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Genetic Seeds of Warfare Evolution Nationalism and Patriotism

Genetic Seeds of Warfare Evolution Nationalism and Patriotism

For millennia humanity has simultaneously deplored and waged war. With each conflict the stakes have risen and we now face global annihilation for the sake of a practice all the world claims to condemn. Is there some seemingly irresistible force that impels us toward our own destruction? To explain this central paradox of human behaviour Genetic Seeds of Warfare originally published in 1989 advances a startling new theory. It traces the origins of warfare back to early groups of Homo sapiens in competition for scarce resources showing that warfare evolved as these groups evolved: kin-group against kin-group; tribe against tribe; nation against nation. Rather than being tied to a specific gene warfare emerged as one of many behavioural strategies for maximising genetic survival. As social groups became more complex motivations for warfare developed from simple protection of blood relations to political appeals to shared ethnicity religion and national identity. But the ultimate cause of warfare is rooted in the most basic of human drives: the need to ensure that one’s genes will survive and reproduce. The authors challenge many assumptions about human behaviour in general and warfare in particular. They convincingly present the case for an evolutionary understanding of the propensity for warfare supporting their argument with data from a vast array of social and natural science research. In doing so they reveal why previous attempts at ending war have failed and make proactive suggestions toward the development of a new agenda for world peace. | Genetic Seeds of Warfare Evolution Nationalism and Patriotism

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Growing Heritage The Politics of Heritage Vegetables Fruit and Seeds in Britain

Growing Heritage The Politics of Heritage Vegetables Fruit and Seeds in Britain

This book is the first comprehensive critical analysis of the cultural politics of a new kind of British heritage discourse. Based on texts ranging from tweets to restaurant menus that tell the story of heritage vegetables this book explores what it means to think about our food systems and their future through the lens of ‘heritage’. From town hall seed swaps to restaurant menus and coffee table books it has become hard in recent years for consumers to avoid the idea of ‘heritage’ fruit and vegetables. The British counterpart of North American heirlooms their varied colours strange shapes and endearing names are charming. Yet their proponents claim far more for them arguing it is vital that we safeguard our crop heritage for global food security social justice and consumer choice. This book examines how heritage fruits and vegetables are adopted to subvert corporate food production and take food back into our own hands while supermarkets are eagerly adding them to their luxury ranges. The book also discusses the practice of heritage seeds being stored in secure facilities where most of the world’s growers cannot reach them. Written in an accessible style this book will appeal to those studying and those interested in food studies and food politics; heritage studies; geography and environmental studies; the sociology of consumption and cultural studies. | Growing Heritage The Politics of Heritage Vegetables Fruit and Seeds in Britain

GBP 38.99
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Leadership for Kids Curriculum for Building Intentional Leadership in Gifted Learners (Grades 3-6)

Leadership for Kids Curriculum for Building Intentional Leadership in Gifted Learners (Grades 3-6)

Gifted students may possess the seeds of gifted leadership or may be expected to lead because of their intellectual capacities. And as with any potentiality leadership ability should be developed. This book looks beyond current definitions and examples of leadership to offer a framework within which to cultivate skills and abilities of leaders for this millennium. The curriculum nurtures leadership potential in elementary gifted learners through mini-lessons and activities that are structured around the four leadership frames developed by Bolman and Deal researchers in organizational leadership. Gifted leaders may or may not be born. But they definitely can be fostered. Grades 3-6 | Leadership for Kids Curriculum for Building Intentional Leadership in Gifted Learners (Grades 3-6)

GBP 22.99
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Learning in the Age of Climate Disasters Teacher and Student Empowerment Beyond Futurephobia

Learning in the Age of Climate Disasters Teacher and Student Empowerment Beyond Futurephobia

Learn how to infuse learning with deeper purpose connectedness and engagement so students feel more empowered and less anxious about their futures. In Learning in the Age of Climate Disasters author and award-winning teacher Maggie Favretti outlines the contexts and causes of futurephobia and then offers Regenerative Learning strategies rooted in nature’s principles for repair and redesign. She explains how tending the soil and cultivating the roots of (re)generative power (Love Personhood People Place Purpose Process Positivity) help us disrupt degenerative hierarchical fragmentation. She also explores methods for co-empowering youth creativity agency and hope. Chapters include interviews with and contributions by children and young people as well as key takeaways (Seeds for Planting) and tools to help you implement the ideas. With this book’s thought-provoking concepts you’ll be able to help students overcome eco-anxiety and find healing connection and meaning for more sustained regenerative change. | Learning in the Age of Climate Disasters Teacher and Student Empowerment Beyond Futurephobia

GBP 26.99
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The Spirit of the Soil Agriculture and Environmental Ethics

