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The Value of Resilience Securing life in the twenty-first century

The Value of Resilience Securing life in the twenty-first century

The Value of Resilience represents one of the first systematic studies of resilience in the field of security studies. At the turn of the twenty-first century resilience has become a ‘buzz-word’ within fields as diverse as network engineering ecosystems management child psychology and military training programmes. Resilience has emerged as a solution to the common problematic of radical contingency experienced across these fields. At its most general level resilience is understood as the capacity to absorb withstand and ‘bounce-back’ quickly and efficiently from a perturbation. It is considered to be both a natural property and a quality which can be improved within a broad array of complex systems. Rather than treating resilience as either a unified concept or technique of governance this book analyses resilience as an emergent security value. Utilizing a biopolitical analytic it demonstrates that the value of resilience has appreciated alongside transformations in the order of power/knowledge enacted by political economies of security. Zebrowski argues that resilience was not lying in wait for the march of science to provide the conditions for its recognition. Nor was it concealed by the distortions of ideology which lifted with the culmination of the Cold War. There is nothing natural about resilience. By drawing attention to the complex historical processes and significant governmental efforts required to make resilience possible this book aims to open up a space through which the value of resilience may be more critically interrogated. It will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations security studies and conflict resolution. | The Value of Resilience Securing life in the twenty-first century

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Literature and Understanding The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts

Literature and Understanding The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts

Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader’s close analysis of a literary text. It examines the meaning of ‘literature’ outlines the most prominent positions in the literary cognitivism debate explores the practice of close reading from a philosophical perspective provides a fresh account of what we mean by ‘understanding’ and in so doing opens up a new area of research in the philosophy of literature. This book provides a different reply to the challenge that we can’t learn anything worthwhile from reading literary fiction. It makes the innovative case that reading literary fiction as literature rather than as fiction stimulates five relevant senses of understanding. The book uses examples of irony metaphor play with perspective and ambiguity to illustrate this contention. Before arguing that these five senses of understanding bridge the gap between our understanding of a literary text and our understanding of the world beyond that text. The book will be of great interest for researchers scholars and post-graduate students in the fields of aesthetics literary theory literature in education and pedagogy. | Literature and Understanding The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts

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Out of Architecture The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

Out of Architecture The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

Out of Architecture is both a call to reassess the architecture profession and its education and a toolkit for graduates and working architects to untangle their skills passions and value from traditional architectural practice and consider alternate pathways. Written by design professionals and expert career consultants this book is informed by numerous client accounts as well as the authors’ own stories and routes out of architecture. The initial chapters follow the narrative of a typical architecture training in the US highlighting the many highs and lows skills honed and ultimately the huge disconnect that can occur between architectural education and practice. Subsequent chapters explore a disillusionment with the profession unhealthy work cultures mentorship working with lead architects toxic perfectionism and the notion of a “calling. ” Authors then present the hopeful accounts of many architects who escaped a profession known for its grueling working conditions to find fulfilling well-paying creative jobs that better utilize the skills of architecture than the architectural profession itself. Written in a unique combination of storytelling and analysis this patchwork of client and author stories makes for an immersive provocative and enjoyable read. A wide range of architecture students graduates educators and professionals will recognize themselves within the pages of this book and find prompts to reassess their working practices teaching styles and the profession itself. It will be of particular value to those students skeptical of joining the architecture workforce as well as those further along and considering a career change. | Out of Architecture The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

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The Children's Play Centre Its Psychological Value and its Place in the Training of Teachers

The Children's Play Centre Its Psychological Value and its Place in the Training of Teachers

First published in 1937 The Children’s Play Centre is an account of Gardner’s Play Centre and her work in assessing its value in the education of children and the training of teachers. The book puts forward the value of play in the development of children and provides a detailed report of Gardner’s experiment. It also explores the significance of the Play Centre to the technique of training students. It will have lasting relevance for those interested in the history of education and the psychology of education. | The Children's Play Centre Its Psychological Value and its Place in the Training of Teachers

