Tag: Roots

Free Download Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman, Landon Woodson, Penguin Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09B81V4YH | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:25:00 + PDF | 363 Mb
An acclaimed expert on violence and seasoned peacebuilder explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war, and how to interrupt that deadly process.
It’s easy to overlook the underlying strategic forces of war, to see it solely as a series of errors, accidents, and emotions gone awry.It’s also easy to forget that war shouldn’t happen-and most of the time it doesn’t. Around the world, there are millions of hostile rivalries, yet only a tiny fraction erupt into violence. Too many accounts of conflict forget this.
With a counterintuitive approach, Blattman reminds us that most rivals loathe one another in peace. That’s because war is too costly to fight. Enemies almost always find it better to split the pie than spoil it or struggle over thin slices. So, in those rare instances when fighting ensues, we should ask: What kept rivals from compromise?

Free Download The Emotional Roots of Chronic Illness: Homeopathy for Existential Stress by Jerry M. Kantor
English | October 3rd, 2023 | ISBN: 1644117843 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 3.46 MB
How to change the subconscious patterns underlying chronic conditions

Free Download Carol C. Gould, "Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots of Global Justice"
English | ISBN: 1107607418 | 2014 | 303 pages | PDF | 1322 KB
How can we confront the problems of diminished democracy, pervasive economic inequality, and persistent global poverty? Is it possible to fulfill the dual aims of deepening democratic participation and achieving economic justice, not only locally but also globally? Carol C. Gould proposes an integrative and interactive approach to the core values of democracy, justice, and human rights, looking beyond traditional politics to the social conditions that would enable us to realize these aims. Her innovative philosophical framework sheds new light on social movements across borders, the prospects for empathy and solidarity with distant others, and the problem of gender inequalities in diverse cultures, and also considers new ways in which democratic deliberation can be enhanced by online networking and extended to the institutions of global governance. Her book will be of great interest to scholars and upper-level students of political philosophy, global justice, social and political science, and gender studies.

Free Download Renee Hobbs, "Exploring the Roots of Digital and Media Literacy through Personal Narrative"
English | 2016 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 1439911584, 1439911576 | PDF | 9,8 mb
Exploring the Roots of Digital and Media Literacy through Personal Narrative provides a wide-ranging look at the origins, concepts, theories, and practices of the field. This unique, exciting collection of essays by a range of distinguished scholars and practitioners offers insights into the scholars and thinkers who fertilized the minds ofthose who helped shape the theory and practice of digital and media literacy education.

Free Download Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam, "The Philosophical Roots of the Ecological Crisis"
English | ISBN: 1527503437 | 2017 | 395 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Philosophical Roots of the Ecological Crisis: Descartes and the Modern Worldview traces the conceptual sources of the present environmental degradation within the worldview of Modernity, and particularly within the thought of René Descartes, universally acclaimed as the father of modern philosophy. The book demonstrates how the triple foundations of the Modern worldviewin terms of an exaggerated anthropocentrism, a mechanistic conception of the natural world, and the metaphysical dualism between humanity and the rest of the physical worldcan all be largely traced back to Cartesian thought, with direct ecological consequences.

Free Download Sean Winkler, "The Boris Hessen and Philosophy: The Socioeconomic Roots of Classical and Modern Physics "
English | ISBN: 1538147580 | 2022 | 192 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In 1931, Soviet philosopher, Boris Hessen presented a paper at the Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology in London, England. It was a watershed moment, marking the founding of the ‘externalist’ approach to the history and philosophy of science. Five years after this talk, however, Hessen was executed in what became Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge of the 1930s. Nearly a century after his death, we still know all too little about this pioneering figure and his expansive oeuvre. In this book, Sean Winkler provides a reading of Hessen’s philosophy and its unique approach to understanding the relationship between socioeconomic development, technological progress and natural scientific theory. To further encourage the study of Hessen, the book also includes first-time translations of his contributions to the Soviet Encyclopedia. Through a systematic analysis, Winkler reflects upon Hessen’s contribution to the history and philosophy of science of the past and his possible significance in the world today.

Free Download Roots of Underdevelopment: A New Economic and Political History of Latin America and the Caribbean by Felipe Valencia Caicedo
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 601 Pages | ISBN : 3031387228 | 47.4 MB
This book brings together world-renowned experts and rising scholars to provide a collection of chapters examining the long-term impact of historical events on modern-day economic and political developments in Latin America. It, uses a novel approach, stressing empirical contributions and state-of-the-art empirical methods for causal identification. Contributing authors apply these cutting-edge tools to their topics of expertise, giving readers a compendium of frontier research in the region. Important questions of colonialism, migration, elites, land tenure, corruption, and conflict are examined and discussed in an approachable style. The book features a conclusion from Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University.

Free Download Aaron Bruce Wilson, "Peirce’s Empiricism: Its Roots and Its Originality "
English | ISBN: 149851023X | 2016 | 358 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Widely praised as a founder of modern semiotics and of the pragmatist tradition in philosophy, Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) spent over forty years developing a philosophical system that addresses the fundamental problems of Western metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory. Although never formally completed, what emerges from Peirce’s writings is a distinctive system that, through an innovative semiotic or theory of signs and cognition, combines a thoroughgoing form of empiricism with a robustly realist metaphysics that emphasizes the mind-independence of laws and other universals. Peirce’s Empiricism: Its Roots and Its Originality explains this marriage of empiricism with realism by tracing the roots of Peirce’s thought in the history of Western philosophy, with particular attention paid to his predecessors in the empiricist and the common sense traditions. By purging modern empiricism of its nominalistic metaphysics and its Cartesian assumptions about mind and knowledge, and by combining it with insights from sources as diverse as Duns Scotus and Charles Darwin, Peirce reinvents the idea that all our knowledge depends on sense perception while reaffirming the place of philosophy as a foundational field of inquiry.

Free Download Petri Luomanen, "Christianity and the Roots of Morality: Philosophical, Early Christian, and Empirical Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 9004312323 | 2017 | 313 pages | PDF | 2 MB
What is the role of religion, especially Christianity, in morality, pro-social behavior and altruism? Are there innate human moral capacities in the human mind? When and how did they appear in the history of evolution? What is the real significance of Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon on the Mount – does it set up unique moral standards or only crystallize humans’ innate moral intuitions? What is the role of religious teachings and religious communities in pro-social behavior?

Free Download Heidi Dellaire, "Roots and Tendrils"
English | 2019 | pages: 66 | ISBN: 1543957609 | EPUB | 3,4 mb
A lyric and insightful collection of poetry about the punishing love encounters that lead to growth and ultimately self-love.