The Spirit of the Soil Agriculture and Environmental Ethics

In this second edition of The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics Paul B. Thompson reviews four worldviews that shape competing visions for agriculture. Productionists have sought increasing yields—to make two seeds grow where only one grew before—while traditional visions of good farming have stressed stewardship. These traditional visions have been challenged by two more worldviews: a call for a total cost accounting for farming and an advocacy for a holistic perspective. Thompson argues that an environmentally defensible systems approach must draw upon all four worldviews recognizing their flaws and synthesizing their strengths in a new vision of sustainable agriculture. This classic 1995 study has been thoroughly revised and significantly expanded in its second edition with up-to-date examples of agriculture’s impact on the environment. These include extensive discussions of new pesticides and the effects of animal agriculture on climate and other areas of the environment. In addition a new final chapter discusses sustainability which has become a dominant idea within environmental studies and agrarian political philosophy. | The Spirit of the Soil Agriculture and Environmental Ethics

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The Separation of the Party and the State Political Leadership in Soviet and Post Soviet Phases

The Separation of the Party and the State Political Leadership in Soviet and Post Soviet Phases

First published in 1999 this volume is the first full length study of one of the most important political institutions of the erstwhile Soviet political system – the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). The originality of this work lies in its main argument that the central reform during Perestroika was that of the Party and the State – a reform which ultimately resulted in the CPSU and its institutions the Central Committee being one of the most vital among them – firstly surrendering the monopoly over political power and control over the instrumentalities of the State and secondly systematically de-institutionalising and dismantling the formidable Soviet political system. The seeds of transformation and the shape of politico-economic and socio-cultural systems that emerged in successor States were laid down during the Soviet era – in particular during Perestroika itself. The continuity is therefore as striking as the change – if not more so. | The Separation of the Party and the State Political Leadership in Soviet and Post Soviet Phases

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A Psychoanalytic Approach to Treating Psychosis Genesis Psychopathology and Case Study

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Treating Psychosis Genesis Psychopathology and Case Study

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Treating Psychosis shows how by understanding the antecedents and dynamics of psychosis a psychoanalytic approach can offer a long-term alternative to the only psychotropic therapy and an explanation of the infantile origin of the illness. This ground-breaking examination begins by clearly explaining complex terms and theories from the most significant thinkers in psychoanalysis. Split into three parts it then explores the problems faced when following one specific technique for understanding the psychotic process. Practical as well as theoretical Part 2 illustrates how to prepare an appropriate setting for the patient including the importance of listening and the analyst’s approach as well as highlighting key features of the condition such as delusions hallucinations infantile withdrawal and psychotic dreams. Acknowledging that psychosis is a psychic transformation which the mind works as a sensorial organ the author asserts that the seeds are sown in childhood through emotional trauma leading to withdrawal into a fantasy world. Brimming with real-life vignettes throughout Part 3 is dedicated to a unique and lengthy case study to illustrate the challenges of working with such patients. It also looks positively towards future research on psychosis informed by insights from neuroscience. Innovative and accessible this book will be essential reading for anyone working in psychosis including psychoanalysts psychiatrists psychologists and physicians. | A Psychoanalytic Approach to Treating Psychosis Genesis Psychopathology and Case Study

GBP 32.99
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Barbed Wire Capitalism and the Enclosure of the Commons

Barbed Wire Capitalism and the Enclosure of the Commons

A call to transform the way we think about property this book examines how capitalism has from its origins sought to enclose or privatize the commons or land and other forms of property that had been viewed as communally owned and argues that neoliberal economic policies and the corporate takeovers of urban spaces prisons schools the mass media farms and natural resources have failed to serve the public interest. A study of corporate globalization and the continuation of empire after the era of political decolonization it begins with the fencing of the West starting in the 1870s and moves to examine recent phenomena such as urbanization mass incarceration financialization and the treatment of people as commodities in the context of the longue durée of land enclosures empire and capitalism. Highlighting the threatened elimination of the public domain as a result of corporate efforts to privatize public utilities prisons schools forests seeds and just about everything else that can yield a profit Barbed Wire: Capitalism and the Enclosure of the Commons asks what it would mean if instead of either private or public property our most fundamental conception of property were communal. Would a redefinition of property from a community perspective lead us beyond the military-industrial complex? | Barbed Wire Capitalism and the Enclosure of the Commons

GBP 36.99
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Thomas S. Szasz The Man and His Ideas

