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  • Culture and Human Thought

    The Core of Who We Are

    by Gary Edson ...
    Individuals often view "culture" as activities beyond their interests, associating the concept with exclusivity or high art. To be cultured is often synonymous with engaging in physical expressions of art, like opera, a classical music concert, a museum exhibit or a theater performance. While culture does indeed extend to all these things, it is the internal processes of memory, language, ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • International Directory of Museum Training

    Programs and practices of the museum profession

    by Gary Edson ...
    Series series Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
    Choosing the right museum training course may be one of the most important decisions a person makes in their career. Whether you are already working in a museum or are just beginning training you will need the most comprehensive and up-to-date information.The International Directory of Museum Training provides a list of museum training programmes worldwide with detailed information about each ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • Systems: from science to practice

    Proceedings of the Nineteenth IFSR Conversation 2018, St. Magdalena, Linz, Austria

    Edited by Gary S. Metcalf, Mary C. Edson, Gerhard Chroust ...
    Conversation were introduced by Bela H. Banathy at around 1980 as an alternative to the classical conferences. They reflect the insight that the greatest benefit for participants of a meeting were due to the discussions and conversations between participants and not so much as a result of the formal presentations of papers. The participants of Conversations follow the concepts and design of Bela ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Museum Ethics

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Gary Edson ...
    Series series Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
    A number of developments in the museum movement during the last few years have forced museums to give greater attention to ethical issues. Members of a profession are increasingly regarded constituting an ethical community. Every person with such a community must have a sense of personal obligation as well as a responsibilty for others to assure ethical achievement. This volume firmly places ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Quest for Meaning

    Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism

    by Tariq Ramadan ...
    In The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism, Tariq Ramadan embarks on a journey to uncover the profound truths that bind us together.In a world so full of different beliefs and viewpoints, how can we find peace in our shared humanity?Acclaimed thinker and philosopher Tariq Ramadan explores universal ideas such as love, respect, truth and tolerance, and examines questions such as ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Freedom Paradox

    Towards a post-secular ethics

    by Clive Hamilton ...
    Why is it so many of us lack contentment, despite all the wealth and freedoms we enjoy?The past two centuries delivered individual and political freedoms that promised unprecedented opportunities for personal fulfilment. Yet citizens of affluent countries are encouraged to pursue lives of consumerism, endless choice and the pleasures of the body.Clive Hamilton argues that the paradox of modern ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Invention of Culture

    by Roy Wagner ...
    "This new edition of one of the masterworks of twentieth-century anthropology is more than welcome…enduringly significant insights."—Marilyn Strathern, emerita, University of CambridgeIn the field of anthropology, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1975, is one that does. Wagner breaks new ... Read more

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  • The Geography of Morals

    Varieties of Moral Possibility

    by Owen Flanagan ...
    The Geography of Morals is a work of extraordinary ambition: an indictment of the parochialism of Western philosophy, a comprehensive dialogue between anthropology, empirical moral psychology, behavioral economics, and cross-cultural philosophy, and a deep exploration of the opportunities for self, social, and political improvement provided by world philosophy. We live in multicultural, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds

    Crisis and emergence in metamodernity

    by Jonathan Rowson, Layman Pascal ...
    Series Book 1 - Dispatches
    No doubt the 21st century will continue to surprise us, but the battle for the soul of humanity appears to be quickening. Do we have what it takes to save ourselves from ourselves? The internet has fundamentally changed our experience of shared life, for good and bad. The spiritual and ecological exhaustion of modernity is watched and discussed in a public realm mostly controlled by private ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • On Being Authentic

    by Charles Guignon ...
    'To thine own self be true.' From Polonius's words in Hamlet right up to Oprah, we are constantly urged to look within. Why is being authentic the ultimate aim in life for so many people, and why does it mean looking inside rather than out? Is it about finding the 'real' me, or something greater than me, even God? And should we welcome what we find?Thought-provoking and with an astonishing range ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • How to Do Things with Emotions

    The Morality of Anger and Shame across Cultures

    by Owen Flanagan ...
    An expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions—and how we can benefit, as individuals and a society, from less anger and more shameThe world today is full of anger. Everywhere we look, we see values clashing and tempers rising, in ways that seem frenzied, aimless, and cruel. At the same time, we witness political leaders and others who lack any sense of shame, even as they display ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Religion of the Future

    by Roberto Mangabeira Unger ...
    A new philosophy of religion for a secular worldHow can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we organize a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of consoling us?These questions stand at the center of Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s The Religion of the Future: an argument for both spiritual and political ... Read more

    $9.99 USD