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The Value of Transnational Medical Research Labour Participation and Care

The Value of Transnational Medical Research Labour Participation and Care

What is the value of medical research? With contributions from anthropologists sociologists and activists this approach brings into focus the forms of value – social epistemic and economic – that are involved in medical research practices and how these values intersect with everyday living. Though their work covers wide empirical ground –from HIV trials in Kenya and drug donation programs in Tanzania to industry-academic collaborations in the British National Health Service – the authors share a commitment to understanding the practices of medical research as embedded in both local social worlds and global markets. Their collective concern is to rethink the conventional ethical demarcations betwweenpaid and unpaid research services in light of the social and material organisation of medical research practices. . Rather than warn against economic incursions into medical knowledge and health practice or alternatively the reduction of local experience to the standards of bioethics we hope to illuminate the array of practices knowledges and techniques through which the value of medical research is brought into being. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Cultural Economy. | The Value of Transnational Medical Research Labour Participation and Care

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Know Thyself The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge

Know Thyself The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge

Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge takes the reader on tour of the nature value and limits of self-knowledge. Mitchell S. Green calls on classical sources like Plato and Descartes 20th-century thinkers like Freud recent developments in neuroscience and experimental psychology and even Buddhist philosophy to explore topics at the heart of who we are. The result is an unvarnished look at both the achievements and drawbacks of the many attempts to better know one’s own self. Key topics in this volume include: Knowledge – what it means to know the link between wisdom and knowledge and the value of living an examined life Personal identity – questions of dualism (the idea that our mind is not only our brain) bodily continuity and personhood The unconscious — including the kind posited by psychoanalysis as well as the form proposed by recent research on the so-called adaptive unconscious Free will – if we have it and the recent arguments from neuroscience challenging it Self-misleading – the ways we willfully deceive ourselves and how this relates to empathy peer disagreement implicit bias and intellectual humility Experimental psychology – considerations on the automaticity of emotion and other cognitive processes and how they shape us This book is designed to be used in conjunction with the free ‘Know Thyself’ MOOC (massive open online course) created through collaboration of the University of Connecticut's Project on Humility and Conviction in Public Life and the University of Edinburgh’s Eidyn research centre and hosted on the Coursera platform (https://www. coursera. org/learn/know-thyself). The book is also suitable as a text for interdisciplinary courses in the philosophy of mind or self-knowledge and is highly recommended for anyone looking for a short overview of this fascinating topic. | Know Thyself The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge

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Brand Beauty Unleashed The Value of Aesthetics in Marketing

Brand Beauty Unleashed The Value of Aesthetics in Marketing

This book presents an in-depth careful study of our understanding of the concept of beauty in everyday objects and its impact on markets and brands. Moving beyond artistic notions of beauty it demonstrates how beauty is an asset that can be leveraged in the marketplace. Traditionally beauty has been examined in relation to its influence on painting sculpture literature music and architecture. However its value and power in the marketplace is understudied. Álvarez del Blanco provides a systematic analysis of beauty in commonplace objects and brands drawing on cutting-edge research at the intersection of marketing and neurosciences. Through examining the neuroscientific evidence for how the brain processes beauty the author articulates the implications this may have on marketing and brand management. He also offers a glimpse of how beauty may evolve and its marketing implications for firm strategy in the coming decades. Written by a recognized authority in marketing and brand strategy Brand Beauty Unleashed gives students with an interest in marketing consumer behavior branding and neuromarketing an exciting new perspective on this intangible asset. | Brand Beauty Unleashed The Value of Aesthetics in Marketing

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Philosophy of Suffering Metaphysics Value and Normativity

