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Ethics and Archaeological Praxis
Restoring the historicity and plurality of archaeological ethics is a task to which this book is devoted; its emphasis on praxis mends the historical condition of ethics. In doing so, it shows that nowadays a multicultural (sometimes also called “public”) ethic looms large in the discipline. By engaging communities “differently,” archaeology has explicitly adopted an ethical outlook, pu…
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- 978-1-4939-1646-7
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- 4 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
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Ethical Issues in Behavioral Neuroscience
Behavioral neuroscience encompasses the disciplines of neurobiology and psychology to study mechanisms of behavior. This volume provides a contemporary overview of the current state of how ethics informs behavioral neuroscience research. There is dual emphasis on ethical challenges in experimental animal approaches and in clinical and nonclinical research involving human participants.
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- 978-3-662-44866-3
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- 4 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
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Ethical Engineering for International Development and Environmental Sustainab…
Ensuring that their work has a positive influence on society is a responsibility and a privilege for engineers, but also a considerable challenge. This book addresses the ways in which engineers meet this challenge, working from the assumption that for a project to be truly ethical both the undertaking itself and its implementation must be ethically sound. The contributors discuss varied to…
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- 978-1-4471-6618-4
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- 28 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
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Ethical Counselling and Medical Decision-Making in the Era of Personalised Me…
This book offers an overview of the main questions arising when biomedical decision-making intersects ethical decision-making. It reports on two ethical decision-making methodologies, one addressing the patients, the other physicians. It shows how patients’ autonomous choices can be empowered by increasing awareness of ethical deliberation, and at the same time it supports healthcare professi…
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- 978-3-319-27690-8
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- 4 illustrations in colour
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Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions: A Study of their Objectives and Ach…
This book is a study of the objectives of Islamic Finance in the modern banking space and offers insight into the effects of changes and developments occurring in Islamic banking products and services.
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- 978-1-137-51566-7
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Sustainable Development and CSR in China
This book offers an in-depth analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility, gathering contributions by authors from various countries, cultures and political systems. It provides readers with a better understanding of the concept and its implementation in China by pursuing an international approach. The respective contributions examine Corporate Social Responsibility in terms of its close ties to…
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- 978-3-319-17371-9
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- XI, 133
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- CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
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Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Perspectives from Emerging Economies
Economic development is a priority for all nation-states, whether developing or developed. In recent times, a few among the developing nations – often referred to as the emerging economies – have attracted the world’s attention because of their fast pace of economic growth. While the similarities among these nations (for example the BRICS) in the pattern of their economic growth are highl…
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- 978-81-322-2086-2
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- 42 b/w illustrations
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Engineering Identities, Epistemologies and Values Engineering Education and …
This second companion volume on engineering studies considers engineering practice including contextual analyses of engineering identity, epistemologies and values. Key overlapping questions examine such issues as an engineering identity, engineering self-understandings enacted in the professional world, distinctive characters of engineering knowledge and how engineering science and engineering…
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- 978-3-319-16172-3
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- 18 b/w illustrations
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Energy and Finance Sustainability in the Energy Industry
This book analyses how socially responsible investments as well as the rising importance of Islamic finance are linked to the shift towards renewable energy. Academics and practitioners in the field take a global perspective and present case studies from several countries. The book is divided into three parts: The first part sheds new light on the energy shift towards renewable energy. The seco…
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- 978-3-319-32268-1
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- 6 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
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Neuroenhancement: how mental training and meditation can promote epistemic vi…
This book explores how one can bring about changes in the brain through meditation, both through attention-focus training and through compassion training. Recent findings in the natural sciences have confirmed that it is possible for humans to achieve these structural and functional changes through various life-style practices. It is argued that meditation enables us to influence some aspects o…
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- 978-3-319-23516-5
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- XI, 110
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics
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