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Somebody Else’s Problem

Consumerism, Sustainability and Design

de Robert Crocker ...

Gold winner of the AXIOM Business Book Award in the category of Philanthropy, Non-Profit, Sustainability. Please see: http://www.axiomawards.com/77/award-winners/2017-winnersConsumerism promises a shortcut to a 'better' life through the accumulation of certain fashionable goods and experiences. Over recent decades, this has resulted in a rising tide of cheap, short-lived goods produced, used and ... Leer más

$47.99 USD

Gold winner of the AXIOM Business Book Award in the category of Philanthropy, Non-Profit, Sustainability. Please see: http://www.axiomawards.com/77/award-winners/2017-winnersConsumerism promises a shortcut to a 'better' life through the accumulation of certain fashionable goods and experiences. Over recent decades, this has resulted in a rising tide of cheap, short-lived goods produced, used and
... Leer más
Robert E. Lee on Leadership

Lessons in Character, Courage, and Vision

de H. W. Crocker III ...

Robert E. Lee was a leader for the ages. The man heralded by Winston Churchill as "one of the noblest Americans who ever lived" inspired an out-manned, out-gunned army to achieve greatness on the battlefield. He was a brilliant strategist and a man of unyielding courage who, in the face of insurmountable odds, nearly changed forever the course of history.In this remarkable book, you'll learn the ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

Robert E. Lee was a leader for the ages. The man heralded by Winston Churchill as "one of the noblest Americans who ever lived" inspired an out-manned, out-gunned army to achieve greatness on the battlefield. He was a brilliant strategist and a man of unyielding courage who, in the face of insurmountable odds, nearly changed forever the course of history.In this remarkable book, you'll learn the
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Ethics of Consumption

The Good Life, Justice, and Global Stewardship

de Luis A. Camacho, Colin H. Campbell, David A. Crocker, Eleonora Curlo, Herman E. Daly, Eliezer Diamond, Robert Goodland, Allen L. Hammond, Nathan Keyfitz, Robert E. Lane0, Judith Lichtenberg1, David Luban2, James A. Nash3, Martha C. Nussbaum4, ThomasW Pogge5, Mark Sagoff6, Juliet B. Schor7, Michael Schudson8, Jerome M. Segal9, Amartya Sen0, Alan Strudler1, Paul L. Wachtel2, Paul E. Waggoner3, David Wasserman4, Charles K. Wilber5 ...

Series series Philosophy and the Global Context
Scholars in diverse fields now agree on the importance of investigating the impact of consumption practices on the global environment, quality of life, and international justice. In this comprehensive collection of essays, most of which appear for the first time, eminent scholars from many disciplines-philosophy, economics, sociology, political science, demography, theology, history, and social ... Leer más

$80.99 USD

Scholars in diverse fields now agree on the importance of investigating the impact of consumption practices on the global environment, quality of life, and international justice. In this comprehensive collection of essays, most of which appear for the first time, eminent scholars from many disciplines-philosophy, economics, sociology, political science, demography, theology, history, and social
... Leer más
The Gilded Age

Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America

de Lewis L. Gould, Ruth C. Crocker, Eric Arnesen, W. Bernard Carlson, Ellen M. Litwicki, Ballard C. Campbell, Robert G. Barrows, Glenn Porter, Worth Robert Miller, Roger Daniels, Edmund J. Danziger Jr., Michael Les Benedict, Stacy A. Cordery, Leslie H. Fishel, Joseph A. Fry ...

The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society.Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship ... Leer más

$46.99 USD

The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society.Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship
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Religion and Schooling in Canada

The Long Road to Separation of Church and State

de Robert K. Crocker ...

Series series Education
Les organisations chrétiennes ont toujours été impliquées dans l’éducation canadienne. En 1949, cinq provinces comptaient des écoles confessionnelles protégées par la Constitution. Le gouvernement fédéral a essentiellement confié sa responsabilité de l’éducation pour les peuples autochtones aux églises pour plus d’un siècle. Résultat : une histoire de mauvais traitements seulement mise au jour ... Leer más

$16.99 USD

Les organisations chrétiennes ont toujours été impliquées dans l’éducation canadienne. En 1949, cinq provinces comptaient des écoles confessionnelles protégées par la Constitution. Le gouvernement fédéral a essentiellement confié sa responsabilité de l’éducation pour les peuples autochtones aux églises pour plus d’un siècle. Résultat : une histoire de mauvais traitements seulement mise au jour
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Occupational Therapy and Dementia

Promoting Inclusion, Rights and Opportunities for People Living With Dementia

de Henry Rankin, Lorna Noble, Margaret McCallion, Anthony Schrag, Chris Roberts, Jayne Goodrick, Brendan McCormack, Anna Borthwick, Neil Fullerton, Sarah Kantartzis, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Kate Turner, Maria O'Reilly, Ian Sherriff, Fiona Fraser, Katie Edwards, Toni Page, Hannah Bradwell, Angela Gregory, Margaret Brown, Michelle Elliot, Kimberley Crocker-White, Elizabeth McKay, Lynsey Robertson, Liz Copley, Sophia Dickinson, Alison McKean, Mary McGrath, Gill Gowran, Claire Craig, Helen Fisher, Ashleigh Gray, Kate Keefe, Cathy Piersol, Jill Cigliana, Kari Burch, Jennifer Wenborn ...

