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      • Trusted Partner
        Popular philosophy
        July 2012

        Crimes Against Humanity

        Birth of a concept

        by Norman Geras

        This book tells the story of the emergence of the concept of crimes against humanity. It examines its origins, the ethical assumptions underpinning it, its legal and philosophical boundaries, and some of the controversies connected with it. A brief historical introduction is followed by an exploration of the various meanings of the term 'crimes against humanity' that have been suggested; a definition is proposed linking it to the idea of basic human rights. The book looks at some problems with the boundaries of the concept, the threshold for its proper application and the related issue of humanitarian intervention. It concludes with a discussion of the prospects for the further development of crimes-against-humanity law. The work serves as a clear and compact introduction for students of politics, philosophy and law, as well as for the general reading public.

      • Trusted Partner
        Computing & IT
        September 2017

        Games are not

        The difficult and definitive guide to what games are

        by David Myers

        How do we reconcile a videogame industry's insistence that games positively affect human beliefs and behaviors with the equally prevalent assumption that games are "just games"? How do we reconcile accusations that games make us violent and antisocial and unproductive with the realization that games are a universal source of human joy? In Game are not, David Myers demonstrates that these controversies and conflicts surrounding the meanings and effects of games are not going away; they are essential properties of the game's paradoxical aesthetic form. Games are not focuses on games writ large, bound by neither digital form nor by cultural interpretation. Interdisciplinary in scope and radical in conclusion, Games are not positions games as unique objects evoking a peculiar and paradoxical liminal state - a lusory attitude - that is essential to human creativity, knowledge, and sustenance of the species.

      • Trusted Partner
        Computing & IT
        September 2017

        Games are not

        The difficult and definitive guide to what games are

        by David Myers

        How do we reconcile a videogame industry's insistence that games positively affect human beliefs and behaviors with the equally prevalent assumption that games are "just games"? How do we reconcile accusations that games make us violent and antisocial and unproductive with the realization that games are a universal source of human joy? In Game are not, David Myers demonstrates that these controversies and conflicts surrounding the meanings and effects of games are not going away; they are essential properties of the game's paradoxical aesthetic form. Games are not focuses on games writ large, bound by neither digital form nor by cultural interpretation. Interdisciplinary in scope and radical in conclusion, Games are not positions games as unique objects evoking a peculiar and paradoxical liminal state - a lusory attitude - that is essential to human creativity, knowledge, and sustenance of the species.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2015

        Crimes Against Humanity

        Birth of a concept

        by Norman Geras

        This book, newly available in paperback, tells the story of the emergence of the concept of crimes against humanity. It examines its origins, the ethical assumptions underpinning it, its legal and philosophical boundaries, and some of the controversies connected with it. A brief historical introduction is followed by an exploration of the various meanings of the term 'crimes against humanity' that have been suggested; a definition is proposed linking it to the idea of basic human rights. The book looks at some problems with the boundaries of the concept, the threshold for its proper application and the related issue of humanitarian intervention. It concludes with a discussion of the prospects for the further development of crimes-against-humanity law. The work serves as a clear and compact introduction for students of politics, philosophy and law, as well as for the general reading public. ;

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2011

        Crimes Against Humanity

        Birth of a concept

        by Norman Geras

        This book tells the story of the emergence of the concept of crimes against humanity. It examines its origins, the ethical assumptions underpinning it, its legal and philosophical boundaries, and some of the controversies connected with it. A brief historical introduction is followed by an exploration of the various meanings of the term 'crimes against humanity' that have been suggested; a definition is proposed linking it to the idea of basic human rights. The book looks at some problems with the boundaries of the concept, the threshold for its proper application and the related issue of humanitarian intervention. It concludes with a discussion of the prospects for the further development of crimes-against-humanity law. The work serves as a clear and compact introduction for students of politics, philosophy and law, as well as for the general reading public. ;

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2021

        Everything must change

        Philosophical lessons from lockdown

        by Vittorio Bufacchi

        The philosopher Michel de Montaigne said that facing our mortality is the only way to learn the 'art of living'. This book asks what we can learn from COVID-19, both as individuals and collectively as a society. Written during the first and second lockdowns, Everything must change offers philosophical perspectives on some of the most pressing issues raised by the pandemic. It argues that the pandemic is not a misfortune but an injustice; that it has exposed our society's inadequate treatment of its most vulnerable members; that populist ideologies of post-truth are dangerous and potentially disastrous. In considering these issues and more, the book draws on a diverse range of philosophers, from Cicero, Hobbes and Arendt to prominent contemporary thinkers. At the heart of the book is a simple argument: politics can be the difference between life and death. With careful reflection we can avoid knee-jerk decision making and ensure that the right lessons are learned, so that this crisis ultimately changes our lives for the better, ushering in a society that is both more compassionate and more just.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2021

        Everything must change

        Philosophical lessons from lockdown

        by Vittorio Bufacchi

        The philosopher Michel de Montaigne said that facing our mortality is the only way to learn the 'art of living'. This book asks what we can learn from COVID-19, both as individuals and collectively as a society. Written during the first and second lockdowns, Everything must change offers philosophical perspectives on some of the most pressing issues raised by the pandemic. It argues that the pandemic is not a misfortune but an injustice; that it has exposed our society's inadequate treatment of its most vulnerable members; that populist ideologies of post-truth are dangerous and potentially disastrous. In considering these issues and more, the book draws on a diverse range of philosophers, from Cicero, Hobbes and Arendt to prominent contemporary thinkers. At the heart of the book is a simple argument: politics can be the difference between life and death. With careful reflection we can avoid knee-jerk decision making and ensure that the right lessons are learned, so that this crisis ultimately changes our lives for the better, ushering in a society that is both more compassionate and more just.

