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BEYOND PERMANENCE

Author : Craig Eisendrath
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781456858117

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BEYOND PERMANENCE by Craig Eisendrath Pdf

Beyond Permanence: The Great Ideas of the West covers the full range of Western thought. Th e fi rst part reviews Western thought from its earliest beginnings in the civilization of Sumer through the philosophy of Hegel. After Sumer, it covers Egypt, Judaism, Classical philosophy focusing on Plato and Aristotle, Christianity and the Gnostics, the medieval church and the mystics, and the fi nal attempt by philosophers like Rene Descartes and Immanuel Kant to “pin down” the world in a comprehensive philosophy. Th e aim was permanence of explanation describing a world of permanence whose actions refl ected the essential nature of its constituents. Th e second part moves into the modern age with the new physics and biology and the philosophies of William James and Alfred North Whitehead. It shows, for example, how the mind is not the permanent soul, but is rather the manifestation of the body, particularly the brain. Th rough the work of John Dewey and others, it outlines a new activism whereby people don’t accept society as a permanent order, but think of it as constantly subject to improvement. We are not “in” society, but society is in us, and is open to our needs and desires.

Achieving Permanence for Older Children and Youth in Foster Care

Author : Benjamin Kerman,Madelyn Freundlich,Anthony Maluccio
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231146883

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Achieving Permanence for Older Children and Youth in Foster Care by Benjamin Kerman,Madelyn Freundlich,Anthony Maluccio Pdf

Through a novel integration of child welfare data, policy analysis, and evidence-informed youth permanency practice, the essays in this volume show how to achieve and sustain family permanence for older children and youth in foster care. Researchers examine what is known about permanency outcomes for youth in foster care, how the existing knowledge base can be applied to improve these outcomes, and the directions that future research should take to strengthen youth permanence practice and policy. Part 1 examines child welfare data concerning reunification, adoption, and relative custody and guardianship and the implications for practice and policy. Part 2 addresses law, regulation, court reform, and resource allocation as vital components in achieving and sustaining family permanence. Contributors examine the impact of policy change created by court reform and propose new federal and state policy directions. Part 3 outlines a range of practices designed to achieve family permanence for youth in foster care: preserving families through community-based services, reunification, adoption, and custody and guardianship arrangements with relatives. As growing numbers of youth continue to "age out" of foster care without permanent families, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers have increasingly focused on developing evidence-informed policies, practices, services and supports to improve outcomes for youth. Edited by leading professionals in the field, this text recommends the most relevant and effective methods for improving family permanency outcomes for older youth in foster care.

Beyond the Sound Barrier

Author : Kristin K Henson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136726804

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Beyond the Sound Barrier by Kristin K Henson Pdf

Beyond the Sound Barrier examines twentieth-century fictional representations of popular music-particularly jazz-in the fiction of James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and Toni Morrison. Kristin K. Henson argues that an analysis of musical tropes in the work of these four authors suggests that cultural "mixing" constitutes one of the central preoccupations of modernist literature. Valuable for any reader interested in the intersections between American literature and the history of American popular music, Henson situates the literary use of popular music as a culturally amalgamated, boundary-crossing form of expression that reflects and defines modern American identities.

Spatial Ecology via Reaction-Diffusion Equations

Author : Robert Stephen Cantrell,Chris Cosner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-09
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780470871287

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Spatial Ecology via Reaction-Diffusion Equations by Robert Stephen Cantrell,Chris Cosner Pdf

Many ecological phenomena may be modelled using apparently random processes involving space (and possibly time). Such phenomena are classified as spatial in their nature and include all aspects of pollution. This book addresses the problem of modelling spatial effects in ecology and population dynamics using reaction-diffusion models. * Rapidly expanding area of research for biologists and applied mathematicians * Provides a unified and coherent account of methods developed to study spatial ecology via reaction-diffusion models * Provides the reader with the tools needed to construct and interpret models * Offers specific applications of both the models and the methods * Authors have played a dominant role in the field for years Essential reading for graduate students and researchers working with spatial modelling from mathematics, statistics, ecology, geography and biology.

Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature

Author : Douglas S. Duckworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190883959

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Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature by Douglas S. Duckworth Pdf

"Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature is a philosophical overview of Tibetan Buddhist thought. Charting the different ways Buddhist traditions in Tibet configure the relationship between Madhyamaka and Mind-Only, Duckworth shows how these configurations inform the shape of distinct contemplative practices"--

Sounds of Innate Freedom

Author : Karl Brunnhölzl
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781614297093

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Sounds of Innate Freedom by Karl Brunnhölzl Pdf

The second volume in a historic six-volume series containing many of the first English translations of the classic mahamudra literature compiled by the Seventh Karmapa. Sounds of Innate Freedom: The Indian Texts of Mahamudra are historic volumes containing many of the first English translations of the classic mahamudra literature. The texts and songs in these volumes constitute the large compendium called The Indian Texts of the Mahamudra of Definitive Meaning, compiled by the Seventh Karmapa Chötra Gyatso (1456–1539). Translated, introduced, and annotated by Karl Brunnhölzl, acclaimed senior teacher at the Nalandabodhi community of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, the collection offers a brilliant window into the richness of the vast ocean of Indian mahamudra texts cherished in all Tibetan lineages, particularly in the Kagyü tradition, giving us a clear view of the sources of one of the world’s great contemplative traditions. This volume 2 (thirty-four texts) contains two long-established sets of Mahamudra works: “The Sixfold Pith Cycle” and short texts of Maitripa’s “Twenty-Five Dharmas of Mental Nonengagement,” which present a blend of Madhyamaka, Mahamudra, and certain tantric principles, as well as two commentaries by Maitripa’s students. The vital focus of this volume is the accomplishment of true reality.

Digital Scholarly Editions Beyond Text

Author : Tessa Gengnagel
Publisher : arthistoricum.net
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783985011384

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Digital Scholarly Editions Beyond Text by Tessa Gengnagel Pdf

Scholarly editions contextualize our cultural heritage. Traditionally, methodologies from the field of scholarly editing are applied to works of literature, e.g. in order to trace their genesis or present their varied history of transmission. What do we make of the variance in other types of cultural heritage? How can we describe, record, and reproduce it systematically? From medieval to modern times, from image to audiovisual media, the book traces discourses across different disciplines in order to develop a conceptual model for scholarly editions on a broader scale. By doing so, it also delves into the theory and philosophy of the (digital) humanities as such.

Commentary on the Presentation of Madhyamaka In the Treasury of Knowledge

Author : Āchārya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen
Publisher : Nitartha International
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Commentary on the Presentation of Madhyamaka In the Treasury of Knowledge by Āchārya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen Pdf

A presentation of the philosophical tenets of the Madhyamaka tradition of the Mahayana. Based on sections of Jamgön Kongtrul’s Lodrö Thaye’s Treasury of Knowledge, this text focuses on the Madhyamaka presentation of the two truths, the views of the subschools of the tradition (Prasangika and Svatantrika), and the fundamental understanding of emptiness. Includes root text and commentary by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye, translated by Karl Brunnhölzl.

The Karmapa's Middle Way

Author : The Ninth Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje
Publisher : Shambhala
Page : 1119 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781559398732

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The Karmapa's Middle Way by The Ninth Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje Pdf

Marked by eloquent poetry, vigorous and extensive analysis, and heart instructions on breaking through the veils of confusion to independently experience the true nature of things, The Karmapa’s Middle Way contains the Ninth Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje’s comprehensive commentary on the Indian master Chandrakīrti’s seminal text, the Madhyamakāvatāra, or Entrance to the Middle Way. This commentary, Feast for the Fortunate, is the Ninth Karmapa’s abridgement of the Eighth Karmapa Mikyö Dorje’s masterpiece, the Chariot of the Takpo Kagyü Siddhas. In it, readers will find previously unavailable material on the Karmapas’ Middle Way view and a rare window into a philosophically charged era of Middle Way exposition in Tibetan Buddhism. It includes Chandrakīrti’s root text to the Entrance to the Middle Way and its commentary by the Ninth Karmapa; an introduction detailing the history of the Middle Way, key Middle Way philosophical principles, and the main points of each chapter of the text; an annotated translation of a famous excerpt of Chandrakīrti’s Lucid Words; and other useful appendices and reference materials.

