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Free Download Regenerative Dialogues for Sustainable Futures: Integrating Science, Arts, Spirituality and Ancestral Knowledge for Planetary Wellbeing (Sustainable Development Goals Series) by Fabio Scarano
English | March 14, 2024 | ISBN: 3031518403 | 190 pages | PDF | 9.93 Mb
This book is about sustainability in its broadest sense. It argues that the ongoing science-policy dialogue on sustainable development (as framed by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals) is insufficient to drive the planet to desired sustainable futures. This conversation, followed by transformative action, must be inclusive of other forms of interpretation of reality (arts, spirituality, and ancestral knowledge) and non-modern cosmovisions. This is more a book about dialogues than about the common dualism problem/solution, and such dialogues are approached as an essential trigger of regeneration. The book takes the reader from a historical perspective of the human-nature relationship through to a discussion on sustainable futures as utopias. The optimism conveyed by the book is justified by a plethora of global examples of such regenerative dialogues.

Free Download Alfonso Del Percio, "Critical Sociolinguistics: Dialogues, Dissonances, Developments "
English | ISBN: 1350293520 | 2024 | 484 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Providing a series of crucial debates on language, power, difference and social inequality, this volume traces developments and dissonances in critical sociolinguistics. Eminent and emerging academic figures from around the world collaboratively engage with the work of Monica Heller, offering insights into the politics and power formations that surround knowledge of language and society. Challenging disciplinary power dynamics in critical sociolinguistics, this book is an experiment testing new ways of producing knowledge on language and society. Critically discussing central sociolinguistic concepts from critique to political economy, labor to media, education to capitalism, each chapter features a number of scholars offering their distinct social and political perspectives on the place played by language in the social fabric. Through its theoretical, epistemological, and methodological breadth, the volume foregrounds political alliances in how language is known and explored by scholars writing from specific geopolitical spaces that come with diverse political struggles and dynamics of power. Allowing for a diversity of genres, debates, controversies, fragments and programmatic manifestos, the volume prefigures a new mode of knowledge production that multiplies perspectives and starts practicing the more inclusive, just and equal worlds that critical sociolinguists envision.

Free Download Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, "Dialogues, Volume 2: Actius "
English | ISBN:
0674237188 | 2020 | 480 pages | PDF | 10 MB

Free Download Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism By René Provost, Colleen Sheppard (auth.), René Provost, Colleen Sheppard (eds.)
2013 | 290 Pages | ISBN: 9400747098 | PDF | 2 MB
Human rights have transformed the way in which we conceive the place of the individual within the community and in relation to the state in a vast array of disciplines, including law, philosophy, politics, sociology, geography. The published output on human rights over the last five decades has been enormous, but has remained tightly bound to a notion of human rights as dialectically linking the individual and the state. Because of human rights’ dogged focus on the state and its actions, they have very seldom attracted the attention of legal pluralists. Indeed, some may have viewed the two as simply incompatible or relating to wholly distinct phenomena. This collection of essays is the first to bring together authors with established track records in the fields of legal pluralism and human rights, to explore the ways in which these concepts can be mutually reinforcing, delegitimizing, or competing. The essays reveal that there is no facile conclusion to reach but that the question opens avenues which are likely to be mined for years to come by those interested in how human rights can affect the behaviour of individuals and institutions.

Free Download The Ethical AI : Dialogues on Technology and Humanity (AI Essentials) by Sung hun Kwag , ChatGpt 4o ChatGpt 4o
English | May 27, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D5DLPL51 | 194 pages | EPUB | 2.04 Mb
Embark on a thought-provoking journey with Ethico and Philo, two AI systems with contrasting perspectives, as they navigate the complex world of AI ethics.

Free Download Stephen M. Gardiner, Arthur Obst, "Dialogues on Climate Justice"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0367641968, 036764195X | PDF | pages: 371 | 12.9 mb
Written both for general readers and college students, Dialogues on Climate Justice provides an engaging philosophical introduction to climate justice, and should be of interest to anyone wanting to think seriously about the climate crisis.

Free Download On Awareness: A Collection of Philosophical Dialogues By Nicholas J. Pappas
2011 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 087586841X | PDF | 4 MB
The reader of this book is invited to enjoy a tasty feast of bite-sized philosophical dialogues. One reader might choose to enjoy a single dialogue at a time. Other readers might prefer to try a few at a time, in a "dim sum" approach to thoughtful inquiry. Either way, the reader will find a variety of individual themes that reflect upon each other and add up to a larger discussion. Sections center on notions including Peace, Dread, Daring, Ignoring, Hiding, Doubt, Sparks, Time, Patience, Fluff, Dwelling, Revealing, Stepping Back, Knowing, Worry, and Gratitude.As with the author’s previous two books with Algora, the main character, Director, leads his interlocutors through an analysis of the issues in question in each dialogue. Sometimes the characters reach agreement; sometimes they don’t. But in all cases light is shed on the questions at hand.Readers will find that the book stimulates thought about important topics, and that, if read with other people, it stimulates conversation. A reader might not agree with the conclusion that the characters draw in a particular dialogue, or even how they handled the discussion, but the reader will often find him or herself smiling nonetheless. Like Nick’s previous two books, the style here is that of a Platonic dialogue; the language is concise, pointed, and fun.

Free Download Learn kinyarwanda – Dialogues for beginners
Published 8/2024
Duration: 5h17m | Video: .MP4, 1920×1080 30 fps | Audio: AAC, 48kHz, 2ch | Size: 378 MB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
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Free Download Bertrand Denzler, "The Practice of Musical Improvisation: Dialogues with Contemporary Musical Improvisers"
English | ISBN: 1501349767 | 2020 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Over several years, Bertrand Denzler and Jean-Luc Guionnet have interviewed approximately 50 musicians from various backgrounds about their practice of musical improvisation. Musicians include both the very experienced such as Sophie Agnel, Burkhard Beins, John Butcher, Rhodri Davies, Bill Dixon, Phil Durrant, Axel Dörner, Annette Krebs, Daunik Lazro, Mattin, Seijiro Murayama, Andrea Neumann, Jérôme Noetinger, Evan Parker, Eddie Prévost and Taku Unami, as well as those newer to the field. Asked questions on topics such as the mental processes behind a collective improvisation, the importance of the human factor in improvisation, the strategies used and the way musical decisions are made, the interviewees highlight the habits and customs of a practice, as experienced by those who invent it on a daily basis. The interviews were carefully edited in order to produce a sort of grand discussion that draws an incomplete map of the blurred territory of contemporary improvised music.

Free Download Dostoevsky and Kant: Dialogues on Ethics By Evgenia Cherkasova
2009 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 9042026103 | PDF | 3 MB
In this book, Evgenia Cherkasova brings the philosopher Kant and the novelist Dostoevsky together in conversations that probe why duty is central to our moral life. She shows that just as Dostoevsky is indebted to Kant, so Kant would profit from the deeply philosophical narratives of Dostoevsky, which engage the problem of evil and the claims of human community. She not only produces a novel reading of Dostoevsky, but also guides us to later, often neglected Kantian texts. This study is written with scholarly care, penetrating analysis, elegance of style, and moral urgency: Cherkasova writes with both mind and heart. Emily Grosholz, Professor of Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University Social Philosophy (SP), in conjunction with the Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice, SUNY Cortland, explores theoretical and applied issues in contemporary social philosophy, drawing on a variety of philosophical traditions