Daniel E Lee: 11 books
Navigating Right and Wrong
Ethical Decision Making in a Pluralistic Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2002
How should I live my life? Is there really anything that is inherently right or wrong? These may sound like simple questions, but finding answers to them is anything but simple-particularly in an age of ethical pluralism. In our multicultural, multiethnic world, is there any meaningful way to talk...
by Daniel E. Lee, Elizabeth J. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization provides a balanced, thoughtful discussion of the globalization of the economy and the ethical considerations inherent in the many changes it has prompted. The book's introduction maps out the philosophical foundations for constructing an ethic of globalization,...
Contemporary Issues in Victimology
Identifying Patterns and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Contemporary Issues in Victimology: Identifying Patterns and Trends examines current topics in victimology and explores the main issues surrounding them. Key topics include: intimate partner violence and dating violence, rape and sexual assault on the college campus, Internet victimization, elder...
Beyond Aviation Human Factors
Safety in High Technology Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The authors believe that a systematic organizational approach to aviation safety must replace the piecemeal approaches largely favoured in the past, but this change needs to be preceded by information to explain why a new approach is necessary. Accident records show a flattening of the safety curve...
by Joshua Palmatier, Gini Koch, Seanan McGuire
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
What might we run into as we expand beyond Earth and into the stars? As we explore our own solar system and beyond, it seems inevitable that we’ll run into aliens … and what they’ve left behind. Alien artifacts: what might they reveal about us as we try to unlock their secrets? ...
Mass Communication and American Social Thought
Key Texts, 1919-1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...
Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families
Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...
Ebola's Message
Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the science, politics, and ethics of the 2013–2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak.
The 2013–2015 outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) was a public health disaster: 28,575 infections and 11,313 deaths (as of October 2015), devastating the countries of...
by Dr. Ian G. Baird, Corey L. Bell, Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...
Existere 37.2
Journal of Arts and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
A story is never one-sided. There will always be other perspectives,
other points of view, that someone can take—and why shouldn’t we?
Using these different perspectives helps us observe, understand and
learn from our experiences—they help us grow. Putting forth the
effort to take on these points...
Ancient Borinquen
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Native American cultures of Puerto Rico prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1493.
A book on the prehistory of a modern geopolitical entity is artificial. It is unlikely that prehistoric occupants recognized the same boundaries and responded to the same political forces that operated in...