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"The world is getting smarter. Things of all shapes and sizes-from the smart comb to the smart city and everything between-are now being digitally upgraded with the latest sensors, software, and connectivity. Even your toothbrush can now collect data about when, how long, and how well you brush. And, since it is Bluetooth enabled, it sends that brushing data to cloud servers so that your dentist can monitor your performance and send you personalized tips for a brighter smile. The promise of smart tech is that-by channeling the power of data, networks, and algorithms-we will enjoy a vast array of new capabilities and conveniences. Indeed, it is common for the most energetic boosters to describe smart upgrades in mystical terms. Using smartphones to control our home appliances, they simultaneously exclaim and lament, is the closest we can get to being wand-wielding wizards. While the wonders of smart tech might feel like magical enchantments that enable us to cast digital spells, this book intends to dispel any notions that we inhabit the charmed castle of Fantasia. If anything, it's more like the witchy world of Sabrina, where every spell comes at a cost and unintended consequences abound. Whether celebrating or criticizing smart tech, our attention tends to be captured by concerns about how we choose to use personal devices. The focus on things like how people should detox from the Internet and practice good cyber hygiene elides a far more important issue: how others use digital systems on us, whether we want them to or not. Across three different domains-the smart self, smart home, and smart city-this book explores essential questions about whose interests are materialized by new technology, what imperatives drive its creation, and how we are all impacted by its use"--

Methodologically and theoretically innovative, this monograph draws from Marxism and deconstruction bringing together the textual and the material in our understanding of international law. Approaching 'civilisation' as an argumentative pattern related to the distribution of rights and duties amongst different communities, Ntina Tzouvala illustrates both its contradictory nature and its pro-capitalist bias. 'Civilisation' is shown to oscillate between two poles. On the one hand, a pervasive 'logic of improvement' anchors legal equality to demands that non-Western polities undertake extensive domestic reforms and embrace capitalist modernity. On the other, an insistent 'logic of biology' constantly postpones such a prospect based on ideas of immutable difference. By detailing the tension and synergies between these two logics, Tzouvala argues that international law incorporates and attempts to mediate the contradictions of capitalism as a global system of production and exchange that both homogenises and stratifies societies, populations and space.

This work offers 18 ground-breaking articles, written by an international group of philosophers, on companion animal ethics. It explores the ethical foundations of our relationships with pets, in particular dogs and cats, and specific moral issues, including breeding, reproduction, sterilization, cloning, adoption, feeding, training, working, sexual interactions, longevity, dying, and euthanasia

1. Introduction -- 2. Early television -- 3. The domestication of media technology -- 4. Mediatised childhoods and media parenting -- 5. From arcade to family-centred video gaming -- 6. Touchscreen homes and the domestication of the computer tablet -- 7. Home, media and migration -- 8. Homes of the future: from smart homes to connected homes -- 9. The mediatised home.

In order to make progress towards a better world we need to learn how to do it. And for that we need institutions of learning rationally designed and devoted to helping us solve our global problems, make progress towards a better world. It is just this that we lack at present. Our universities pursue knowledge. They are neither designed nor devoted to helping humanity learn how to tackle global problems - problems of living - in more intelligent, humane and effective ways. That, this book ar

What's Good on TV? Understanding Ethics Through Television presents an introduction to the basic theories and concepts of moral philosophy using concrete examples from classic and contemporary television shows.Utilizes clear examples from popular contemporary and classic television shows, such as The Office, Law and Order, Star Trek and Family Guy, to illustrate complex philosophical conceptsDesigned to be used as a stand-alone or supplementary introductory ethics textFeatures case studies, study questions, and suggested readingsEpisodes mentioned are from a wide variety of television shows, a

