Morality at the margins

Morality at the Margins

What does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim? Documenting everyday life in Lamu (Kenya), this book explores the mundane practices of behavior and

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Money at the Margins

Money at the Margins is a groundbreaking exploration of the uses and socio-cultural impact of new forms of money and financial services.

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Masculinities at the Margins

This edited volume advances an emerging curiosity within accounts of military masculinities concerning the silences within, and disruptions to, our we

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Sex at the Margins

Explores several myths: that selling sex is different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitu

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Musicals at the Margins

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Youth at the Margins

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English Summer

Visceral and analytic at turns, Hopkins' startling collection probes at the undergrowth of English culture; a white-hot debut by a poet of singular vi

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Sanatorium

A young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water-based rehabilitation facility in Budapest. On her return to London, she attempts to

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Fence

Fence is an epic of fragments that is at once beautiful and beautifully strange. In his exploration of the vast, frozen Svalbard islands, poet and geo

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Mobilizing at the Urban Margins

This book uses the case of Chile to study how social mobilization endures in marginalized urban contexts, allowing activists to engage in large-scale

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International Theory at the Margins

This book brings together thirteen of Nicholas OnufÂ’s previously published yet rarely cited essays. They address topics that Onuf has puzzled over fo

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International Theory at the Margins

This book brings together thirteen of Nicholas OnufÂ’s previously published yet rarely cited essays. They address topics that Onuf has puzzled over fo

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Women on the Margins

As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. As women living in the 17th century, Glikl bas Judah Leib, Marie de l'Incarnation, and Maria Sibylla Merian, equally remarkable though very different, were not queens or noblewomen, their every move publicly noted. R...

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Future Morality

The world is changing at such speed that it's hard to know how to think about the new kinds of dilemma that are springing up: Can robots be held respo

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At the Margins of the Global Market

Hough recasts Colombia's endemic rural violence in a world-historical perspective that connects local labour and development dynamics to the arc of US

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Animals, Politics and Morality

Our treatment of, and attitudes towards, animals vary from respect and concern at one end of the scale to cruelty and neglect at the other. Acts of vi

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Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality

A timely look at the economic revolution that took place in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. The rise of the monetary economy transformed

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Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery Traditions at the Margins of the Hittite State

The intent of this volume is to break through the boundaries usually imposed by the study of 2nd millennium BC pottery production in Anatolia. 12 pa

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Higher RMPS: Morality a Belief, Second Edition

The only resource for RMPS at Higher level, by a bestselling author and expert in the field. Completely updated with the latest SQA assessment changes

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Analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality

Written in 1887, when Nietzsche was at the height of his powers as a philosopher and writer, On the Genealogy of Morality criticizes the idea that the

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Strangers and Scapegoats – Extending God`s Welcome to Those on the Margins

A Christian sociologist explains how the problem of the stranger lies at the root of many problems humanity faces, such as racism, sexism, and nationa

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The Cure at Troy - Heaney Seamus

Anotace: Seamus Heaney`s version of Sophocles`s Philoctetes tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict comes to a climax, the Greeks begin to realise they cannot win the Trojan war without Philoctetes`s invincible bow, and turn back to seek his help.The Cure at Troy dramatises the conflict between personal in...

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Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids - Hershovitz Scott

Anotace: `Witty and learned ... Hershovitz intertwines parenting and philosophy, recounting his spirited arguments with his kids about infinity, morality, and the existence of God` Jordan Ellenberg, author of ShapeA funny, wise guide to the art of thinking, and why the smallest people have the answers to the biggest questions`Anyone can do philosophy, every kid does...`S...

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Inherit the Holy Mountain

Inherit the Holy Mountain puts religion at the center of the history of American environmentalism rather than at its margins, demonstrating how religi

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Invention of the Visible

Working at the margins of aesthetics and politics, Patrick Vauday challenges the dominant assumptions of our mediatized society and its disposition to

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Invention of the Visible

Working at the margins of aesthetics and politics, Patrick Vauday challenges the dominant assumptions of our mediatized society and its disposition to

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Future History of the Arctic

Long at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic now finds itself at the frontline of issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-

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The Secret History (1400031702)

Kniha - autor Donna Tartt, 576 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofThe Goldfinch. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misf...

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BENEATH THE BLEEDING

Tony Hill, criminal profiler and hero of TV's Wire in the Blood, is back in a terrifying psychological thriller from bestselling author Val McDermid. A city is mourning. Bradfield Victoria's star midfielder has been murdered, bizarrely poisoned in an apparently motiveless killing. Then a bomb blast rips through the football stadium. Dozens lie dead, many more injured. Is ...

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Behind the Beautiful Forevers (9781846274510)

Kniha - anglicky Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers and construction workers, economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future will eventually be theirs. But when a crime rocks the slum community and global recession and terrorism s...

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Beneath the Bleeding - Val McDermid

<p>Tony Hill, criminal profiler and hero of TV's Wire in the Blood, is back in a terrifying psychological thriller from bestselling author Val McDermid. A city is mourning. Bradfield Victoria's star midfielder has been murdered, bizarrely poisoned in an apparently motiveless killing. Then a bomb blast rips through the football stadium. Dozens lie dead, many more inj...

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The Language Wars - Hitchings Henry

Anotace: The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS examines the present state of the conflict, its history and its future. Above all, it uses the past as a way of illumina...

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The Secret History - Tartt Donna

Anotace: FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCH Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. ______________________________________ 'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were bad, exactly;...

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The Secret History - Donna Tartt

<p>FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCHTruly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement ­­- both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.­­­­­­­______________________________________'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were bad, exactly; chalk it up...

