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Urban Ethics Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities

Urban Ethics Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities

This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a ‘good’ life under urban condition? Whose gets to live a ‘good’ life and whose ideas of morality propriety and ‘good’ prevail? What is the connection between the ‘good’ and the ‘just’ in urban life? Rather than philosophizing the ‘good’ and proper life in cities the book considers what happens when urban conflicts and urban futures are carried out as conflicts over the good and proper life in cities. It offers an understanding of how ethical discourses ideals and values are harmonized with material interests of different groups taking up cases studies about environmental protection co-housing schemes political protest heritage preservation participatory planning collaborative art production and other topics from different eras and parts of the globe. This book offers multidisciplinary insights ethnographic research and conceptual tools and resources to explore and better understand such conflicts. It questions the ways in which urban ethics draw on tacit moral economies of urban life and the ways in which such moral economies become explicit political and programmatic. Chapters 1 and 11 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Urban Ethics Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities

GBP 38.99
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The Low-Carbon Good Life

The Low-Carbon Good Life

The Low-Carbon Good Life is about how to reverse and repair four interlocking crises arising from modern material consumption: the climate crisis growing inequality biodiversity loss and food-related ill-health. Across the world today and throughout history good lives are characterised by healthy food connections to nature being active togetherness personal growth a spiritual framework and sustainable consumption. A low-carbon good life offers opportunities to live in ways that will bring greater happiness and contentment. Slower ways of living await. A global target of no more than one tonne of carbon per person would allow the poorest to consume more and everyone to find our models of low-carbon good lives. But dropping old habits is hard and large-scale impacts will need fresh forms of public engagement and citizen action. Local to national governments need to act; equally they need pushing by the power and collective action of citizens. Innovative and engaging and written in a style that combines storytelling with scientific evidence this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change sustainability environmental economics and sustainable consumption as well as non-specialist readers concerned about the climate crisis.

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Philosophy of Leisure Foundations of the good life

Philosophy of Leisure Foundations of the good life

What is leisure? How does leisure relate to leading a good life? This critical and intelligent study interrogates the basic principles of leisure and demonstrates the continuing relevance of these questions for our society today. It not only explores the traditional philosophical concepts at the heart of leisure studies but also pursues new possibilities for reconceptualising leisure that have emerged from recent developments in society technology and the broader discipline of philosophy itself. Approaching leisure from a philosophically inquisitive perspective the book argues that leisure revolves around the pursuit of happiness human flourishing and well-being making it both a state of mind and a state of being. Its exploration of the meaning of leisure addresses key issues such as identity ethics spirituality human experience freedom technology embodiment well-being the fundamental properties of leisure and the challenge of offering a meaningful definition. Revitalising the subject of leisure studies with its originality Philosophy of Leisure: Foundations of the Good Life is fascinating reading for all students and scholars of leisure studies philosophy sociology psychology and ethics. | Philosophy of Leisure Foundations of the good life

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Take a Look at a Good Book

Take a Look at a Good Book

Take A Look At A Good Book is the third book in a series. The popular features of the two earlier books Have Some Sums to Solve and At Last!! Encoded Totals Second Addition have been retained in Take A Look At A Good Book. The thirty-eight puzzles presented in Section 1 along with the cover dedication and preface puzzles all fall into the special subcategory of additive alphametics. Each of their sums has a unique decoding sometimes insured by the imposition of an initial condition.

