Автор: Cappelen, Herman (professor Of Philosophy, Univers Название: Bad language ISBN: 0198839650 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198839651 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 25330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Bad Language is the first textbook on an emerging area in the study of language: non-idealized language use, the linguistic behaviour of people who exploit language for malign purposes. This lively, accessible introduction offers theoretical frameworks for thinking about such topics as lies and bullshit, slurs and insults, coercion and silencing.
What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead
If recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative example. But that insight is hardly new. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars, perhaps the greatest negative leadership book of all time. He was ideally suited to write about terrible political leaders; after all, he was also the author of Famous Prostitutes and Words of Insult, both sadly lost. In How to Be a Bad Emperor, Josiah Osgood provides crisp new translations of Suetonius's briskly paced, darkly comic biographies of the Roman emperors Julius Caesar, Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero. Entertaining and shocking, the stories of these ancient anti-role models show how power inflames leaders' worst tendencies, causing almost incalculable damage.
Complete with an introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Be a Bad Emperor is a both a gleeful romp through some of the nastiest bits of Roman history and a perceptive account of leadership gone monstrously awry. We meet Caesar, using his aunt's funeral to brag about his descent from gods and kings--and hiding his bald head with a comb-over and a laurel crown; Tiberius, neglecting public affairs in favor of wine, perverse sex, tortures, and executions; the insomniac sadist Caligula, flaunting his skill at cruel put-downs; and the matricide Nero, indulging his mania for public performance.
In a world bristling with strongmen eager to cast themselves as the Caesars of our day, How to Be a Bad Emperor is a delightfully enlightening guide to the dangers of power without character.
Автор: Cohen Carl Название: Both Wrong and Bad: Preference by Race ISBN: 1478797703 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478797708 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 14670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In 1887, Tip O`Neill, left fielder for the St. Louis Browns, won the American Association batting championship with a .492 average. Over the next 130 years, the debate about O`Neill`s ""correct"" average diverted attention from the other batting feats of his record-breaking season, including numerous multi-hit games, streaks and long hits.
Автор: Peterson Название: Bad English ISBN: 1138237477 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138237476 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 40820.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Making Sense of "Bad English" is an accessible introduction to attitudes and ideologies towards the use of English around the world. The book provides an engaging and thought-provoking overview of this topic and is essential reading for any student studying sociolinguistics within a global setting.
Автор: Sosa David Название: Bad Words ISBN: 0198758650 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198758655 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 80250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: What makes a word bad? On the one hand, slurs and other derogatory language appear to be meaningful - different slurs can seem to refer to different groups, for example. On the other hand, slurs can seem to be just an arbitrary tool for insulting or enabling harm. How is the meaning of a slur related to its practical uses?
Автор: Mark P. Worrell Название: Disintegration: Bad Love, Collective Suicide, and the Idols of Imperial Twilight: Volume Two of Sacrifice and Self-Defeat ISBN: 9004341404 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004341401 Издательство: Brill Цена: 192590.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Together again for the first time, Marx and Durkheim join forces in the pages of Disintegration: Bad Love, Collective Suicide, and the Idols of Imperial Twilight for a dialectical exploration of the moral economy of neoliberalism, animated, as it is not only by the capitalist chase for surplus value, but also by an immortal vortex of sacred powers. Classical sociology and psychoanalysis are reconstituted within Hegelian social ontology and dialectical method that differentiates between the ephemeral and free and the eternal and fixed aspects of modern life.
Автор: Shrader-Frechette Kristin Название: Tainted: How Philosophy of Science Can Expose Bad Science ISBN: 019060381X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190603816 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 88820.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This is the first book on practical philosophy of science and how to practically evaluate scientific findings that have life-and-death consequences. Showing how to uncover scores of scientific flaws typically used by special interests who try to justify their deadly pollution this book aims to liberate the many potential victims of environmentally-induced disease and death.
Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today's epidemic of irrationality
There is an epidemic of bad thinking in the world today. An alarming number of people are embracing crazy, even dangerous, ideas. They believe that vaccinations cause autism. They reject the scientific consensus on climate change as a "hoax." And they blame the spread of COVID-19 on the 5G network or a Chinese cabal. Worse, bad thinking drives bad acting--it even inspired a mob to storm the U.S. Capitol. In this book, Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro argue that the best antidote for bad thinking and acting is the wisdom, insights, and practical skills of philosophy. When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People provides an engaging tour through the basic principles of logic, argument, evidence, and probability that can make all of us more reasonable and responsible citizens. When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People shows how we can more readily spot and avoid flawed arguments and unreliable information; determine whether evidence supports or contradicts an idea; distinguish between merely believing something and knowing it; and much more. In doing so, the book reveals how epistemology, which addresses the nature of belief and knowledge, and ethics, the study of moral principles that should govern our behavior, can reduce bad thinking and bad action. Moreover, the book shows why philosophy's millennia-old advice about how to lead a good, rational, and examined life is essential for escaping our current predicament. In a world in which irrationality has exploded to deadly effect, When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People is a timely and essential guide for a return to reason.
Автор: Runciman W. G. Название: Great Books, Bad Arguments: "Republic, Leviathan, " and "The Communist Manifesto " ISBN: 0691144761 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691144764 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 29570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Plato`s "Republic", Hobbes` "Leviathan", and Marx`s "Communist Manifesto" are universally acknowledged classics of Western political thought. But how strong are the core arguments on which they base their visions of the good society that they want to bring into being? This book shows where and why they fail.
Автор: Wos Dan J. Название: Good Gun Bad Guy 2: Destroying the Anti-Gun Narrative ISBN: 069298464X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692984642 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 39300.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
