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"Collected essays by a leading philosopher situating the question of the animal in the broader context of a relational ontology"--

Herding the cats of deep time -- Who do we think we are? -- Cosmic passions -- Thinking geologically after Nietzsche -- Angst and attunement -- The present age : a case study -- Posthumanist responsibility -- The new materialism -- The unthinkable and the impossible -- What is to be done? Democracy and beyond

Habit rules our lives. While many of our individual habits seem perfectly reasonable, when aggregated together they spell ecological disaster. Beyond consumerism, other ways of living are clearly possible. Reoccupy Earth shows how an approach to philosophy attuned to our ecological existence can suspend the taken-for-granted and open up alternative forms of earthly dwelling.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Football and Literature in South America: Issues and Origins -- 2 Taking the Field (First Half): Early Writings in Spanish -- 3 Taking the Field (Second Half): Early Writings in Brazil -- 4 Writing the National Game: Beauty in Brazil -- 5 Playing Dirty (First Half): Football, Politics and Writing in Chile -- 6 Playing Dirty (Second Half): Writing, Football and Dictatorship in the River Plate -- 7 Argentina Beyond El Proceso: Narratives of National Reconstruction -- 8 Narratives of Nation-building in Ecuador and Peru -- 9 Offside? Women Writers Creating Space -- 10 Conclusions: 100 Years of Golitude -- Index

Most Americans are now familiar with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and its prevalence among troops. In this groundbreaking new book, David Wood examines the far more pervasive yet less understood experience of those we send to war: moral injury, the violation of our fundamental values of right and wrong that so often occurs in the impossible moral dilemmas of modern conflict. It is a call to listen intently to our newest generation of veterans, and to ponder the inevitable human costs of putting American "boots on the ground" as new wars approach. --

"Linking Government Data provides a practical approach to addressing common information management issues. The approaches taken are based on international standards of the World Wide Web Consortium. Linking Government Data gives both the costs and benefits of using linked data techniques with government data; describes how agencies can fulfill their missions with less cost; and recommends how intra-agency culture must change to allow public presentation of linked data. Case studies from early adopters of linked data approaches in international governments are presented in the last section of the book. Linking Government Data is designed as a professional book for those working in Semantic Web research and standards development, and for early adopters of Semantic Web standards and techniques. Enterprise architects, project managers and application developers in commercial, not-for-profit and government organizations concerned with scalability, flexibility and robustness of information management systems will also find this book valuable. Students focused on computer science and business management will also find value in this book."--Publisher's website

The Internet's "killer app" is not the World Wide Web or Push technologies: it is humble electronic mail. More people use email than any other Internet application. As the number of email users swells, and as email takes on an ever greater role in personal and business communication, Internet mail protocols have become not just an enabling technology for messaging, but a programming interface on top of which core applications are built.Programming Internet Email unmasks the Internet Mail System and shows how a loose federation of connected networks have combined to form the world's larges

Intro -- THE STEP BACK: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Toward a Negative Capability -- PART I. Philosophy and Violence -- 1. Identity and Violence -- 2. The Philosophy of Violence: The Violence of Philosophy -- 3. Where Levinas Went Wrong: Some Questions for My Levinasian Friends -- Addendum: TWENTY THESES ON VIOLENCE -- PART II. Singular Encounters -- 4. The First Kiss: Tales of Innocence and Experience -- 5. Thinking God in the Wake of Kierkegaard -- 6. Dionysus in America -- PART III. Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction -- 7. Notes toward a Deconstructive Phenomenology -- 8. Responsibility Reinscribed (and How) -- 9. What Is Ecophenomenology? -- 10. Globalization and Freedom -- POSTSCTRIPT-Philosophy: The Antioxidant of Higher Education -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. IDENTITY AND VIOLENCE -- 2. THE PHILOSOPHY OF VIOLENCE :: THE VIOLENCE OF PHILOSOPHY -- 3. WHERE LEVINAS WENT WRONG -- 4. THE FIRST KISS -- 5. THINKING GOD IN THE WAKE OF KIERKEGAARD -- 6. DIONYSUS IN AMERICA -- 7. NOTES TOWARD A DECONSTRUCTIVE PHENOMENOLOGY -- 8. RESPONSIBILITY REINSCRIBED (AND HOW) -- 9. WHAT IS ECOPHENOMENOLOGY? -- 10. GLOBALIZATION AND FREEDOM -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

A collection of essays, including three pieces by Ricoeur himself, examining this subject. Ricoeur's study of the intertwining of time and narrative proposes and examines the possibility that narrative could remedy a fatal deficiency in any purely phenomenological approach