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"This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of different peoples: early hunter-gatherers and farmers, ancient Egyptians, traditional Chinese sages, the founders of Christianity, trail-blazers of the Scientific Revolution, and those who constructed our modern consumer society. Taking the reader on an archaeological exploration of the mind, the author, an entrepreneur and sustainability leader, uses recent findings in cognitive science and systems theory to reveal the hidden layers of values that form today's cultural norms. Uprooting the tired cliches of the science-religion debate, he shows how medieval Christian rationalism acted as an incubator for scientific thought, which in turn shaped our modern vision of the conquest of nature. The author probes our current crisis of unsustainability and argues that it is not an inevitable result of human nature, but is culturally driven: a product of particular mental patterns that could conceivably be reshaped. By shining a light on our possible futures, the book foresees a coming struggle between two contrasting views of humanity: one driving to a technological endgame of artificially enhanced humans, the other enabling a sustainable future arising from our intrinsic connectedness with each other and the natural world. This struggle, it concludes, is one in which each of us will play a role through the meaning we choose to forge from the lives we lead"--

Introduction -- What matter in a quality service-learning course: A study on faculty members' perception -- Faculty perceived impacts of the support from a centralized service-learning office -- Assessing Students in Academic Service-Learning: Faculty Experiences and Challenges -- How Hong Kong University Teachers Assess Students in Service-Learning: An Exploratory Study -- Promotion of teachers' readiness for service-learning through a professional development course -- Conceptual Framework for Key Process Ingredients Salient for Effective Service-Learning -- Validating an Instrument for Measuring the Developmental Outcomes for Students Arising from Service-Learning -- Investigating Service-Learning Impacts on University Students' Developmental Outcomes through a Control Group Study -- Service-Learning in the context of Business-Community-University Partnership: The Project WeCan in Hong Kong -- The impact of E-service-learning on Tui-na teaching in a Chinese Medicine course – from the perspectives of service-recipients and service-partner -- Action Research as a tool for faculty development in Service-Learning: The impact of action research on faculty's knowledge, skills and attitudes towards Service-Learning -- The Developmental Impacts of Interdisciplinary and Inter-institutional Service-Learning Collaboration -- Co-designing with people with special needs: An analysis from Contact Theory -- From industrial fermentation to life planning: The meaning of meaningful service in a biology service-learning course -- Assessing Community Impact after Service-Learning: A Conceptual Framework -- Promotion of Service-Learning in Hong Kong: Experiences Surrounding Collaboration among Higher Education Institutions.

"Beginning with an exploration into the question of what war is, War and Warfare since 1945 provides a chronological analysis of military history since the end of World War II extending through to an analysis of the limits of modern warfare in the nuclear age with the purpose of examining why war occurs and how it is carried out. Among the types of conflict considered within the book are: state conflicts civil warsproxy wars terrorism and counterterrorism insurgency genocide. Both theoretical and historical, War and Warfare since 1945 also explores the definitions, ethics, morals, and effects of the use of militaries in and after war, and puts forward important questions about how wars are resolved. The wars discussed include the first Arab-Israeli War, the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq war. The book concludes with an investigation into modern war and speculation on the changing face of warfare."--Provided by publisher.

