paul McNamara, Andrew J.I.... Agency, Norms, Inquiry, and Artifacts: Essays in Honor of Risto Hilpinen (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Paul McNamara, Andrew J.I. Jones, Mark A. Brown
R4,242 Discovery Miles 42 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book contains a collection of chapters written by experts from the fields of philosophy, law, logic, computer science and artificial intelligence who pay tribute to Professor Risto Hilpinen's impressive work on the logic of induction, on deontic logic and epistemology, and on philosophy of science. In addition to an introduction by the editors, a section on Professor Hilpinen's positions, professional services and honors, as well as a complete bibliography of his writings, the editors, McNamara, Jones and Brown, have compiled a multidisciplinary global cross-section of academic contemporaries that provides insights and perspectives on Hilpinen's influence and legacy. The essays reflect central aspects of Risto Hilpinen's research interests, and offer further contributions to some of the philosophical fields for which he is best known: applied modal logic, including deontic logic (from the ancient Greek deon, pertaining to the concepts of duty and obligation), the semantics of normative language, the logic of action, and the theory of practical reasoning; the analysis of the concept of artifact; and the theory of semiotics in the tradition of Charles Peirce. The presence in the collection of several papers relating to deontic logic underlines Hilpinen's importance in that area, in which his publications have long been recognized as standard works. The book is an essential collection of ideas for all those who feel at home in a variety of formal disciplines, from propositional logic to the logic of artificial intelligence.

AQA Psychology for GCSE: Revision Guide (Paperback): Cara Flanagan, Dave Berry, Ruth Jones, Mark Jones, Rob Liddle AQA Psychology for GCSE: Revision Guide (Paperback)
Cara Flanagan, Dave Berry, Ruth Jones, Mark Jones, Rob Liddle
R688 Discovery Miles 6 880 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Written by Cara Flanagan and a highly experienced author team, this Revision Guide provides everything students need to know for their exams. // All the essential content for one topic - description and evaluation on one spread. // Invaluable exam tips. // `Apply it' questions allow students to apply their knowledge to a scenario question - some 'Apply it' questions focus on research methods. // `Knowledge check' questions are typical exam-style questions for that topic. // Suggested answers for 'Apply it' and 'Knowledge check' questions are provided as a free downloadable file. // Activities on every topic to improve exam skills and performance. // Two `write-in' activities on each topic help students practise and process the information on that topic. // All the activities are designed to help students correctly interpret and answer the exam questions. // Suggested answers for all the activities are provided as a free downloadable file.

The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology (Paperback): Aaron Zimmerman, Karen Jones, Mark Timmons The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology (Paperback)
Aaron Zimmerman, Karen Jones, Mark Timmons
R1,575 Discovery Miles 15 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology brings together philosophers, cognitive scientists, developmental and evolutionary psychologists, animal ethologists, intellectual historians, and educators to provide the most comprehensive analysis of the prospects for moral knowledge ever assembled in print. The book's thirty chapters feature leading experts describing the nature of moral thought, its evolution, childhood development, and neurological realization. Various forms of moral skepticism are addressed along with the historical development of ideals of moral knowledge and their role in law, education, legal policy, and other areas of social life. Highlights include: * Analyses of moral cognition and moral learning by leading cognitive scientists * Accounts of the normative practices of animals by expert animal ethologists * An overview of the evolution of cooperation by preeminent evolutionary psychologists * Sophisticated treatments of moral skepticism, relativism, moral uncertainty, and know-how by renowned philosophers * Scholarly accounts of the development of Western moral thinking by eminent intellectual historians * Careful analyses of the role played by conceptions of moral knowledge in political liberation movements, religious institutions, criminal law, secondary education, and professional codes of ethics articulated by cutting-edge social and moral philosophers.

Psychological Governance and Public Policy - Governing the mind, brain and behaviour (Paperback): Jessica Pykett, Rhys Jones,... Psychological Governance and Public Policy - Governing the mind, brain and behaviour (Paperback)
Jessica Pykett, Rhys Jones, Mark Whitehead
R1,485 Discovery Miles 14 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There have been significant developments in the state of psychological, neuroscientific and behavioural scientific knowledge relating to the human mind, brain, action and decision-making over the past two decades. These developments have influenced public policy making and popular culture in the UK and elsewhere - through policies and emerging social practices focussed on behavioural change, happiness, wellbeing, therapy, resilience and character. Yet little attention has been paid to examining the wider political and ethical significance of the widespread use of psychological governance techniques. There is a pressing and recognised need to address the behaviour change agenda in relation to how our cultural ideas about the brain, mind, behaviour and self are changing. This book provides a critical account of existing forms of psychological governance in relation to public policy. It asks whether we can speak of a co-ordinated and novel shift in governance or, rather, whether these trends are more simply pragmatic policy tools based on advances in scientific evidence. With contributions from leading scholars across the social sciences from the UK, the USA and Canada, chapters identify practical, political and research challenges posed by the current policy enthusiasm for particular branches of affective neuroscience, behavioural economics, positive psychology and happiness economics. The core focus of this book is to investigate the ways in which knowledge about the mind, brain and behaviour has informed the methods and techniques of governance and to explore the implications of this for shaping citizen identity and social practice. This groundbreaking book will be of interest to students, scholars and policy-makers interested and working within geography, economics, sociology, psychology, politics and cultural studies.

