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'I should be very much happier if she were dead.' Edward Powell
lives with his Aunt Mildred in the Welsh town of Lywll. His aunt
thinks Lywll an idyllic place to live, but Edward loathes the
countryside - and thinks the company even worse. In face, Edward
has decided to murder his aunt. A darkly humorous depiction of
fraught family ties, The Murder of My Aunt was first published in
1934.
Knowledge and innovation are key factors contributing to growth and
prosperity in the new service economy. This book presents original,
empirical and theoretical contributions to address the economic
dimensions of knowledge and the organisation of knowledge intensive
activity through specialised services. Specific analyses include: *
macro statistics to highlight the contribution of services to
economic activity * firm level survey data to identify and consider
client relations * case studies of four innovation-oriented
business services. Further chapters deal with the specific
functions connected with knowledge, the new discipline of
'knowledge management', intellectual property rights, and the role
of knowledge in national and international economic systems.
Offering an overview of a highly important and pervasive set of
phenomena, this book outlines and illustrates the intellectual
agenda associated with the rise of a global services economy. It
will appeal to industrial and business economists, researchers,
students, policymakers and business analysts.
'From the point of view of the nation, it's a good thing that he
died.' Great Barwick's least popular man is murdered on a train.
Twelve jurors sit in court. Four suspects are identified - but
which of them is on trial? This novel has all the makings of a
classic murder mystery, but with a twist: as Attorney-General
Anstruther Blayton leads the court through prosecution and defence,
Inspector Fenby carries out his investigation. All this occurs
while the identity of the figure in the dock is kept tantalisingly
out of reach. Excellent Intentions is a classic crime novel laced
with irreverent wit, first published in 1939.
Deprivation and Freedom investigates the key issue of social
deprivation. It looks at how serious that issue is, what we should
do about it and how we might motivate people to respond to it. It
covers core areas in moral and political philosophy in new and
interesting ways, presents the topical example of disability as a
form of social deprivation, shows that we are not doing nearly
enough for certain sections of our communities and encourages that
we think differently about how we should best organize our
societies in the future. The book develops a comprehensive yet
accessible account of human freedom, which shows how the ability to
realise our freedom is partly definitive of freedom itself. That
account conclusively illustrates how many deprivations represent
remediable inequalities of important and very basic human freedoms,
posing the question as to why societies continue to do so little
about them. In answering that question, Richard J. Hull shows how
the idea of social exclusion is misleading and, instead, tackles
the far more pertinent and challenging issue of societies' failure
to include.The moral seriousness of non-inclusion, the failure to
provide for freedom, is evaluated via critical discussion of a
variety of central themes and distinctions in ethical and political
theory. The author shows how such themes and distinctions comprise
a framework for evaluating a raft of social issues, in turn
providing a unique resource for students of moral, political and
applied philosophy. The book concludes with an innovative,
challenging and effective combination of analytic and continental
styles, so to address the critical question of how we might
actually motivate constructive social change. In doing so, it shows
how a variety of approaches can work successfully together to
provide an emphatic case for greater social inclusion. Deprivation
and Freedom shows how even fairly modest claims about social
provision illustrate that we should be doing a lot more about
social deprivation than we are now. It should be of interest to
anyone who is concerned with questions about the type of society in
which they live, what it says about us to continue as we are -- and
how we might motivate realistically achievable social change.
Deprivation and Freedom investigates the key issue of social
deprivation. It looks at how serious that issue is, what we should
do about it and how we might motivate people to respond to it. It
covers core areas in moral and political philosophy in new and
interesting ways, presents the topical example of disability as a
form of social deprivation, shows that we are not doing nearly
enough for certain sections of our communities and encourages that
we think differently about how we should best organise our
societies in the future. The book develops a comprehensive yet
refreshingly simple account of human freedom, which shows how the
ability to realise our freedom is partly definitive of freedom
itself. That account conclusively illustrates how many deprivations
represent remediable inequalities of important and very basic human
freedoms, posing the question as to why societies continue to do so
little about them. In answering that question, Hull shows how the
idea of social exclusion is misleading and, instead, tackles the
far more pertinent and challenging issue of societies' failure to
include. The moral seriousness of non-inclusion, the failure to
provide for freedom, is evaluated via critical discussion of a
variety of central themes and distinctions in ethical and political
theory. The author shows how such themes and distinctions comprise
a framework for evaluating a raft of social issues, in turn
providing a unique resource for students of moral, political and
applied philosophy. The book concludes with an innovative,
challenging and effective combination of analytic and continental
styles, so to address the critical question of how we might
actually motivate constructive social change. In doing so, it shows
how a variety of approaches can work successfully together to
provide an emphatic case for greater social inclusion. Deprivation
and Freedom shows how even fairly modest claims about social
provision illustrate that we should be doing a lot more about
social deprivation than we are now. It should be of interest to
anyone who is concerned with questions about the type of society in
which they live, what it says about us to continue as we are - and
how we might motivate realistically achievable social change.