Philosophy of Suffering Metaphysics Value and Normativity

Suffering is a central component of our lives. We suffer pain. We fall ill. We fail and are failed. Our loved ones die. It is a commonplace to think that suffering is always and everywhere bad. But might suffering also be good? If so in what ways might suffering have positive as well as negative value? This important volume examines these questions and is the first comprehensive examination of suffering from a philosophical perspective. An outstanding roster of international contributors explore the nature of suffering pain and valence as well as the value of suffering and the relationships between suffering morality and rationality. Philosophy of Suffering: Metaphysics Value and Normativity is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind philosophy of psychology cognitive and behavioral psychology as well as those in health and medicine researching conceptual issues regarding suffering and pain. | Philosophy of Suffering Metaphysics Value and Normativity

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Systemic Coaching Delivering Value Beyond the Individual

Systemic Coaching Delivering Value Beyond the Individual

Hawkins and Turner argue that coaching needs to step up to deliver value to all the stakeholders of the coachee including those they lead colleagues investors customers partners their local community and also the wider ecology. Systemic Coaching contains key chapters on how to contract in various settings how to work relationally and dialogically how to expand our own and others’ ecological awareness how to get greater value from supervision work with systemic ethics and expand our impact. While illustrating why a new model of coaching is necessary Hawkins and Turner also provide the tools and approaches that coaches and clients need to deliver this greater impact accompanied by real-life case examples and interviews from the authors and other leading coaches and leaders globally. Systemic Coaching will be an invaluable resource for coaches in practice and in training mentors coach supervisors consultants in leadership development and HR and L&D professionals and leaders. | Systemic Coaching Delivering Value Beyond the Individual

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Sustainable Value Creation

Sustainable Value Creation

The goal of this book is to define Sustainable Value Creation in terms of a set of principles that differentiate it from existing definitions of CSR and from related concepts such as sustainability and business ethics. To internalize these ten principles is to understand how the firm can respond to stakeholder needs to optimize value creation over the medium to long term. Ultimately this second edition book aims to reform both business practice and business education. By building a theory that redefines CSR as central to the value creation process the ten principles of Sustainable Value Creation redefine how firms approach each of their operational functions but also how these subjects should be taught in universities worldwide. As such this book will hopefully be of value to instructors as a complement to their teaching students as a guide in their education and managers as a framework to help them respond to the complex dynamic context that they are expected to navigate every day. This book is a manifesto for success in today’s complex dynamic business environment. The book is designed as an easy-to-digest critical introductory text to CSR. With supporting online teaching resources it is aimed primarily at the MBA and Executive MBA market and for CSR sustainability and business ethics courses taught by instructors skeptical of existing definitions and organizing principles of CSR sustainability or business ethics.

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Value and Waste in Lean Construction

Value and Waste in Lean Construction

Non-value adding activities are otherwise known as ‘waste’ in the lean construction lexicon. The aim of this collection is to build a common understanding of the role and contribution of value-adding activities in achieving stipulated objectives and continuous improvement in construction projects and to contrast this with waste. Although the lean approach to construction projects has been widely covered this is the first book that explicitly provides the link between value and waste in the Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector. This internationally researched collection seeks to create a paradigm shift which will shape work processes and future directions for how value is conceptualized and operationalized in both the project management and business aspects of construction. The readers will gain an understanding of: The value-adding paradigm in construction How to make value-supporting decisions Waste identification and control in practice With contributions from South Africa Brazil Norway and the USA the implications of this book are globally relevant. This is essential reading for all higher level students of construction management and economics and all professionals interested in value management. | Value and Waste in Lean Construction

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Ukraine Russia and the West When Value Promotion Met Hard Power

Ukraine Russia and the West When Value Promotion Met Hard Power

Why did Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine come as such a surprise to the West? This is a key question considered by this reflective and wide-ranging book. The book argues that Russia and the West were playing different games: while Russia under Putin had become obsessed with using hard power to restore the Cold War security architecture in Europe the major Western powers had become equally obsessed with value promotion that would ensure a global triumph for the values of the West touted as “universal values. ” The Russian play for spheres of interest was clearly defined and demarcated the Western play for values was by definition without limits. Hence there could be no common ground no constructive communication and no common understanding. While Russia convinced itself that it would be successful in forcing the West to accept its claims for a new security order based on hard power Western governments deluded themselves into believing that value promotion would transform Russia into a liberal democracy and a rules-based market economy. Examining the full situation exploring political military economic and business spheres the book provides a deep analysis of how the present confrontation has come about. | Ukraine Russia and the West When Value Promotion Met Hard Power