Foundations of Marketing Thought - The Influence of the German Historical School (Hardcover): D. G. Brian Jones, Mark Tadajewski Foundations of Marketing Thought - The Influence of the German Historical School (Hardcover)
D. G. Brian Jones, Mark Tadajewski
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The study and teaching of marketing as a university subject is generally understood to have originated in America during the early 20th century emerging as an applied branch of economics. This book tells a different story describing the influence of the German Historical School on institutional economists and economic historians who pioneered the study of marketing in America and Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing from archival materials at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard Business School, and the University of Birmingham, this book documents the early intellectual genealogy of marketing science and traces the ideas that early American and British economists borrowed from German scholars to study and teach marketing. Early marketing scholars both in America and Britain openly credited the German School, and its ideology based on social welfare and distributive justice was a strong motivation for many institutional economists who studied marketing in America, predating the modern macro-marketing school by many decades. Challenging many traditional beliefs, this book provides an authoritative new narrative of the origins of marketing thought. It will be of great interest to educators, scholars and advanced students with an interest in marketing theory and history, and in the history of economic thought.

Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance - British Manufacturing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Paperback):... Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance - British Manufacturing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
Myrddin John Lewis, Roger Lloyd-Jones, Mark David Matthews
R1,708 Discovery Miles 17 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is specifically aimed at addressing a gap in the study of the evolution of corporate governance in Britain. In particular its key theme, the relationship between corporate governance and personal capitalism in British manufacturing in the first half of the twentieth century, provides the means for a systematic and critical examination of the dominant Chandlerian paradigm that the long-running persistence of personal capitalism shaped the governance of British manufacturing firms well into the twentieth century and acted to erode their competitive performance. The book helps to identify those aspects of corporate governance that have undergone change, with some critical observations on the magnitude of change and those aspects which have displayed characteristics of continuity. The empirical spine of this book is set out in a series of case studies which provide the basis for the examination of corporate governance in Britain during the period c. 1900 to 1950. By focusing particularly on the responses of a range of businesses to the turbulent environment of the inter-war years, this volume offers an insight into a much neglected, yet vital, area of business and economic history.

Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance - British Manufacturing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, New... Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance - British Manufacturing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, New Ed)
Myrddin John Lewis, Roger Lloyd-Jones, Mark David Matthews
R4,619 Discovery Miles 46 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is specifically aimed at addressing a gap in the study of the evolution of corporate governance in Britain. In particular its key theme, the relationship between corporate governance and personal capitalism in British manufacturing in the first half of the twentieth century, provides the means for a systematic and critical examination of the dominant Chandlerian paradigm that the long-running persistence of personal capitalism shaped the governance of British manufacturing firms well into the twentieth century and acted to erode their competitive performance. The book helps to identify those aspects of corporate governance that have undergone change, with some critical observations on the magnitude of change and those aspects which have displayed characteristics of continuity. The empirical spine of this book is set out in a series of case studies which provide the basis for the examination of corporate governance in Britain during the period c. 1900 to 1950. By focusing particularly on the responses of a range of businesses to the turbulent environment of the inter-war years, this volume offers an insight into a much neglected, yet vital, area of business and economic history.

The Routledge Companion to Marketing History (Hardcover): D. G. Brian Jones, Mark Tadajewski The Routledge Companion to Marketing History (Hardcover)
D. G. Brian Jones, Mark Tadajewski
R7,662 Discovery Miles 76 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Routledge Companion to Marketing History is the first collection of readings that surveys the broader field of marketing history, including the key activities and practices in the marketing process. With contributors from leading international scholars working in marketing history, this companion provides nine country-specific histories of marketing practice as well as a broad analysis of the field, including: the histories of advertising, retailing, channels of distribution, product design and branding, pricing strategies, and consumption behavior. While other collections have provided an overview of the history of marketing thought, this is the first of its kind to do so from the perspective of companies, industries, and even whole economies. The Routledge Companion to Marketing History ranges across many countries and industries, engaging in substantive detail with marketing practices as they were performed in a variety of historical periods extending back to ancient times. It is not to be missed by any historian or student of business.