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Happiness Flourishing and the Good Life A Transformative Vision for Human Well-Being

Happiness Flourishing and the Good Life A Transformative Vision for Human Well-Being

Well-being studies is an exciting and relatively new multi-disciplinary field with data being gathered from different domains in order to improve social policies. In its reliance on a truncated account of well-being based implicitly on neoclassical economic assumptions however the field is deeply flawed. Departing from reductive accounts of well-being that exclude the normative or evaluative aspect of the concept and so impoverish the attendant conception of human life this book offers a new perspective on what counts normatively as being well. In reconceptualising well-being holistically it presents a fresh vista on how we can consider the meanings of human life in a manner that also serves as a source of constructive social critique. The book thus undertakes to invert the usual approach to the social sciences in which the research is required to be objective in terms of methodology and subjective with regard to evaluative claims. Instead the authors are deliberately objective about values in order to be more open to the subjectivities of human life. Happiness Flourishing and the Good Life thus seeks to move away from economic considerations’ domination of all social spaces in order to understand the possibilities of well-being beyond instrumentalisation or commodification. A radical new approach to the human well-being this book will appeal to philosophers social theorists and political scientists and all who are interested in human happiness. | Happiness Flourishing and the Good Life A Transformative Vision for Human Well-Being

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Return of the Grasshopper Games Leisure and the Good Life in the Third Millennium

Return of the Grasshopper Games Leisure and the Good Life in the Third Millennium

In this sequel to Bernard Suits’ timeless classic philosophical work The Grasshopper: Games Life and Utopia published in its full and unabridged form for the first time Suits continues to explore some of our most fundamental philosophical questions including the value of sport and games and their relationship to the good life. In Return of the Grasshopper Suits puts his theoretical cards on the table exploring the in-depth implications of his definition of utopia assessing the merits of a gamified philosophy and explaining how games can provide an existential balm against the fear of death. Perhaps most importantly for the first time in print Suits reveals his underlying worldview: that humanity is forever fated to endure a cyclical existence of privation brought on by material scarcity and boredom resulting from material plenitude. An essential companion to The Grasshopper this edition includes an introductory chapter that puts Suits’ life and work into context helping the reader to understand why Suits has had such a profound influence on contemporary philosophy and how his ideas still provide powerful insight into the human condition. This book is important reading for anybody with an interest in the philosophy of sport leisure and play political philosophy ethics existentialism or utopian studies. | Return of the Grasshopper Games Leisure and the Good Life in the Third Millennium

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The Good the Right Life and Death Essays in Honor of Fred Feldman

The Good the Right Life and Death Essays in Honor of Fred Feldman

Fred Feldman Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst is widely recognized for his subtle defense of hedonistic consequentialism and for his plain-spoken and exact philosophical style. This book collects new and original articles from an international team of scholars to celebrate his philosophical contributions. The three main topics of the book - moral goodness moral rightness and the ethical and metaphysical puzzles posed by death - are topics that have occupied Professor Feldman throughout his philosophical career. Each contribution advances the state of the art in analytical ethics and metaphysics through critical analysis of previous work and the formulation of new positions. As a collection these essays represent a sustained reflection on the merits and limitations of a whole integrated research program in moral philosophy: hedonistic consequentialism. | The Good the Right Life and Death Essays in Honor of Fred Feldman

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Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life Politics and Ethics at the Intersection of North Atlantic and African Philosophy

Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life Politics and Ethics at the Intersection of North Atlantic and African Philosophy

What makes for good societies and good lives in a global world? In this landmark work of political and ethical philosophy Omedi Ochieng offers a radical reassessment of a millennia-old question. He does so by offering a stringent critique of both North Atlantic and African philosophical traditions which he argues unfold visions of the good life that are characterized by idealism moralism and parochialism. But rather than simply opposing these flawed visions of the good life with his own set of alternative prescriptions Ochieng argues that it is critically important to step back and understand the stakes of the question. Those stakes he suggests are to be found only through a social ontology – a comprehensive and in-depth account of the political economic and cultural structures that mark the boundaries and limits of life in the twenty-first century. It is only in light of this social ontology that Ochieng then proffers an alternative normative account of the good society and the good life – which he spells out as emergent from ecological embeddedness; social entanglement; embodied encounter; and aesthetic engenderment. At once sweeping and rigorous incisive and subtle original and revisionary this book does more than just appeal to intellectuals and scholars across the humanities and social sciences – rather it opens up the academic disciplines to a whole new landscape of exploration into the biggest and most pressing questions animating the human experience. | Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life Politics and Ethics at the Intersection of North Atlantic and African Philosophy