Introduction and purpose --Diagnosis and the family live cycle: the existential crisis --Treatment and the family life cycle: the long haul --Rehabilitation and the family life cycle: living in limbo --Survival and the family life cycle: living under the sword of Damocles --Recurrence/Advanced disease and the family life cycle? life in the balance --Terminal illness and the family life cycle: In a strange land.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 Music and Religion -- Music in Context -- Explorations in Affective space -- Acknowledging a Theological Interest -- Part 2 Living by Pop Music -- Pop Music in the Marketplace -- Pop Music and the Body -- The Tingle Factor -- Pop Music, Ritual, and Worship -- What's on your Ipod? -- Part 3 Pop Music and Theology -- The Dicipline of Listening -- Three Steps to Heaven? -- Embodied Social Rituals -- A Programmatic Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Music Index

У статті досліджена проблема формування законодавчо-нормативного забезпечення соціального партнерства у професійній підготовці фахівців сфери послуг у Німеччині та Австрії. Проаналізовано федеративні і земельні закони про професійну освіту Австрії та Німеччини. Розглянуто ключові аспекти взаємодії міністерств та освітніх об'єднань для налагодження співпраці на міністерському, регіональному, локальному та міжнародному рівнях. На підставі аналізу законодавчо-правових документів зроблено висновок, що всі соціальні партнери приймають спільно рішення й несуть спільну відповідальність за професійну підготовку майбутніх фахівців, загалом і сфери послуг зокрема. ; The problem of forming and normative support of social partnership in vocational training of service sector specialists in Germany and Austria has been studied in the article. Federal and state laws in vocational education in these countries have been analyzed. The key aspects of interaction between educational units in order to organize collaboration at the ministerial, regional, local and international levels have been considered. Based on the results of the study undertaken, it has been found out that the dual system of primary vocational training of specialists in vocational education in Germany and Austria is continuing and consists of two stages, namely: 1) theoretical training in vocational schools and practical training at enterprises; 2) further vocational education/further research-based vocational education. The author has characterized vocational secondary schools: part-time vocational schools that comprise dual training system and full-time vocational schools: specialized vocational schools, advanced vocational schools and vocational gymnasia. It has been found out that technical universities and higher vocational education institutions training service sector specialists belong to higher education system, too. It has been highlighted that the system of social partnership in vocational education in Ukraine is being dramatically developed and significantly reformed. Therefore, study, generalization and analysis of European experience in organizing social partnership in vocational training of specialists, particularly in service sector, is becoming rather relevant. Based on the analysis of legislative documents on vocational education in Germany and Austria, it has been concluded that social partnership in education may be considered as a reliable and approved social mechanism that stipulates for economic stability and development, establishment of competitive, flexible and dynamic education system in each country; the mentioned problem in Ukraine requires the need for complex development of social partnership system as an interdisciplinary problem related to social, cultural, political and economic factors of social development to be taken into consideration; sustainable development of researches on the problem of theory and methodology of vocational education and implementation of its results in practice to be ensured; German and Austrian experience in organizing vocational training in the dual education system that presupposes the combination of proportional correlation between vocational theoretical and practical components to be studied. Rather perspective for further researches is the study of foreign experience in developing and implementing vocational education standards that is the field of social partnership functioning.

The article is devoted to Italian cultural policy on the Islands of the Dodecanese archipelago, captured by Italy during the war against Turkey in 1911—1912 and officially recognized as Italian proficiency (Italian Aegean Islands) in accordance with the Lausanne Treaty of 1923 ; Статья посвящена итальянской культурной политике на островах Додеканесского архипелага, захваченного Италией в ходе войны с Турцией в 1911—1912 гг. и официально признанного итальянским владением (Итальянские острова Эгейского моря) в соответствии с Лозаннским договором 1923 года

Chapter 7: An Example from Michigan: The Michigan State University Product Center Food-Ag-BioChapter 8: An Example from Poland: The Warsaw Entrepreneurship Forum; Chapter 9: Community Entrepreneurship: The Cases of the Lumber Enterprise in Ixtlan, Mexico, and the Pubs of Rural Ireland; Chapter 10: Social Entrepreneurship among Native Peoples of the Americas: A Model or an Exception?; Chapter 11: Necessary but Not Sufficient: Only Systemic Approaches Transform; Index.