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Action Dharma charts the emergence of a new chapter in an ancient faith - the rise of social service and political activism in Buddhist Asia and the West. Fourteen new essays treat the historical origins, global range, teachings and practices, and leaders and organizations that make up the latest turning of the Dharma. Environmentalism and peace walks through the minefields of Southeast Asia, the future of the 'untouchables' of Japan, and outr...

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This edited collection presents the latest quantitative research on how post-communist countries are adapting to Western models of society.

Approaching critical theory and psychoanalysis in a recklessly entertaining fashion, Slavoj Zizek's critical eye alights upon a bewildering and exhilarating range of subjects, from the political apathy of contemporary life, to a joke about the man who thinks he's a chicken. Tony Myers provides a clear and engaging guide to Zizek's key ideas including: - What is a subject and why is it so important? - The imaginary, the symbolic and the real - ...

Offers an introduction to the work of John Keats, a central figure in English Romanticism and one of the most popular poets in the literary canon. This book features: a chronology of Keats's life and excerpts from his letters, an overview of the criticism of his work, and, excerpts from a range of critical texts, with explanatory headnotes.

Disabilities, Culture and Identity is a succinct and accessible presentation of current research on disability, culture and identity. It is an ideal text for students and lecturers alike studying and working in the areas of Disability Studies and Social Policy. Disabilities, Culture and Identity provides a comprehensive and well-structured introduction to an area of growing importance.The authors provide up-to-date and extensive coverage of th...

An explanation of the domestic consequences of recent changes in the global economy.

Timothy O'Hagan offers us an up-to-date, well researched, and ground breaking interpretation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's work and crucial contribution to philosophical thought.

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Making Sense of Lifelong Learning looks beyond the rhetoric about lifelong learning (LLL), and asks long overdue questions such as, Who is actually in need of LLL? What are the motives of institutions, employers and the Government in promoting LLL? And, who says what is and what is not LLL?In the context of the previous government attempts to enhance the economic strength of the country, the author also makes suggestions as to what might be do...

As well as full coverage of the English-language literature, Macrodynamics covers important contributions from the new school of French macroeconomists, including Malinvaud, Benassy and Grandmont.

This interesting and provocative work develops a new theological approach to language in the light of contemporary critical theory.

This is an argument for the need to reconsider the role and the nature of arts education so that creativity is fostered and that education as a whole is liberated from a narrow focus shaped by the market economy and the ironic postmodernist sensibility. Peter Abbs calls for education to become an end in itself, as opposed to the means to an end, and for a place to be found in contemporary education for the spiritual, the aesthetic and the ethi...

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This follow-up book to Ursano et al.'s earlier title Individual and Community Responses to Trauma and Disaster expands the focus on terrorism. There is widespread belief among professionals that terrorism (and torture) produce the highest and most diffuse rates of psychiatric sequelae of all types of disaster. This book's international experts assess the lessons learned from the most recent atrocities. They look at prevention, individual and o...

This follow-up book to Ursano et al.'s earlier title Individual and Community Responses to Trauma and Disaster expands the focus on terrorism. There is widespread belief among professionals that terrorism (and torture) produce the highest and most diffuse rates of psychiatric sequelae of all types of disaster. This book's international experts assess the lessons learned from the most recent atrocities. They look at prevention, individual and o...

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Provides a comprehensive analysis of economic conditions in Germany under the Great Inflation and discusses inflationary conditions in general. The analysis is supported by extensive statistical material, and for this translation the author thoroughly revised the original work.

Sleep has long been a topic of fascination for artists and scientists. Why do we sleep? What function does sleep serve? Why do we dream? What significance can we attach to our dreams? We spend so much of our lives sleeping, yet its precise function is unclear, in spite of our increasingunderstanding of the processes generating and maintaining sleep. We now know that sleep can be accompanied by periods of intense cerebral activity, yet only rec...