Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Digital Government
Technology and Public Sector Performance
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Few developments have had broader consequences for the public sector than the introduction of the Internet and digital technology. In this book, Darrell West discusses how new technology is altering governmental performance, the political process, and democracy itself by improving government responsiveness...
Religious Education in a Multicultural Europe
Children, Parents and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Drawing on a major EU-funded research project, this book examines how religious/secular beliefs are formed at school and in the family across different European countries, offering insights into key policy issues concerning the place of religion in the school system and illuminating current debates around religion and multiculturalism.
by Rebecca D. Costa
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
“There can be no greater advantage than certainty of the future.Not in nature. Not in business. Not in governance.” So begins Rebecca Costa’s much-awaited exploration of foresight: “the crowning achievement of human ambition.” According to Costa, advances in Big Data, predictive analytics,...
The Bleeding Edge
Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Capitalism likes us to believe in the steady, inevitable march of progress, from the abacus to the iPad. But the historical record tells of innumerable roads not taken, all of which could have led to better, more equal worlds, and still can.Academic and activist Bob Hughes puts flesh on the...
Web 2.0-Based E-Learning
Applying Social Informatics for Tertiary Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Educational communities today are rapidly increasing their interest in Web 2.0 and e-learning advancements for the enhancement of teaching practices. Web 2.0-Based E-Learning: Applying Social Informatics for Tertiary Teaching provides a useful and valuable reference to the latest advances in the area...
The War on Science
Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
"Wherever the people are well informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government." But what happens when they are not? In every issue of modern society--from climate change to vaccinations, transportation to technology, health care to defense--we are in the midst of an...
by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 28, 2014
(A5, 102 P.) - EMANCIPADOS & MEDÍOCRES NO TRABALHO nasceu a partir de uma releitura: da necessidade de se dar um novo sentido ao paradoxo existente entre o pensamento de dois grandes filósofos: Aristóteles, pensador de origem Macedônica, discípulo divergente de Platão, da Grécia antiga,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book concerns the challenges and tensions rising from mass migration flows, unbalanced north-south and east-west relations and the increasing multicultural nature of society. The scope of the book’s theme is global, addressing diversity and identity, intercultural encounters and conflict, and...
by Laurence Scott
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
You are a four-dimensional human.
Each of us exists in three-dimensional, physical space. But, as a constellation of everyday digital phenomena rewires our lives, we are increasingly coaxed from the containment of our predigital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of...
Original Thinking
A Radical Revisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
In Original Thinking, Glenn Aparicio Parry delves into the evolution of Western thought to recover the living roots of wisdom that can correct the imbalances in our modern worldview. Inspired by groundbreaking dialogues that the author organized between Native American elders and leading-edge Western...
Staying with the Trouble
Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she...
Roots of Empathy
Changing the World Child by Child
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Roots of empathy—an evidence-based program developed in 1996 by longtime educator and social entrepreneur Mary Gordon—has already reached more than 270,000 children in Canada, the U.S., Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. Now, as The New York Times reports that “empathy lessons are...
by Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
This lecture is part of the collection "The Genius of Language" by Rudolf Steiner. Steiner (1861-1925) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. He gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher. At the beginning of the 20th century, he founded...
Neglected or Misunderstood
The Radical Feminism of Shulamith Firestone
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex proved immediately controversial upon its publication in 1970. The book’s thesis is that the origins of women’s oppression lie in biology: in the fact that it is women and not men who conceive and give birth to children. Firestone’s solution is revolutionary:...