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Every day millions of children in developing countries face
adversities of many kinds, yet there is a shortage of sound
evidence concerning their plight and an urgent need to identify the
most appropriate and effective policy responses from among the
multiple approaches that exist. This collection of journal papers
aims to engage with researchers and debates in the field so as to
understand better some of the numerous risks confronted by children
in developing countries. It highlights the complexity of protecting
children in various forms of adversity, challenges conventional
wisdom about what protects children, demonstrates why it is
essential to consult with children to protect them successfully,
and suggests that successful protection must be based on strong
empirical understanding of the situation and the perspectives of
children and communities involved. The contributors are all
experienced researchers and practitioners who have worked for many
years with children in developing countries. The book offers
suggestions for reform of current child protection policies, based
on empirical findings around a range of child protection concerns,
including children's work, independent migration, family
separation, early marriage, and military occupation. Together, the
contributions provide a body of knowledge important to humanitarian
and development policy and practice. This book was published as a
special issue of Development in Practice.
Bioluminescent algae, symbiotic aquariums, self-healing concrete,
clavicle wind instruments and structures made from living trees -
biology applied outside the lab has never been so intriguing, or so
beautiful. Bio Design examines the thrilling advances in the field,
showcasing some seventy projects (concepts, prototypes and
completed designs) that cover a range of fields - from architecture
and industrial design to fashion and medicine. The revised and
expanded edition features twelve new projects (replacing ten
existing projects): Hy-Fi (by David Benjamin); One Central Park,
Sydney (Jean Nouvel); Guard from Above (Sjoerd Hoogendoorn);
Cell-laden Hydrogels for Biocatalysis (Alshakim Nelson); Zoa
(Modern Meadow); Amino Labs (Julie Legault); Algae and Mycelium
Projects (Eric Klarenbeek); Interwoven and Harvest (Diane Scherer);
Concrete Honey (John Becker); Bistro In Vitro (Koert van
Mensvoort); Circumventive Organs (Agi Haines); Quantworm Mine (Liv
Bargman and Nina Cutler). It also includes a new 'how-to' section
at the end (Tips for Collaboration/FAQs/Further Resources), as well
as a fully revised introduction.
First published in 1987. Milton and Free Will is an incisive,
ambitious and comprehensive analysis and defence of the concept of
free will, using Milton as an example and exemplar. Written with
passion, and out of a lifelong engagement with the poetry of Milton
and the philosophical and theological problems it encompasses, the
book will illuminate both Milton studies and philosophical debate.
The author engages with all the major currents of the free will
debate, starting with Aristotle and Aquinas and considering
arguments advanced by Hume and Kant as well as those of a number of
modern philosophers including Polanyi, Kenny, Parfit, Plantinga,
Swinburne, Dennett and Davidson. He pays particular attention to
the Marxist formalism of Bakhtin, the Catholic phenomenology of
Pope John Paul II and the evolutionism of Monod and Sober. He
concludes with a rebuttal of the deconstructionism of Barthes,
Derrida and Foucault. He claims that all the major difficulties
faced by defenders of free will can be overcome if a notion of
willing implicit in the work of Milton is properly understood.
Freedom as Milton represented and understood it, he suggests, is a
condition of mind arising out of inter-personal awareness and not a
property or consequence of practical reasoning. He finds supporting
evidence for this view in the writings of Newman and in Henry
Jamesâs The Portrait of a Lady, which he reads as a narrative
structurally reversing Miltonâs representation of the fall of Eve
in Paradise Lost. The author systematically analyses and reanalyses
key passages in his texts in the light of the many arguments for
and against free will, seeking thereby to affirm the validity in
principle, and the personal and political importance in practice,
of the Christian humanist tradition of which he sees Milton, Newman
and the Pope as important (if sometimes misleading) spokesmen.
