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  • Trust

    A Philosophical Study

    by Thomas W. Simpson ...
    Trust and trustworthiness are core social phenomena, at the heart of most everyday interactions. Yet they are also puzzling: while it matters to us that we place trust well, trusting people who will not let us down, both also seem to involve morally driven attitudes and behaviours. Confronted by whether I should trust another, this tension creates very practical dilemmas. In Trust, Thomas Simpson ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867–1940

    by Thomas W. Simpson ...
    In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, college-age Latter-day Saints began undertaking a remarkable intellectual pilgrimage to the nation’s elite universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, and Stanford. Thomas W. Simpson chronicles the academic migration of hundreds of LDS students from the 1860s through the late 1930s, when church authority J. Reuben Clark Jr., ... Read more

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  • Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

    by Virginia H. Dale, Catherine L. Kling, Judith L. Meyer, James Sanders, Holly Stallworth, Thomas Armitage, David Wangsness, Thomas Bianchi, Alan Blumberg, Walter Boynton, Daniel J. Conley, William Crumpton, Mark David, Denis Gilbert, Richard Lowrance, Kyle Mankin, James Opaluch, Hans Paerl, Kenneth Reckhow, Andrew N. Sharpley, Thomas W. Simpson, Clifford S. Snyder, Donelson Wright, Robert W. Howarth ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Since 1985, scientists have been documenting a hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico each year. The hypoxic zone, an area of low dissolved oxygen that cannot s- port marine life, generally manifests itself in the spring. Since marine species either die or ee the hypoxic zone, the spread of hypoxia reduces the available habitat for marine species, which are important for the ecosystem as well as ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

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    Caretaker, The

    by Thomas W. Simpson ...
    Narrated by Dale Hull ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 57 min

    A slightly twisted and wholly terrifying thriller in which the only sin is a wish come true....Samantha Henderson is a devoted wife and mother. But life as she knows it is about to change. Sam's about to have her every dream fulfilled—but, in return, she and her family will pay a price, a very high price, for all this love and luxury....It all starts when Sam's smooth-talking husband accepts a ... Read more

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  • Morality for Humans

    Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science

    by Mark Johnson ...
    "A welcome renewal and defense of John Dewey's ethical naturalism, which Johnson claims is the only morality 'fit for actual human beings.'" — Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsWhat is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing to absolutes, whether drawn from God, universal reason, or societal authority. ... Read more

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  • Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life

    by Derk Pereboom ...
    Derk Pereboom articulates and defends an original conception of moral responsibility. He argues that if determinism were true we would not be morally responsible in the key basic-desert sense at issue in the free will debate, but that we would also lack this kind of moral responsibility if indeterminism were true and the causes of our actions were exclusively states or events. It is possible that ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life

    Working with Everyday Life Materials

    by Svend Brinkmann ...
    This book is a ′survival guide′ for students and researchers who would like to conduct a qualitative study with limited resources. Brinkmann shows how everyday life materials such as books, television, the internet, the media and everyday conversations and interactions can help us to understand larger social issues.As living human beings in cultural worlds, we are constantly surrounded by ′data′ ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Following Sexual Abuse

    A Sociological Interpretation of Identify Reformation in Reflexive Therapy

    by Marie C. Croll ...
    Sexual abuse is a subject that has received and continues to attract a considerable amount of scholarly attention. However, most studies tend to treat sexual abuse as strictly personal and isolated suffering. Following Sexual Abuse attempts to develop a broader perspective on this important issue via narrated accounts of women’s experiences. It is a sociological investigation that looks at the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Welfare and Rational Care

    by Stephen Darwall ...
    Series series Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
    What kind of life best ensures human welfare? Since the ancient Greeks, this question has been as central to ethical philosophy as to ordinary reflection. But what exactly is welfare? This question has suffered from relative neglect. And, as Stephen Darwall shows, it has done so at a price. Presenting a provocative new "rational care theory of welfare," Darwall proves that a proper understanding ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Knowledge and Virtue in Teaching and Learning

    The Primacy of Dispositions

    by Hugh Sockett ...
    The challenge this book addresses is to demonstrate how, in teaching content knowledge, the development of intellectual and moral dispositions as virtues is not merely a good idea, or peripheral to that content, but deeply embedded in the logic of searching for knowledge and truth.It offers a powerful example of how philosophy of education can be brought to bear on real problems of educational ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Educational Research

    by Professor Richard Pring ...
    This classic text in educational research literature has been thoroughly updated to take into account new philosophical theories and the current political context for educational research. Remaining, however, are the three, key central themes: the nature of social science in general; the nature of educational enquiry in particular; and the links between the language and concepts of research, on ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Logic of Education (RLE Edu K)

    Edited by R S Peters, Paul Hirst ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This book explores the implications for the curriculum, for teaching and for the authority structure of schools and colleges of an analysis of ‘education’ in which the development of knowledge and understanding is accorded a central position. The book explains what philosophy of education is, and by concentrating on its central concepts, initiates readers into exploring it for themselves. It also ... Read more

    $73.99 USD