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The Good Life Steam CD Key

The Good Life Steam CD Key

Like so many, Derek Hales is fed up and is dreaming about leaving the nine-to-five lifestyle. When he learns that his late uncle made him the only heir of Carpe Diem Boats, a boating company on the tropical complex of the Jo Jo islands, he does not hesitate for a second. A new life awaits! After a long journey, he and his striking girlfriend Michelle Joyce finally arrive at their destination, enjoying the beautiful sunrise, with a Boating Company of their own. Compared to the dull office life, this new life looks much better. Finally but suddenly, life is good! With an array of luxury vessels at your disposal, take on various missions across ultra-realistic tropical waters, in order to make your fortune. Experience vast, beautiful tropical locations, with more than 50 harbors and dozens of diverse places to explore. Become an adept skipper and progress across 6 different ship types. Realistic weather conditions and 24hr day/night cycle. Seek treasures in the deep, rescue people from drowning, avoid pirate attacks and become rich and famous! Use your earnings to build your commercial empire, buy and sell properties in this tropical paradise, progress from sun beds, beach houses and bungalows, to restaurants, villas and even hotels. Play against 9 other NPC Skippers who compete for business against you, become the best skipper, earn more money and become the ultimate tycoon of the JoJo Islands!

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Tech For Good Imagine Solving the World’s Greatest Challenges

Tech For Good Imagine Solving the World’s Greatest Challenges

Tech For Good reveals how Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies will help solve the world’s greatest challenges like climate change biodiversity loss inequality and poverty. Tech For Good presents a unique perspective on how business can successfully apply advanced technologies in a purpose-driven manner while unlocking new markets and seizing business opportunities. Packed with 75 real-life business cases of companies from all over the world this inspiring book unfolds a compelling narrative about how businesses commercially synergize technology and sustainability. The purpose of this book is to imagine the unprecedented possibilities advanced technologies offer business to drive sustainable growth. Tech for Good will be vital for realizing our Global Goals. | Tech For Good Imagine Solving the World’s Greatest Challenges

GBP 34.99
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The Psychology of Working Life

The Psychology of Working Life

What motivates us to do a good job? When does the pressure of work impact upon our health and well-being? How can employers choose the right candidates? The Psychology of Working Life shows how whether we like it or not the way we work and our feelings about it play a fundamental role in overall well-being. From the use of psychometrics in recruiting the right candidate to making working life more efficient the book illustrates how work in industrialized societies continues to be founded upon core psychological ideas. Motivation and job satisfaction have become recognized as key to job design and The Psychology of Working Life suggests that changing the way we work can impact on our stress levels overall health and productivity.

GBP 12.99
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Comfort and Contemporary Culture The problems of the ‘good life’ on an increasingly uncomfortable planet

Comfort and Contemporary Culture The problems of the ‘good life’ on an increasingly uncomfortable planet

To be comfortable stands as an aspiration of the times; to be comfortable defines what it means to live ‘the good life’. We talk about such things as maintaining a comfortable home a comfortable lifestyle and a comfortable retirement. We seek out comforts in the relationships we sustain the leisure practices we enact and the possessions we accumulate. We look for promises of comfort in the words of a close friend and our next pair of shoes. Furnished in the home optionally outfitted in cars scrutinised in holiday brochures and brushed up against in the clothes we wear comfort is there marking distinctions and framing decisions about what it means to live well. But by consuming comfort in the ways that we do we do ourselves harm and limit our only planet of its capacity to provide for the requirements of life. This is a world that grows ever more uncomfortable because of comfort and when linked to consumption and excess indulgence and apathy it occurs that comfort carries effects that have existential consequence. Utilising analyses of popular culture and ethnographic accounts of everyday life Comfort and Contemporary Culture works through case study accounts of comfort’s enactment to pose questions around what it means to live now. Comfort and Contemporary Culture poses alternative renderings of the idea of comfort to return the concept to its earliest roots in notions of confortāre. The revisioning of what we take as comfort requires urgent attention with the ecological social and intrapersonal implications of comfort’s current excesses demonstrative of this need. This book will be relevant reading for students and scholars of cultural studies and sociology cultural anthropology social geography and studies of community. | Comfort and Contemporary Culture The problems of the ‘good life’ on an increasingly uncomfortable planet

