A Companion to Bioethics 2nd Edition by Helga Kuhse, ISBN-13: 978-1405163316 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2nd edition (October 19, 2009) Language: English 636 pages ISBN-10: 1405163313 ISBN-13: 978-1405163316 This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics. Thematically organized around an…
Read moreFood and Culture 7th Edition by Pamela Goyan Kittler, ISBN-13: 978-1305628052 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Cengage Learning; 7th edition (January 1, 2016) Language: English 560 pages ISBN-10: 1305628055 ISBN-13: 978-1305628052 FOOD AND CULTURE is the market-leading text for the cultural foods courses, providing current information on the health, culture, food, and nutrition habits of the most common ethnic and racial groups living in the United States. It is designed to help health professionals,…
Read moreA Pocket Guide to Public Speaking 6th Edition by Dan O’Hair, ISBN-13: 978-1319102784 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s; Sixth edition (October 17, 2018) Language: English 336 pages ISBN-10: 1319102786 ISBN-13: 978-1319102784 This best-selling brief introduction to public speaking offers practical coverage of every topic typically covered in a full-sized text, from invention, research and organization, practice and delivery, to the different speech types. Its concise, inexpensive format makes it perfect not only…
Read moreEthics: Theory and Contemporary Issues 9th Edition by Barbara MacKinnon, ISBN-13: 978-1305958678 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Cengage Learning; 9th edition (January 1, 2017) Language: English 640 pages ISBN-10: 1305958675 ISBN-13: 978-1305958678 Explore the major perspectives in ethical theory and contemporary moral debates using ETHICS: THEORY AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, 9th Edition. Overviews and a selection of readings from traditional and contemporary sources make complex philosophical concepts reader-friendly. Comprehensive introductions to general and specific areas…
Read moreSOC 2020 6th Edition by Jon Witt, ISBN-13: 978-1260075311 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: McGraw Hill; 6th edition (September 24, 2019) Language: English 480 pages ISBN-10: 1260075311 ISBN-13: 978-1260075311 SOC 2020 is the sixth edition of Jon Witt’s book, and this revision offers significant changes to each chapter; some of the most substantial changes are in Chapter 8, on race and ethnicity, and Chapter 15, on Social Change. The new material on race and…
Read moreInternational Business 3rd edition by Klaus Meyer, ISBN-13: 978-1473758438 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA; 3rd edition (March 5, 2019) Language: English 632 pages ISBN-10: 1473758432 ISBN-13: 978-1473758438 Drawing from the combined experiences of Mike Peng and Klaus Meyer International Business provides a comprehensive insight into contemporary business practices. Covering recent global developments and current issues such as Brexit, as well as the historical context of international business, the third edition highlights…
Read moreViolence: Six Sideways Reflections by Slavoj Zizek, ISBN-13: 978-0312427184 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Picador; 1st edition (July 22, 2008) Language: English 272 pages ISBN-10: 0312427182 ISBN-13: 978-0312427184 Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique…
Read moreThe Revolution Of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem, ISBN-13: 978-0946061013 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Rebel Press; Expanded edition (April 20, 2001) Language: English 279 pages ISBN-10: 9780946061013 ISBN-13: 978-0946061013 Originally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life offered a lyrical and aphoristic critique of the “society of the spectacle” from the point of view of individual experience. Whereas Debord’s masterful analysis of the…
Read moreIntroduction to Phenomenology 1st Edition by Dermot Moran, ISBN-13: 978-0415183734 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (December 23, 1999) Language: English 592 pages ISBN-10: 0415183731 ISBN-13: 978-0415183734 Introduction to Phenomenology is an outstanding and comprehensive guide to phenomenology. Dermot Moran lucidly examines the contributions of phenomenology’s nine seminal thinkers: Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Arendt, Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Derrida. Written in a clear and engaging style, Introduction to Phenomenology charts the course…
Read moreAfter Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency by Quentin Meillassoux, ISBN-13: 978-1441173836 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Continuum (January 5, 2010) Language: English 160 pages ISBN-10: 1441173838 ISBN-13: 978-1441173836 From the preface by Alain Badiou: It is no exaggeration to say that Quentin Meillassoux has opened up a new path in the history of philosophy, understood here as the history of what it is to know … This remarkable “critique of critique”…
Read moreEros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud by Herbert Marcuse, ISBN-13: 978-0807015551 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Beacon Press; 8th edition (September 15, 1974) Language: English 304 pages ISBN-10: 9780807015551 ISBN-13: 978-0807015551 In this classic work, Herbert Marcuse takes as his starting point Freud’s statement that civilization is based on the permanent subjugation of the human instincts, his reconstruction of the prehistory of mankind – to an interpretation of the basic trends…
Read moreThe Aesthetic Dimension: Toward A Critique of Marxist Aesthetics by Herbert Marcuse, ISBN-13: 978-0807015193 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Beacon Press (June 15, 1979) Language: English 101pages ISBN-10: 0807015199 ISBN-13: 978-0807015193 Developing a concept briefly introduced in counterrevolution and revolt, marcuse here addresses the shortcomings of marxist aesthetic theory and explores a dialectical aesthetic in which art functions as the conscience of society marcuse argues that art is the only form or expression that…
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