“…Foremost among them, some argue, is the birth of virtue ethics, an approach to ethics that focuses on virtue in place of consequentialism (the view that normative properties depend only on consequences) or deontology (the study of what we have a moral duty to do). The emergence of new virtue theories also marks this new wave of work on virtue. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Truth Without Scarcity, Ethics Without Force / Clay Shirky -- Kicking the Stone: The Search for Reliable Evidence in Journalism / Roy Peter Clark -- Storytelling in the Digital Age / Tom Huang -- Fact Checking 2.0 / Steve Myers -- Seeing is Not Believing: Photojournalism in the 21st Century / Kenny Irby -- TRANSPARENCY. Introduction -- Do Private Platforms Threaten Public Journalism? …”

“…In this book, Michael Be;rube; and Jennifer Ruth explain why it is worth paying attention to debates about such concepts as universalism and definitions of the human; more audaciously, they also explain why it is important that college professors should have the professional working conditions necessary for them to do their jobs. In a clear, compelling, and sometimes surprising narrative, Be;rube; and Ruth show why the deprofessionalization of college teaching matters -- and what can be done to reverse it…”

“…How can this difference be explained? Why do we find the most fascinating theoretical concepts of images in a culture that sticks to two-dimensional icons often venerated as cult-images that are copied and repeated, but only randomly varied?…”

“…Anyone can go online and buy a pair of pants--but the likelihood that we would do so depends to a significant degree on where we live. …”

“…Why can fear be pleasurable? Why do we sometimes enjoy an emotion we otherwise desperately wish to avoid? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…How McDonald's invented brand journalism, and how brand journalism saved McDonald's 2. Who do you want to talk to? Identifying the community you wish to serve 3. …”

“…What are the basic mental operations that make art possible for us now, and how do they operate? These are the questions that occupy the distinguished contributors to this volume, which emerged from a year-long Getty-funded research project hosted by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…González -- Institutional factors in Latin America's development -- The Latin American equilibrium / James A. Robinson -- Do defective institutions explain the development gap between the United States and Latin America? …”
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“…How do culture-specific genres like American soap operas and Latin telenovelas so easily cross borders and adapt to new cultural surroundings? …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Confusion creates humor -- Comedy's enemies (humor's tumors): cliche and meekness -- Some principles of comedic structure -- Comedic character vs. comedic universe -- The process of screenwriting -- High concept, low concept, no concept -- Things bad screenwriters commonly do -- Life experience vs. imagination -- To lie or not to lie -- Stand-up nonfiction -- Creating a fictional world -- Jokes -- Aphorisms -- Insults -- Short story -- Novel -- Anecdote -- Article -- Essay -- Speech -- Column/journalism -- Criticism -- Memoir/autobiography -- Generating ideas -- The author's voice -- What's wrong with this picture? …”

“…Destaca ainda a importância da arte na propaganda, que por sua vez teve papel fundamental no desenvolvimento do nazismo em toda a Alemanha…”

“…Russell's revolutionary conclusion was that 'the law of causality is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm'. Russell's famous challenge remains unanswered. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Norden -- The bite at the beginning : encoding evil through film title design / Matthew Soar -- Screening evil in history : Rope, Compulsion, Scarface, Richard III / Linda Bradley Salamon -- The radical monism of Alfred Hitchcock / Mike Frank -- Natural evil in the horror film : Alfred Hitchcock's The birds / Cynthia Freeland -- "The devil made me do it" : representing evil and disarticulating mind/body in the supernatural serial killer film / Matt Hills and Steven Jay Schneider -- Virtue, vice, and the Harry Potter universe / Thomas Hibbs -- Training day and The shield : evil cops and the taint of blackness / Robin R. …”

“…Bluesology - John Lewis 15. Another Hair-Do - Hampton Hawes 16. The Surrey with the Fringe on Top - Ahmad Jamal 17. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A Materialist Theory of Writing -- 7. How Do Readers Work? -- Part II. Strategy -- 8. The Uneven U -- 9. …”