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The Question of Limits A Historical Perspective on the Environmental Crisis

The Question of Limits A Historical Perspective on the Environmental Crisis

We have forgotten how to think about limits. Most philosophical approaches to the environment have focused primarily on the value of the natural world the status of anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene and the largely ethical questions of our impact on the world. While fully acknowledging these concerns this book emphasizes the centrality of the confrontation between the imperative of growth that has been present since the Enlightenment and our belated rediscovery of limits. The expression Limits to Growth the title of a famous book from 1972 by Donella H. Meadows et al. may have passed into a common discourse yet the notion of limits itself remains insufficiently theorized or even reflected upon in the current movement of environmental advocacy. Sometimes it even seems as if there is an effort to avoid it. This book argues that on the contrary we can only resolve the present global challenges by confronting the question of limits and making it central to our reflection. This entails discussing the long history of thinking about limits in which Malthus is the most infamous figure but which also includes such major participants as John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx. Ultimately The Question of Limits contends that the value of embracing limits extends beyond the environment and offers the potential to become a transformative social good. The Question of Limits will be of great interest to students and scholars working at the intersection of environmental studies economics intellectual history and philosophy. | The Question of Limits A Historical Perspective on the Environmental Crisis

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The Baseball Glove History Material Meaning and Value

The Baseball Glove History Material Meaning and Value

The baseball glove is a ubiquitous item a crucial piece of equipment in the game of baseball and it offers the opportunity to examine the production of material culture and social practice at numerous levels. Where and how is a glove made and how does its manufacture square with the narratives surrounding its place in American cultural life? What are the myths superstitions and beliefs surrounding its acquisition care use and significance? How does a glove function as the center of a web of cultural practices that illustrate how individuals relate to a consumer good as a symbol of memory personal narrative and national identity? How do the manufacturers of baseball gloves draw upon promote and in some sense create these practices? How do these practices and meanings change in other national and cultural contexts? The Baseball Glove offers students the opportunity to examine these questions in an engagingly written and illustrated book that promotes hands-on interaction with a quintessential item of material culture. At the same time the book gives students the space for critical self-reflection about the place of material goods like sporting equipment in their lives and it provides the chance to learn different methodological approaches to studying everyday objects. | The Baseball Glove History Material Meaning and Value

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The Realm of a Rain Queen A Study of the Pattern of Lovedu Society

The Realm of a Rain Queen A Study of the Pattern of Lovedu Society

Originally published in 1943 this book discusses the life and culture of the Lovedu a Bantu tribe in South Africa. As well as discussing the Rain-Queen much of the book is devoted to the royal institutions; the network of links woven by kinship marriage and marriage cattle the legal procedure of compromise and appeasement and various aspects of magic witchcraft and religion. Considered as a whole the culture emerges as a structure supporting and in turns supported by the Rain-Queen. | The Realm of a Rain Queen A Study of the Pattern of Lovedu Society

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Towards an Anthropology of Wealth Imagination Substance Value

Towards an Anthropology of Wealth Imagination Substance Value

Aiming to redefine the concept of wealth which has too often been reduced to merely ‘accumulated assets’ this book views wealth primarily as a question of reproduction relational flows and life vitality. The authors therefore outline wealth as a triangular phenomenon between capital the commons and power. Viewing wealth as firstly a product of relational capacities the book explores the processes wherein it is constantly being pulled at from forces that demand appropriation be that finance community or state. The chapters tackle perceptions (and practices) of wealth in the commons in mythical narrative immaterial substance aristocratic orders antimafia money real and imagined and conspiracy theory with contributions from Melanesia Italy Greece India and Mongolia. The comparative perspective lies at the heart of the book bringing together instances of commonwealth and the commons as well as hierarchical relational and substantial understandings of wealth. As the first collection in recent decades to address the anthropology of wealth openly in a comparative perspective this book will spark discussions of the concept in anthropology not least at the back of a renewed debate over it due to Piketty’s legacy. This book was originally published as a special issue of History & Anthropology. | Towards an Anthropology of Wealth Imagination Substance Value