GBP 130.00
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Planning for the Common Good

Planning for the Common Good

Appeals to the ‘common good’ or ‘public interest’ have long been used to justify planning as an activity. While often criticised such appeals endure in spirit if not in name as practitioners and theorists seek ways to ensure that planning operates as an ethically attuned pursuit. Yet this leaves us with the unavoidable question as to how an ethically sensitive common good should be understood. In response this book proposes that the common good should not be conceived as something pre-existing and ‘out there’ to be identified and applied or something simply produced through the correct configuration of democracy. Instead it is contended that the common good must be perceived as something ‘in here ’ which is known by engagement with the complexities of a context through employing the interpretive tools supplied to one by the moral dimensions of the life in which one is inevitably embedded. This book brings into conversation a series of thinkers not normally mobilised in planning theory including Paul Ricoeur Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor. These shine light on how the values carried by the planner are shaped through both their relationships with others and their relationship with the ‘tradition of planning’ – a tradition it is argued that extends as a form of reflective deliberation across time and space. It is contended that the mutually constitutive relationship that gives planning its raison d’être and the common good its meaning are conceived through a narrative understanding extending through time that contours the moral subject of planning as it simultaneously profiles the ethical orientation of the discipline. This book provides a new perspective on how we can come to better understand what planning entails and how this dialectically relates to the concept of the common good. In both its aim and approach this book provides an original contribution to planning theory that reconceives why it is we do what we do and how we envisage what should be done differently. It will be of interest to scholars students and practitioners in planning urban studies sociology and geography. | Planning for the Common Good

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The Modern Guise of the Good

The Modern Guise of the Good

This book is the first-ever collection dedicated to the guise of the good in early modern and later Western philosophy. It spans three centuries from Thomas Hobbes to Henry Sidgwick and features original contributions by some of the finest scholars. One of the staple items of Western philosophy is the idea that we can only desire or pursue something under the guise of the good: if we see nothing good about it we cannot want it. After enjoying its heydays in ancient and medieval philosophy this idea nowadays labelled “the guise of the good” might seem at first glance to recede into relative obscurity in the early modern and later periods. The contributions to this volume prove that this is not so. Each of the eight chapters shows how the guise of the good was understood revised sometimes defended sometimes attacked by philosophers such as Hobbes Spinoza Locke Leibniz Hume Kant J. S. Mill and Sidgwick. In some cases the volume features the first-ever dedicated treatment of an author’s take on the guise of the good. In other cases it offers exciting new perspectives on ongoing scholarly debates. Given the recent resurgence of interest in the guise of the good as a topic of contemporary discussion The Modern Guise of the Good will appeal not only to historians of philosophy but also to philosophers working at the intersection of ethics and philosophy of mind and action. This book was originally published as a special issue of Philosophical Explorations.

GBP 130.00
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The Good Prison Officer Inside Perspectives

The Good Prison Officer Inside Perspectives

This book offers a solution-focused and strengths-based guide to becoming an effective Prison Officer. Written and developed by a collection of ex-prisoners who are all now professionals practitioners and educators in the criminal justice field the book draws on lived experience and the diverse literature on prisons and penal policy to explore good and bad examples of professional practice. The book is informed by the belief that those with direct experiences of custody and incarceration offer a vital perspective on the efficacy of penal practice. While these voices are often accessed through research it is rare they are seeking to lead the conversation. This book seeks to reset this balance. Drawing on themes such as discretion respect relationships and legitimacy it offers recommendations for best practices in developing a rehabilitative culture in prison. This book will be of interest to practitioners researchers and educators alike. It is essential reading for all those engaged with prisons punishment penal practice desistance and rehabilitation. | The Good Prison Officer Inside Perspectives