Every day millions of children in developing countries face
adversities of many kinds, yet there is a shortage of sound
evidence concerning their plight and an urgent need to identify the
most appropriate and effective policy responses from among the
multiple approaches that exist. This collection of journal papers
aims to engage with researchers and debates in the field so as to
understand better some of the numerous risks confronted by children
in developing countries. It highlights the complexity of protecting
children in various forms of adversity, challenges conventional
wisdom about what protects children, demonstrates why it is
essential to consult with children to protect them successfully,
and suggests that successful protection must be based on strong
empirical understanding of the situation and the perspectives of
children and communities involved. The contributors are all
experienced researchers and practitioners who have worked for many
years with children in developing countries. The book offers
suggestions for reform of current child protection policies, based
on empirical findings around a range of child protection concerns,
including children's work, independent migration, family
separation, early marriage, and military occupation. Together, the
contributions provide a body of knowledge important to humanitarian
and development policy and practice. This book was published as a
special issue of Development in Practice.
First published in 1987. Milton and Free Will is an incisive,
ambitious and comprehensive analysis and defence of the concept of
free will, using Milton as an example and exemplar. Written with
passion, and out of a lifelong engagement with the poetry of Milton
and the philosophical and theological problems it encompasses, the
book will illuminate both Milton studies and philosophical debate.
The author engages with all the major currents of the free will
debate, starting with Aristotle and Aquinas and considering
arguments advanced by Hume and Kant as well as those of a number of
modern philosophers including Polanyi, Kenny, Parfit, Plantinga,
Swinburne, Dennett and Davidson. He pays particular attention to
the Marxist formalism of Bakhtin, the Catholic phenomenology of
Pope John Paul II and the evolutionism of Monod and Sober. He
concludes with a rebuttal of the deconstructionism of Barthes,
Derrida and Foucault. He claims that all the major difficulties
faced by defenders of free will can be overcome if a notion of
willing implicit in the work of Milton is properly understood.
Freedom as Milton represented and understood it, he suggests, is a
condition of mind arising out of inter-personal awareness and not a
property or consequence of practical reasoning. He finds supporting
evidence for this view in the writings of Newman and in Henry
James's The Portrait of a Lady, which he reads as a narrative
structurally reversing Milton's representation of the fall of Eve
in Paradise Lost. The author systematically analyses and reanalyses
key passages in his texts in the light of the many arguments for
and against free will, seeking thereby to affirm the validity in
principle, and the personal and political importance in practice,
of the Christian humanist tradition of which he sees Milton, Newman
and the Pope as important (if sometimes misleading) spokesmen.
White violence in America is a hidden issue in race relations that
must be addressed before the racial impasse between black and white
can be transcended. This innovative book cites the failure to raise
this issue of white violence in the race relations debate as the
cause of the omnipresent gap in the search for a resolution to the
race problem. Serving also as an historical essay that looks at
white violence in America in its overt and secretive forms, this
book suggests that allowing history to teach us how to avoid the
mistakes of the past will make bridging the racial abyss more
probable. Contents: Introduction; In Search of a Theoretical Basis
for White Violence Against Blacks: Finding Windows of Opportunity;
Crucible of American Violence: Historical Perception; White
Violence: The Sealing of a Partnership in a Cultural Community of
Whiteness; White Violence: The Leveling Force in Race Relations;
Destructively Common: Racial Radicalism and the Era of Separate But
Equal; Images: The Ritual of Lynching; Johnny's March Home: A
Violent Perception in the Inter-War Years; Destructive Impulses:
Circumventing Brown v. Board of Education; Black Violence: A Mirror
Image of its Creator; Seeds of Destruction: The White Backlash and
an Attack on Affirmative Action; Past, Present, Future: The State
of Race Relations; Notes.
This book deals with important aspects of nineteenth-century
culture, literary, philosophical and scientific, which remain live
issues today. It examines in detail the writings of Dickens,
Charlotte and Emily Bronte, James Hamilton, Eliot Mill, Arnold,
Pater and Newman and makes substantial reference to Hawthorne,
Dickinson, Spencer, Carlyle and Hardy, all in the context of the
dominant intellectual movements of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. The thought of Hamilton, Newman, Mill and Spencer is
contrasted with that of twentieth-century figures like the
philosophers Frege, Husserl, Wittenstein, Merleau-Ponty, the
neo-Darwinists Monod and Dawkins and critics like Eagleton and
Miller. William Myers argues for a traditional view, deriving
largely from Newman, of the unity and autonomy of individual human
beings. He suggests that science and literature depend on persons
being actively and responsively present to each other, that freedom
is always interpersonal, and that in great literature we can
discover the workings of this deep mutuality and its enemies.
