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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.

Introduction / Paolo D. Farah and Elena Cima -- The development of global justice and sustainable development principles in the WTO multilateral trading system and in the GSP+ through the lens of non-trade concerns / Paolo D. Farah -- Economic globalization and social rights : the role of the International Labor Organization and the WTO / Claudio Di Turi -- Multinational corporations and corporate social responsibility in a Chinese context : an international law perspective / Angelica Bonfanti -- Rights interest litigation, socio-economic rights and Chinese labor law reform / Leïla Choukroune -- Law, culture, and the politics of Chinese outward foreign investment / Valentina Sara Vadi -- Chinese investment in Africa : strengthening the balance sheet / Mark Klaver and Michael Trebilcock -- Soft, complex and fragmented international climate change practice : what implications for international trade law? / Francesco Sindico -- The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities in the international regime of climate change / Thomas Deleuil -- The Kyoto protocol : carbon pricing and trade prospects : the clean development mechanism from the perspective of the developing countries / Marion Lemoine -- The role of domestic policies in fostering technology transfer : evidence from China / Elena Cima -- China's environmental legislation and its trend towards scientific development / He Weidong -- Research on the reform of the judicial relief system for environmental disputes in China / Luo Li -- The impact of the Kyoto protocol and UNFCCC on Chinese law and the consequential reforms to fight climate change / Carla Peng -- The development of NGOs in China: a case study on their involvement with climate change / Zhixiong Huang -- A comparison between shale gas in China and unconventional fuel development in the United States : health, water and environmental risks / Paolo D. Farah & Riccardo Tremolada -- Understanding non-trade concerns through comparative Chinese and European philosophy of law / Jean Yves Heurtebise -- The right to food in international law and wto law : an appraisal / Flavia Zorzi Giustiniani -- The right to food in China : cultural foundation, present and future / Ning Libiao -- Projections of China's food security to 2030 : obligations as an agricultural superpower / James R. Simpson -- China and the recognition and protection of the human right to water / Roberto Soprano -- China meets Hollywood at WTO : Janus' faces of freedom ; standards of right and wrong between national and international moralities / Christophe Germann -- Cultural products and the WTO : China's domestic censorship and media control policies / Rogier Creemers -- Trade in audiovisuals : the case of china / Anselm Kamperman Sanders -- Rise and demise of us social media in china : a touchstone of WTO and BIT regulations / Danny Friedmann -- Can trade restrictions be justified by moral values? : revisiting the seals disputes through a law and economics analysis / Julien Chaisse & Xinjie Luan -- Health protection measures as barriers to EU exports to China in the framework of the WTO agreement on sanitary and phytosanitary measures / Denise Prévost -- SPS, public health and environmental provisions in East Asia RTAs : Asean and China / Lorenzo Di Masi -- Product safety in the framework of the WTO agreement on technical barriers to trade / Lukasz Gruszczynski -- Non-trade concerns and consumer protection in China : surrounding issues / Piercarlo Rossi -- Legal protection of consumers in developing countries : an Asian perspective / A. Rajendra Prasad -- From remedy of damage to risk prevention. an analysis of the new legislative implications of the chapter on "product liability" in China's tort liability law from the perspective of consumer protection / Hu Junhong -- Tort liability for the compensation of damages caused by dangerous substances in China / Nadia Coggiola -- The protection of biotechnological innovation by patent in the United States, Europe, France, and China : a comparative study from the perspective of the TRIPS agreement / Shujie Feng, Xin Shu & Ningning Zhang -- Public health, intellectual property rights, and developing countries' access to medicines / Jayashree Watal -- The relationship between the TRIPS agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) : intellectual property and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folk protection from a Chinese perspective / Jianqiang Nie -- Grasping knowledge in emerging markets : is this the case of western pharmaceutical companies in china? / Francesca Spigarelli & Andrea Filippetti

Chapter 1. Intermediary Language in Field Experiments (Tatyana B. Agranat) -- Chapter 2. Methodology for Collection of Data and Elicitation of Knowledge on Eastern Iranian Languages (Leyli R. Dodykhudoeva and Vladimir B. Ivanov) -- Chapter 3. Documenting the Lexicon of World-View and Systems of Belief (Joy I. Edelman) -- Chapter 4. Communication on the Russian-Chinese Border: Problems of Obtaining Data (Kapitolina Fedorova) -- Chapter 5. Object Emerging in the Hands of the Researcher. Notes From A Summer Expedition To Kellog, A Ket Village In Siberia (Julia Galyamina) -- Chapter 6. Fieldwork In The Situation Of Language Shift (Olga Kazakevich) -- Chapter 7. Collecting Data For The Documentation Of The South Eastern Huastec, A Mayan Language In Mexico (Ana Kondić) -- Chapter 8. A Sociolinguistic Survey Of An Internal Diaspora: A Field Research Of A Chuvash Diaspora Group In The Moscow Region (Marina Kutsaeva) -- Chapter 9. 'The East Is A Delicate Matter' (Influence Of Ethno-Psychological Factors On The Outcomes Of Fieldwork) (Boghsho Lashkarbekov) -- Chapter 10. What Field Research Is Needed To Study The Linguistic Need Of A Minority Language? (Svetlana Moskvicheva and Alain Viaut) -- Chapter 11. Linguistic Fieldwork Among The Chukchi (Maria Pupynina) -- Chapter 12. Aspects Of Data Collection Arising From A Field Survey Of The Isolating Languages Of Vietnam (Irina V. Samarina) -- Chapter 13. Dialogue-Focused Experiments In The Field: Advantages And Disadvantages (A Permic Experience) (Maria Usacheva).

