This book attempts to answer two questions: Are alternatives for choice ever incomparable? and In what ways can items be compared? The arguments offered suggest that alternatives for choice no matter how different are never incomparable, and that the ways in which items can be compared are richer and more varied than commonly supposed.

Ce panorama 2023 des grands textes pour comprendre notre époque est intégralement féminin. Pourquoi ? Pour bousculer la conversation démocratique dominée par les hommes, pour donner à découvrir des voix rares, enfin, pour tester l’hypothèse selon laquelle le point de vue des femmes, singulier et souvent marginal, mais partageable par tous, ouvre une perspective nouvelle sur l’expérience de la vie et sur la pensée. Une sélection réalisée par la rédaction de Philosophie magazine, à ...

This forward-thinking book explores the impact of psychological trauma on the brain's sensory pathways and demonstrates the crucial role sensory-based interventions can play in recovery. Ruth A. Lanius and associates interweave neurobiological research with evocative case examples and narratives from survivors. The book shines a spotlight on the brain–body disconnect that is part of the lived experience of trauma, and traces what happens in all eight sensory systems when a...

The sexual assault that rocked the world. A courageous woman’s rallying call for ‘shame to change sides’. For the very first time, Gisèle Pelicot tells her story.'This is quite something – a really brave, honest and heart-rending memoir' SARAH JESSICA PARKER'Extraordinary … inspires courage and compassion, but also, crucially, demands change' EMMA THOMPSON'A page-turning memoir that will mov...

Over 3 million LifeChange studies soldSee What God Will Do When You Trust HimCan trusting God change the world? Ruth and Esther, two young women who lived 600 years apart, would both say Yes. Living in dark days, ruled by oppressive regimes, their small but significant faithfulness would play a decisive role in God's bigger plan. Ruth chose to leave her family, face hardship, and trust God, without knowing what would happen to her. Esther ch...

A dozen life-changing and easy-to-follow actions everyone can replicate regardless of budget or time, from the renowned health expert and founder of MaryRuth Organics, one of the fastest growing health brands in the world.MaryRuth’s brand embodies her core mission—to help others feel and perform their best. Liquids Till Lunch encapsulates her philosophy, and is a roadmap anyone can follow to substantially improve their health, happiness, and psychological well-being. From the impor...

Calling all concerned citizens in the United StatesAre youTired of our broken politics and the deteriorating quality of life in America?Aware that we need a dramatic shift for our democracy to survive?Aspiring to be part of the solution to create a responsive, inclusive 21st Century democracy?You are not alone….and there is a solution. When her mother couldn't answer questions about the racial divide in her integrate...

How did the rise of polite society change the language of literature? What was the effect of Romanticism on poetic word order? How does knowing the answers to these questions alter the meaning of a text for us?Reading literature is a quest for sense, involving us in a need to grasp both how meaning is produced by the words on the page and how history, culture and ideology have influenced the choice of those words. Literary English changes from period to period as it reflects variat...

Between 1860 and 1935, about 100,000 impoverished children were emigrated from Britain to Canada to seek a new life in the “land of plenty.” Charities, religious workers, philanthropists, and state-run institutions such as workhouses and orphanages all sent children abroad, claiming that this was the only way to prevent their becoming criminals or joining the masses of working-class unemployed.Friendless or Forsaken? follows the story of child emigration agencies operating ...

This book analyses religion and change in relation to music within the context of contemporary progressive Judaism. It argues that music plays a central role as a driving force for religious change, comprising several elements seen as central to contemporary religiosity in general: participation, embodiment, experience, emotions and creativity. Focusing on the progressive Anglo-Jewish milieu today, the study investigates how responses to these processes of change are negotiated individuall...

A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEExploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s, this book reveals the ways that climate change emerged and evolved as an international problem, and how states, scientists and non-governmental organizations have engaged in diplomatic efforts to address it. Developing amidst the Cold War, decolonization and a growing transnational environmental consciousness, it asks how this wider historica...

This book is dedicated to God during the times in my life when he began changing negative circumstances into positive changes. As this book is read, Im hoping it will encourage others to become more positive about their lives and discourage the negative