      • Trusted Partner
        Computing & IT
        May 2020

        Games are not

        The difficult and definitive guide to what video games are

        by David Myers

        Introduction 1 Games are not cooperation 2 Games are not intentions 3 Games are not references 4 Games are not narratives 5 Games are not beliefs 6 Games are not gameplay 7 Games are not toys 8 Games are not simulations 9 Simulation-games are not simulations 10 Games are not commodities 11 Games are not what you think 12 Games are art (because they are not art

      • Trusted Partner
        Computing & IT
        May 2020

        Games are not

        The difficult and definitive guide to what video games are

        by David Myers

        Introduction 1 Games are not cooperation 2 Games are not intentions 3 Games are not references 4 Games are not narratives 5 Games are not beliefs 6 Games are not gameplay 7 Games are not toys 8 Games are not simulations 9 Simulation-games are not simulations 10 Games are not commodities 11 Games are not what you think 12 Games are art (because they are not art

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2021

        Everything must change

        Philosophical lessons from lockdown

        by Vittorio Bufacchi

        The philosopher Michel de Montaigne said that facing our mortality is the only way to learn the 'art of living'. This book asks what we can learn from COVID-19, both as individuals and collectively as a society. Written during the first and second lockdowns, Everything must change offers philosophical perspectives on some of the most pressing issues raised by the pandemic. It argues that the pandemic is not a misfortune but an injustice; that it has exposed our society's inadequate treatment of its most vulnerable members; that populist ideologies of post-truth are dangerous and potentially disastrous. In considering these issues and more, the book draws on a diverse range of philosophers, from Cicero, Hobbes and Arendt to prominent contemporary thinkers. At the heart of the book is a simple argument: politics can be the difference between life and death. With careful reflection we can avoid knee-jerk decision making and ensure that the right lessons are learned, so that this crisis ultimately changes our lives for the better, ushering in a society that is both more compassionate and more just.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2024

        How to be multiple

        The philosophy of twins

        by Helena de Bres, Julia de Bres

        In How to be multiple, Helena de Bres - a twin herself - argues that twinhood is a unique lens for examining our place in the world and how we relate to other people. The way we think about twins offers remarkable insights into some of the deepest questions of our existence, from what is a person? to how should we treat one another? Deftly weaving together literary and cultural history, philosophical enquiry and personal experience, de Bres examines such thorny issues as binary thinking, objectification, romantic love and friendship, revealing the limits of our individualistic perspectives. In this illuminating, entertaining book, wittily illustrated by her twin sister, de Bres ultimately suggests that to consider twinhood is to imagine the possibility of a more interconnected, capacious human future.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2020

        SITOPIA

        How Food Can Save The World

        by Carolyn Steel

        A vital call for us to rediscover the way that food binds us to each other and to the natural world, and in doing so find new ways of living -- Christopher Kissane, Guardian   Steel's ideas have become a matter of urgency -- Clare Saxby, Times Literary Supplement   Essential reading! A visionary look at how quality food should replace money as the new world currency -- Tim Spector   Steel offsets the obviously weighty subject matter with a lightness of touch and twinkling eye for luminous details… an unambiguously essential read -- George Reynolds, Daily Telegraph   The beauty of food is that it is so many things at once: necessity and treat, nature and artifice, the subject of science, philosophy, etiquette and art. The book is accordingly multiple in its themes, an all-you-can-eat buffet of thoughts and facts about food...a brave and ambitious book, Observer   Prize Shortlisted: https://wainwrightprize.com/sitopia/  Discussed on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, Weds 17th Sept (Starts at 2hrs & 20 mins in: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000mkst)   From our foraging hunter-gatherer ancestors to the enormous appetites of modern cities, food has shaped our bodies and homes, our politics and trade, and our climate. Whether it’s the daily decision of what to eat, or the monopoly of industrial food production, food touches every part of our world. But by forgetting its value, we have drifted into a way of life that threatens our planet and ourselves.   Yet food remains central to addressing the predicaments and opportunities of our urban, digital age. Drawing on insights from philosophy, history, architecture, literature, politics and science, as well as stories of the farmers, designers and economists who are remaking our relationship with food, Sitopia is a provocative and exhilarating vision for change, and how to thrive on our crowded, overheating planet. In her inspiring and deeply thoughtful new book Carolyn Steel, points the way to a better future.   Carolyn Steel is a leading thinker on food and cities. Her first book, Hungry City, received international acclaim, establishing her as an influential voice in a wide variety of fields across academia, industry and the arts. It won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction and was chosen as a BBC Food Programme book of the year. A London-based architect, academic and writer, Carolyn has lectured at the University of Cambridge, London Metropolitan University, Wageningen University and the London School of Economics and is in international demand as a speaker. Her 2009 TED talk has received more than one million views.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2006