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An Architecture of the Mind A Psychological Foundation for the Science of Everyday Life

An Architecture of the Mind A Psychological Foundation for the Science of Everyday Life

An Architecture of the Mind proposes a mathematically logical and rigorous theory of lived experience and a comprehensive and coherent theory of psychology. It is also remarkably simple. Building on the core proposition that the mind is a network structure it proposes a theory of the psychological process as operating within and upon that structure and a theory of behaviour as determined by that process. The theory presents a view of the mind which reveals a new perspective on the process of reasoning in thinking and how it may coexist with processes more akin to simple rule-following and computation. It allows us to understand the role and influence of social influences in the psychological process by revealing their role in and influence on mental networks. It reveals the place of motivations in the psyche as complexes in mental networks from whence aesthetics preference and value judgements arise and demonstrates their necessity for behaviour. This book is especially useful for the perspective it offers on behavioural change. It reveals the conditions under which traditional economic theories of incentives will be appropriate and the conditions under which they will not be. This book draws on psychology social science cultural science neuroscience and economics to offer an interdisciplinary contribution which resists the tendency for disciplines to become over-specialised and fragmented. It will be of interest to any interested in the functioning of the human mind and the government of human behaviour. | An Architecture of the Mind A Psychological Foundation for the Science of Everyday Life

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Themes in Value and Distribution Classical Theory Reappraised

Themes in Value and Distribution Classical Theory Reappraised

The essays in this volume first published in 1989 seek to re-examine an important area of economic theory: value and distribution. In a sustained and analytical critique two principle methodological approaches are compared and distinguished: the Classical or ‘surplus-based’ theories and the demand-and-supply-based equilibrium (DSE) theories. Although the essays are primarily concerned with value and distribution the critique necessarily extends to the theory of output and employment and in general to the theory of trade and accumulation. The book will be an invaluable reader for students of economic thought capital theory and Marxian political economy. | Themes in Value and Distribution Classical Theory Reappraised

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Digital Content Marketing Creating Value in Practice

Digital Content Marketing Creating Value in Practice

Digital Content Marketing: Creating Value in Practice introduces the principles of the content marketing discipline and serves as a guide to any professional or student who wants to learn how to successfully plan and implement digital content marketing strategies and tactics. Filled with contemporary examples of the most successful creative content marketing practices case studies and professional advice from subject experts this text offers an in-depth view of the world of content marketing from a value-based perspective. The textbook also includes practical advice on content marketing ideation content management and content curation as well as offering recommendations for the best content marketing software. The textbook offers a good balance of both theory and practice and is suitable for advanced undergraduate students and postgraduate students studying content marketing digital marketing or social media marketing. Support material includes an instructor manual chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides and a test bank of exam questions. | Digital Content Marketing Creating Value in Practice

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The Wisdom of Balahvar A Christian Legend of the Buddha

The Wisdom of Balahvar A Christian Legend of the Buddha

Originally published in 1957 and forming a companion volume to The Balavariani this volume provides valuable research into the biography of Gautama Buddha and its influence on medieval Christian thought. This work the romance of Barlaam and Josaphat was included by Caxton in The Golden Legend and inspired the episode of the Caskets in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice; its heroes were venerated as Saints. Over a century ago however the legend was finally identified as an adaptation of episodes from the life and ministry of the Buddha. The first part of the book is devoted to tracing the development and migration of the Barlaam and Josaphat legend from its original Buddhist environment to the West. The second part is a translation of the Georgian text – the first published in any Western European language. The volume therefore gives one of the oldest Near Eastern versions of the story. | The Wisdom of Balahvar A Christian Legend of the Buddha

