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Replacement Costs and Accounting Reform in Post-World War I Germany

Replacement Costs and Accounting Reform in Post-World War I Germany

Originally published in 1990 this anthology of articles from the German financial and industrial press translated into English for this volume discusses the socio/politico/economic background that was a catalyst for the development of replacement cost accounting ideas in Europe and Anglo-American countries. The contributions to the replacement cost debate contained in this anthology in general defended depeciation and cost accumulation based on replacement cost. If industry and the German economy were to prosper in a time of social economic and political chaos in the immediate post World War I period replacement cost accounting was considered essential. | Replacement Costs and Accounting Reform in Post-World War I Germany

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The Politics of Replacement Demographic Fears Conspiracy Theories and Race Wars

The Politics of Replacement Demographic Fears Conspiracy Theories and Race Wars

The Politics of Replacement explores current demographic conspiracy theories and their entanglement with different forms of racism and exclusionary politics such as sexism. The book focuses on population replacement conspiracy theories that is those imaginaries and discourses centered on the idea that the national population is under threat of being overtaken or even wiped out by those considered as “alien” to the nation and that this is the result of concerted efforts by “elites”. Replacement conspiracy theories are on the rise again: from Eurabia fantasies to Renaud Camus’ The Great Replacement white supremacist discourses are thriving and increasingly broadcasting in mainstream venues. To account for their rise and spread this edited volume brings together research on various dimensions of population replacement conspiracy theories: different theoretical and methodological approaches different social scientific and humanities (inter)disciplinary backgrounds different geographical case studies (across Europe North America Southeast Asia and Oceania) different time periods (medieval archives colonial archives Nazi archives postcolonial migrations post-9/11) and different forms of racialization and racisms (Islamophobia antisemitism racism against migrants and refugees). It also explores the entanglement of population replacement discourse with gendered violence. The book is organized into four sections: (1) exploring the historical background of the current rise of demographic conspiracy theories; (2) tracing the (neoliberal) governmentalities in and through which replacement discourse operates; (3) analyzing the particularly intense focus on the threat of Muslims in contemporary replacement conspiracy theories and (4) investigating the connection between replacement conspiracies gender and violence. This title is essential reading for scholars journalists and activists interested in the contemporary far right conspiracy theories and racisms. | The Politics of Replacement Demographic Fears Conspiracy Theories and Race Wars

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End User Searching in the Health Sciences

End User Searching in the Health Sciences

This book first published in 1986 provides a comprehensive and detailed look at online biomedical database searching by end users. Experts fully assess the numerous implications of end user searching and synthesize a wide variety of views and successful practices. By examining the types of users institutional settings products used and applications this important volume probes the specific variations among programs and provides a solid overview of end user searching in the health science field. The volume includes informative chapters on determining content and structure of online educational materials training the end user the issues in implementing end user search systems and much more. | End User Searching in the Health Sciences

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End-User Training for Sci-Tech Databases

End-User Training for Sci-Tech Databases

This book first published in 1990 analyses how to train end-users to search with both natural language and controlled vocabularies in the sciences describes a planning assessment for implementing end-user searching in a sci-tech organization examines how the scientists at a major industrial research organization have begun to do more online searching with the encouragement of the information center and explores the proactive role that medical libraries have taken in training health care professionals to search MEDLINE. | End-User Training for Sci-Tech Databases

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Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk Screening the End of Tourism

Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk Screening the End of Tourism

In today’s world the need to eliminate natural and human-made disasters has been at the forefront of national and international socio-political agendas. The management of risks such as terrorism labour strikes protests and environmental degradation has become pivotal for countries that depend on their economy’s tourist sector. Indeed there is fear that that ‘the end of tourism’ might be nigh due to inadequate institutional foresight. Yet in designing relevant policies to tackle this arts such as that of filmmaking have yet to receive due consideration. This book adopts an unorthodox approach to debates about ‘the end of tourism’. Through twenty-first century cinematic narratives of symbolically interconnected ‘risks’ it considers how art envisages the future of humanity’s well-being. These ‘risks’ include: migration as an infectious disease; alien incursions as racialized labour mobilities; cyborg rebellion as the fear of post-colonial otherness; and zombie anthropophagy as the replacement of rooted identities by nomadic lifestyles. Such filmic scenarios articulate the futuristic survival of community as the triumph of the technological human over otherness and provide a means to debate societal risks that weave identity politics into unequal mobilities. This book will appeal to researchers and students interested in mobilities theory tourism and travel theory film studies and aesthetics globalisation studies race labour and migration. | Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk Screening the End of Tourism

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Double Trouble The Doppelgänger from Romanticism to Postmodernism

Double Trouble The Doppelgänger from Romanticism to Postmodernism

The double doppelgänger is mostly understood as a peculiar figure that emerged in nineteenth-century Romantic and gothic literature. Far from being a merely esoteric entity however this book argues that the double although it mostly goes unnoticed is a widespread phenomenon that has significant influence on our lives. It is an inherent key element of human subjectivity whose functions forms and effects have not yet gained the serious consideration they merit. Drawing on literature philosophy and psychoanalysis and combining a personal story with theoretical interventions Double Trouble develops a novel understanding of the double and human subjectivity in the last two centuries. It begins with the singular and narcissistic double of Romanticism and gradually moves to the multiple doubles implicated by Postmodernism. The double is what defies unicity and opens up the subject to multiplicity. Consequently it gradually emerges as a bridge between the I and the Other identity and difference philosophy and literature theory and praxis. | Double Trouble The Doppelgänger from Romanticism to Postmodernism