With contemporary approaches based on theory and the lived experience of dementia, Occupational Therapy and Dementia is written using an occupational justice lens. It examines how core elements of how occupational therapy may support the person living with dementia through valued activity in continuing engagement in their lives, sustaining their identity and sense of purpose. This edited ... Leer más

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With contemporary approaches based on theory and the lived experience of dementia, Occupational Therapy and Dementia is written using an occupational justice lens. It examines how core elements of how occupational therapy may support the person living with dementia through valued activity in continuing engagement in their lives, sustaining their identity and sense of purpose. This edited
... Leer más
Ethics Beyond War's End

de Eric Patterson, James Turner Johnson, Michael Walzer, George R. Lucas Jr., Robert Royal, Robert E. Williams Jr., Pauletta Otis, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David A. Crocker, Brian Orend0, Mark Evans1 ...

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have focused new attention on a perennial problem: how to end wars well. What ethical considerations should guide war’s settlement and its aftermath? In cases of protracted conflicts, recurring war, failed or failing states, or genocide and war crimes, is there a framework for establishing an enduring peace that is pragmatic and moral?Ethics Beyond War’s End ... Leer más

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The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have focused new attention on a perennial problem: how to end wars well. What ethical considerations should guide war’s settlement and its aftermath? In cases of protracted conflicts, recurring war, failed or failing states, or genocide and war crimes, is there a framework for establishing an enduring peace that is pragmatic and moral?Ethics Beyond War’s End
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Henry More (1614–1687) Tercentenary Studies

with a biography and bibliography by Robert Crocker

Edición de S. Hutton ...

Series Libro 127 - International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
Of all the Cambridge Platonists, Henry More has attracted the most scholar ly interest in recent years, as the nature and significance of his contribution to the history of thought has come to be better understood. This revival of interest is in marked contrast to the neglect of More's writings lamented even by his first biographer, Richard Ward, a regret echoed two centuries after his 1 death. ... Leer más

$188.99 USD

Of all the Cambridge Platonists, Henry More has attracted the most scholar ly interest in recent years, as the nature and significance of his contribution to the history of thought has come to be better understood. This revival of interest is in marked contrast to the neglect of More's writings lamented even by his first biographer, Richard Ward, a regret echoed two centuries after his 1 death.
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Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

de Peter G. Beidler, Bethany Blankenship, Michael Calabrese, Jane Chance, Howell Chickering, Andrew Cole, Donna Crawford, Kara Crawford, Holly Crocker, Bryan P. Davis, Martha W. Driver, Robert Epstein, Patricia Ingham, Alexander L. Kaufman, Leonard Michael Koff, Roger A. Ladd, Jacob Lewis, Emma Lipton, Kathryn Lynch, Becky McLaughlin, Robert Myer-Lee, Alex Mueller, Florence Newman, Tison Pugh, William A. Quinn, Larry Scanlon, Nicole Nolan Sidhu, Deborah Sinnreich-Levi, Timothy L. Stinson, Loraine Kochanske Stock, Jamie Taylor, David Wallace, Michelle Warren, Susan Yagar, Tara Williams ...

Series Libro 131 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying Chaucer. This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales reflects the wide ... Leer más

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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying Chaucer. This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales reflects the wide
... Leer más
Ethics & International Affairs

A Reader, Third Edition

de Joel H. Rosenthal, David C. Hendrickson, Neta C. Crawford, David A. Crocker, Michael J. Smith, Terry Nardin, Alex J. Bellamy, Robyn Eckersley, Allen Buchanan0, Robert O. Keohane1, Seyla Benhabib2, Alison M. Jaggar3, Joseph H. Carens4, Ethan B. Kapstein5, Robert Wade6, Leif Wenar7, Thomas Pogge8, Mathias Risse9 ...

The third edition of Ethics & International Affairs provides a fresh selection of classroom resources, ideal for courses in international relations, ethics, foreign policy, and related fields. Published with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, this collection contains some of the best contemporary scholarship on international ethics, written by a group of distinguished ... Leer más

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The third edition of Ethics & International Affairs provides a fresh selection of classroom resources, ideal for courses in international relations, ethics, foreign policy, and related fields. Published with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, this collection contains some of the best contemporary scholarship on international ethics, written by a group of distinguished
... Leer más
Subverting Consumerism

Reuse in an Accelerated World

Edición de Robert Crocker, Keri Chiveralls ...

Series series Antinomies
There is now a widespread interest in reuse in many domains, from opera houses built over old warehouses, to vintage clothes and everyday goods incorporating repurposed materials or parts. Despite its ubiquity, this extensive creative work is typically seen in narrowly environmental terms, as a means of reducing carbon, resource use or waste. However, as this volume shows, reuse also has aesthetic ... Leer más

$62.99 USD

There is now a widespread interest in reuse in many domains, from opera houses built over old warehouses, to vintage clothes and everyday goods incorporating repurposed materials or parts. Despite its ubiquity, this extensive creative work is typically seen in narrowly environmental terms, as a means of reducing carbon, resource use or waste. However, as this volume shows, reuse also has aesthetic
... Leer más
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The Life of Saint Monica (Unabridged)

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de FRANCES ALICE FORBES ...

Narrado por Cesar Goodwin, Debbie Crocker, Anna Robert, Yvonne Barnes ...

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This book is above all things the story of a mother. But it is also the story of a noble woman—a woman who was truly great, for the reason that she never sought to be so. Because she understood the sphere in which a woman's work in the world must usually lie, and led her life truly along the lines that God had laid down for her; because she suffered bravely, forgot herself for others, and remained ... Leer más

$4.99 USD

This book is above all things the story of a mother. But it is also the story of a noble woman—a woman who was truly great, for the reason that she never sought to be so. Because she understood the sphere in which a woman's work in the world must usually lie, and led her life truly along the lines that God had laid down for her; because she suffered bravely, forgot herself for others, and remained
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