Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and Ethical Life, Paperback - Andrew Sayer

Reducere. Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of conc...

Reducere. This mussar-based commentary is a vital resource for Torah study, offering a thoughtful analysis of each of the 54 week. Each essay in this antholo...

Why bad things happen to good people has always been one of the hard questions of Christianity. While the answer is explained here in a format and ...

Reducere. Would understanding how people typically think and behave beforeyou engage in a difficult conversation, tough negotiation, or make a simple request...

Reducere. Jack Hoban was shaped by service in the U.S. Marine Corps, a life-changing epiphany at a Cold War bar, and mentorship under two masters: The 34th g...

Publisher: UCL PressPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 234 x 156Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Michael HauskellerRedescopera farmecul le...

Reducere. Status is ubiquitous in modern life, yet our understanding of its role as a driver of inequality is limited. In Status, sociologist and social psyc...

Reducere. Mattering, which is about feeling valued and adding value, is essential for health, happiness, love, work, and social well-being. We all need to fe...

Reducere. Psychologist Madeline Levine brings together cutting-edge research and thirty years of clinical experience to explode once and for all the myth tha...

Reducere. Most things we create will not matter. This book is about creating things that do, from a master innovator who brings science and art together in h...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Taleeb StarkesForeword by: Gavin McInnesIn Chicago a.k.a "Chiraq, " the first ten days of 2016 yielded 120 people shot. Bal...

This book explains the concepts of Ethical Business Practice (EBP) and Ethical Business Regulation (EBR), a new paradigm in compliance and enforcem...

Reducere. "A totally real, genuine, authentic book about why you shouldn't believe any of those words. And it's genuinely good." -- Gregg Easterbrook, author...

A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure.

Reducere. Emotions are deeply rooted within our lives.They govern our instinct and actions to the point that it is imperative to understand other people's em...

Reducere. It is commonly assumed that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet, as pr...

Writing together for the first time, highly respected practitioners and trainers Louise Bomber and Dan Hughes believe that now is the critical time...

Mattering, which is about feeling valued and adding value, is essential to our health, happiness, relationships, work, and society. Mattering impro...

Reducere. Do you want a Happier, Healthier, and overall Better life? What if I told you this book had the strategies to provide that, to be able to provide y...

The bestselling - and hugely timely - guide to the science of contagion, revised and updated to address Covid-19.Illustrations: Charts and graphs t...

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A study of Africa's demographics - its youth and growth - and what they mean for the continent, today and into the future.Publisher: Head of ZeusAu...

Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. This book ar...

Introduces the value of storytelling throughout life and how it can transform challenging situations in both childhood and adulthood. Offers practi...

Reducere. DescriptionLife is full of challenges. Some of the challenges we face in life are so painful that we invariably ask, "Why is this happening to me?"...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The biological functions debate is a perennial topic in the philosophy of science. This accessible and jargon-free book presents an innovative new ...

A better way to combat knee-jerk biases and make smarter decisions, from Julia Galef, the acclaimed expert on rational decision-making.

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Christine (Queen's University) OverallIllustration(s): 7 tables; 7 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 27...

Reducere. This report provides an overview of the current state of knowledge about why some people hear voices, experience paranoia or have other experiences...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Even people we think are our friends will deny and betray us. Are they bad people, or just don't do enough, or people with good intentions but acti...

Reducere. Love him or hate him, you certainly can't ignore him. For the past twenty years, Australian philosopher and professor of bioethics Peter Singer has...

Reducere. Brief yet thorough and affordably priced, The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems, Fifth Edition, is ideal for courses ...

Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. He considers the nature and importance of ...

Description"This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we'll no longer need such a book. E...

Going beyond a general introduction to offer a hands-on guide, Participatory Research empowers students to feel confident understanding and applyin...

Reducere. Science and faith are often seen as being in opposition. In this book, award-winning sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund questions this assumption ba...

A science series that answers the funny, sometimes icky questions that kids really ask!

Reducere. John Holt is credited with launching today's huge and still growing homeschooling movement. This book is his most direct and radical challenge to t...

What does it mean to be an analog church in a digital age? In recent decades the digital world has taken over our society at nearly every level, an...

Reducere. In Born to Wonder, Alister McGrath, a prolific Oxford scholar, scientist, and theologian, explores the deepest mystery at the heart of life itself....

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bruce SellerySmart, capable people are doing dumb things with their money. They can teach high school, write a marketing pl...