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The Teachings of the Magi A Compendium of Zoroastrian Beliefs

The Teachings of the Magi A Compendium of Zoroastrian Beliefs

Originally published in 1956 this book provides a clear scholarly introduction to the main tenets of Zoroastrian dualism presented largely in the words of the Zoroastrian texts themselves. The book demonstrates the essential reasonableness of Zoroastrian dualism which is the dualism of a good and an evil spirit and to show what the means in everyday life and how it is philosophically justified. There are chapters on cosmology the relation of man to God the nature of religion ethics sacraments and sacrifice the soul’s fate at death and eschatology. | The Teachings of the Magi A Compendium of Zoroastrian Beliefs

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The Historian's Toolbox A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History

The Historian's Toolbox A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History

The Historian’s Toolbox introduces students to the theory craft and methods of history and equips them with a series of tools to research and understand the past. Written in an engaging and entertaining style and filled with fascinating examples this best-selling how to book opens up an exciting world behind historical research and writing. This fourth edition expands the repertory of tools and techniques available to students entering the workshop of history. These include materials on the Kennedy assassination the litigation of Van Gogh’s Night Café local town histories contemporary history Twitter and the contemplation of the end of history as well as the Sixth Extinction in a new epilogue. The book demonstrates the relevance and expanding possibilities of the study of history in our cacophonous information age of tweetstorms and fake news; it emphasises the increasing value of critical thinking facts and evidence in the face of political lies and conspiracy theories. Material added to the fourth edition will resonate with a new generation of computer-literate readers in the face of climate change. The Historian’s Toolbox continues to be a seminal text for supporting students throughout their study of history and an accessible teaching tool for instructors. | The Historian's Toolbox A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History

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Production Value and Income Distribution A Classical-Keynesian Approach

Production Value and Income Distribution A Classical-Keynesian Approach

This book investigates the relationship between wages profits values and labour employment from a classical-Keynesian perspective. The starting point of this approach is classical political economy (in particular Smith Ricardo and Marx) suitably reformulated in modern terms by Sraffa and then integrated with the Keynesian theory of employment. Such an approach proves to be more appropriate in understanding the complexities of current economies and in identifying the instruments to pursue the final goal of economic systems: putting each person in a position to earn what is necessary to live with dignity. The approach undertaken by these chapters is in contrast to the ‘marginalist’ or ‘neoclassical’ school which constitutes the mainstream of economic analysis. Especially in recent decades several critical analyses of the present state of economic research have emerged due to the failure of contemporary economic analysis to acutely penetrate and guide the workings of actual economic systems. But these analyses have not always been effectively presented in a coordinated manner. This work presents one possible unifying framework—grounded in a solid tradition of economic thought—which aims to describe the basic forces operating in capitalistic economies and to identify the main objectives to pursue in production economies in order to fully exploit their potential. Most importantly the focus of such classical-Keyensian analysis concerns the production of goods and services and this book shows how several factors typical of contemporary (post-)industrial societies thus can be understood in a way that the standard economic theory has not been able to explicate (due to the reduction of everything to a question of exchange). The book provides key reading for those on master level economics courses. Moreover it constitutes a solid introduction to modern classical-Keynesian analysis. It may also be of interest to readers who are keen to develop a critical view of economics political economy and history of economic thought. | Production Value and Income Distribution A Classical-Keynesian Approach

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The Words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas The Genesis of a Wisdom Tradition

The Words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas The Genesis of a Wisdom Tradition

This book offers a detailed analysis of the Gospel of Thomas in its historic and literary context providing a new understanding of the genesis of the Jesus tradition. Discovered in the twentieth century the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas is an important early text whose origins and place in the history of Christianity continue to be subjects of debate. Aiming to relocate the Thomasine community in the wider context of early Christianity this study considers the Gospel of Thomas as a bridge between the oral and literary phases of the Christian movement. It will therefore be useful for Religion scholars working on Biblical studies Coptic codices gnosticism and early Christianity. | The Words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas The Genesis of a Wisdom Tradition

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