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Life Charms #JustBecause Wish You Good Luck Bracelet

Life Charms #JustBecause Wish You Good Luck Bracelet

This #JustBecause Wish You Good Luck Bracelet is a lovely way to offer someone your best wishes. Part of the #JustBecause family of bracelets, this genuine Life Charms piece is crafted with silver-plated hypoallergenic materials, so it's suitable for even sensitive skin. The Life Charms bracelet features a sweet dangling charm in the shape of a four-leaf clover, a classic symbol of good luck. It also includes a gift card with the message "I wanted to wish you good luck", adding a personal touch. With its elasticated design, this bracelet will comfortably fit any wrist. #JustBecause Wish You Good Luck Bracelet. Part of the #JustBecause family of bracelets. Genuine Life Charms Bracelet. Crafted using silver-plated hypoallergenic materials. Features "I wanted to wish you good luck" on the gift card. Showcases a dangly charm in the shape of a four-cleaf clover. Elasticated to fit all wrist sizes. Product code: 046BW.

GBP 16.00
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4-Tier Book Cabinet Sonoma Oak 80x24x142 cm Engineered Wood - All Things Good

4-Tier Book Cabinet Sonoma Oak 80x24x142 cm Engineered Wood - All Things Good

Featuring a sleek and classic design, this book cabinet will make a decorative as well as practical addition to your decor. The cabinet is made of quality engineered wood, which ensures it sturdiness, durability and long service life. Designed with 4 spacious compartments, the bookshelf offers ample storage space for keeping your magazines, books, DVDs, multimedia devices and other decorative items well organised and within reach. Additionally, as a versatile shelf, the book rack is also a perfect storage solution for your hallway and any other living space. The book rack is easy to clean with damp cloth. The book stand is easy to assemble.

GBP 71.09
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The People of the Book Drama Fellowship and Religion

The People of the Book Drama Fellowship and Religion

Judaism has long derived its identity from its sacred books. The book or scroll - rather than the image or idol - has been emblematic of Jewish faith and tradition. The People of the Book presents a study of a group of Orthodox Jews all of whom live in the modern world engaged in the time-honored practice of lernen the repeated review and ritualized study of the sacred texts. In preserving one of the activities of Jewish life Samuel C. Heilman argues these are the genuine People of the Book. For two years Heilman participated in and observed five study circles in New York and Jerusalem engaged in the avocation of lernen the Talmud the great corpus of Jewish law lore and tradition. These groups made up of men who felt the ritualized study of sacred texts to be not only a religious obligation but also an appealing way to spend their evenings weekends and holidays assembled together under the guidance of a teacher to review the holy books of their people. Having become part of this world the author is able to provide first-hand observation of the workings of the study circle. Heilman's study moves beyond the merely descriptive into an analysis of the nature and meaning of activity he observed. To explain the character and appeal of the study groups he employs three concepts: drama fellowship and religion. Inherent to the life of the study circle are various sorts of drama: social dramas playing out social relationships cultural performances reenacting the Jewish world view and interactional dramas and word plays involving the intricacies of the recitation and translation process. This book will be of interest to anthropologists and those interested in the academic study of religion. | The People of the Book Drama Fellowship and Religion

GBP 130.00
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The Sims 4 Book Nook Kit EA App CD Key

The Sims 4 Book Nook Kit EA App CD Key

Relax in a plush, cozy space and get lost in a good story with The Sims 4 Book Nook Kit. Create the perfect spot to curl up after a long day or to enjoy on a sunny afternoon. Design your Sim’s book nook to be their favorite spot in the house.FEATURESA Reader’s Retreat — Arrange stackable bookshelves and décor in a way that suits your Sim's style, whether that means a light-filled window seat or a cozy hideaway in the corner.Comfy and Cozy — Sink into a good book and a cushy sofa. This kit features plush seating with soft, relaxing accents that’ll help your Sim unwind.

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