Chapter 1 The Experimental Turn in Moral and Political Philosophy

This introduction presents the field of experimental moral and political philosophy as a confluence between different disciplines and research traditions. The chapter begins by highlighting the importance of several historical currents and presenting the scope and nature of a diverse and rich research agenda within the contours of a broad research area. The development of behavioural economics,…

Chapter 1 The Concept of Development

This book brings development theory and practice into dialogue with the religious tradition, in order to construct a new, trans-disciplinary vision of development, with integral ecology at its heart. It focuses on the Catholic social tradition and its conception of integral human development on the one hand, and on the works of economist and philosopher Amartya Sen which underpin the human deve…

Chapter 4 Religious conflict, radicalism, and sexual exceptionalism in the rh…

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Chapter 1 Representation: Stuart Hall and the “Politics of Signification”

The Routledge Companion to Media and Race serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars, students, and media professionals who seek to understand the key debates about the impact of media messages on racial attitudes and understanding. Broad in scope and richly presented from a diversity of perspectives, the book is divided into three sections: first, it summarizes the theoretical approaches tha…

Chapter 4 PREDICTING RESPONSES OF GEO-ECOLOGICAL CARBONATE REEF SYSTEMS TO CL…

oceanography, climate change, reefs, marine science, marine conservation, marine research

It Is, Say Some, of a Ravenous Nature : Zoomorphic Images of Cancer

In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to accommodate, seemingly without friction, the notion that cancer was a disease with humoral origins alongside the conviction that the malady was in some sense ontologically independent.

Seismic tomography

Tomography was originally developed in medical research to produce images of tissue density (Hounsfield, 1973). In this type of tomography, the object (the patient) is moved through a large donut-shaped machine, where an X-ray beam and a set of electronic X-ray detectors are located opposite each other

Chapter 4 Mapping the Evolution of Designed Landscapes with GIS : Stourhead L…

"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time. The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised historical research on cultural landscapes. Additionally, the opening up of increasingly diverse collections of source material, often incomplete and difficult to interpret, has led …

Bombs over Biscay, Barcelona and Dresden (1937-1945): From the Spanish Civil …

Sometimes tragedies that have little to distinguish them from a wide range of similar events and which can make no claim to record numbers of casualties or destructive impact go down in history as fundamental and emblematic. This is the case of two of the airstrikes discussed in this volume: Barcelona and Dresden. Other tragedies, however, are sometimes obscured by circumstances elsewhere. This…

Bondage : Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentie…

For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies…