Social Aspects category: 6049 books
by Colin Lankshear, Michele Knobel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The new edition of this popular book takes a fresh look at what it means to think of literacies as social practices.
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Like all other forms of modern media, video games impact society and human behavior in often surprising ways. Understanding the growing effect of digital entertainment on twenty-first century culture is critical to anticipating the future of social interactions. Cases on the Societal Effects of Persuasive...
Good work
the ethics of craftsmanship
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Building on Richard Sennetts recent work this books tries to clarify the ethical significance of craftsmanship. According to Sennett, `learning to work well is a deep source of personal meaning and of fruitful cooperation. Moreover provides the foundation of citizenship. Learning to master a craft...
Quantum Shift in the Global Brain
How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2008
The shift from scientific materialism to a multidimensional worldview in harmony with the world’s great spiritual traditions
• Articulates humanity’s critical choice--to be the last decade of an outgoing, obsolete world, or the first of a new and viable one
• Presents a new “reality...
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Across multiple disciplines concerned with community development there is growing interest in the phenomenon of community capacity building; activities, resources and support strengthening the abilities and skills of individuals and groups to take action and to lead the development of their own communities....
The End of Ownership
Personal Property in the Digital Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
An argument for retaining the notion of personal property in the products we “buy” in the digital marketplace.
If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, sell it at a garage sale. But is the same...
Quem Disse que os Ricos não Entrarão no Céu?
O básico que você precisa saber para ser um incluído social
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 11, 2016
(a5,151 páginas) -
I
Agir por meio de crenças é agir irracionalmente. Não se confunda, todavia, nem de longe, um estado de crença com um estado de fé. A fé, ao contrário da crença, é positiva: “É a certeza das coisas que se esperam; e também a certeza e/ou confiança nas...
by Edward Burnett Tylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Use of the term "culture" as an expression of the full range of learned human behavior patterns began with this classic two-volume work, first published in 1871. Edward B. Tylor, the first Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford, declared that culture is "that complex...
Science vs. Religion
What Scientists Really Think
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
That the longstanding antagonism between science and religion is irreconcilable has been taken for granted. And in the wake of recent controversies over teaching intelligent design and the ethics of stem-cell research, the divide seems as unbridgeable as ever. In Science vs. Religion, Elaine Howard...
by Jenny Funkmeyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2016
Lucid dreaming is what happens when you become aware that you're dreaming while you're dreaming. Normally, we wake up and think "wow, that was a dream." But it can be really fun and interesting to wake up while you're still dreaming and realize "wow, this is a dream!"Once you wake up...
by Ansgar Allen
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Education is a violent act, yet this violence is concealed by its good intent. Education presents itself as a distinctly improving, enabling practice. Even its most radical critics assume that education is, at core, an incontestable social good.
Setting education in its political context, this...
Telling Stories to Change the World
Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for speaking out for justice. Contributors from locations across the globe—including Uganda, Darfur, China, Afghanistan, South Africa,...
For the Love of Cinema
Teaching Our Passion In and Outside the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
What role does love—of cinema, of cinema studies, of teaching and learning—play in teaching film? For the Love of Cinema brings together a wide range of film scholars to explore the relationship between cinephilia and pedagogy. All of them ask whether cine-love can inform the serious study of...
Academic Writing
Selected Topics in Writing an Academic Paper
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The textbook concentrates on selected topics and problematic aspects in preparing a cohesive and well-organised academic paper, such as: the relation between thinking and writing, establishing arguments, using logic and appropriate language in argumentative writing. The author considers writing as...