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Sports Virtues and Vices: Morality Plays (Hardcover)

Sports have long played an important role in society. By exploring the evolving link between sporting behaviour and the prevailing ethics of the time this comprehensive and wide-ranging study illuminates our understanding of the wider social... more

Ethics in Agriculture - An African Perspective (Paperback)

Agriculture is the lifeblood of the majority of people in Africa. It is not just a provider of food it is a way of life for rural people. Whilst subsistence farming is the most practiced form of agriculture there are many parts of Africa where... more

Water Resources Development and Management: Global Change: Impacts on Water and Food Security (Hardcover)

In recent years a greater level of integration of the world economy and an opening of national markets to trade has impacted virtually all areas of society. The process of globalization has the potential to generate long-term benefits for developing... more

Risk Governance and Society: Food Safety Governance: Integrating Science Precaution and Public Involvement (Hardcover)

working mechanisms and to develop the overall governance framework in which we operate. Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle Executive Director European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Parma March 2008 Acknowledgements This book and the General Framework for... more

International Society of Business Economics and Ethics Boo: Fairness in International Trade (Hardcover)

This book offers papers delivered at the World Congress of the International Society of Business Economics and Ethics (ISBEE) held in Cape Town in 2008. The project drew together scholars in five regions in the first attempt at such a global... more

International Society of Business Economics and Ethics Boo: Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: A Global Commentary (Hardcover)

This book offers a global overview of the extant research on ethics in small and medium sized enterprises from major regions of the world. It presents research projects from a variety of countries that show both empirical and theoretical research in... more

Critical Education Policy and Politics: Ricoeur Identity and Early Childhood (Hardcover)

In Western society early childhood education is under increasing scrutiny as early education is becoming integral to economic growth and development. This scrutiny however is diminishing the concern for the role of ethics and social participation in... more

International Management Ethics (Paperback)

What can we learn about management ethics from other cultures and societies? In this textbook cross-cultural management theory is applied and made relevant to management ethics. To help the reader understand different approaches that global... more

Sistah Vegan : Black Women Speak on Food Identity Health and Society (Paperback)

Sistah Vegan is a series of narratives critical essays poems and reflections from a diverse community of North American black-identified vegans. Collectively these activists are de-colonizing their bodies and minds via whole-foods veganism. By... more

Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment: Bioethics in a Small World (Paperback)

Cultural Rationality and Moral Principles.- Morality and Culture: Are Ethics Culture-Dependent?.- Neither Golden Nugget nor Frankenstein. The need to Re-embed Food Biotechnologies in Sociocultural Contexts.- Beyond GM Foods: Genomics Biotechnology... more

Studying World Religions: Studying Islam: The Critical Issues (Paperback)

This volume in the Studying World Religions series is an essential guide to the study of the Islamic faith. Clearly structured to cover all the major areas of study including historical foundations scripture society thought ethics rituals... more

Impossibility of Perfection: Aristotle Feminism and the Complexities of Ethics (Hardcover)

Most people think that the difficulty of balancing career and personal/family relationships is the fault of present-day society or is due to their own inadequacies. But in this major new book eminent moral philosopher Michael Slote argues that the... more

Posthumanities: What Is Posthumanism? (Series #8) (Paperback)

What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy ethics and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other mind and body society and nature human and animal organic and... more

Dimensions of Security: Food Security (Hardcover)

Throughout history human societies have struggled to ensure that all people have access to sufficient food to lead active and healthy lives. Despite great global effort events of the early 21st century clearly demonstrate that food remains a... more

Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine Ethics and Society: Beyond Baby M: Ethical Issues in New Reproductive Techniques (Hardcover)

Arthur L. Caplan It is commonly said especially when the subject is assisted reproduction that medical technology has out- stripped our morality. Yet as the essays in this volume make clear that is not an accurate assessment of the situ- ation.... more

Global Change and Caribbean Vulnerability: Environment Economy and Society at Risk (Paperback)

This collection highlights how current research is addressing rapid change in the Caribbean region both that being forced by global warming and by population growth. Among the areas covered are climate change sustainable food production systems... more

Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Greco-Roman: Hierocles the Stoic: Elements of Ethics Fragments and Excerpts (Paperback)

Hierocles the Stoic philosopher of the early imperial age is a crucial witness to Middle and Neo-Stoicism especially with regard to their ethical philosophy. In this volume all of Hierocles surviving works are translated into English for the first... more

Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine Ethics and Society: Advocacy in Health Care: The Power of a Silent Constituency (Paperback)

The roles of both the consumer and the health advocate professional have become increasingly significant in to- day s climate of rationed health care. It seems clear that the timely exchange of ideas among seasoned health care advocates is necessary... more

MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology: Before Farming: Hunter-Gatherer Society and Subsistence (Hardcover)

Over millions of years humans developed an increasingly varied set of relationships with the plants and animals in their environment. By the European Mesolithic and the Near Eastern Epipaleolithic the efficient exploitation of wild food resources... more

