This book offers different perspectives on Humanism as developed by Catholic Social Teaching, with a particular focus on its relevance in economics and business. The work is composed of three sections, covering what is meant by Christian Humanism, how it links with economic activity, and its practical relevance in the business world of today. It reviews the historical development of Christian H…
This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 14th International Symposium, W2GIS 2015, held in Grenoble, France, in May 2015. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 19 submissions. Selected papers cover hot topics related to W2GIS including spatiotemporal data collection, processing and visualization, mobile user generated content, semantic trajec…
"In a few hundred pages Santayana endeavors to sum up the dominant intellectual currents of early twentieth-century thought and trace their implications for American culture, for ethics and religion, for arts and letters, and for philosophy"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"On the global development of legislation, treaty negotiations, constitutional measures, and litigation resulting in legal recognition of Rights of Nature (RoN), including the cultural and political influences that determined how these legal rights were framed, the method of adoption and, importantly, the evolution of RoN enforcement through judicial decisions and growing cultural familiarity w…
"This volume explores the neurological and behavioral mechanisms and processes involved in intrusive thinking and suggests avenues for future clinically relevant research"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An argument for a novel binarity constraint on merge, preventing syntactic movement from relating more than two distinct positions at one time"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"One of the most influential, and perhaps surprising,developments in environmental policy in recent decades is the idea that we can protect the environment from the negative impacts of economic development by making environmental protection itself more economic. The goal is to reduce environmental harm not by preventing it, but by pricing it. Using stream mitigation banking, that is the market …
"Scholarly communication in the context of open access: how the imaginaries, practices, and infrastructures of 'openness' have been shaped"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Museums often stir controversy when they deaccession works-formally remove objects from permanent collections-with some critics accusing them of betraying civic virtue and the public trust. In fact, Martin Gammon argues in Deaccessioning and Its Discontents, deaccession has been an essential component of the museum experiment for centuries. Gammon offers the first critical history of deaccessio…
"Technical, policy, economic, and business history of the global mobile phone industry over four decades"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.