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Free Download Jim Kanaris, "Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies: Enecstatic Explorations"
English | ISBN: 1438494548 | 2023 | 210 pages | EPUB, PDF | 662 KB + 2 MB
Offers a unique perspective on the study of religion revolutionized by contemporary continental thinking.

Free Download Toward Inclusive Learning Design: Social Justice, Equity, and Community by Brad Hokanson, Marisa Exter, Matthew M. Schmidt, Andrew A. Tawfik
English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 519 Pages | ISBN : 303137696X | 16.4 MB
This book examines how society has been affected by the social upheaval of the years since George Floyd’s death and efforts by those in education and educational technology to address the concerns of equity, community and social justice.

Free Download Matthew J. C. Cella, "Disability and the Environment in American Literature: Toward an Ecosomatic Paradigm "
English | ISBN: 1498513972 | 2016 | 186 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
This book includes a collection of essays that explore the relationship between Disability Studies and literary ecocriticism, particularly as this relationship plays out in American literature and culture. The contributors to this collection operate from the premise that there is much to be gained for both fields by putting them in conversation, and they do so in a variety of ways. In this manner, the collection contributes to what Joni Adamson and Scott Slovic have referred to as a "third wave of ecocriticism." Adamson and Slovic attribute the rise of this "third wave" to the richly diverse contributions to ecocriticism over the past decade by scholars intent on including postmodernism, ecofeminism, transnationalism, globalization, and postcolonialism into ecocritical discussions. The essays in Toward an Ecosomatic Paradigm extend this approach of this "third wave" by analyzing disability from an "environmental point of view" while simultaneously examining the environmental imagination from a disability studies perspective.

Free Download Jim Krusoe, "Toward You"
English | 2011 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 0982569114 | EPUB | 0,2 mb
The final book in Jim Krusoe’s trilogy about the relationship between this world and the next.

Free Download Kir Kuiken, "Imagined Sovereignties: Toward a New Political Romanticism"
English | 2014 | pages: 280 | ISBN: 0823257673 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
Imagined Sovereignties argues that the Romantics reconceived not just the nature of aesthetic imagination but also the conditions in which a specific form of political sovereignty could be realized through it.

Free Download Yasser Mohammad, "Data Mining for Social Robotics: Toward Autonomously Social Robots"
English | 2015 | pages: 340 | ISBN: 3319797557, 3319252305 | PDF | 9,2 mb
This book explores an approach to social robotics based solely on autonomous unsupervised techniques and positions it within a structured exposition of related research in psychology, neuroscience, HRI, and data mining. The authors present an autonomous and developmental approach that allows the robot to learn interactive behavior by imitating humans using algorithms from time-series analysis and machine learning.

Free Download Shifting Gears
by Handy, Susan;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0262546965 | 308 pages | True EPUB | 8.02 MB

Free Download Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?: How Medicine and Psychology Transform Social Policy
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031327926 | 222 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 5 MB
This open access book analyses the idea that medicine and psychology have a substantial (and underestimated) impact on Western welfare states. Based on mixed-methods analyses conducted in Germany, it analyses this influence on debates and policies related to unemployment, poverty, and childhood. The book demonstrates how the turn to neoliberalism and social investment thinking has created this medicalisation and psychologisation of social policies, and the contributions provide important insights for students and scholars of sociology of health and illness, political sociology, social and health policy, medicine, psychology, and public health.

Free Download Toward Social-Ecological Well-Being: Rethinking Sustainability Economics for the 21st Century
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031389883 | 211 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
This book investigates the deep economic causes of environmental unsustainability and offers a new vision to rebuild sustainability economics. While sustainability scholars are hard at work with documenting the tangible systemic crisis of our Biosphere, the economic roots of this crisis are rarely exposed, examined nor addressed. This book’s central contribution to sustainability studies is to argue that what we should sustain is not economic growth but social-ecological well-being defined as a combination of planetary health, cooperation and justice resulting in human holistic prosperity. The long-term prosperity of humanity indeed relies on generating health and fostering cooperation informed by justice: social-ecological well-being should be the cornerstone of sustainability economics for the 21st century. Within this framework, this book attempts to explain why the three key dimensions of sustainability are jointly in crisis, show what vision can articulate those dimensions to rethink sustainability economics for our century, what practical policies should be undertaken to give life to these visions before concluding on the need to reinvent the narratives that sustain economic analysis.

Free Download Jennifer A. Johnson-Hanks, Christine A. Bachrach, S. Philip Morgan, "Understanding Family Change and Variation: Toward a Theory of Conjunctural Action"
English | 2011 | pages: 195 | ISBN: 9400737009, 9400719442 | PDF | 2,1 mb
Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time. Over the last three decades, social demographers have made remarkable progress in documenting these axes of variation, but theoretical models to explain family change and variation have lagged behind. At the same time, our sister disciplines―from cultural anthropology to social psychology to cognitive science and beyond―have made dramatic strides in understanding how social action works, and how bodies, brains, cultural contexts, and structural conditions are coordinated in that process. Understanding Family Change and Variation: Toward a Theory of Conjunctural Action argues that social demography must be reintegrated into the core of theory and research about the processes and mechanisms of social action, and proposes a framework through which that reintegration can occur. This framework posits that material and schematic structures profoundly shape the occurrence, frequency, and context of the vital events that constitute the object of social demography. Fertility and family behaviors are best understood as a function not just of individual traits, but of the structured contexts in which behavior occurs. This approach upends many assumptions in social demography, encouraging demographers to embrace the endogeneity of social life and to move beyond fruitless debates of structure versus culture, of agency versus structure, or of biology versus society.