Routledge Studies in Food Society and t Civil Society and Social Movements in Food System Governance (Hardcover)

This book offers insights into the governance of contemporary food systems and their ongoing transformation by social movements. As global food systems face multiple threats and challenges there is an opportunity for social movements and civil... more

High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration Power and Modernity (Paperback)

Everywhere life seems to be speeding up: we talk of fast food and speed dating. But what does the phenomenon of social acceleration really entail and how new is it? While much has been written about our high-speed society in the popular media... more

Values and Vaccine Refusal: Hard Questions in Ethics Epistemology and Health Care (Paperback)

Parents in the US and other societies are increasingly refusing to vaccinate their children even though popular anti-vaccine myths - e.g. vaccines cause autism - have been debunked. This book explains the epistemic and moral failures that lead some... more

The Initiation (Paperback)

The Initiation is a hell of a ride... --MIT s The Tech Think. Solve. Survive. The Confluence destroyed the world as we know it. Manhattan is now New America a walled-off society whose citizens live on diminishing shares of supplies food and hope.... more

Life Lessons Through Storytelling: Children s Exploration of Ethics (Paperback)

Storytelling empowers children to engage in discussions; explore ideas about power respect community fairness equality and justice; and help frame their understanding of complex ethical issues within a society. In Life Lessons through Storytelling... more

Very Short Introductions Information: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)

We live in a society that is awash with information but few of us really understand what information is. In this Very Short Introduction one of the world s leading authorities on the philosophy of information and on information ethics Luciano... more

The Business of Life and Death Volume 2 : Politics Law and Society (Paperback)

As Descartes did for epistemology and Lévinas did for ethics Baruchello places social and political philosophy as the new first philosophy . His research in the intersecting fields of economics power politics knowledge and reality presented here... more

Kenosis in Theosis: An Exploration of Balthasar s Theology of Deification (Hardcover)

The perennial questions surrounding human identity and meaning have never before been so acute. How we define ourselves is crucial since it determines our conception of society ethics sexuality--in short our very notion of the good. The traditional... more

The Early American Table : Food and Society in the New World (Paperback)

An exploration in the history of biopolitics The Early American Table offers a unique study of the ways in which English colonists in North America incorporated the “you are what you eat� philosophy into their conception of themselves and their... more

Experimental Futures: Asian Biotech : Ethics and Communities of Fate (Paperback)

Ethnographic analyses of emerging bioscientific enterprises in Asia including genetically modified foods in China clinical trials in India and stem-cell research in Singapore South Korea and Taiwan. more

Palgrave MacMillan Memory Studies Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics Ethics and Society (Hardcover)

For those who study memory there is a nagging concern that memory studies are inherently backward-looking and that memory itself hinders efforts to move forward. Unhinging memory from the past this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of... more

Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict Resistance and Renewal (Hardcover)

The failures of free-market capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. Although modern human societies have attained unprecedented levels of wealth a significant amount of the world s population... more

International Library of Environmental Agricultural and Foo: Before Dinner: Philosophy and Ethics of Food (Paperback)

This book is an extensive original and systematic treatment of many important philosophical and ethical aspects of food (consumption and production). May we eat just anything? Can we do everything with animals even genetic modification? If not how... more

The Finishing Touch (Paperback)

In fast-food society we long for quick fixes and easy answers. But no worthwhile goal is easily reached and a deep spiritual life is not created in a week or two. It takes perseverance over the long haul to finish well. The Finishing Touch... more

Fighting with Food: Leadership Values and Social Control in a Massim Society (Paperback)

The Melanesians of Goodenough Island off the eastern coast of New Guinea have developed the principle of gift-giving to an extraordinary degree. Instead of resorting to arms in their quarrels or demanding compensation for offences they present... more

Media Ethics: A Guide For Professional Conduct (Paperback)

Closely organized around the Society of Professional Journalists code of ethics -- the news industry s widely accepted gold standard of journalism principles -- this updated edition uses real-life case studies to demonstrate how journalism students... more

Studies in Social Political and Legal Philosophy: Ethics for Disaster (Hardcover)

Ethics for Disaster addresses the moral aspects of the aftermath of natural disasters such as hurricanes earthquakes and tornadoes. The book explores how these catastrophes illuminate the existing inequalities in society combining a unique... more

Christ and the Just Society in the Thought of Augustine (Paperback)

Considering Augustine s political thought and ethics in relation to his theology this book expands on earlier works by Augustine. It focuses on the role of grace and the Bible which Augustine saw as contributing to the soul s growth in virtue... more

Genetics and Society Debating Human Genetics: Contemporary Issues in Public Policy and Ethics (Paperback)

Debating Human Genetics is based on ethnographic research focusing primarily on the UK publics who are debating and engaging with human genetics and related bio and techno-science. Drawing on recent interviews and data collated in a range of public... more