Modern outcasts -- Great souls of the modern age -- Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1942) -- Martin Luther King (1929-1968) -- Bantu Steven Kiko (1946-1977) -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969- ) -- Twentieth century dissenters -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) -- Kaj Munk (1898-1945) -- World War II German army deserters -- Edith Stein (1891-1942) -- Aung San Suu Kyi (1945-) -- Authors and outsiders -- American outsiders -- Roger Williams (c. 1603-1683) -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) -- Cochise (c.1815-1874) -- Red Cloud (1882-1909) -- Skeptical scientists as dissidents -- What Americans believe -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) -- Natural selection over time -- Evidence about human origins -- Intelligent design -- Witches and other pagans -- Alice Kyteler, medieval Irish witch -- Witches among the Puritans -- Mary Dyer (1611-1660) -- Modern wiccas -- The legacy of religious heresy and dissent -- Pre-Christian dissenters -- Paleolithic beliefs -- Greek mystery religions -- .Sources of the literary tradition -- Anaxagoras -- Protagoras -- Empedocles -- Socrates -- Chinese ideologies -- Cicero (106-43 BCE) : On the nature of the gods -- The religion of the Romans -- Heretics in the first Christian centuries -- First century Rome -- Apollonius of Tyana, contemporary of Jesus -- Marcion, the heretic -- Tertullian and the montanists -- The proliferation of heresies -- Cyprian of Carthage -- The age of religious dissension -- Emperor Julian -- Nestorius -- Pelagius : original sin and grace -- Boethius -- Heresy in medieval Islam and Christianity -- Islam and the infidels -- Islamic dissidents -- The crusades -- The rise of the military orders and the fall of the Templars -- The crusade against heretics and the Cathars -- Peter Abelard -- Roger Bacon , alchemist -- Heretics condemned -- Late medieval reformers -- John Wycliffe -- John Hus -- Cecco d'Ascoli and astrology -- Marcilius (Marsiglio) of Padua -- Saint Joan (1412-1431) -- William Tyndale -- .Girolamo Savonarola -- Renaissance dissenters -- Giordano Bruno -- Thomas More : a man for all seasons -- Johannes Kepler -- Rene Descartes -- Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza -- Voltaire -- Two queens, one princess -- Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots -- Queen Christina of Sweden -- Elisabeth von der Pfalz, princess Palatine -- Enlightenment dissenters -- Denis Diderot -- Philip-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais -- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier -- Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet

The volume includes the proceedings of the 2nd Roma Sinica project conference held in Seoul in September 2019 and aims to compare some features of the ancient political thought in the Western classical tradition and in the Eastern ancient thought. The contributors, coming from Korea, Europe, USA, China, Japan, propose new patterns of interpretation of the mutual interactions and proximities between these two cultural worlds and offer also a perspective of continuity between contemporary and ancient political thought. Therefore, this book is a reference place in the context of the comparative research between Roman (and early Greek thought) and Eastern thought. Researchers interested in Cicero, Seneca, Plato, post-Platonic and post Aristotelic philosophical schools, history, ancient Roman and Chinese languages could find interesting materials in this work

This book outlines the life of spiritual diplomacy of the 14th Dalai Lama and his emergence as a global peace icon. It traces his evolution as a Tibetan Buddhist monk rooted in the Geluk tradition, as a Nobel laureate, and as an internationally recognized peacemaker. The volume brings to the fore the Dalai Lama's monastic life grounded in the compassion and ethical responsibility of a bodhisattva, somebody who is willing to renounce samsara for the benefit of others, as well as that of a political leader of Tibet. It examines the deep impact of his ideas of peacekeeping and universal responsibility on world politics, which draw on acceptance, inclusion, and respect as their central pillars. Further, this book highlights his departure from the practices of theearlier Dalai Lamas, and how the Chinese invasion and his exile in India transformed him into a universal figure of peace, rather than solely being the leader of Tibet. An introspective read, this book will beof much interestto readers interested in spiritual diplomacy and political philosophy. It will also be of interest to scholars and researchers of peace and conflict studies, international relations, politics, and religion, especially Buddhism.

Part I. Global Value Networks & Polycentricity -- Chapter 1. Resilience and innovation in regio-global value networks - conception and de-sign (Josef Wieland) -- Chapter 2. The new ethical values of the relational market economy: Value change in the private business world and the movement towards sustainable development goals in business and economics (Jacob Dahl Rendtorff) -- Chapter 3. Environmental Disclosure in Italian SMEs: A Theory of Planned Behaviour Approach (Edoardo Crocco) -- Chapter 4. Comparing Classifications of inter-organizational Relationships and inter-organizational Networks (Lucio Biggiero) -- Part II. Relational Leadership & Management -- Chapter 5. Cultural Complexity and Relational Leadership (Derick de Jongh) -- Chapter 6. Values and Cultural Risk Management Through Transcultural Learning. The Cases of the EU, Chinese BRI and ASEAN (Josef Wieland) -- Chapter 7. Constructing the Capacity for Viable Multicultural Organizations (Milton J. Bennett) -- Part III. Relational Philosophy & Economic Thought -- Chapter 8. Relationizing Normative Economics: Some Insights from Africa (Thaddeus Metz) -- Chapter 9. Value Dimensions of the Transaction (Michael Schramm) -- Chapter 10. The Markets of Truth (Jan Söffner) -- Chapter 11. Relationality in Aristotle's Economy (Birger P. Priddat).