Linear Models in the Mathematics of Uncertainty (Paperback, 2013 ed.): Carol Jones, Mark J Wierman, Terry D. Clark, Alex Pham,... Linear Models in the Mathematics of Uncertainty (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Carol Jones, Mark J Wierman, Terry D. Clark, Alex Pham, Michael A. Redmond
R3,671 Discovery Miles 36 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The purpose of this book is to present new mathematical techniques for modeling global issues. These mathematical techniques are used to determine linear equations between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables in cases where standard techniques such as linear regression are not suitable. In this book, we examine cases where the number of data points is small (effects of nuclear warfare), where the experiment is not repeatable (the breakup of the former Soviet Union), and where the data is derived from expert opinion (how conservative is a political party). In all these cases the data is difficult to measure and an assumption of randomness and/or statistical validity is questionable. We apply our methods to real world issues in international relations such as nuclear deterrence, smart power, and cooperative threat reduction. We next apply our methods to issues in comparative politics such as successful democratization, quality of life, economic freedom, political stability, and failed states. Finally, issues involving deaf and hard of hearing children are explored.

Networked - Carabella on the Run (Paperback): Gerard Jones, Mark Badger Networked - Carabella on the Run (Paperback)
Gerard Jones, Mark Badger
R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Some alien invasions are loud and bloody-- some are quiet and friendly. The blue-skinned girl named Carabella thinks she's escaping the oppression of her own world, but instead, she's exposing the earth to an invasion so soft and friendly that everyone welcomes it-- until Carabella herself sees what's happening and tries to make someone, anyone see that our websites, our cell phones, and even our shoes (yes, shoes) are being used to steal first the privacy and then the freedow of everyone on earth" -- p. [4] of cover.

Richard Slee - Means of Production (Hardcover): Richard S. Lee, Jones Mark, Emily King Richard Slee - Means of Production (Hardcover)
Richard S. Lee, Jones Mark, Emily King
R917 Discovery Miles 9 170 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Rat That Got Away - A Bronx Memoir (Paperback): Allen Jones The Rat That Got Away - A Bronx Memoir (Paperback)
Allen Jones; As told to Mark D. Naison
R671 R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Save R73 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a neglected period in American urban history. Allen Jones grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a time-the 1950s-when that neighborhood was a place of optimism and hope for upwardly mobile Black and Latino families. Brought up in a two-parent household, with many neighborhood mentors, Jones led an almost charmed life as a budding basketball star until his teen years, when his once peaceful neighborhood was torn by job losses, white flight, and a crippling drug epidemic. Drawn into the heroin trade, first as a user, then as a dealer, Jones spent four months on Rikers Island, where he experienced a crisis of conscience and a determination to turn his life around. Sent to a New England prep school upon his release, Jones used his basketball skills and street smarts to forge a life outside the Bronx, first as a college athlete in the South, then as a professional basketball player, radio personality, and banker in Europe. A brilliant storyteller with a gift for dialogue, Jones brings Bronx streets and housing projects to life as places of possibility as well as tragedy, where racism and economic hardship never completely suppressed the resilient spirit of its residents. A book that will change the way people view the South Bronx.

The Rat That Got Away - A Bronx Memoir (Hardcover, 3 Revised Edition): Allen Jones The Rat That Got Away - A Bronx Memoir (Hardcover, 3 Revised Edition)
Allen Jones; As told to Mark D. Naison
R1,944 R1,560 Discovery Miles 15 600 Save R384 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a neglected period in American urbanhistory.
Allen Jones grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a time-the 1950s-when that neighborhood was a place of optimism and hope for upwardly mobile Black and Latino families. Brought up in a two-parent household, with many neighborhood mentors, Jones led an almost charmed life as a budding basketball star until his teen years, when his once peaceful neighborhood was torn by job losses, white flight, and a crippling drug epidemic. Drawn into the heroin trade, first as a user, then as a dealer, Jones spent four months on Rikers Island, where he experienced a crisis of conscienceand a determination to turn his life around. Sent to a New England prep school upon his release, Jones used his basketball skills and street smarts to forge a life outside the Bronx, first as a college athlete in the South, then as a professional basketball player, radio personality, and banker in Europe.
A brilliant storyteller with a gift for dialogue, Jones brings Bronx streets and housing projects to life as places of possibility as well as tragedy, where racism and economic hardship never completely suppressed the resilient spirit of its residents. A book that will change the way people view theSouth Bronx.

