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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Distance and Proximity in Phenomenology: Husserl and Heidegger; The Judgment Stroke and the Truth-Predicate: Frege, Heidegger, and the Logical Representation of Judgment; Wisdom, Knowledge, and Reflective Joy: Aristotle and Husserl; ""The Logic of Decadence"": On the Deficient Forms of Government in Plato's Republic; Phenomenology and the Closure of Metaphysics: Introduction to the Thought of Husserl (1966); Derrida's Endgame; Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Logical Intuitionisrn: On Oskar Becker's Mathematical Existence

Drawing upon the wisdom of experts in the field, this reader-friendly volume of Community Psychology edited by Victoria Scott and Susan Wolfe explores both foundational competencies and the technical how-to skills needed for engaging in community psychology practice. Each chapter explores a core competency and its application in preventing or amending community problems and issues. With case examples throughout, this book offers a practical introduction to community outreach and intervention in community psychology

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Misconceptions about Present and future Canadian Urbanization: Conventional Wisdom -- 2 Recent Urban Growth Trends -- 3 Reasons for Changes: Some Tentative Hypotheses -- 4 The Future Pattern of Settlement -- 5 Planning for the Emerging Settlement Pattern: Problems and Opportunities -- 6 Need for a National Settlement Policy -- Epilogue: Some Research and Information Needs -- Notes -- Appendix: Habitat '76 Recommendations for Settlement Policies and Planning -- Bibliography.

This book views peacemaking as a broad, encompassing process that is expressed in many different shapes and forms. It blends ancient-wisdom traditions, peacemaking criminology, and restorative justice principles as a way of intervening with offenders in both institutional and community-based settings. Philosophical and spiritual contexts for peacemaking are presented that form a foundation for understanding the potential for peacemaking in criminological thought, the criminal justice system, and society in general

This book views peacemaking as a broad, encompassing process that is expressed in many different shapes and forms. It blends ancient-wisdom traditions, peacemaking criminology, and restorative justice principles as a way of intervening with offenders in both institutional and community-based settings. Philosophical and spiritual contexts for peacemaking are presented that form a foundation for understanding the potential for peacemaking in criminological thought, the criminal justice system, and society in general

Tapping the experience and wisdom of over 175 highly qualified mediators from across different realms of the mediation practice and across geographic regions, Expert Mediators: Overcoming Mediation Challenges in Workplace, Family, and Community Conflicts integrates best practices to overcome classic mediation challenges. For each proposed strategy, this book discusses conditions under which each practice should be used as well as approaches to mitigate risks associated with using each strategy and technique

Taking aim at decades of received wisdom, the central claim of this book is that high-quality political judgment hinges less on citizens' cognitive ability than on their willingness to temporarily suspend partisan habits and follow the 'evidence' wherever it leads. This occurs most readily when citizens experience a disjuncture between their stable political 'identities' and their contemporary 'evaluations' of party performance, a state the authors refer to as 'partisan ambivalence'.

Happiness. We all want it - but how can we get it? Author Mark Vernon has solved the problem by collecting the wisdom of the greatest minds in history and making their thinking on the things that matter most in life accessible and, above all, practical. Full of everyday examples to make sometimes high-blown philosophy entertaining and relevant, this book shows you how you can crack the secret to living The Good Life

Engineers and inventors have long examined God's creation to understand and copy complex, proven mechanics of design in the science known as biomimicry. Much of this inspiration is increasingly drawn from amazing aspects of nature, including insects to plants to man in search of wisdom and insight. We are surrounded daily by scientific advancements that have become everyday items, simply because man is copying from God's incredible creation, without acknowledging the Creator

Edge.org presents brilliant, accessible, cutting-edge ideas to improve our decision-making skills and improve our cognitive toolkits, with contributions by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more. Featuring a foreword by New York Times columnist David Brooks and edited by John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter presents some of the best wisdom from today's leading thinkers-to make better thinkers out of the leaders of tomorrow.

In this unique and passionate book, Doug Nicholls proposes a cultural revolution within youth work. He draws on the best of youth work's past to redesign the youth work map for today. He speaks with wit, wisdom and warmth to youth workers about their craft. Yet he takes no intellectual prisoners in proposing a new role for youth work in the struggle for social justice. No student or practitioner should miss it.

The book challenges the conventional wisdom on the determinants of economic performance and provides an alternative vision of the functioning of an economic system. The author provides a structured survey which critically evaluates the theory and evidence of neoclassical approaches to growth and development. He then skillfully integrates insights from the old and new institutional economics into an original and comprehensive vision of the relationship between institutions, growth and economic development

Four short stories : a Bacchic courtesan, the reporter from hell, the daughters of rabbis, a Roman Christian matron -- Spouses of wisdom : Philo's Therapeutae, reconsidered -- Thecla of Iconium, reconsidered -- Artemisia of Minorca : gender and the conversion of the Jews in the 5th century -- Veturia of Rome and Rufina of Smyrna as counterbalance : women officeholders in ancient synagogues and Gentile adopters of Judean practices -- Rethinking gender, history and women's religions in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean

In Proud to Be Right, Jonah Goldberg, the New York Times bestselling author of Liberal Fascism, presents voices of the next Conservative generation. A fresh and provocative collection of lively political writing from right wing writers under the age of 30, Proud to Be Right rebuts the conventional wisdom that Generation Y is a uniformly liberal demographic-and that intelligent young people today fall blindly into the Barack Obama camp.

"By bringing us the inspiring and sometimes unsettling tales of Ellis Island, Vincent Cannato's American Passage helps us understand who we are as a nation." - Walter Isaacson "Never before has Ellis Island been written about with such scholarly care and historical wisdom. Highly recommended!" -Douglas Brinkley, bestselling author of The Wilderness Warrior The remarkable saga of America's landmark port of entry, from immigration post to deportation center to mythical icon.