Tag: Perspectives

Free Download Anne Fogarty, "Deirdre Madden: New critical perspectives "
English | ISBN: 1526118920 | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The Irish writer, Deirdre Madden, has written key novels about the Northern Irish Troubles and about contemporary Ireland. In these works, she weighs up the aftermath of violence and the impact of the shift to a more open but materialist society in the country overall. Memory, trauma, and the abiding but elusive links between the past and the present are central concerns of her fiction. This pioneering set of essays by leading experts in Irish Studies explores the many dimensions of her novels from a wide variety of perspectives. Madden’s skill at interweaving novels of ideas with artist novels that draw out the complex inner predicaments of her characters is highlighted. States of dislocation are concentrated on in her texts, but also the quest for a home in the world and a lasting set of values that allows for personal integrity and authenticity. These multifaceted explorations bear out the compelling and enduring aspects of Madden’s highly regarded novels.

Free Download Edward Younkins, "Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature: Perspectives on Business from Novels and Plays "
English | ISBN: 1498519296 | 2016 | 478 pages | EPUB | 771 KB
Fiction can be a powerful force to educate students and employees in ways that lectures, textbooks, articles, case studies, and other traditional teaching approaches cannot. This anthology includes articles from a number of individuals from a range of different disciplines and perspectives. All of the contributors to Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature are committed to treating literary texts with integrity and believe that business should have a larger claim upon people’s literary consciousness. In addition, they all value the important role of literature in dealing with the complexities of a capitalist culture. This collection of essays provides a means to appreciate the richness and variety of fictional portrayals of businesses and businesspersons. The works selected for examination reflect the variety of philosophical, political, economic, cultural, social, and ethical perspectives that have been found over time in American society. The novels and plays analyzed include high literature, mid-range literature, popular literature, ancient epics, grand narratives, hero tales, masterpieces, ideological texts, science fiction, and more. There are a great many works of literature waiting to be read and studied by business and economically-minded individuals from many different viewpoints and fields of study. This volume provides a space to explore a wide range of fictional works and opinions about them.

Free Download Ronald C. Den Otter, "Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: Perspectives on Marital Possibilities"
English | ISBN: 1498512011 | 2016 | 258 pages | EPUB | 1529 KB
Although the debate over same-sex marriage in the United States has ended, no one seems to know what lies on the horizon. The conversation about what marriage could be like in the future is no longer confined to academics. In his dissent in Obergefell, Chief Justice Roberts linked the constitutionally-mandated legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the possibility that states may also have to recognize multi-person intimate relationships as well to avoid discriminating against plural marriage enthusiasts. The popularity of television shows like TLC’s Sister Wives and HBO’s Big Love suggests that Americans no longer can be dismissive of the possibility that in the foreseeable future, marriage could, and perhaps should, look very different than it does today.

Free Download Godfrey B. Tangwa, "African Perspectives on Some Contemporary Bioethics Problems"
English | ISBN: 1527534669 | 2019 | 225 pages | PDF | 818 KB
This collection of essays addresses an important cross-section of issues in contemporary bioethics. It represents an essential contribution to global bioethics anchored and grounded on a continent most remarkable for its biological, cultural and linguistic diversity. It is a fitting beginning to addressing the observable absence of African voices in the rather lively global discourses of bioethics. The issues treated here include a discussion of the fundamental principles of bioethics; the place of African thought in medical research ethics, traditional medicine, and assisted conception; the moral status of embryonic stem cells; research with vulnerable human beings; and sexual and reproductive health in Africa. It explores a paradigm of how the universal and the particular may be blended, how global bioethics can remain firmly anchored and committed locally, regionally, continentally.

Free Download Thorsten Stephan Beck, "Shaping Images: Scholarly Perspectives on Image Manipulation"
English | 2016 | pages: 232 | ISBN: 3110474972 | PDF | 10,1 mb
Bilder spielen bei der Wissensvermittlung eine herausragende Rolle. In zahlreichen akademischen Disziplinen werden sie zur Darstellung wissenschaftlicher Ergebnisse eingesetzt. Digitale Werkzeuge wie Adobe Photoshop erlauben es die Information in Bildern brilliant und klar darzustellen – gleichzeitig ist die Grenze zur unangemessenen Manipulation nicht immer leicht zu ziehen. Wissenschaftliche Journale haben Richtlinien für den Umgang und die Bearbeitung von Bildmaterial veröffentlicht, doch nicht immer sind diese spezifisch genug, um für alle Situationen Klarheit zu schaffen.