This book deals with important aspects of nineteenth-century
culture, literary, philosophical and scientific, which remain live
issues today. It examines in detail the writings of Dickens,
Charlotte and Emily Bronte, James Hamilton, Eliot Mill, Arnold,
Pater and Newman and makes substantial reference to Hawthorne,
Dickinson, Spencer, Carlyle and Hardy, all in the context of the
dominant intellectual movements of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. The thought of Hamilton, Newman, Mill and Spencer is
contrasted with that of twentieth-century figures like the
philosophers Frege, Husserl, Wittenstein, Merleau-Ponty, the
neo-Darwinists Monod and Dawkins and critics like Eagleton and
Miller. William Myers argues for a traditional view, deriving
largely from Newman, of the unity and autonomy of individual human
beings. He suggests that science and literature depend on persons
being actively and responsively present to each other, that freedom
is always interpersonal, and that in great literature we can
discover the workings of this deep mutuality and its enemies.
The first and only monograph on the extraordinary work of
multidisciplinary and experiential Dutch artist duo DRIFT DRIFT was
established in Amsterdam in 2007 by Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph
Nauta. In their installations and interactive sculptures,
environmental issues, human nature, and technology intersect in an
intriguing way. Over the course of more than a decade, DRIFT's
immersive, encompassing, and often site-specific projects have been
exhibited all over the world, offering a meditative and poetic
experience and addressing themes such as the relationship between
the individual and the collective and the impact of technology in
our society. This is the first book to explore their extraordinary
world in depth.
In our age of fast-paced biotechnological progress and humans'
increasing impact on the environment the autonomy of 'nature' has
come into question. We can now engineer living things, blur the
biological distinctions between humans and animals, and influence
parts of our world that we cannot see - such as DNA and genes.
These discoveries and far-reaching developments have created
fertile ground for artistic expression. This book reveals the ways
in which the work of bio artists offers new meanings for our lives
in the wake of scientific discovery, as well as new frameworks for
describing them. Four thematic chapters cover the key areas in
which biotechnology has had an impact on today's world, including
ecology, biomedicine, designer genomes and evolutionary theory,
profiling the work of 60 artists, collectives and organizations
from countries including France, Germany, the US, the Netherlands,
Mexico and Japan. Interviews with eight bio artists and
technologists, including Arne Hendriks, Mark Dion, Boo Chapple,
Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Raphael Kim, provide a deeper insight
into the ideas and methods of this new breed of creative
practitioner.
Historically affirming certain post-WWII constructive theologians
and social theorists, After Christendom unpacks theological
anomalies negatively denying the science underlying global warming,
wedge issues supporting systemic racism, and certain erroneous
decisions made by mainline churches and the evangelical movement.
Anomalies occur when something taken for granted no longer fits
current situations. The so-called mainline church and the
evangelical movement have not addressed or reconstructed their
theological anomalies. Caught inside cultural accommodation, the
more liberal mainline church often does not recognize its
historical tie to a pre-modern God, a transactional definition of
the crucifixion, and Jesusâ consignment to the cross. A companion
argument suggests that the evangelical movementâs inability to
respond to the pre-modern depiction of God as an omnipotent,
theocratic King helped provide sufficient votes for Trumpâs
successful presidential run. Both groups inability to face such
theological anomalies rests within a belief in conservative
originalism, an unwillingness to move beyond European
Christendomâs earliest theological constructions. After
Christendom will be of particular interest to seminary, divinity
school, university, and college libraries, as well as seminary
students and professors, members of college and university
departments of religion, history, and political science, and
ministers and church leaders.
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Rejections, 2016 - Rejection, Rantings, and Beer-Soaked Nights with Brahms, Bach, Mozart and Other Friends: Rejections, 2016: Rejection, Rantings, and Beer-Soaked Nights with Brahms, Bach, Mozart and Other Friends (Paperback)
Bryan William Myers
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