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The Pleasure of Punishment
Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies, contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have generated pleasure, according to contemporary observers, in ancient Greece, in medieval Catholic Europe, in the early-modern absolutist stat…
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- 9780429589614
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- 174 HOR p
Ambivalences of Creating Life: Societal and Philosophical Dimensions of Synth…
"Synthetic biology" is the label of a new technoscientific field with many different facets and agendas. One common aim is to "create life", primarily by using engineering principles to design and modify biological systems for human use. In a wider context, the topic has become one of the big cases in the legitimization processes associated with the political agenda to solve global problems wit…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-21088-9
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- XVII, 335
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- Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
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- 100 AMB a
Healing and Change in the City of Gold: Case Studies of Coping and Support in…
This volume collects case studies on the lives of people living in post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. In doing so, it considers how people manage, respond to, narrate and/or silence their experiences of past and present violence, multiple insecurities and precarity in contexts where these experiences take on an everyday continuous character. Taking seriously how context shapes the meani…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-08767-2
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- VIII, 187
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- Peace Psychology Book Series
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- 150 HAN
Reducing Restraint and Restrictive Behavior Management Practices
This book presents an evidence-based framework for replacing harmful, restrictive behavior management practices with safe and effective alternatives. The first half summarizes the concept and history of restraint and seclusion in mental health applications used with impaired elders, children with intellectual disabilities, and psychiatric patients. Subsequent chapters provide robust data and ma…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-17569-0
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- XV, 249
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- Autism and Child Psychopathology Series
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- 155
Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences
This book develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distinguish them from non-reductive explanations. Understanding what reductive explanations are enables one to assess the conditions under which reductive explanations are adequate and thus enhances debates about explanatory reductionism. The account of r…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-25310-7
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- XI, 277
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- History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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- 101
Reappraisals : Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory
Reappraisals is a provocative account of the development of modern critical theory in Germany and the United States. Focusing on the period since World War II, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores key debates on the function of critical theory, illuminating the diverse positions and alliances among the participants. Bringing together six essays, as well as new introductory and concluding chapters, Hohe…
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- 9780801497063
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- 100 HOH r
Cognitive Disability Aesthetics : Visual Culture, Disability Representations,…
Cognitive Disability Aesthetics explores the invisibility of cognitive disability in theoretical, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Fraser's cutting edge research and analysis signals a second-wave in disability studies that prioritizes cognition. He expands upon previous research into physical disability representations and focuses on those disabilities that tend to be least visible i…
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- 9781487502331
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- 288
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- Toronto Iberic
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- 150 FRA c
Jangan Membuat Masalah Kecil Jadi Masalah besar :Cara Mudah Mencegah Masalah …
Buku ini menyajikan cara-cara membentuk perspektif yang lebih positif tersebut sehingga kita akan belajar untuk berdamai dengan diri sendiri dan lebih peduli. Hidup kita akan lebih terfokus pada masa kini, hubungan kita dengan orang lain akan menjadi lebih baik, dan batin kita akan menjadi lebih tenang
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- Cetakan kedelapan belas
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- 9786020630267
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- xix, 234 halaman. : ilustrasi ; 21 centimeter
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- 153.1 CAR j
The Idea of Europe : Enlightenment Perspectives
In view of the challenges—many of which are political—that different European countries are currently facing, scholars who work on the eighteenth century have compiled this anthology which includes earlier recognitions of common values and past considerations of questions which often remain pertinent nowadays. During the Enlightenment, many men and women of letters envisaged the continentâ€â€¦
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- 9781783743803
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- 100 SET i
Personality Theory in a Cultural Context
Written by Lansing Community College Psychology professor Dr. Mark Kelland, this book covers general personality theory, with an emphasis on cultural aspects affecting personality development. There is also a section focusing on making positive choices in the development of one's personality from a number of different cultural/philosophical perspectives.
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- 150 KEL p
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