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This book provides a global perspective of the United States in an objective and nonpartisan manner. It is a compendium of graphic displays in full color revealing America's position in the world. It includes information on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, COVID-19, opioid use, the declining life expectancy of American newborns, and much more.

A review of sociological, ecological, and economic influences in youth delinquency and the justice system response in various parts of the Caribbean. The work highlights the importance of addressing the issues of youth now to limit crime in the region.

This book provides a straightforward guide to manufacturing technologies, examples of how they're used, as well as the tools and techniques you'll need to get started. Each technology is covered on a single page meaning you can understand it quickly and decide if it's worth you investigating it for your business.

The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Political Science examines the factors that help to explain the political decisions and behavior of individuals, leaders, and states. What motivates individuals to participate in elections? What factors influence their support for a particular individual or political party? What are the cognitive, motivational, emotional, and psychological processes that go into leaders' decisions regarding war and peace? Does biology play a role in political orientation? Integrating ideas from different fields, such as economics, psychology, and communications the work in the Handbook provides a deep view into the thinking processes and behavior of decision makers.

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Finding Simone Weil in an Ecological Void -- Notes -- Part I Growing Roots: A Reading of Simone Weil -- 1 Mapping an Ethics of Decreation -- Contraries in Weil's Writings and Ideas -- Critiques and Defenses of Weil's Contradictions -- The Ethics of Balancing Contraries -- Linking the Natural and the Supernatural Through Decreation -- Decreative Contradiction in Ecological Ethics -- Notes -- 2 The Faculties -- The Faculty of Knowing -- The Faculty of Loving -- The Faculty of Willing -- Notes -- 3 The Power of Force -- Defining Force -- Force and Necessity -- Force and Necessity in the Anthropocene -- An Ethical Critique of Weil's Force -- Balancing Force -- The Impact of Necessity and Force On the Meaning of the Faculties -- The Necessity of Absurdity (Contra Knowing) -- The Necessity of Absence (Contra Loving) -- The Necessity of Suffering (Contra Willing) -- Notes -- 4 Attention and Mediation -- Attention: The Balance of Faculty and Force -- The Balance of Metaxu -- Wisdom as an Open Mediation (Between Knowing and Absurdity) -- Loving God as an Open Mediation (Between Loving and Absence) -- Consent as an Open Mediation (Between Willing and Suffering) -- Notes -- God's Decreation -- Individual Decreation Versus Destruction -- The Action of Science (Via Wisdom) -- The Action of Art (Via Loving God) -- The Action of Work (Via Consent) -- Weilian Ethics -- Notes -- Part II Plato and the Environment -- 6 Contemporary Dualist Ecological Readings of Plato's Phaedrus -- Philosophical Responses and Readings of Phaedrus -- Eco-feminism and the History of Platonic Thought -- Plumwood On Plato and the Ethics of Exclusion.

Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsement -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- PART I: Sustainability -- Introduction to Part I -- 1. Rethinking sustainability in the post-Covid era -- 2. Tourism and Sustainable Development Goals at present -- 3. Reflections on Part I -- PART II: What is tourism doing for children? -- Introduction to Part II -- 4. Socialisation and tourism impacts -- 5. Quality of life and tourism impacts -- 6. Reflections on Part II -- PART III: What are children doing for touris -- Introduction to Part III -- 7. Child labour, tourism and seasonality -- 8. Employment in tourism -- 9. Reflections on Part III -- PART IV: What can children do for tourism -- Introduction to Part IV -- 10. Empowerment through tourism -- 11. Participation and involvement -- 12. Reflections on Part IV -- PART V: The future of tourism - with children, for children -- Introduction to Part V -- 13. Positive youth, positive future -- 14. The future for children in tourism -- 15. Reflections on Part V -- 16. Concluding reflections -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsements Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- A Note to Readers -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 History Lessons -- 1 The Martin Luther Story -- 2 The Greta Thunberg Story -- 3 The Mahatma Gandhi Story -- 4 The Rosa Parks Story -- Part 2 A Looming Tragedy -- 5 The Dreadful Deed: Matricide -- 6 The Fatal Flaw: Hubris -- 7 The Denial: Six Varieties -- 8 The Present-Day Chorus -- 9 The Unraveling -- Part 3 Can We Change Human Culture and Ourselves? -- 10 Yes, We Can -- 11 Is Human Nature Humancentric? -- 12 Prepared and Counter-Prepared Learning -- 13 Becoming a New Person -- 14 Individual Learning and Cultural Change -- Part 4 Wage Education Not War -- 15 Close the Knowing/Doing Gap -- 16 Whose Knowledge Is It Anyway? -- 17 Facts Are Not Enough -- 18 What Do We Do with Miseducation When We Find It? -- 19 Amplify and Converge -- Part 5 Goodbye Hubris, Hello ENVIRONMENTALITY -- 20 Needed: A Paradigm Shift -- 21 Expanding the Definition of "We -- 22 Doing Something Rather Than Nothing -- 23 Acting as One -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Nature of ethics -- 1.1 Three perspectives on ethics -- 1.2 Meta-ethics -- 1.2.1 Are ethics real or not? -- 1.2.2 Are ethical assertions actual moral assertions or just expressions of emotions? -- 1.2.3 Can moral facts, if they exist, be reduced to ethical behaviour? -- 1.2.4 Is there such a thing as morals? -- 1.3 Normative ethics -- 1.3.1 Virtue ethics theory -- 1.3.2 Teleological ethics -- 1.3.2.1 Utilitarianism -- 1.3.2.2 Moral scepticism of hedonists -- 1.3.2.3 Rights theory of ethics -- 1.3.3 Deontological ethics -- 1.3.3.1 Kant's principle of categorial imperative -- 1.3.3.2 Ethical intuitionism -- 1.3.3.2.1 David Ross's prima facie duties -- 1.4 Applied ethics -- 1.5 Summary -- Discussion questions -- Cases discussion -- Case 1 -- Case 2 -- Discussion questions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Making sense of ethics -- 2.1. Ethics and related concepts -- 2.1.1. Values, morals, ethics -- 2.1.2. Morals, morality, and moral philosophy -- 2.1.3. Ethics and ethos -- 2.1.4. Ethics and law -- 2.1.5. Ethics and professionalism -- 2.2. Why do people want to be ethical or not -- 2.2.1. Moral agency -- 2.2.2. Social cognitive theory of morality -- 2.2.3. Kohlberg's moral development theory -- 2.2.3.1. Level 1: Preconventional level -- 2.2.3.2. Level 2: Conventional level -- 2.2.3.3. Level 3: Postconventional or principled level -- 2.2.4. Why do people engage in unethical conduct? -- 2.2.4.1. Exercise: Heinz's dilemma -- 2.3. Summary -- Discussion questions -- Case discussion -- Case 1 -- Case 2 -- References -- Chapter 3: Research and ethics in research -- 3.1. Connecting with the world around -- 3.2. Research is about seeking -- 3.3. The (practical) research.

This volume provides a comparative investigation into concepts of the abyss in fourteen ancient and contemporary languages and cultures worldwide. It combines ethnolinguistics with philosophy, literature, folklore, religion and translation to demonstrate the culture shaping significance of this fundamental concept.

Drawing on ethnographic research in salsa classes and oral histories this book details the everyday practices of femininity, heterosexuality and 'new' intimacies among women in midlife. Challenging conventional notions of the baby boomers it draws attention to how these practices are classed and raced, emphasising the quest for 'respectability'.

This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the authority of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the determination of international humanitarian law, addressing, among other things, the institution's most distinctive interpretations and law-ascertainments through case studies.