“…Drawing on range of social scientific and popular writings, this book casts a critical eye over the social construction and politicization of age in and beyond organizations. Amongst other topics, it discusses: the historical roots of age in society; how we 'perform' our age in different settings; the social impact of defining age groups as generations; ageism; the effect of an age-cluster on an organization's processes and members' experience; the rituals of retirement and the birth of the retirement industry; the impact of economic recession in challenging some of our assumptions about age; and the increasing politicization of the growing 'grey' population. …”

“…Bringing together the scholarship of 41 experts from around the globe, this book encompasses and goes beyond the role of international and regional organizations in relation to labour standards and their enforcement, providing new insights into debates around freedom of association, equality and the elimination of forced labour and child labour. …”

“…Abarbanel, also pronounced Abravanel or Abrabanel, is known as a "seeker of truth". He is not beyond questioning the "established" Judaic thinkers, or anyone else, if he thinks they are wrong. …”

“…Transhumanist thinkers want the human species to take the course of evolution into its own hands, using advanced technologies currently under development – such as robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cognitive neurosciences, and nanotechnology – to overcome our present physical and mental limitations, improve our intelligence beyond the current maximum achievable level, acquire skills that are currently the preserve of other species, abolish involuntary aging and death, and ultimately achieve a post-human level of existence. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Skeptics of modernity: embedded rationality versus rational autonomy -- Embedded reason in Augustine, Pascal, and Plantinga -- Augustine, Pascal, and Hume as Socratic apologists: human wisdom as passionate self-knowledge -- Hume, Pascal, and the humility of reason -- Hume's skepticism and the wisdom of the heart -- Hume's epistemological refutation of theism -- Three answers from the enquiry -- Hume's attack on and misunderstanding of miracles -- Hume's psychological refutation of theism -- Hume versus Augustine (and Pascal): opposing rationalities in conflict -- Pascal, paradox, and the wisdom of the heart -- Pascal and the rationality of faith -- Pascal's dialectical defense of faith -- Pascal's teleological apologetics -- Pascal: faith is rational but beyond reason -- Pascal's wager: unmasking skeptical neutrality -- Pascal versus fideism: faith is not contrary to reason -- Pascal and Hume, Pascal and Aristotle: conclusions -- A dialectical defense of Pascal's paradox argument: Pascal versus radical postmodernism -- The radical postmodern challenge to Pascal's paradox argument -- Radical postmodernism's fourfold hermeneutics of unmasking -- Postmodernism as "hypermodernism"…”

“…In this third edition, Hamnett adds new material on Mexico's regional and international roles as they have emerged in the twenty-first century, including membership of supra-national organisations (including and moving beyond NAFTA), the Mexican drug war between government officials and gangs, and the immigration and border crises within the United States. …”