The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation - Contributions to Theory, Method and Measurement (Paperback, Softcover reprint... The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation - Contributions to Theory, Method and Measurement (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
David L. Greene, Donald W Jones, Mark A Delucchi
R4,513 Discovery Miles 45 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Modern transportation systems have far-reaching, and serious consequences: deaths and injuries from accidents, pollution of air, water and groundwater, noise congestion, and the greenhouse effect. As world transport systems expand and become increasingly motorised, the transportation community is searching for systems that are both efficient and sustainable. Here, leading international researchers explore the issues and concepts and define the state of knowledge concerning the full costs and benefits of transportation.

Foundations of Marketing Thought - The Influence of the German Historical School (Paperback): D. G. Brian Jones, Mark Tadajewski Foundations of Marketing Thought - The Influence of the German Historical School (Paperback)
D. G. Brian Jones, Mark Tadajewski
R1,437 Discovery Miles 14 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The study and teaching of marketing as a university subject is generally understood to have originated in America during the early 20th century emerging as an applied branch of economics. This book tells a different story describing the influence of the German Historical School on institutional economists and economic historians who pioneered the study of marketing in America and Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing from archival materials at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard Business School, and the University of Birmingham, this book documents the early intellectual genealogy of marketing science and traces the ideas that early American and British economists borrowed from German scholars to study and teach marketing. Early marketing scholars both in America and Britain openly credited the German School, and its ideology based on social welfare and distributive justice was a strong motivation for many institutional economists who studied marketing in America, predating the modern macro-marketing school by many decades. Challenging many traditional beliefs, this book provides an authoritative new narrative of the origins of marketing thought. It will be of great interest to educators, scholars and advanced students with an interest in marketing theory and history, and in the history of economic thought.

The Routledge Companion to Marketing History (Paperback): D. G. Brian Jones, Mark Tadajewski The Routledge Companion to Marketing History (Paperback)
D. G. Brian Jones, Mark Tadajewski
R1,508 Discovery Miles 15 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Routledge Companion to Marketing History is the first collection of readings that surveys the broader field of marketing history, including the key activities and practices in the marketing process. With contributors from leading international scholars working in marketing history, this companion provides nine country-specific histories of marketing practice as well as a broad analysis of the field, including: the histories of advertising, retailing, channels of distribution, product design and branding, pricing strategies, and consumption behavior. While other collections have provided an overview of the history of marketing thought, this is the first of its kind to do so from the perspective of companies, industries, and even whole economies. The Routledge Companion to Marketing History ranges across many countries and industries, engaging in substantive detail with marketing practices as they were performed in a variety of historical periods extending back to ancient times. It is not to be missed by any historian or student of business.

The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology (Hardcover): Aaron Zimmerman, Karen Jones, Mark Timmons The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology (Hardcover)
Aaron Zimmerman, Karen Jones, Mark Timmons
R7,081 Discovery Miles 70 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology brings together philosophers, cognitive scientists, developmental and evolutionary psychologists, animal ethologists, intellectual historians, and educators to provide the most comprehensive analysis of the prospects for moral knowledge ever assembled in print. The book's thirty chapters feature leading experts describing the nature of moral thought, its evolution, childhood development, and neurological realization. Various forms of moral skepticism are addressed along with the historical development of ideals of moral knowledge and their role in law, education, legal policy, and other areas of social life. Highlights include: * Analyses of moral cognition and moral learning by leading cognitive scientists * Accounts of the normative practices of animals by expert animal ethologists * An overview of the evolution of cooperation by preeminent evolutionary psychologists * Sophisticated treatments of moral skepticism, relativism, moral uncertainty, and know-how by renowned philosophers * Scholarly accounts of the development of Western moral thinking by eminent intellectual historians * Careful analyses of the role played by conceptions of moral knowledge in political liberation movements, religious institutions, criminal law, secondary education, and professional codes of ethics articulated by cutting-edge social and moral philosophers.

