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Free Download The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability By Louise Amoore
2013 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0822355450 | PDF | 2 MB
Since September 11, 2001, the imagination of "low probability, high consequence" events has become a distinctive feature of contemporary politics. Uncertain futures-devastation by terrorist attack, cyber crime, flood, financial market collapse-must be discerned and responded to as possibilities, however improbable they may be. In The Politics of Possibility, Louise Amoore examines this development, tracing its genealogy through the diverse worlds of risk management consulting, computer science, commercial logistics, and data visualization. She focuses on the increasingly symbiotic relationship between commercial opportunities and state security threats, a relation that turns the trusted, iris-scanned traveler into "a person of national security interest," and the designer of risk algorithms for casino and insurance fraud into a homeland security resource. Juxtaposing new readings of Agamben, Foucault, Derrida, Massumi, and Connolly with interpretations of post-9/11 novels and artworks, Amoore analyzes the "politics of possibility" and its far-reaching implications for society, associative life, and political accountability.

Free Download Objects of Hope: Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis By Steven H. Cooper
2000 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0881632716 | PDF | 8 MB
Despite the importance of the concept of hope in human affairs, psychoanalysts have long had difficulty accepting responsibility for the manner in which their various interpretive orientations and explanations of therapeutic action express their own hopes for their patients. In Objects of Hope: Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis, Steven Cooper remedies this longstanding lacuna in the literature, and, in the process, provides a thorough comparative analysis of contemporary psychoanalytic models with respect to issues of hope and hopefulness. Cooper’s task is challenging, given that the most hopeful aspects of human growth frequently entail acceptance of the destructive elements of our inner lives. The analysis of hope, then, implicates what Cooper sees as a central dialectic tension in psychoanalysis: that between psychic possibility and psychic limit. He argues that analysts have historically had difficulty integrating the concept of limit into a treatment modality so dedicated to the creation and augmentation of psychic possibility. And yet, it is only by accepting the realm of limit as a necessary counterpoise to the realm of possibility and clinically embracing the tension between the two realms that analysts can further their understanding of therapeutic process in the interest of better treatment outcomes.Cooper persuasively demonstrates how each psychoanalytic theory provides its own logic of hope; this logic, in turn, translates into a distinctive sense of what the analyst may hope for the patient, and what the patient is encouraged to hope for himself or herself. Objects of Hope brings ranging scholarship and refreshing candor to bear on the knotty issue of what can and cannot be achieved in the course of psychoanalytic therapy. It will be valued not only as an exemplary exercise in comparative psychoanalysis, but also as a thoughtful, original effort to place the vital issue of hope at the center of clinical concern.

Free Download Possibility In Motion – Achieving Breakthrough Transformation
Published 1/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 2.85 GB | Duration: 1h 34m
Leveraging Possibility Thinking to manifest What You Really Want and turn Possibilities into Actions

Free Download Benjamin Zander, "The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life"
English | 2002 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0142001104, 0875847706 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
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Free Download Possibility Unleashed: Pathbreaking Lessons for Making Change Happen in Your Organization and Beyond by Marc Harrison
English | January 6, 2023 | ISBN: 1264646704 | 288 pages | PDF | 2.24 Mb
From a visionary leader comes a game-changing guide to help you face your fears, transcend discord and polarization, and drive positive systemic and societal change

Free Download Rosamund Stone Zander, "Pathways to Possibility: Transforming Our Relationship with Ourselves, Each Other, and the World"
English | 2017 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0143110543, 0143110543, ASIN: B01G7QTMSQ | EPUB | 0,5 mb
The best-selling author of The Art of Possibility returns with a new vision for achieving true human fulfillmentthat’s sure to appeal tofans ofBrene Brown’s Daring Greatly and Elizabeth Gilbert’sBig Magic.

Free Download Nicholas Allan Aubin, "Power and Possibility in Early Arabic Philosophy: Three Innovators Between Philoponus and Avicenna "
English | ISBN: 3111324923 | 2023 | 470 pages | PDF | 2 MB
"The world is a finite body, and therefore has finite power." John Philoponus is remembered for using this Aristotelian premise to break ranks with Aristotle and argue that the world is not everlasting. This investigation reconsiders Philoponus’s arguments from finite power, and then explores the aftermath of this line of thinking in the works of three lesser-known Arabic intellectuals active in the generation before Avicenna (d. 1037): Abū l-Ḫayr Ibn Suwār (d. after 1017), Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀmirī (d. 992), and Abū Sahl al-Masīḥī (d. after 1025). Each engaged with this dictum in unique and novel ways, and in so doing anticipated a number of central features of Avicenna’s writings. The history of this argument is of crucial importance for understanding the evolution of natural philosophy and metaphysics in this formative period, away from tedious and simplistic arguments about creation and towards a more robust modal ontology based on intrinsic and extrinsic necessity.

Free Download Kohei Imai, "The Possibility and Limit of Liberal Middle Power Policies: Turkish Foreign Policy toward the Middle East during the AKP"
English | ISBN: 1498524915 | 2017 | 248 pages | EPUB | 1424 KB
This book is a comprehensive analysis of Turkish foreign policy through the concept of "middle power". The author explores why and how Turkey has constructed middle power identity based on liberal foreign policies, in order to illuminate the change in post-Cold War Turkish state identity in relation to foreign policy behaviors.

Free Download Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BHJ9KKCD | 2023 | 12 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Ben Austen
Narrator: Brett Barry
FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice system-through the lens of parole. The United States, alone, locks up a quarter of the world’s incarcerated people. And yet apart from clichés-paying a debt to society; you do the crime, you do the time-there is little sense collectively in America what constitutes retribution or atonement. We don’t actually know why we punish. Ben Austen’s powerful exploration offers a behind-the-scenes look at the process of parole. Told through the portraits of two men imprisoned for murder, and the parole board that holds their freedom in the balance, Austen’s unflinching storytelling forces us to reckon with some of the most profound questions underlying the country’s values around crime and punishment. What must someone who commits a terrible act do to get a second chance? What does incarceration seek to accomplish? An illuminating work of narrative nonfiction, Correction challenges us to consider for ourselves why and who we punish-and how we might find a way out of an era of mass imprisonment.

Free Download Lars Aagaard-Mogensen, "The Possibility of the Sublime"
English | ISBN: 1527502961 | 2017 | 125 pages | PDF | 502 KB
The notion of the sublime, used to describe a particular kind of overwhelming or exhilarating aesthetic experience, has garnered a great deal of attention by philosophers, critical theorists and literary scholars. In the midst of this growing body of literature, Professor Jane Forsey published an article asking whether an aesthetic theory of the sublime is even possible, and argued provocatively in the negative. Claiming that efforts to explain the sublime inevitably result in theories that are either contradictory or incoherent, Forsey posed a challenge to anyone who takes the sublime seriously as an aesthetic category. This volume brings together an international slate of philosophers and scholars of the sublime, who have been invited to respond to, and critically engage with, Forseys article. Unlike other monographs and anthologies that deal broadly with the sublime in aesthetics, this collection examines specific conceptual problems with the very foundations of sublime theory in a manner that is tightly focused and rigorous. It represents a variety of approaches that defend the sublime, and concludes with an original response by Professor Forsey to her critics.