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figure -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: Metaphysics and Aesthetics -- 1 Fittingness and Other-Regarding Attitudes in Environmental Aesthetics -- 2 Commonage Consciousness and Fitting in with the Earth: John Moriarty and Deep Ecology -- 3 On the Ethics and Metaphysics of Fittingness, Affordances, and Providence -- 4 Fittingness and Environmental Ethics: Perspectives from Chinese Religion and Philosophy -- PART II: Theological Perspectives on Fittingness -- 5 The Ontological Turn, Religious Tradition, and Human Cosmological Fittingness -- 6 Fittingness and the Spiritual-Religious Nature of Environmentalism -- 7 Fittingness as Attunement? Being Ecological with Timothy Morton and Hans Urs von Balthasar -- 8 Anselm on Fittingness: Varying Concepts of Fittingness in the Cur Deus homo -- PART III: Practical Applications -- 9 Fittingness as a Dynamic of Social Interaction: Implications for Embedding Ecological Concerns in Community Life and Practice -- 10 When 'Fitting in' means to 'Care': Proposing a form-of-life for Environmental Care -- 11 Representation as Isolation: The Unfittingness of Waste -- 12 The Challenge and Promise of Queer Ecology for Understanding 'Fittingness': A Theological Engagement -- Index.

Conversations About History, Volume 3, is a five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection of carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading historians with a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. All five books include a detailed essay setting up the different ideas and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter. The following experts have participated in this Collection: 1. David Armitage, the Lloyd C. Blanfein Professor of History at Harvard University;2. Karl Gerth, Hwei-Chih and Julia Hsiu Chair in Chinese Studies and Professor of History at UC San Diego;3. Jennifer Michael Hecht, poet, author and historian;4. Margaret MacMillan, Professor of History at the University of Toronto and emeritus Professor of International History and the former warden of St Antony's College at the University of Oxford;5. Matthew Stewart, award-winning author and independent scholar.Howard Burton is the creator and host of Ideas Roadshow and was the Founding Executive Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and an MA in philosophy.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Predictive Medicine-An Interdisciplinary Approach -- Part I Individual Challenges -- 1 Beyond the Causes of Disease: Prediction and the Need for a New Philosophy of Medicine -- 2 Comprehending and Communicating Statistics in Breast Cancer Screening. Ethical Implications and Potential Solutions -- 3 On the Nature of the Right Not to Know -- 4 Predictive Diagnostic Testing for Late-Onset Neurological Diseases in Asymptomatic Minors: 'Do No Harm' and the Value of Knowledge -- 5 Incidental Findings in Genetic Testing -- Part II Social Challenges -- 6 Risk and Solidarity within Individualized Medicine -- 7 Anticipatory Medicalization: Predisposition, Prediction, and the Expansion of Medicalized Conditions -- 8 Predicting the Cost of Diseases in Resource-Poor Countries -- 9 Genetic Disorders in Chinese Patients and Their Families: A Call for Action on Predictive Medicine -- Part III Research Challenges -- 10 Personalized Antidepressant Prescription: A Historical Perspective on Risks and Opportunities -- 11 Predicting, Preventing, and Treating Alzheimer's Disease: Current State and Future Challenges -- 12 Early Detection, Prediction, and Prognosis of Alzheimer's Disease -- 13 Immunoscore, Circulating Tumor Cells, and Human- Derived Organoids as Potential Predictive Tools in Personalized Cancer Medicine -- Selected Bibliography -- List of contributors -- Index