Thomas S. Szasz The Man and His Ideas

As it entered the 1960s American institutional psychiatry was thriving with a high percentage of medical students choosing the field. But after Thomas S. Szasz published his masterwork in 1961 The Myth of Mental Illness the psychiatric world was thrown into chaos. Szasz enlightened the world about what he called the “myth of mental illness. ” His point was not that no one is mentally ill or that people labeled as mentally ill do not exist. Instead he believed that diagnosing people as mentally ill was inconsistent with the rules governing pathology and the classification of disease. He asserted that the diagnosis of mental illness is a type of social control not medical science. The editors were uniquely close to Szasz and here they gather for the first time a group of their peers—experts on psychiatry psychology rhetoric and semiotics—to elucidate Szasz’s body of work. Thomas S. Szasz: The Man and His Ideas examines his work and legacy including new material on the man himself and the seeds he planted. They discuss Szasz’s impact on their thinking about the distinction between physical and mental illness addiction the insanity plea schizophrenia and implications for individual freedom and responsibility. This important volume offers insight into and understanding of a man whose ideas were far beyond his time. | Thomas S. Szasz The Man and His Ideas

GBP 145.00
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Synthetic Biology Science Business and Policy

Synthetic Biology Science Business and Policy

For nearly forty years using recombinant DNA tools researchers and then businesses have genetically engineered organisms by transferring naturally occurring genes from one organism into another. Doing so modifies the genetic code of living cells imparting new traits and achieving desired results; this is done in the production of proteins pharmaceuticals and seeds. Synthetic biology argues Solomon could free scientists from the need to find natural genes to make such desired modifications. Synthetic biology permits more complex and sophisticated bioengineering than what can be achieved through previous genetic modification techniques. Drawing on non-biological scientific and engineering disciplines including information technology and nanotechnology synthetic biology strives to rearrange an organism's genes on a far wider scale by rewriting its genetic code the chemical instructions need to design assemble and operate a species. By allowing the writing of artificial genetic codes synthetic biology can transform existing industries and spawn new ones creating new products as well as radically reshaping existing items. Arguing for self-regulation by the scientific and business communities Lewis D. Solomon recommends a policy framework that would guard against governmental overregulation which could create a barrier to innovation. Although synthetic biotechnology holds considerable social and economic potential absent a nurturing regulatory climate it may prove difficult to translate research discoveries into commercially viable applications. | Synthetic Biology Science Business and Policy

GBP 51.99
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Social Change in Syria Family Village and Political Party

Social Change in Syria Family Village and Political Party

Studying a rural village in northern Syria during a period of tremendous social and political change (1940s to 1970s) this book offers a unique perspective on how agrarian transformations in land distribution and its use deeply affected social and political relations among a rural community. Embedding the personal with the local and the global this work traces the seeds of social political and economic struggles that are still important and unfolding in Syria forty years on: changes in social relations brought about by land policy and technological modernization divisions and connections between urban and rural locations shifts in education and immigration. Thematically the study is divided into two parts: the first concerns the historical socio-economic and political changes occurring in Syria from the beginning of the twentieth century and the second concerns the life histories of particular actors and their perspectives on social changes. This book is the edited and updated version of Khalaf’s original work including an ‘updating chapter’ which brings invaluable insight about the village and its people at the aftermath of ISIS and the destruction of the war in Syria. Focusing on the village community of Hawi Al-Hawa this intensely knowledgeable and personal account — a rare combination — brings village life in Syria strikingly close. The volume is an important contribution to the fields of anthropology social sciences Syrian and Middle East studies. | Social Change in Syria Family Village and Political Party

GBP 36.99
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The Birth of Modern Theatre Rivalry Riots and Romance in the Age of Garrick

The Birth of Modern Theatre Rivalry Riots and Romance in the Age of Garrick

The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry Riots and Romance in the Age of Garrick is a vivid description of the eighteenth-century London theatre scene—a time when the theatre took on many of the features of our modern stage. A natural and psychologically based acting style replaced the declamatory style of an earlier age. The theatres were mainly supported by paying audiences no longer by royal or noble patrons. The press determined the success or failure of a play or a performance. Actors were no longer shunned by polite society some becoming celebrities in the modern sense. The dominant figure for thirty years was David Garrick actor theatre manager and playwright who off the stage charmed London with his energy playfulness and social graces. No less important in defining eighteenth-century theatre were its audiences who considered themselves full-scale participants in theatrical performances; if they did not care for a play an actor or ticket prices they would loudly make their wishes known sometimes starting a riot. This book recounts the lives—and occasionally the scandals—of the actors and theatre managers and weaves them into the larger story of the theatre in this exuberant age setting the London stage and its leading personalities against the background of the important social cultural and economic changes that shaped eighteenth-century Britain. The Birth of Modern Theatre brings all of this together to describe a moment in history that sowed the seeds of today’s stage. | The Birth of Modern Theatre Rivalry Riots and Romance in the Age of Garrick