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The Secret History - Donna Tartt

<p>With cloth binding and bespoke marbled endpapers, this gorgeous 30th-anniversary hardback edition of The Secret History is the perfect gift for fans! 'Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come...

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The Maddest Obsession - Lori Danielle

Anotace: She fears the dark.He rules it.Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most sayings in the book. Little do most know it´s just a sparkly disguise, there to hide one panic attack at a time.Nobody can crack Gianna´s facade . . . no one anyway, until he comes along.Most see a paragon of morality; a sp...

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Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo

Anotace: Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers and construction workers, economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future will eventually be theirs. But when a crime rocks the slum community and global recession and terrorism shocks the...

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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - Stephen King

<p>The master storyteller at his best delivers a generous, thrilling new collection of stories featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write each story. A generous collection of thrilling stories - some brand new, some published in magazines, all entirely brilliant and assembled in one book for the first time - with a wonderful...

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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - King Stephen

Anotace: The master storyteller at his best delivers a generous, thrilling new collection of stories featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write each story. <br> A generous collection of thrilling stories - some brand new, some published in magazines, all entirely brilliant and assembled in one book for the first time - with...

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Learned By Heart: From the award-winning author of Room - Donoghue Emma

Anotace: Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Prize. Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last forever. 'Emma Donoghue is a genius of compassion. In our fractured world she brings a...

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Learned By Heart: From the award-winning author of Room - Emma Donoghue

<p>Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Prize. Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last forever. 'Emma Donoghue is a genius of compassion. In our fractured world she brings a great...

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The Lucifer Effect : How Good People Turn Evil - Zimbardo Philip G.

Anotace: In The Lucifer Effect, the award-winning and internationally respected psychologist, Philip Zimbardo, examines how the human mind has the capacity to be infinitely caring or selfish, kind or cruel, creative or destructive. He challenges our conceptions of who we think we are, what we believe we will never do - and how and why almost any of us could be initiated ...

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C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man (A Macat Analysis) - Brittany Pheiffer Noble

<p>C.S. Lewis’s 1943 The Abolition of Man is a set of three essays that encapsulate some of the most important elements of good critical thinking. Lewis considers a weighty topic, moral philosophy – and more precisely how we teach it, and where morality comes from. As critics and enthusiasts for Lewis’s work alike have noted, though, he was not a philosopher as such...

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Lifeworlds in Crisis

Based on two decades of fieldwork, an anthropologistÂ’s revealing exploration of conflict, displacement and cooperation at the margins of the state.

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Border State

A novel of a life lived on the margins of Europe where East and West uneasily meet. At home in neither his native land nor his adopted country, the na

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Frankenstein+CD: B2.2 (Liberty) - Shelley Mary

Anotace: Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist inspired by his studies, tries to create a new life from parts of dead bodies. Mary Shelley´s classic gothic horror story looks at scientific progress and questions its morality. This book also contains files on the history of monsters and on `strange science´ of the time.

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Frankenstein+CD: B2.2 (Liberty)

Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist inspired by his studies, tries to create a new life from parts of dead bodies. Mary Shelley’s classic gothic horror story looks at scientific progress and questions its morality. This book also contains files on the history of monsters and on ‘strange science’ of the time.

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Legal Theory - Osina Petr

Anotace: The aim of the textbook is to provide students with a guide to the basic theoretical questions of law. It is up to legal theory to reveal common principles and traditions beyond local particularisms. A bridge should be built between the study of positive law and the study of legal theory. Too often these fields are studied separately as if opposed to each other....

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Legal Theory

The aim of the textbook is to provide students with a guide to the basic theoretical questions of law. It is up to legal theory to reveal common principles and traditions beyond local particularisms. A bridge should be built between the study of positive law and the study of legal theory. Too often these fields are studied separately as if opposed to each other. But pract...

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Justice: A Reader - Michael Sandel

<p>Justice brings together in one indispensable volume essential readings on justice and moral reasoning. With readings from major thinkers from the classical era up to the present, the collection provides a thematic overview of the concept of justice. Moreover, Sandel's organization of the readings and his own commentaries allow readers to engage with a variety of ...

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Plato and Googleplex - Goldsteinová Rebecca

Anotace: Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable news? The acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today s debates on religion, morality, politics...

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Language Wars

The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS examines the present state of the conflict, its history and its future. Above all, it uses the past as a way of illuminating the pr...

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Secret History

Truly deserving of the accolade "Modern Classic", Donna Tartt's novel "The Secret History" is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humd...

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After Steve: How Apple became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul - Mickle Tripp

Anotace: From the Wall Street Journal`s Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants-Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEO-and how the fading of the former and the rise of the latter led to Apple losing its soul. Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his "spir...

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Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind - Molly McGhee

Anotace: An original and darkly funny debut novel about work, debt and how we live now, from a thrilling new voice in fiction. Jonathan Abernathy is a loser. Unemployed and behind on his student loan repayments, the only thing Abernathy has in abundance is debt. When a secretive government loan forgiveness programme offers him a job he can literally do in his sleep, Ab...

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Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written.From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder.From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and o...

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Age of Vice - Kapoor Deepti

Anotace: This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the ...

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Age of Vice - Deepti Kapoor

<p>This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange ser...

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Pyramid Model Coaching

Who the book is for: Coaches and anyone who wants to learn how to coach. Managers, entrepreneurs, trainers, counselors, therapists, consultants, and anyone who works with people and needs to help them make decisions and take action. Book Description: Conducting transformational conversations is a specific kind of coaching. It is a conversation in which we help the coac...

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Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind - Molly McGhee

<p>'Trippy, incisive, riotously funny' ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN '[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER 'A stunner' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH 'Luminous ... as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers' room' WASHINGTON POST A work place novel. A love story. A dream you can't wake from... ...

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