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  • Agent Relative Ethics

    by Steven Jensen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
    Agent Relative Ethics asks what the world would look like if we adopted agent relativity wholeheartedly, clinging to no shred of absolute morality.Alastair MacIntyre’s haunting image of a post-apocalyptic world, in which our knowledge of ethics has been fragmented, poses a contrast between modern morality and ancient ethics. The two stand divided along the fault line of the nature of the good. ... Read more

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    Living the Good Life

    A Beginner's Thomistic Ethics

    Narrated by Jim Denison ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 52 min

    Living the Good Life presents a brief introduction to virtue and vice, self-control and weakness, misery and happiness. The book contrasts the thought of Aquinas with popular views, such as moral relativism, values clarification, utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, and situation ethics. Following the Socratic dictum "know thyself," Steven J. Jensen investigates the interior workings of the human ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Natural Law

    A Beginner's Thomistic Guide

    Narrated by Lyle Blaker ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 11 min

    Drawing upon the timeless wisdom of Thomas Aquinas, The Natural Law offers clear insights into perplexing ethical dilemmas. The compelling conclusions of Aquinas emerge through a critical examination of contemporary ethical frameworks, including moral relativism, utilitarianism, and Machiavellian politics. In part one, which elucidates the core principles of natural law ethics, the listener will ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pharmacology and Drug Administration for Imaging Technologists

    This text is a complete resource for all the imaging technologies, not just plain film radiography. It provides introductory material on pharmacological nomenclature, drug classifications, pharmacokinetics, and drugs used in imaging. It also offers comprehensive coverage of diagnostic contrast agents, along with drug administration procedures, emergency responses to drug reactions, and legal and ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Making of International Human Rights

    The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values

    Series series Human Rights in History
    This book fundamentally reinterprets the history of international human rights in the post-1945 era by documenting how pivotal the Global South was for their breakthrough. In stark contrast to other contemporary human rights historians who have focused almost exclusively on the 1940s and the 1970s - heavily privileging Western agency - Steven L. B. Jensen convincingly argues that it was in the ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Preparedness and Response for Catastrophic Disasters

    Based on a popular course for the FEMA Higher Education project, this volume provides important insight into plans to mitigate and respond to the devastation caused by large-scale catastrophic events. Written by top disaster scholars and practitioners, the book defines what constitutes a catastrophic event, outlining both the factors that can lead to catastrophes and the unique logistical, ... Read more

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  • Case Studies in Disaster Response

    Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation series

    Case Studies in Disaster Response, the latest release in the Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation series, focuses on the key functions performed in the emergency response to a disaster, how these functions are coordinated, and typical challenges and issues that emerge. Cases address both hazard- and response-generated needs. Also explored are the needs ... Read more

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  • Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History

    Series series Human Rights in History
    This pioneering volume explores the long-neglected history of social rights, from the Middle Ages to the present. It debunks the myth that social rights are 'second-generation rights' – rights that appeared after World War II as additions to a rights corpus stretching back to the Enlightenment. Not only do social rights stretch back that far; they arguably pre-date the Enlightenment. In tracing ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Histories of Global Inequality

    New Perspectives

    Series series History (R0)
    This book argues that inequality is not just about numbers, but is also about lived, historical experience. It supplements economic research and offers a comprehensive stocktaking of existing thinking on global inequality and its historical development. The book is interdisciplinary, drawing upon regional and national perspectives from around the world while seeking to capture the ... Read more

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  • The Domestic Institutionalisation of Human Rights

    This book explores recent developments pointing towards a ‘domestic institutionalisation of human rights’, composed of converging international trends prescribing the setting up of domestic institutions, and the need for a national human rights systems approach. Building on new compliance theories, innovative arrangements have resolutely appeared around the turn of the millennium and some are now ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Nordic Histories of Human Rights

    This book explores the history of Nordic human rights politics and practices from the 1930s to present day. The authors use previously unexplored archival materials to bring to light how a broad range of Nordic actors have engaged with international human rights globally and at a European level and how these norms have been taken up and interpreted in the region.Do the Nordic countries warrant the ... Read more

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  • Outdoor Recreation in America

    Outdoor Recreation in America is back—fully revised and updated, with significant new material based on current statistics from a number of sources, including the latest U.S. Census Bureau and the latest National Survey on the Environment. Now in its sixth edition, this book continues to lead the way in its comprehensive coverage of issues in this growing field.First published in 1970, Outdoor ... Read more

    $56.69 USD