GBP 36.99
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Rethinking the History of Italian Fascism

Rethinking the History of Italian Fascism

In the last years the discussion around what is fascism if this concept can be applied to present forms of politics and if its seeds are still present today became central in the political debate. This discussion led to a vast reconsideration of the meaning and the experience of fascism in Europe and is changing the ways in which scholars of different generations look at this political ideology and come back to it and it is also changing the ways in which we consider the experience of Italian fascism in the European and global context. The aim of the book is building a general history of Fascism and its historiography through the analysis of 13 different fundamental aspects which were at the core of Fascist project or of Fascist practices during the regime. Each essay considers a specific and meaningful aspect of the history of Italian fascism reflecting on it from the vantage point of a case study. The essays thus reinterrogates the history of Fascism to understand in which way Fascism was able to mould the historical context in which it was born how and if it transformed political cultural social elements that were already present in Italy. The themes considered are violence empire war politics economy religion culture but also antifascism and the impact of Fascism abroad especially in the Twenties and at the beginnings of the Thirties. The book could be both used for a general public interested in the history of Europe in the interwar period and for an academic and scholarly public since the essays aim to develop a provocative reflection on their own area of research. | Rethinking the History of Italian Fascism

GBP 38.99
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Raw Veganism The Philosophy of The Human Diet

Raw Veganism The Philosophy of The Human Diet

Human beings are getting fatter and sicker. As we question what we eat and why we eat it this book argues that living well involves consuming a raw vegan diet. With eating healthfully and eating ethically being simpler said than done this book argues that the best solution to health environmental and ethical problems concerning animals is raw veganism—the human diet. The human diet is what humans are naturally designed to eat and that is a raw vegan diet of fruit tender leafy greens and occasionally nuts and seeds. While veganism raises challenging questions over the ethics of consuming animal products while also considering the environmental impact of the agriculture industry raw veganism goes a step further and argues that consuming cooked food is also detrimental to our health and the environment. Cooking foods allows us to eat food that is not otherwise fit for human consumption and in an age that promotes eating foods in ‘moderation’ and having ‘balanced’ diets this raises the question of why we are eating foods that should only be consumed in moderation at all as moderation clearly implies they aren’t good for us. In addition from an environmental perspective the use of stoves ovens and microwaves for cooking contributes significantly to energy consumption and cooking in general generates excessive waste of food and resources. Thus this book maintains that living well and living a noble life that is good physical and moral health requires consuming a raw vegan diet. Exploring the scientific and philosophical aspects of raw veganism this novel book is essential reading for all interested in promoting ethical healthful and sustainable diets. | Raw Veganism The Philosophy of The Human Diet

GBP 31.99
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The Cult of the Ego The Self in Modern Literature

The Cult of the Ego The Self in Modern Literature

Goethe once remarked that every emancipation of the spirit is pernicious unless there is a corresponding growth of control. This remark may be taken as a motto for Eugene Goodheart's study of an aspect of the cultural history of the past two hundred years. In separate chapters on Rousseau Stendhal Goethe and Carlyle Dostoevsky Whitman Lawrence and Joyce Goodheart discovers a community of concern which he calls the cult of the ego. All these writers examined here in one way or another deal with the emancipation of the spirit with all its promise and danger. The characteristic attempt is to extend the boundaries of the self by going beyond the area of safety and. thereby risking even the destruction of the self. They advance the claims of the self at the same time seeking the controls that will secure these claims. The artist-hero becomes the central figure in Goodheart's volume since it is he who comes to exemplify the possibilities of the cult of the ego. Their efforts Goodheart argues have ambiguous results. The seeds of contemporary nihilism are in the failures of these writers to master the chaos of egoism which they helped engender. But their heroism was partly in the effort of resistance: moral religious aesthetic. In a large portion of modern literature resistance has been abandoned either out of exhaustion or out of fascination with the destructive tendency of modern life: in Beckett's phrase a world endlessly collapsing. In his introduction to this first paperback edition Goodheart discusses the book's origin in relation to the counter-cultural unrest of 1968 when it was first published and weighs its theme of the emancipated self against current postmodern assertions of the death of the author. The Cult of the Ego is written with admirable clarity and economy. Its interests are literary moral and political. Moving freely and knowledgeably among various national literatures Goodheart has made an original and valuable contribution to the field of comparative literature. Eugene Goodheart is Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Brandeis University. Among his books are Novel Practices: Classic Modern Fiction Modernism and the Critical Spirit Culture and the Radical Conscience and Confessions of a Secular Jew: A Memoir all available from Transaction. | The Cult of the Ego The Self in Modern Literature

GBP 130.00
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