Beyond Bergson

Author : Andrea J. Pitts,Mark William Westmoreland
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438473512

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Beyond Bergson by Andrea J. Pitts,Mark William Westmoreland Pdf

Examines Bergson’s work from the perspectives of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory, placing it in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America. Building upon recent interest in Henri Bergson’s social and political philosophy, this volume offers a series of fresh and novel perspectives on Bergson’s writings through the lenses of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory. Contributors place Bergson’s work in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America to examine Bergson’s influence on literature, science studies, aesthetics, metaphysics, and social and political philosophy within these geopolitical contexts. The volume pays particular attention to both theoretical and practical forms of critical resistance work, including historical analyses of anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist movements that have engaged with Bergson’s writings—for example, the Négritude movement, the Indigenismo movement, and the Peruvian Socialist Party. These historical and theoretical intersections provide a timely and innovative contribution to the existing scholarship on Bergson, and demonstrate the importance of his thought for contemporary social and political issues. “This is an exceptionally strong volume that excites and inspires the philosophical imagination; it shows the centrality of questions of race and gender to philosophical inquiry and appropriation.” — Keith Ansell-Pearson, author of Bergson: Thinking Beyond the Human Condition

Beyond Posthumanism

Author : Alexander Mathäs
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789205640

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Beyond Posthumanism by Alexander Mathäs Pdf

Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities—both in terms of their individual achievements and their collective embodiment of the values that inform modern humanistic inquiry. Taking full account of the manifold challenges that the humanities face today, this volume recasts the question of their viability by tracing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. Through insightful analyses of key texts, Alexander Mathäs mounts a broad defense of the humanistic tradition, emphasizing its pursuit of a universal ethics and ability to render human experiences comprehensible through literary imagination.

Beyond Boundaries

Author : Andy Hollis
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : National characteristics, European
ISBN : 9042015438

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Beyond Boundaries by Andy Hollis Pdf

Despite the recent growth in university courses on European Studies and Cultural Studies, and notwithstanding increasing public concern about questions of national identity within Europe, there is currently little material available which explores the diversity of European identities specifically within the context of European literary and filmic culture. In tackling ten novels, six plays, four films, three short stories, three books of travel writing and one diary, covering fifteen nationalities in all, the authors of this volume are seeking to fill this gap. The twelve essays contain detailed textual analysis embedded within a framework of cultural theory whose most celebrated reference points include Freud, Edward Said, Benedict Anderson and Homi Bhabha. This volume is aimed not only at specialists in identity studies and those concerned with the artistic landscape of a wider Europe - including Russia, the Balkans, Finland and Turkey. It will also interest those preoccupied with building an imaginative and imagined identity for Europe, an identity which might help to sustain it as a political entity and lend it greater popular legitimacy than it enjoys at present.

Finding Our True Home

Author : Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher : Parallax Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781888375343

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Finding Our True Home by Thich Nhat Hanh Pdf

Finding Our True Home presents a new definitive translation of the Amitabha Sutra along with Thich Nhat Hanh’s first commentary on one of the most practiced forms of Buddhism in the world, the Pure Land school. Introduced in the Buddha’s own lifetime, Pure Land practice puts us in touch with the beauty in our own world and brings us the security, solidity, and freedom we need in order to truly enjoy it. Realizing that Buddha is within us, we see that the Pure Land (paradise) is here and now, rather than in the future. Finding Our True Home will open a new Dharma door to many students of meditation.

Beyond Homelessness

Author : Steven Bouma-Prediger,Brain J. Walsh
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780802846921

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Beyond Homelessness by Steven Bouma-Prediger,Brain J. Walsh Pdf

This book is a brilliant use of metaphor that makes clear why the world leaves us feeling so uneasy!

Beyond Homo Sapiens

Author : Mariú Suárez
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781456887803

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Beyond Homo Sapiens by Mariú Suárez Pdf

Beyond Homo Sapiens – Enlightened Faith, is the last book of the Beyond Homo Sapiens trilogy. It concludes the series’ mystical/political review of the historical events of the last 5,000 years with the struggle of progressive thinkers and activists to help people recognize their universality and achieve enlightenment during the last 140 years. The ongoing fight for human rights and social justice is a battle against the interests of the privileged few who work to stay in power by keeping the masses anchored in their automatic reactions of self-defense and in-fighting, immediate gratification and reproduction. Advances in human knowledge can lead us to our next phase of evolution, one that must be made consciously. Quantum physics has shown us that the wall of separation we perceive between everything that exists in the universe and therefore, between matter and energy, subject and object, is not really there. Matter is not solid and space is not empty. The same particles that make up a table are interwoven with the air around it and with the table’s owner. Once all of humanity accepts this vision of matter as a single but multiform creative energy event, we can begin a new era and the possibility of enlightened faith.