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The Third Sector (Hardcover, New)
Richard Hull, Jane Gibbon, Oana Branzei, Helen Haugh; Series edited by Richard Hull
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The Third Sector is of increasing economic and political interest
but has been relatively ignored by Critical Management Studies. The
Sector includes charities and a range of organisations such as
non-governmental, nonprofit, voluntary and community, but also
those trading for a surplus but with prominent social commitments,
such as housing associations, credit unions, worker or consumer
co-operatives and social enterprises. This book presents
cutting-edge international research from a variety of critical
perspectives. The chapters include case studies from Japan, South
Africa, Canada, Denmark, France, Wales and England, as well as a
number of theoretically-based explorations of key issues in the
analysis of the Third Sector. The chapters have been developed from
presentations and lively discussion at the Critical Management
Studies Workshop, Montreal, August 2010. "DCMS" is an innovative
series applying Critical Management Studies to tightly specified
topics. Each chapter is followed by a 1,000 word Commentary from a
fellow contributor to the volume, and each volume is the product of
a collaborative and developmental workshop.
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Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web - CAiSE 2002 International Workshop, WES 2002, Toronto, Canada, May 27-28, 2002, Revised Papers (Paperback, 2002 ed.)
Christoph Bussler, Richard Hull, Sheila A. McIlraith, Maria E. Orlowska, Barbara Pernici, …
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web, WES 2002, held in Toronto, Canada in May 2002 in conjunction with CAiSE 2002. The 18 revised full papers presented together with two keynote papers were carefully selected and improved during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on web services, e-business, and e-services and the semantic web.
The papers in this volume were presented at the International
Conference on Database Theory, held in Berlin, Germany, October
14-16, 1992. This conference initiated the merger of two series of
conferences on theoretical aspects of databases that were formed in
parallel by different scientific communities in Europe. The first
series was known as the International Conference on Database Theory
and the second as the Symposium on Mathematical Fundamentals of
Database Systems. In the future, ICDT will be organized every two
years, alternating with the more practically oriented series of
conferences on Extending Database Technology (EDBT). The volume
contains 3 invited lectures and 26 contributed papers selected from
a total of 107 submissions. The papers are organized into sections
on constraints and decomposition, query languages, updates and
active databases, concurrency control and recovery, knowledge
bases, datalog complexity and optimization, object orientation,
information capacity and security, and data structures and
algorithms. Two of the invited papers survey research into
theoretical database issues done in Eastern Europe during the past
decade.
This is a narrative about Jews and Judaism in Africa, from
antiquity to the present. Jews have often been a marginalized
minority, yet they have played a role in the history of the
continent hugely disproportionate to their numbers. They have
enriched Africa culturally and economically, serving as innovators
and middlemen, government servants and educators. Along the way,
they have been victims and victimizers, mercenaries and proxies for
others as well as adjuvants in long-distance trade and sustainable
development. While some have converted to other religions and been
assimilated into indigenous society, most have retained their
Jewish identity in various forms. Jews and Judaism have practically
disappeared from Africa today but their legacy will surely
endure.This book covers topics such as Jews in Ptolemaic and Roman
Egypt; Jews in the western Mediterranean through the Inquisition;
'New Christians' and the making of the Atlantic world, including
the early phases of the modern sugar economy and the slave trade;
Jews in Ethiopia from antiquity to the 20th century; Jewish
communities in the Muslim world; Morocco and West Africa; Sudanic
civilizations from the 11th to the 21st century; Jewish communities
in North Africa; Jews in the making of modern South Africa; and the
relationship between modern Israel and Africa.
