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One of the Web's most celebrated high-tech culture mavens returns with this second collection of essays and polemics. Discussing complex topics in an accessible manner, Cory Doctorow's visions of a future where artists have full freedom of expression is tempered with his understanding that creators need to benefit from their own creations. From extolling the Etsy makerverse to excoriating Apple for dumbing down technology while creating an information monopoly, each unique piece is brief, witty, and at the cutting edge of tech. Now a stay-at-home dad as well as an international activist, Doctorow writes as eloquently about creating real-time Internet theater with his daughter as he does while lambasting the corporations that want to profit from inherent intellectual freedoms.

Contact between cultures has been understood in various ways and this particular volume considers the European cultural, social, scientific, philosophical and political contexts framing encounter. All of the essays thus look at the different ways in which individuals and institutions work these contexts into their representations of contact settings. In Part 1, the conventional stance is adopted where encounter is understood as taking place elsewhere and not on European soil. The chapters ex...

Childhoods in context offers a critical exploration of childhood, drawing attention to the physical and social context of children and young people's lives. Three key themes are explored: Childhood is always located somewhere. The book offers insights into childhood by focusing on places specially designed for children as well as the territories that children develop for themselves. Childhood is experienced through objects, people and places and through everyday routines. Discussions about childhood are rooted in the details of children's lives, whether on the street, in an institution or in different definitions of home. Childhood and adult identities are relational. Definitions and understandings of childhood are dependent on how adulthood is viewed. These themes are explored through accounts of home and family, school, public spaces and sites of work in local and global settings. They raise questions about methodological approaches to understanding childhoods in context which is the focus of the concluding chapter. This is the third in a series of four books, written by experts in the field, which provides an introduction to childhood degree programmes and related modules. The series features international case studies, examples and readings to supplement the chapters, and is illustrated in full colour

In her book, Barbe discusses verbal irony as an interpretative notion. Verbal irony is described in its various realizations and thus placed within linguistics and pragmatics. From the point of view of an analyzing observer, Barbe provides an eclectic approach to irony in context, a study of how conversational irony works, and how it compares with other concepts in which it plays a role. In addition, by means of the analysis of irony as an integrated pervasive feature of language, Barbe questions some basic unstated, literacy and culture-dependent assumptions about language. Her study of irony complements contemporary research in the area of conversational analysis.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Author's Acknowledgements -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Social Transitions of the Late Twentieth Century: 'Crime' and 'Fear' in Context -- The Job Crisis -- The Crisis of Material Poverty and Social Inequality -- Fear of Falling and Fear of the Other -- The Crisis of the Nation-state -- Crises of Inclusion and Exclusion -- Crisis in 'the Culture' -- Crises of Masculinity and the Gender Order -- Crises of the Family and Parenting -- 2 The Ninth Transition: The Rise of Market Society -- Market Structures -- Market Culture -- The entrepreneur as hero -- The market not the nation-state -- The market and the discourse of choice -- The market and 'self-interest' -- 3 Young People, Crime and Fear in Market Societies -- Unemployment and Insecurity -- Poverty in Childhood and in the Transition to Adulthood -- Youthful Insecurity and Risk in Market Society -- The War against the Young in Market Society -- The Absence of Subcultures -- Protest and Market Masculinity among the Young -- Household Formation, Household Non-formation and Homelessness -- The Omnipresence of Drugs and Alcohol -- Winners and Losers in Market Society: Present and Future Prospects -- 4 Crime in the City: Housing and Consumer Markets and the Social Geography of Crime and Anxiety in Market Society -- Images of Crime, Images of the City -- American Exemplars: Chicago to Los Angeles -- The Cities of Old Europe -- Cities of the Industrial Revolution -- The new urban police -- Spatial and social sequestration in the industrial city -- The 'Modern City' - Twentieth-Century Processes of Urban Development -- Slum clearance and the new life -- Post-war suburban Utopias -- The Problem Estate and the Demonization of Social Housing.

From its small beginnings in the UK 15-20 years ago, mediation has become well-known as a more positive method of resolving conflict than the adversarial methods we have been accustomed to using. Reflecting the range of contexts in which mediation is now used, this book includes chapters on: history of mediation in the UK mediation with divorced and separated couples peer mediation in schools resolving neighbour disputes in rural and urban settings victim-offender mediation and conferencing resolving workplace and industrial disputes commercial mediation dealing with patients' complaints about

chapter 1 Spir and Time -- chapter 2 Dühring and Time -- chapter 3 Teichmüller and Perspective -- chapter 4 Zöllner and Space -- chapter 5 Mechanism and Beyond -- chapter 6 Possibility, Probability and Finality -- chapter 7 The Mathematics of Eternal Recurrence -- chapter 8 The Physics of Eternal Recurrence -- chapter 9 Sensualism and Knowledge -- chapter 10 Ressentiment, Revenge and Punishment.

Main description: The thought and the findings of moral particularism are extended to contextualism. Moral particularism asserts that reasons for moral actions are not governed by general principles, but by a mixture of situation bound deliberation and values. Particularism was established in the area of moral philosophy and its main results include delimitation with various forms of moral generalism. Many insights were accumulated along the way. The book claims that a serious contextualist approach needs to embrace particularist normativity. Thesis is then applied to the traditional areas of philosophy such as semantics, epistemology and ontology. This makes it possible to ask questions about the positive and not just negative story and about the wider impact of particularism. The book is an attempt of such a positive story. Foundations are laid for an exciting new field of research in the main systematic branches of philosophy, urging you to rethink the normative basis of semantics, epistemology and metaphysics, in their interweaving with moral thought. The importance of narration and of phenomenology is stressed for these areas.