Tag: Discipline

December 29, 2023

Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline

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Free Download A. W. Moore, "Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline"
English | 2008 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 069113409X, 0691124264 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
What can-and what can’t-philosophy do? What are its ethical risks-and its possible rewards? How does it differ from science? In Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, Bernard Williams addresses these questions and presents a striking vision of philosophy as fundamentally different from science in its aims and methods even though there is still in philosophy "something that counts as getting it right." Written with his distinctive combination of rigor, imagination, depth, and humanism, the book amply demonstrates why Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century.

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August 17, 2023

Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline Factory Women in Malaysia

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Free Download Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia By Ong, Aihwa
2010 | 294 Pages | ISBN: 1438433549 | PDF | 13 MB
In the two decades since its original publication, Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline has become an ethnographic classic in the fields of anthropology, labor studies, and gender and globalization studies. Based on anthropological field work in an agricultural district in Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia, Spirits of Resistance captures a moment of profound transformation, illustrated by the disruptions, conflicts, and ambivalences in the lives of Malay women during the rapid industrialization associated with Malaysia’s rise as a tiger economy. Aihwa Ong’s nuanced approach to the Malay women factory workers’ experiences of the contradictions of modern globalized capitalism has inspired subsequent generations of feminist ethnographers in their explorations of key questions of power, resistance, femininities, religious community, and social change. With a new critical introduction by anthropologist Carla Freeman, this new edition of Spirits of Resistance continues to offer an exemplary model of sophisticated analysis of culturally based resistance to the ideology, surveillance, and institutional authority of globalized corporate capitalism.

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July 25, 2023

The Rise and Fall of English Reconstructing English as a Discipline

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Free Download The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline By Scholes, Robert
1999 | 222 Pages | ISBN: 0300080840 | PDF | 8 MB
In this lucid book an eminent scholar, teacher, and author takes a critical look at the nature and direction of English studies in America. Robert Scholes offers a thoughtful and witty intervention in current debates about educational and cultural values and goals, showing how English came to occupy its present place in our educational system, diagnosing the educational illness he perceives in today’s English departments, and recommending theoretical and practical changes in the field of English studies. Scholes’s position defies neat labels-it is a deeply conservative expression of the wish to preserve the best in the English tradition of verbal and textual studies, yet it is a radical argument for reconstruction of the discipline of English.The book begins by examining the history of the rapid rise of English at two American universities-Yale and Brown-at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Scholes argues that the subsequent fall of English-discernible today in college English departments across the United States-is the result of both cultural shifts and changes within the field of English itself. He calls for a fundamental reorientation of the discipline-away from political or highly theoretical issues, away from a specific canon of texts, and toward a canon of methods, to be used in the process of learning how to situate, compose, and read a text. He offers an eloquent proposal for a discipline based on rhetoric and the teaching of reading and writing over a broad range of literatures, a discipline that includes literariness but is not limited to it.

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July 23, 2023

International Relations as a Discipline in Thailand

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Free Download Chanintira na Thalang, "International Relations as a Discipline in Thailand "
English | ISBN: 036748434X | 2020 | 288 pages | EPUB | 923 KB
There has long been considerable debate about the nature of non-Western IR theory. Most attempts to understand such a phenomenon begin by taking a top-down approach on a country by country basis. Instead, this book takes a bottom-up approach, involving specialists from a range of Thai universities, revealing the contours of the Thai IR community. It examines the state of various sub-fields under the IR rubric in Thailand such as foreign policy analysis, security studies, international political economy and area studies, and how Thai thinkers in these fields have contributed to IR as a discipline and IR theory development in Thailand. In doing so, it identifies factors unique to Thai academia which have hindered the development of an indigenous-sourced theory as well as exploring the similarities shared with other non-Western contexts that have posed an obstacle to the creation of a more general non-Western IR theory.

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July 22, 2023

Inmates’ Narratives and Discursive Discipline in Prison Rewriting personal histories through cognitive behavioral progr

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Free Download Jennifer Schlosser, "Inmates’ Narratives and Discursive Discipline in Prison: Rewriting personal histories through cognitive behavioral progr"
English | ISBN: 1138065897 | 2017 | 164 pages | EPUB | 276 KB
The question of ‘what works’ in offender treatment has dominated the field of prisoner re-entry and recidivism research for the last thirty years. One of the primary ways the criminal justice system tries to reduce the rates of recidivism among offenders is through the use of cognitive behavioural programs (CBP) as in-prison intervention strategies. The emphasis for these programs is on the idea that inmates are in prison because they made poor choices and bad decisions. Inmates’ thinking is characterized as flawed and the purpose of the program is to teach them to think and act in socially appropriate ways so they will be less inclined to return to prison after their release.

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July 21, 2023

No Excuses! The Power of Self-Discipline

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Free Download Brian Tracy, "No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline"
English | ISBN: 1593156324 | 2011 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 885 KB
Most people think success comes from good luck or enormous talent, but many successful people achieve their accomplishments in a simpler way: through self-discipline. No Excuses! shows you how you can achieve success in all three major areas of your life, including your personal goals, business and money goals, and overall happiness.

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