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world. Just Hierarchy contends that this stigma is a mistake. In fact, as Daniel Bell and Wang Pei show, it is neither possible nor advisable to do away with social hierarchies. Drawing their arguments from Chinese thought and culture as well as other philosophies and traditions, Bell and Wang ask which forms of hierarchy are justified and how these can serve morally desirable goals. They look at ways of promoting just forms of hierarchy while minimizing the influence of unjust ones, such as those based on race, sex, or caste.Which hierarchical relations are morally justified and why? Bell and Wang argue that it depends on the nature of the social relation and context. Different hierarchical principles ought to govern different kinds of social relations: what justifies hierarchy among intimates is different than what justifies hierarchy among citizens, countries, humans and animals, and humans and intelligent machines. Morally justified hierarchies can and should govern different spheres of our social lives, though these will be very different than the unjust hierarchies that have governed us in the past.A vigorous, systematic defense of hierarchy in the modern world, Just Hierarchy examines how hierarchical social relations can have a useful purpose, not only in personal domains but also in larger political realms

Capitalism has gone astray. Today we face ecological exhaustion, persistent inequality, financialization, stress on communities, short-termism, and new power concentrations. An avalanche of new economic thinking and a reorientation of European values show the way toward a different economy. A new perspective is necessary if we want to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and if we consider our planet as 'Our Common Home,' for present and future generations. This book argues that European economies should be the initiators of a global transition toward a sustainable and inclusive world economy. Together, amid severe geopolitical and geoeconomic challenges, they need to develop their own perspective on what a good economy really is, in distinction to Chinese state capitalism and American big business capitalism. Crucially, this requires the rediscovery of key European values, a coherent view on responsible capitalism, and a new self-awareness as a global player for the Common Good in today's and tomorrow's world

"Over the past generation, the rise of East Asia and especially China, has brought about a sea change in the economic and political world order. At the same time, global warming, environmental degradation, food and water shortages, population explosion, and income inequities have created a perfect storm that threatens the very survival of humanity. It is clear now that the Westphalian model of individual sovereign states seeking their own self-interest will not be able to respond effectively to this win-win or lose-lose crisis. In this volume, a cadre of distinguished scholars comes together to reflect on Confucianism and Deweyan pragmatism as possible resources for a new geopolitics that begins from an ontology of interdependence and recognizes the irreducibly ecological nature of the human experience at every level. Both Confucian and Deweyan traditions emphasize the primacy of experience, the importance of vital relationality, and the moral roots of good governance. The potential benefits of conceptually blending the two are many. Indeed, the contemporary Chinese philosopher Tang Junyi provides us with a cosmological understanding of the "idea" of Confucianism that, in parallel to Dewey's "idea" of democracy, can enable us to anticipate the core values, if not the specific contours, of a "Confucian democracy." Just as Dewey's "idea" of democracy is his vision of the flourishing communal life made possible by the contributions of the uniquely distinguished persons that constitute it, Tang Junyi's Confucianism is a pragmatic naturalism directed at achieving the most highly integrated cultural, moral, and spiritual growth for the individual-in-community. In both, we find an affirmation of communal harmony as a process "starting here and going there" through which those involved learn together to do ordinary things in extraordinary ways. Just such a cosmological understanding of democracy is one way of describing what will be needed to address the many predicaments characterizing the environmental, cultural, socioeconomic, and political dynamics of the twenty-first century"--

History and Wonder is a refreshing new take on the idea of history that tracks the entanglement of history and philosophy over time through the key idea of wonder. From Ancient Greek histories and wonder works, to Islamic curiosities and Chinese strange histories, through to European historical cabinets of curiosity and on to histories that grapple with the horrors of the Holocaust, Marnie Hughes-Warrington unpacks the ways in which historians throughout the ages have tried to make sense of the world, and to change it. This book considers histories and historians across time and space, including the Ancient Greek historian Polybius, the medieval texts by historians such as Bede in England and Ibn Khaldun in Islamic Historiography, and the more recent works by Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray and Ranajit Guha among others. It explores the different ways in which historians have called upon wonder to cross boundaries between the past and the present, the universal and the particular, the old and the new, and the ordinary and the extraordinary. Promising to both delight and unsettle, it shows how wonder works as the beginning of historiography. Accessible, engaging and wide-ranging, History as Wonder provides an original addition to the field of historiography that is ideal for those both new to and familiar with the study of history.