        Tenant´s prayers

        by Guillermo Fadanelli

        Tenant´s prayers ( Plegarias de un inquilino: Cal y Arena, Mexico City, 2005) is a book about brief encounters, miscellaneous readings and frivolous essays. Philosophy and literature are here accompanied with autobiographical snaps and irony as the guest of honor. Fadanelli´s writing blossoms greatly in short texts, where he explores with distracted erudition a great number of subjects. From past loves lived in cheap student´s pensions, to deserts, to the stupidity of family arguments over dinner. Pessoa, George Steiner, Carson McCullers and Paul Feyerabend are as other, invited too. All of these issues and names are explored with the discrete companionship of literature, that somehow makes a bit of sense from all these events lived and remembered (therefore, lived again). In this compilation, essays are short and sharp, like bullets from a machine gun loaded with a mixture of melancholy, introspection, humor and humanistic cynicism. guillermofadanelli.com

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2020

        When the Improbable Happens

        So Does a Different Future

        by Yannick Roudaut

        The only sure thing is the improbable and it opens up doors to other, unforeseen opportunities…   In the spring of 2020, the improbable happened.  The unthinkable too: the world economy came to a halt.  Who could have imagined that?  Nobody.  But now we know that an off switch does indeed exist.  The economic collapse was not destiny, it was a choice.   History is a succession of improbable events that come one after the other that lead to a future that was unimaginable just a few months earlier.    Each shock, every illness, must be considered as indicators to rectify humanity’s mortifying trajectory.  Each crisis is an opportunity to learn something that will allow for innovation, to think differently, to reevaluate our relationship with time, work, money and others.  In nature, every constraint is a source of innovation.  Humanity must learn to find inspiration in order to self-correct its path to a different, better future.

      • Ethics & moral philosophy

        The Case Against Miracles

        by John W. Loftus

        Renowned atheist edits anthology on miracles.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2015

        Paradigm Shift

        How expert opinions keep changing on life, the universe, and everything

        by Martin Cohen

        This book offers vital clues for understanding not only the way knowledge develops, but also into the dangers of accepting too readily or too uncritically the claims of experts of all kinds — even philosophical ones! The claims are invariably presented as objective fact, yet are rooted in human subjectivity.

      • Health & Personal Development
        2014

        TRUST ME, I'M THE PATIENT

        Clean Language, Metaphor and the New Psychology of Change

        by Philip Harland

        An essential read for anyone who finds themself counseling, coaching, or working with others. Takes you step by step through a process that lends itself to the most profound therapeutic transformation and yet can be used informally at home, at work, or in the queue for the bus. Science psychology, philosophy, and a vibrating peach are all part of the story in this guide to the far-reaching but readily accessible practice of Clean questioning, a knowledge of which will enable you to enter another person’s world almost unnoticed and once there to tread very, very lightly. And what will happen as a result is that the people you facilitate will get to know, change, and heal themselves. Philip Harland is a Clean Language psychotherapist and author of ‘The Power of Six: A Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge’; ‘How The Brain Feels: working with Emotion and Cognition’; 'Resolving Problem Patterns: with Clean Language and Autogenic Metaphor'; and ‘Possession and Desire: working with Addiction, Compulsion, and Dependency’. www.wayfinderpress.co.uk

      • Health & Personal Development
        2014

        THE POWER OF SIX

        A Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge

        by Philip Harland

        What is Emergent Self Knowledge, what are the Powers of Six, and what role do they play in self-development and therapeutic change? In this book by a leading authority in the field, you will learn a great deal that is new about psychology and the step-by-step practicality of change. If you are a coach, consultant, counsellor, health professional, psychologist, psychotherapist, psychiatrist, teacher or trainer – a facilitator of others – you will learn how to progress your clients more easily and safely. They will work through their traumas without being retraumatized and at the end of the day they will own their own process. They will heal themselves. When conventional commonsense or intelligence fail us, the Power of Six is a means of tapping into the reservoirs of our own wisdom.   Philip Harland is a Clean Language psychotherapist and leading authority on Emergent Knowledge and the Power of Six, having worked closely on its development with the originator of the process, the innovative therapist David Grove. They co-facilitated many clients and ran seminars together in Britain, France and New Zealand.Philip is also the author of a definitive book on Clean Language: ‘Trust Me, I’m The Patient: Clean Language, Metaphor and the New Psychology of Change’ and three short Clean Language–related books ‘Resolving Problem Patterns with Clean Language and Autogenic Metaphor’, ‘Possession and Desire: working with Addiction, Compulsion and Dependency’ and ‘How The Brain Feels: working with Emotion and Cognition’; all published by Wayfinder Press.  For more on these books go to Amazon or to www.wayfinderpress.co.uk

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