The capacity for reasonable argument about practical and political
matters is important to our daily lives. Yet what does arguing
really involve? Often, our very concept of what it is to argue
seems systematically distorted. Practical, political arguing is too
often stylized as hyper-cognitive, ending by treating people as
objects rather than other selves - in ways that are fundamentally
unreasonable. This book examines what follows from seeing people as
deliberating and acting in ways that intertwine a variety of
emotional and evaluative processes and effects of virtue or
character. From this point of view, practical arguing involves not
just cognition, emotion, and virtue, but also practices, including
imaginative practices. Politics of Practical Reasoning: Integrating
Action, Discourse and Argument uses these ideas to interrogate ways
in which reasoning is bound up with the interrelated lives that
human beings lead in their everyday, public and political worlds.
We build here on efforts to re-concretize practical reasoning in
modern traditions linked to phenomenology and Wittgensteinian
thought, also referring back to Aristotle and the Stoics in
classical times. Medieval theologians and philosophers such as
Aquinas confront the same issue, as do Enlightenment thinkers such
as Smith and Kant. Using the history of philosophical thought as
one of our major sources, the contributors sympathize with the link
underscored between interpretation, tradition and reasoning by
Gadamer, the stress placed on communicative and emancipatory action
by Habermas, and MacIntyre's notion of praxis as highlighting
deliberation within communities. All these approaches respond to
practical reasoning as practical. Building on these points of view,
the volume both explores what practical reasoning itself means, and
applies it to particular questions: what it means to respond to
arguments about meaningful work or disability, or how to debate
institutional ethics or art. None of these debates is susceptible
to exclusively cognitive or technical solutions; this does not mean
abandoning them to unreason. Practical and political reasoning is
examined here from an appropriately broad spectrum of approaches,
founded in a concern for what human reasoning can justifiably be
expected to involve, and what justifying it can reasonably be
expected to achieve.
This is a narrative about Jews and Judaism in Africa, from
antiquity to the present. Jews have often been a marginalized
minority, yet they have played a role in the history of the
continent hugely disproportionate to their numbers. They have
enriched Africa culturally and economically, serving as innovators
and middlemen, government servants and educators. Along the way,
they have been victims and victimizers, mercenaries and proxies for
others as well as adjuvants in long-distance trade and sustainable
development. While some have converted to other religions and been
assimilated into indigenous society, most have retained their
Jewish identity in various forms. Jews and Judaism have practically
disappeared from Africa today but their legacy will surely
endure.This book covers topics such as Jews in Ptolemaic and Roman
Egypt; Jews in the western Mediterranean through the Inquisition;
'New Christians' and the making of the Atlantic world, including
the early phases of the modern sugar economy and the slave trade;
Jews in Ethiopia from antiquity to the 20th century; Jewish
communities in the Muslim world; Morocco and West Africa; Sudanic
civilizations from the 11th to the 21st century; Jewish communities
in North Africa; Jews in the making of modern South Africa; and,
the relationship between modern Israel and Africa.
Surgery inevitably inflicts some harm on the body. At the very
least, it damages the tissue that is cut. These harms often are
clearly outweighed by the overall benefits to the patient. However,
where the benefits do not outweigh the harms or where they do not
clearly do so, surgical interventions become morally contested.
Cutting to the Core examines a number of such surgeries, including
infant male circumcision and cutting the genitals of female
children, the separation of conjoined twins, surgical sex
assignment of intersex children and the surgical re-assignment of
transsexuals, limb and face transplantation, cosmetic surgery, and
placebo surgery. When, if ever, do the benefits of these surgeries
outweigh their costs? May a surgeon perform dangerous procedures
that are not clearly to the patient's benefit, even if the patient
consents to them? May a surgeon perform any surgery on a minor
patient if there are no clear benefits to that child? These and
other related questions are the core themes of this collection of
essays.
Surgery inevitably inflicts some harm on the body. At the very
least, it damages the tissue that is cut. These harms often are
clearly outweighed by the overall benefits to the patient. However,
where the benefits do not outweigh the harms or where they do not
clearly do so, surgical interventions become morally contested.
Cutting to the Core examines a number of such surgeries, including
infant male circumcision and cutting the genitals of female
children, the separation of conjoined twins, surgical sex
assignment of intersex children and the surgical re-assignment of
transsexuals, limb and face transplantation, cosmetic surgery, and
placebo surgery. When, if ever, do the benefits of these surgeries
outweigh their costs? May a surgeon perform dangerous procedures
that are not clearly to the patient's benefit, even if the patient
consents to them? May a surgeon perform any surgery on a minor
patient if there are no clear benefits to that child? These and
other related questions are the core themes of this collection of
essays.
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