Cover -- Series -- Understanding Peace Cultures -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- PART A: Looking at Peace Cultures -- CHAPTER 1: Using This Book to Discover Peace Cultures -- CHAPTER 2: Better Than a Thousand Hollow Words -- PART B: Peace Education: Creating Small and Large Peace Cultures -- CHAPTER 3: Womanist and Critical Race Theory for Peacemaking in Multilingual, Multicultural Classrooms -- CHAPTER 4: The National Peace Essay Context -- CHAPTER 5: Peace Language for Abraham's Children -- CHAPTER 6: A Teacher's Journey -- PART C: Creating Peace Cultures: Spiritual, Philosophical, Linguistic, and Literary Insights -- CHAPTER 7: Creating Peace, Speaking "Interbeing" -- CHAPTER 8: Islamic Wisdom for Peace -- CHAPTER 9: Chinese Language, Philosophy, and Wisdom of Peace -- CHAPTER 10: Peace Talk -- CHAPTER 11: Peace Lessons in Multicultural Literature for Children -- PART D: Performing Art for Peace: Cultural Understandings for Peace Educators -- CHAPTER 12: African Performing Art -- CHAPTER 13: Making Peace with Gangsta Rap -- PART E: Social and Political Perspectives: Challenges for Peace Educators and Peacebuilders -- CHAPTER 14: Sunset Over Jerusalem -- CHAPTER 15: Both Sides Now -- About the Contributors -- Index.

SOIL: beneath our feet / food and fiber / ashes to ashes, dust to dust / dirt!Soil has been called the final frontier of environmental research. The critical role of soil in biogeochemical processes is tied to its properties and place-porous, structured, and spatially variable, it serves as a conduit, buffer, and transformer of water, solutes and gases. Yet what is complex, life-giving, and sacred to some, is ordinary, even ugly, to others. This is the enigma that is soil.Soil and Culture explores the perception of soil in ancient, traditional, and modern societies. It looks at the visual arts (painting, textiles, sculpture, architecture, film, comics and stamps), prose poetry, religion, philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, wine production, health diet, and disease warfare.Soil and Culture explores high culture and popular culture-from the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch to the films of Steve McQueen. It looks at ancient societies and contemporary artists. Contributors from a variety of disciplines delve into the mind of Carl Jung and the bellies of soil eaters, and explore Chinese paintings, African mud cloths, Mayan rituals, Japanese films, French comic strips, and Russian poetry.

This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies, contributors to this volume include historians, archeologists, art historians, scholars of fencing literature, metallurgists, as well as contemporary master swordsmiths and masters-of-arms in historical martial arts. Assembling researchers from these diverse fields, this book offers a multi-perspectival and dynamic view of martial culture across time and space. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary significance of this book cannot be overemphasized. Whereas a number of contributors are internationally recognized and, indeed, leading authorities in their respective fields; for example, Jeffrey Shaw has been a world-leading new media artist and scholar since the 1970s, while Ma Mingda is a well-known historian and the contemporary founder of Chinese martial studies; and while there are significant overlaps in their research interests, this book brings their research within a single volume for the first time. Equally significant, the book is structured in such a way to reflect the various core aspects of martial studies, particularly in relation to the study of historic sword culture, including history, culture, philosophy, literature and knowledge transmission, material culture, as well as the technical aspects of historical fencing. As one of the first titles on martial studies, this book becomes a reference not only for scholars taking an interest in this subject, but also for historians; scholars with interest in Chinese and/or Italian history (particularly of the Medieval or early modern periods), the history of international relations in Asia / Far East; anthropologists; scholars of martial (arts) studies and researchers in sword-making and/or historic metallurgy.

"From the 1890s to the 1940s, French State and entrepreneurial companies were enticed to promote French interests, beyond mere colonial targets, for the sake of economic patriotism. Chinese concessions, not including Hong Kong, were thus inserted into geo-economic moves, and French stakeholders asserted their philosophy of competition, and displayed their means of influence and investment. In this book, the author assesses the challenges which confronted French actors in the face of powerful British imperial action overseas, all the more so because German Belgian, Japanese, and then also North-American competitors joined the fray. The book targets three concessions: Canton/Guangzhou, Tientsin/Tianjin, and Hankeou/Hankow/Wuhan because of their significance in the emergence of a modern economy in the country. The three main sections of the book explore the position of French stakeholders, mainly businessmen, merchant houses, bankers, and a few industrialists, in these three port-cities and China overall. The chapters gauge their capital of influence and networking, commercial tools, and banking skills in the face of competition, the hardships of crossing the changes in economic productive systems or clusters in the various port-cities and their areas, rich with commercial offshoots. Also, several chapters underscore the uncertainties caused by geopolitical and military events in China. For each of the three concessions, commercial and banking systems, assessments of the successes and limits of the French bankers and merchants are investigated, with the aim of evaluating the reality of French entrepreneurialism and power in the regions prospected by the offshoots of French capitalism. The book will be an invaluable resource for academics interested in the history of banking and finance, business, entrepreneurship, colonialism and of "economic patriotism", in Chinese history, in geoeconomics and in connected history."