Free Download Spyridon A. Koutroufinis, "Process-Philosophical Perspectives on Biology"
English | ISBN: 1527504506 | 2023 | 362 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Many life scientists implicitly assume a materialistic metaphysics that is based on the worldview of the 19th century. This sort of reductionistic metaphysics does not do justice to the complexity of biological phenomena, leaving many features of living processes unexplained. The authors of this book explore the viability of process metaphysics to advance our understanding of fundamental biological concepts such as organism, ontogeny, agency, teleology, environment, and normativity. Based on the metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead and other process thinkers, the authors ascribe subjective interiority to all living beings, from unicellular organisms to the most complex animals. This book highlights the uniqueness and intrinsic value of living beings. It presents a new approach to essential dimensions of the phenomenon of life with the aim of opening up new horizons in the thinking of philosophers, philosophers of biology, life scientists, and environmentalists.

Free Download Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the Law
English | 2024 | ISBN: 303141263X | 471 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 8 MB
This open access book presents an interdisciplinary, multi-authored, edited collection of chapters on Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) and the Law. AI technology has come to play a central role in the modern data economy. Through a combination of increased computing power, the growing availability of data and the advancement of algorithms, AI has now become an umbrella term for some of the most transformational technological breakthroughs of this age. The importance of AI stems from both the opportunities that it offers and the challenges that it entails. While AI applications hold the promise of economic growth and efficiency gains, they also create significant risks and uncertainty. The potential and perils of AI have thus come to dominate modern discussions of technology and ethics – and although AI was initially allowed to largely develop without guidelines or rules, few would deny that the law is set to play a fundamental role in shaping the future of AI.As the debate over AI is far from over, the need for rigorous analysis has never been greater. This book thus brings together contributors from different fields and backgrounds to explore how the law might provide answers to some of the most pressing questions raised by AI. An outcome of the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law and its interdisciplinary working group on Law and Artificial Intelligence, it includes contributions by leading scholars in the fields of technology, ethics and the law.

Free Download Bolaji Bateye, "Beauty in African Thought: Critical Perspectives on the Western Idea of Development "
English | ISBN: 1793630755 | 2023 | 270 pages | EPUB, PDF | 712 KB + 2 MB
Beauty in African Thought: A Critique of the Western Idea of Development investigates how the concept of beauty in African philosophy and related qualitative social sciences may contribute to a richer intercultural exchange on the idea of development. While working within frameworks created in post-colonial and arguably neo-colonial times, African thinkers have reacted against the mainstream view that restricts the meaning and scope of good development to economic growth and western-style education. These thinkers have worked toward a critical self-understanding of the potentials inherent in cultural, spiritual, and political traditions since pre-colonial times. Edited by Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller, and Angela Roothaan, this collection explores branches of thought from wisdom or oral traditions to political thought and philosophy of culture. This book is urgent reading material for any policy maker, scholar, or student wishing to attend to the voices of African(ist) thinkers who search for alternative approaches to global questions of development in a time of climate change and increasing socio-economic inequality.

Free Download Roger T. Ames, "Tianxia in Comparative Perspectives: Alternative Models for a Possible Planetary Order "
English | ISBN: 0824895177 | 2023 | 390 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Tianxia―conventionally translated as "all-under-Heaven"―in everyday Chinese parlance simply means "the world." But tianxia is also a geopolitical term found in canonical writings that has a deeper historical and philosophical significance. Although there are many understandings of tianxia in this literature, interpretations within the Chinese process cosmology generally begin with an ecological understanding of intra-national relations that acknowledge the mutuality and interdependence of all economic and political activity.

Free Download The Teaching and Learning of Statistics: International Perspectives by Dani Ben-Zvi, Katie Makar
English | PDF (True) | 2016 | 325 Pages | ISBN : 3319234692 | 11.8 MB
This book presents the breadth and diversity of empirical and practical work done on statistics education around the world. A wide range of methods are used to respond to the research questions that form it’s base. Case studies of single students or teachers aimed at understanding reasoning processes, large-scale experimental studies attempting to generalize trends in the teaching and learning of statistics are both employed. Various epistemological stances are described and utilized.