The book features a curated collection of published papers organized into two volumes, highlighting the cohesive themes and overarching direction of the author's research. Each volume aims to showcase the essential unity of the work, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter.
Accurate, approachable, and indispensable, this illustrated science encyclopedia is arranged in such categories as "Planet Earth", "Living Things", "Chemistry and the Elements", "Materials and Technology", "Space and Time", and "Conservation and the Environment". 2,000+ full-color photos & illustrations.
Set against the backdrop of WWII, this book chronicles the experiences of Iowa veterans who served with the "Mighty Eighth" Air Force in England from 1942 to 1946. It highlights the relentless efforts of ground crews who improvised to maintain aircraft amidst supply shortages and the challenges faced by aircrews flying in extreme conditions. Through firsthand accounts from over three hundred veterans, the narrative captures the resilience and bravery of those involved in this historic air armada.
Discusses contemporary notions of the self, and examines their origins, development, and effects.
Almost everyone would agree that the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly over the years. This book takes up the question of what these changes mean—of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
The Explanation of Behaviour was the first book written by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor. A vitally important work of philosophical anthropology, it is a devastating criticism of the theory of behaviourism, a powerful explanatory approach in psychology and philosophy when Taylor's book was first published. However, Taylor has far more to offer than a simple critique of behaviourism. He argues that in order to properly understand human beings, we must grasp that they are embodied, minded creatures with purposes, plans and goals, something entirely lacking in reductionist, scientific explanations of human behaviour. Taylor's book is also prescient in according a central place to non-human animals, which like human beings are subject to needs, desires and emotions. However, because human beings have the unique ability to interpret and reflect on their own actions and purposes and declare them to others, Taylor argues that human experience differs to that of other animals. Furthermore, the fact that human beings are often directed by their purposes has a fundamental bearing on how we understand the social and moral world. Taylor's classic work is essential reading for those in philosophy and psychology as well as related areas such as sociology and religion. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by the author and a new Foreword by Alva No , setting the book in philosophical and historical context.
This book is an exploration of the relevance of Hegel's thought to contemporary society and politics.
A major and comprehensive study of the philosophy of Hegel, his place in the history of ideas, and his continuing relevance and importance. Charles Taylor relates Hegel to the earlier history of philosophy and, more particularly, to the central intellectual and spiritual issues of his own time.
Offers a clear and concise framework for understanding the structure of modern life in the West and the different forms modernity has taken around the world schovat popis