Architecture as Identity, I: The Essence of Architecture -- Theory and Practice at the Crossroads--A Peircean Perspective on Political Signs -- System and Observer in Semiotic Modeling: An Essay on Semiotic Realism -- Architectural Criticism as a Means to Identify Socially Shared Values: The Case of the East Building of the National Gallery -- Buildings as Symbols of Political Ideology -- Peirce's Anticipation of Game Theoretic Logic and Semantics -- Mind, Object, Object, Artifact II -- The Reference Relation in Music -- SI MUOVE, MA NON TROPO: An Inquiry into the Non-metaphorical Status of Idioms and Phrases -- Symbolic Use of Weaving Designs: A Case Study -- Antecedents to Peirce's Notion of Iconic Signs -- On Discovering the Semiotic Organization of the Lexicon: State of Health as a Multifaceted Domain -- Notes on Text and Performance in the Theatre of Dario Fo -- The Structure of Metaphor -- Forgotten Pioneers of Soviet Semiotics -- On Discovering the Semiotic Organization of Experience: The Public Meanings and Private Meanings of Objects -- One Artist's Neurosis on Signing -- Explaining Style Growth and Change: A Richer Semiotic Model -- The Rock and Roll Concert: A Semiotic Analysis -- Disemia -- Naturalness Vs. Arbitrariness in the Domain of Color -- Modes of Medical Instruction: A Semiotic Comparison of Textbooks of Medicine and Popular Home Medical Books -- Peirce's Existential Graphs as the Basis for An Introduction to Logic: Semiosis in the Logic Classroom -- Peirce as Catalyst in Modern Legal Science: Consequences -- A Semiotic Account of Polysemy and Homonymy -- The Semiosis of the Sequence of Signs in a Narrative -- The Impact of Speech-Act Theory and Phenomenology on Proust and Claude Simon -- Semiotic Perspectives on Chinese: A Picturesque Language -- Peirce and Jakobson: Towards a Structuralist Reconstruction of Peirce -- Architecture as Representation of Nature -- The Measurement of Comentropy Transfer Rates -- Towards a Transcultural Semiotic -- The Self-Disclosure Technique for Ethno-Graphic Elicitation -- Conventions of Poetry as Iconic Signs -- Comparative Adjestives in Terms of Peirce's Phenomenological Categories -- Interpretant and Interpretation -- Tipping Behavior as a Semiotic Process -- The Mark VI: A New Eidometer Design Concept -- The Role of Scientific Paradigms in Empirical semiotics -- Interactive Nonverbal Categories: A Reappraisal and Elaboration -- Reckoning with the World -- On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotics -- Semiotic and Creativity -- The Appearance of Appearance: Architecture, Communication and Value Systems -- What is Evidence Evidence of? -- The Ironic Sign -- Art and Objectivity -- More Than Words Can Say -- A Reconstruction Paradigm for the Experimental Analysis of Semiotic Factors in Cognitive Processing -- Peirce and Greimas from the Viewpoint of Musical Semiotics: An Outline for Comparative Semiotics -- The Application of the Peircean Semiotic to Logic -- Symbolic Configurations and Two-Dimensional Mathematical Notation -- The Perception of Nonverbal Behavior in Function of Visible Access to One or Both Interactants -- Charles Morris and Christian Norberg-Schulz: The Social Basis of Meaning in Architecture -- Toward a Semiotic Beyond Feminism -- The Structure of Categories and the Consequences for Metaphor -- The Poetic Function of the Stage Audience and Embedded Performance in Drama -- Designing Signs that Build the Required Semantics into the Needed Syntax -- A Semiotic Approach to Information Value.