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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring We regularly encounter appalling wrongdoing, with the media offering a depressing parade of violent assault, rape, and murder. Yet sometimes even the cynical and world-weary amongst us are taken aback. Sometimes we confront a crime so terrible, so horrendous, so deeply wrong, that we reach for the word 'evil'. The 9/11 terrorist attacks were not merely wrong, but evil. A serial killer who tortures his victims is not merely a bad person. He is evil. And as the Holocaust showed us, we must remain vigilant against the threat of evil. But what exactly is evil If we use the word 'evil', are we buying into a naive Manichean worldview, in which two cosmic forces of good and evil are pitted against one another Are we guilty of demonizing our enemies How does 'evil' go beyond what is merely bad or wrong This Very Short Introduction explores the answers that philosophers have offered to these questions. Luke Russell discusses why some philosophers think that evil is a myth or a fantasy, while others think that evil is real, and is a concept which plays an important role in contemporary secular morality. Along the way he asks whether evil is always horrific and incomprehensible, or if it can be banal. Considering if there is a special psychological hallmark that sets the evildoers apart from the rest of us, Russell also engages with ongoing discussions over psychopathy and empathy, analysing the psychology behind evildoing.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A high-octane memoir of special forces, hard drugs, extreme sex and useless terrorists.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Critical Muslim showcases ground breaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A writer sets out to find the truth about his own genre, from Orientalism and falsehoods to today's new voices.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A moving exploration of belonging in a contested homeland, from a Palestinian writer and citizen of Israel.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - History is not just a subject taught in school. It is the lived reality of tradition that informs and, at times, colonizes our present. So, any project that wishes to see us smoothly into the future must begin with a thorough analysis of the past. History is also not as simple as we once thought: the reality of inequalities and bias that plague the present condition also run backward into our past, white-washing and leaving out certain details, even telling blatant lies. Revisionism and postmodernism further complicate the matter. In this issue, the rich and contentious history of Islam will be critically analyzed; along the way, insight will be provided into the larger human story. As various articles debunk old narratives and illuminate lost perspectives, the hope is that lessons from the past can be properly considered, so that the same blunders that have toppled civilizations are not doomed to repeat themselves.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A compelling account of how engineering, architectural ingenuity, a region's great industrial tradition, and the labor of thousands came to span the Tyne.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Critical Muslim showcases ground breaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Critical Muslim showcases ground breaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How did the four crises of 2020 -- the COVID - 19 pandemic, the economic collapse, the national reckoning over racial justice, and the challenges to the legitimacy of the 2020 election itself (abetted by conspiracy theories) -- shape the election, its aftermath, and perceptions of the assault on the Capitol on January 6th, 2021 Kathleen Hall Jamieson collaborated with top scholars to survey over 9,000 Americans for their reaction to these unparalleled events. Unmatched in its analytical rigor, Democracy Amid Crises will be the authoritative account of this unprecedented election and its tumultuous aftermath.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A highly original mix of polemic and ethnographic scholarship, exploring how South Asia's culture of road-building reflects the world's dangerous obsession with progress and growth.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An exploration of the international context for Ambedkar's ideas around caste, law, religion, democracy and race, as developed while studying in the imperial capital.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A probing analysis of the challenges still facing the Arab Spring's 'success story', a decade into its transition to democracy.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This edited volume, part of the Humanities and Human Flourishing series, examines the role of cinema and media in the context of human flourishing. The history of cinema is rife with films and genres in which positive cinematic narratives stand out as remarkable and defining achievements. Yet, in the majority of these films, various crises shadow these pursuits, adding obstacles and detours that suggest that films require a narrative drama of conflict, out of which human well-being and flourishing eventually emerge.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Analyzes how espionage operates in the age of rapid technological development, identity politics, plausible deniability, uncertainty and distrust of authority.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This work is a translation of one of Premchand's plays, Karbala, published in 1924. It is based on an event in Islamic history, the battle of Karbala, in which the younger grandson of Prophet Muhammad, Hussain, was martyred along with his family at the hands of the sinful caliph Yazid bin Muawiya. Premchand's retelling of the historic episode was daring at a time when communal sentiments where running high.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the first book-length study of ecclesiology in analytic theology, Joshua Cockayne offers a vision of the Church, according to which the Church is united as the body of Christ through the work of the Holy Spirit, despite the apparent diversity of the Church in its gathered, particular forms.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Outside In spans established categories of legal and historical writing. It is a legal history, an autobiographical oral history memoir, a biography, and a portrait of the life and times of Guido Calabresi, a scholar, a professor, a dean, and a judge.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Using the case study of Prussia, Marcus Colla presents a multi-perspective approach to the way that a distinctive 'historical culture' was constructed in the German Democratic Republic, evaluating the roles played by political figures, historians, and cultural elites, but also purveyors of popular culture, such as writers and musicians.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book presents the key concepts, theory, and computer code written in R, helping readers with limited initial knowledge of random processes to become confident in their understanding and application of these principles in their own research.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This collection is in honour of the remarkable career of Lord Collins. The book offers a set of unique insights into the conduct of cross-border litigation; the judicial role in international cases; the shape of English private international law; the conduct of international arbitration; and the interface with public international law.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a unique collection of over 30 methods to study deliberative democracy. Written in an accessible style, it provides guidance for scholars and students on how to conduct rigorous and creative research on the public sphere, structured forums, and political institutions.