“…The third volume on the topic in the last several years from a varying panel of international experts, this title identifies the borders, trends and implications in both fields today and goes beyond that into related disciplines to seek out connections and influences. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: enlightenment and living in modern China / Peter Zarrow -- Zhang Binglin's critique of western modernity: a Chinese view of cultural pluralism / Young-tsu Wong -- Constitutionalism and the imagination of the state: official views of political reform in the late Qing / Peter Zarrow -- Lu Xun and terrorism: a reading of revenge and violence in Mara and beyond / Jon Kowallis -- Merchant discourse on self-interest in modern China / Chi Kong Lai -- Having it all: patriotism and gracious living in Shenbao's tobacco advertisements, 1919 to 1937 / Weipin Tsai -- Purely sport or a gambling disgrace? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski -- Democracy, secularism and Islam in Turkey / Ayhan Kaya -- Orthodox religion and politics in post-Soviet Russia / Mikhail Maslovskiy and Nikita Shangin -- Religion and politics, church and stat in Chinese history / John Lagerwey -- Religion and the state in contemporary Japan / Elisabetta Porcu -- Arab revolutions and political Islam: a structural approach / Karel Černý -- Beyond post-secularism: religion in political analysis (review article) / Michał Matlak…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Hell and evangelical unity / Diverse Christian beliefs about life beyond death / Equally Orthodox Christians…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…: the philosophy of Jacques Derrida -- Levinasian and Derridean hospitality: ethics beyond ontology? -- Gifted, called, and named: Trinitarian personhood and an ontology of communion -- A tête à tête: wrestling with the other -- "LOGOS," "sacrificial substitute," and "eikon": christology and the overcoming of hostility -- A tête à tête: seen by the other -- Dwelling in Christ and the in-dwelling other: forming the ecclesial and eschatological self -- A tête à tête: a drink with the other -- Performing a different script: participation in the practice of ecclesial hospitality -- A tête à tête: hosted by the other -- Conclusion: Grounded hospitality: community, ecological care, and inter-faith relationships…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…: Christ as eagle in the Apocryphon of John / A fitting portrait of God : Origen's interpretations of the "Garments of Skin" (Gen 3:21) / Bifurcating the androgyne and engendering sin : a Zoharic reading of Gen 1-3 / The Genesis of Christian Kabbalah : early modern speculations on the work of creation / The mystery of Mysterium Magnum : Paracelsus's alchemical interpretation of creation in Philosophia ad Atheniensis and its early modern commentators / Beyond postmodernism? : esoteric interpretations of Gen 1-3 / Restoring a broken creation during times of Apocalypse : an essay on the analogical symbolism of fall and integrity in the metaphysics of Bila Hamvas (1897/1968) / The Bible and Africana esoterism : toward an architectonic for interdisciplinary study / Strategies of esoteric exegesis / Esotericism and biblical interpretation…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Therapy and emotions in film and television: an introduction / Claudia Wassmann -- The big holiday, work and the British family, 1930s-present / Sandra Trudgen Dawson -- American anger control and the role of popular culture / Peter Stearns -- Beyond emotional intelligence: anger, emotional stupidity and lifestyle issues / Ursula Oberst -- "Empty husks": age, disability, care, death and amour / Shally Chivers -- Re-enacting trauma in film and television: restaging history, revisiting pain / Stella Bruzzi -- The relationships between therapy culture, psychology and cinema: the case of Woody Allen / Miguel Angel Huerta Floriano -- Therapy cultures in society: a polycontextual approach / Robin Kurilla -- The emotional framing of terrorism in online media: the case of Charlie Hebdo / Omar V. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part I-Letters: Books-1905 -- Henry James-an appreciation-1905 -- Alphonse Daudet-1898 -- Guy de Maupassant-1904 -- Anatole France-1904 -- Turgenev-1917 -- Stephen Crane-a note without dates-1919 -- Tales of the sea-1898 -- An observer in Malaya-1898 -- A happy wanderer-1910 -- The life beyond-1910 -- The ascending effort-1910 -- The censor of plays-an appreciation-1907 -- Part II-Life: Autocracy and war-1905 -- The crime of partion-1919 -- A note on the Polish problem-1916 -- Poland revisited-1915 -- First news-1918 -- "Well done"-1918 -- Tradition-1918 -- Confidence-1919 -- Flight-1917 -- Some reflections on the loss of the Titanic-1912 -- Certain aspects of the admirable inquiry-1912 -- Protection of ocean liners-1914 -- A friendly place…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: How I learned to let go -- How failure became a dirty word: a brief history of American parenting -- Why parenting for dependence doesn't work: the power of intrinsic motivation -- Less really is more: parenting for autonomy and competence -- Encouragement from the sidelines: the real connection between praise and self-esteem -- Household duties: laundry as an opportunity for competence -- Friends: accomplices to failure and the formation of identity -- Sports: losing as an essential childhood experience -- Middle school: prime time for failure -- High school and beyond: toward real independence -- Parent-teacher partnerships: how our fear of failure undermines education -- Homework: how to help without taking over -- Grades: the real value of a low score -- Conclusion: What I've learned from letting go…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Prologue: a well-trodden field -- Ways of seeing and remembering God's landscape -- In the footsteps of antiquarians: Earls Colne -- Amyce's plot in 1598 -- God's landscape: St. Andrew's Church and beyond -- Death's posthumous hand -- Inhabiting the lord's landscape -- Pews: "may sit to pray" -- The "concession to erect seats" -- Populating the pews: ship money -- Voices from the pews: petitions -- "My body to the earth": burial nominations -- What the dead have to say for themselves -- Perpetual memorials -- What the burial registers have to say about the dead -- Inclusions and exclusions -- Scratched into history -- Remembering, forgetting and claiming the landscape -- Re-membering the priory -- The diabolical in Earls Colne -- From Cross Gate Road to Coggeshall Road -- Quaker's landscape -- Epilogue: signatures in the landscape…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Gospel truths : the myth of the lost gospels -- Christ's many faces : the survival of the old gospels in a wider Christian world -- The isles of the West : how Irish and British churches kept ancient Christian cultures alive -- Old gospels never die : ancient gospels that gave the medieval church its best-known images of Christ -- Two Marys : how alternative gospels continued to present the feminine face of God -- The new Old Testament : tales of patriarchs and prophets that became Christian gospels -- Out of the past : the heretical sects that preserved ancient alternative scriptures for a thousand years -- Beyond the horizon : Muslim and Jewish versions of the earliest Christian traditions -- After darkness, light : how the Reformation era drove the ancient gospels from the churches -- Scriptures unlimited? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lispeth -- Three and -- an extra -- Thrown away -- Miss Youghal's Sais -- "Yoked with an unbeliever" -- False dawn -- Rescue of Pluffles -- Cupid's arrows -- The three musketeers -- His chance in life -- Watches of the night -- The other man -- Consequences -- Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin -- Taking of Lungtungpen -- Germ-destroyer -- Kidnapped -- Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly -- In the house of Suddhoo -- His wedded wife -- Broken-link handicap -- Beyond the pale -- In error -- Bank fraud -- Tods' amendment -- Daughter of the regiment -- In the prime of his youth -- Pig -- Rout of the white Hussars -- Bronckhorst divorce-case -- Venus annodomini -- Bisara of Pooree -- Friend's friend -- Gate of the hundred sorrows -- Madness of Private Ortheris -- Story of Muhammad Din -- On the strength of a likeness -- Wressley of the Foreign Office -- By word of mouth -- To be filed for reference -- Bitters neat -- Haunted subalterns…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…IV ORTHODOX FEMINISM BEYOND A GENDERED DISCOURSE -- ch. Eight The Trend Towards an Increasingly Hybrid and Pluralistic Orthodoxy -- ch. …”
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