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  • The Wrong of Rudeness

    Learning Modern Civility from Ancient Chinese Philosophy

    by Amy Olberding ...
    In a time of fractious politics, being rude can feel wickedly gratifying, while being polite can feel simple-minded or willfully naïve. Do manners and civility even matter now? Is it worthwhile to make the effort to be polite? When rudeness has become routine and commonplace, why bother? When so much of public and social life with others is painful and bitterly acrimonious, why should anyone be ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Butte and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

    by Janelle M Olberding ...
    A historian recounts how influenza brought decimation and struggle to the Treasure State's most prosperous city.In 1918, Butte, Montana, was an incomparable city. But by the end of the year, it would be forever changed by a deadly pandemic. The Spanish flu swept across the country, killing some 675,000 Americans before year's end. Some of the country's highest mortality rates occurred in its ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kill All the Chickens

    Grief and Memory on an Ozark Farm

    by Amy Olberding ...
    As a philosopher, Amy Olberding is trained to wrestle with abstraction. But when she takes over her ancestral family farm in the Ozarks, her experience turns far more earthy. Her double life in philosophy and farming worked well enough, for a time. But then she tried to write a philosophy book about grief.Olberding's profession prepared her to write a scholarly book, but left her ill-equipped to ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • World Beyond The War: Begin A New Global Movement To End The War On The Planet

    by Von Olberding ...
    This inspiring book relates a series of adventures in peacemaking and activism. It's almost like a book of chapters in one man's life, as he seeks to broaden his understanding of other cultures and also seeking to make peace in conflict zones worldwide. This book is a remarkable story of one person's journey through life living the ideals of Gandhi and Martin Luther King.The book and David ... Read more

    $7.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Recent Progress in Ring and Factorization Theory

    Graz, Austria, July 10–14, 2023

    Edited by Matej Brešar, Alfred Geroldinger, Bruce Olberding, Daniel Smertnig ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This proceedings volume gathers a selection of cutting-edge research in both commutative and non-commutative ring theory and factorization theory. The papers were presented at the Conference on Rings and Factorization held at the University of Graz, Austria, July 10–14, 2023. The volume covers a wide range of topics including multiplicative ideal theory, Dedekind, Prüfer, Krull, and Mori rings, ... Read more

    $242.09 USD

  • Dao Companion to the Analects

    Edited by Amy Olberding ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume surveys the major philosophical concepts, arguments, and commitments of the Confucian classic*,* the Analects. In thematically organized chapters, leading scholars provide a detailed, scholarly introduction to the text and the signal ideas ascribed to its protagonist, Confucius.The volume opens with chapters that reflect the latest scholarship on the disputed origins of the text and an ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Social Enterprise and Special Events

    Edited by Julie Olberding ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social Enterprise & Social Innovation
    During the past twenty years, the field of nonprofit management has grown significantly in terms of the number of nonprofit organizations, number of people employed, and amount of funds raised. A key activity in nonprofit management has been organizing events, which are generally defined as "purposive gatherings of people." These purposes may include: increasing awareness about the nonprofit ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Advances in Rings, Modules and Factorizations

    Graz, Austria, February 19-23, 2018

    Edited by Alberto Facchini, Marco Fontana, Alfred Geroldinger, Bruce Olberding ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Occasioned by the international conference "Rings and Factorizations" held in February 2018 at University of Graz, Austria, this volume represents a wide range of research trends in the theory of commutative and non-commutative rings and their modules, including multiplicative ideal theory, Dedekind and Krull rings and their generalizations, rings of integer valued-polynomials, topological aspects ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Multiplicative Ideal Theory and Factorization Theory

    Commutative and Non-commutative Perspectives

    Edited by Scott Chapman, Marco Fontana, Alfred Geroldinger, Bruce Olberding ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book consists of both expository and research articles solicited from speakers at the conference entitled "Arithmetic and Ideal Theory of Rings and Semigroups," held September 22–26, 2014 at the University of Graz, Graz, Austria. It reflects recent trends in multiplicative ideal theory and factorization theory, and brings together for the first time in one volume both commutative and non ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Moral Exemplars in the Analects

    The Good Person is That

    by Amy Olberding ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
    In this study, Olberding proposes a new theoretical model for reading the Analects. Her thesis is that the moral sensibility of the text derives from an effort to conceptually capture and articulate the features seen in exemplars, exemplars that are identified and admired pre-theoretically and thus prior to any conceptual criteria for virtue. Put simply, Olberding proposes an "origins myth" in ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Designing Boundaries in Early China

    The Composition of Sovereign Space

    by Garret Pagenstecher Olberding ...
    Ancient Chinese walls, such as the Great Wall of China, were not sovereign border lines. Instead, sovereign space was zonally exerted with monarchical powers expressed gradually over an area, based on possibilities for administrative action. The dynamically shifting, ritualized articulation of early Chinese sovereignty affects the interpretation of the spatial application of state force, including ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Dubious Facts

    The Evidence of Early Chinese Historiography

    by Garret P. S. Olberding ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    An innovative approach to historical records assesses how evidence claims and policy arguments were put forth in the royal courts of early China.What were the intentions of early China's historians? Modern readers must contend with the tension between the narrators' moralizing commentary and their description of events. Although these historians had notions of evidence, it is not clear to what ... Read more

    $33.29 USD