Agency, Norms, Inquiry, and Artifacts: Essays in Honor of Risto Hilpinen (1st ed. 2022): Paul McNamara, Andrew J.I. Jones, Mark... Agency, Norms, Inquiry, and Artifacts: Essays in Honor of Risto Hilpinen (1st ed. 2022)
Paul McNamara, Andrew J.I. Jones, Mark A. Brown
R4,342 Discovery Miles 43 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book contains a collection of chapters written by experts from the fields of philosophy, law, logic, computer science and artificial intelligence who pay tribute to Professor Risto Hilpinen's impressive work on the logic of induction, on deontic logic and epistemology, and on philosophy of science. In addition to an introduction by the editors, a section on Professor Hilpinen’s positions, professional services and honors, as well as a complete bibliography of his writings,  the editors, McNamara, Jones and Brown, have compiled a multidisciplinary global cross-section of academic contemporaries that provides insights and perspectives on Hilpinen's influence and legacy. The essays reflect central aspects of Risto Hilpinen's research interests, and offer further contributions to some of the philosophical fields for which he is best known: applied modal logic, including deontic logic (from the ancient Greek δέον déon, pertaining to the concepts of duty and obligation), the semantics of normative language, the logic of action, and the theory of practical reasoning; the analysis of the concept of artifact; and the theory of semiotics in the tradition of Charles Peirce. The presence in the collection of several papers relating to deontic logic underlines Hilpinen's importance in that area, in which his publications have long been recognized as standard works. The book is an essential collection of ideas for all those who feel at home in a variety of formal disciplines, from propositional logic to the logic of artificial intelligence.

Homosexuality - The Use of Scientific Research in the Church`s Moral Debate (Paperback): Stanton L Jones, Mark A. Yarhouse Homosexuality - The Use of Scientific Research in the Church`s Moral Debate (Paperback)
Stanton L Jones, Mark A. Yarhouse
R531 R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Save R40 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How prevalent is homosexuality? What causes it? Is it a psychopathology? Can it be changed? Questions like these often accompany discussions of homosexual behavior. For answers we naturally look to scientific studies. But what does the scientific research actually show? More important, what place should this research have in shaping the church's response? Stanton Jones and Mark Yarhouse help us face these issues squarely and honestly. In four central chapters they examine how scientific research has been used within church debates--in particular within Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopal contexts. They then survey the most recent and best scientific research and sort out what it actually shows. Next they help us to interpret the research's relevance to the moral debate within the church. In a concluding chapter they make a strong case for a traditional Christian sexual ethic. Church groups considering these complex issues will find helpful discussion questions at the end of each chapter. This book is essential reading for anyone involved in the church's debate over homosexual behavior.

Psychological Governance and Public Policy - Governing the mind, brain and behaviour (Hardcover): Jessica Pykett, Rhys Jones,... Psychological Governance and Public Policy - Governing the mind, brain and behaviour (Hardcover)
Jessica Pykett, Rhys Jones, Mark Whitehead
R4,462 Discovery Miles 44 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There have been significant developments in the state of psychological, neuroscientific and behavioural scientific knowledge relating to the human mind, brain, action and decision-making over the past two decades. These developments have influenced public policy making and popular culture in the UK and elsewhere - through policies and emerging social practices focussed on behavioural change, happiness, wellbeing, therapy, resilience and character. Yet little attention has been paid to examining the wider political and ethical significance of the widespread use of psychological governance techniques. There is a pressing and recognised need to address the behaviour change agenda in relation to how our cultural ideas about the brain, mind, behaviour and self are changing. This book provides a critical account of existing forms of psychological governance in relation to public policy. It asks whether we can speak of a co-ordinated and novel shift in governance or, rather, whether these trends are more simply pragmatic policy tools based on advances in scientific evidence. With contributions from leading scholars across the social sciences from the UK, the USA and Canada, chapters identify practical, political and research challenges posed by the current policy enthusiasm for particular branches of affective neuroscience, behavioural economics, positive psychology and happiness economics. The core focus of this book is to investigate the ways in which knowledge about the mind, brain and behaviour has informed the methods and techniques of governance and to explore the implications of this for shaping citizen identity and social practice. This groundbreaking book will be of interest to students, scholars and policy-makers interested and working within geography, economics, sociology, psychology, politics and cultural studies.

Magna Carta, Religion and the Rule of Law (Hardcover): Robin Griffith-Jones, Mark Hill Qc Magna Carta, Religion and the Rule of Law (Hardcover)
Robin Griffith-Jones, Mark Hill Qc
R2,493 Discovery Miles 24 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Archbishop Stephen Langton hoped with Magna Carta to realise an Old Testament, covenantal kingship in England. At the Charter's 800th anniversary, distinguished jurists, theologians and historians from five faith-traditions and three continents ask how Magna Carta's biblical foundations have mattered and still matter now. A Lord Chief Justice, a Chief Rabbi, a Grand Mufti of Egypt, specialists in eight centuries of law, scholars and advocates committed to the rule of law and to the place of religion in public life all come together in this testimony to Magna Carta's iconic power. We follow the Charter's story in the religious life of the UK, America and now Continental Europe, and reflections on religio-legal traditions far from the Common Law enrich the story. Magna Carta, Religion and the Rule of Law invites all religions to ask what contribution they themselves should make to the rule of law in today's secular, democratic polities.

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