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Social Work Practice and End-of-Life Care

Social Work Practice and End-of-Life Care

This book draws together the learning of a wide range of social workers and other professionals engaged in end of life care who recognise that dying is essentially a social experience and want to tailor a personal professional and societal response accordingly. Through a systemic lens the book explores the nature and experience of living and dying in the UK today then considers ways in which social workers and others may want to work with people who are affected by a diagnosis of a life-threatening condition. The contributors offer rich and contemporary perspectives on death dying and loss reflective of their different approaches and interests. The insights of the book are timely given the growing levels and changing nature of needs for people who are coming to the end of their life in the UK and beyond and the related requirements for compassionate personalised and holistic care within the increasingly professionalised arena of health and social care. This book will be of interest to social work practitioners students and others committed to psychosocial support of people who are dying or bereaved and who want to consider how to provide this support most effectively. Professionals who are interested in working alongside social workers to deliver high quality end of life care will also find this publication useful. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work Practice. | Social Work Practice and End-of-Life Care

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The Principle of Double Effect A History and Philosophical Defense

The Principle of Double Effect A History and Philosophical Defense

This book offers a comprehensive history of the principle of double effect and its applications in ethics. Written from a non-theological perspective it makes the case for the centrality of the double effect reasoning in philosophical ethics. The book is divided into two parts. The first part thoroughly examines the history of double effect reasoning. The author’s history spans from Thomas Aquinas’s opera omnia to the modern and influential understanding of the principle known as proportionalism. The second part of the book elucidates the principle and addresses various objections that have been raised against it including those that arise from an in-depth discussion of the trolley problem. Finally the author examines the role of intentions in ethical thinking and constructs a novel defense of the principle based on fine distinctions between intentions. The Principle of Double Effect: A History and Philosophical Defense will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in moral philosophy the history of ethics bioethics medical ethics and the Catholic moral tradition. | The Principle of Double Effect A History and Philosophical Defense

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Freedom to Choose How to Make End-of-life Decisions on Your Own Terms

Freedom to Choose How to Make End-of-life Decisions on Your Own Terms

Freedom of Information in a Post 9-11 World is to date the first international scholarly examination of the impact of the terrorist attack on the United States in terms of how it may alter academic and corporate research as well as the sharing of information generated by that research by international colleagues in technological fields. The collection of essays brings together a widely varied panel of communications experts from different backgrounds and cultures to focus their expertise on the ramifications of this world-changing event. Drawing upon the related but separate disciplines of law interpersonal communication semiotics rhetoric management information sciences and education the collection adds new insight to the potential future challenges high-tech professionals and academics will face in a global community that now seems much less communal than it did prior to September 11 2001. In Freedom to Choose: How to Make End-of-Life Decisions on Your Own Terms young persons baby boomers and senior citizens alike will find the information they need to make intelligent informed and well-planned decisions about end-of-life care and to clearly state their wishes based on personal cultural religious and family values. In direct and simple language Dr. Burnell describes how to prepare for a smooth transition to end-of-life care and what to do to prevent family conflicts overcome death fears and anxiety and achieve peace of mind for our loved ones and ourselves. The book gives practical advice on how to make decisions about end-of-life care and how to prepare a living will and durable power of attorney for health care. Dr. Burnell provides guidelines at the end of each chapter on what to consider before preparing these important documents: how to preserve one's rights as a patient; how to choose the right doctor; the best place to be when critically ill; the laws governing advance directives; and the best alternatives for end-of-life care such as good pain control and assisted dying (where this is legal). Freedom to Choose provides a user-friendly approach to facing these difficult decisions. It includes extensive lists of resources and organizations and a glossary necessary for understanding the issues at hand. As this book makes clear preparing an advance directive and knowing all the available options at the end of life are the most important steps for achieving peace of mind. The primary audience is anyone young or old who needs to prepare a set of advance directives: healthy people for themselves or their loved ones who are seriously ill or on life support and people with a terminal illness. The secondary audience is health professionals who deal with people in end-of-life care or with decision-makers on end-of-life issues: primary care physicians; nurses; geriatricians; psychiatrists; hospice doctors nurses and volunteer staff; caregivers for the seriously ill; oncologists; interns and residents; counselors; family therapists; psychologists; social workers who work with the dying and bereaved; attorneys; thanatologists; estate planning advisors; senior citizen center staff; college teachers in death and dying courses; professionals taking courses in psychology gerontology thanatology nursing and social work. | Freedom to Choose How to Make End-of-life Decisions on Your Own Terms

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Older Citizens and End-of-Life Care Social Work Practice Strategies for Adults in Later Life

Older Citizens and End-of-Life Care Social Work Practice Strategies for Adults in Later Life

Older people are like younger people citizens in the communities of the nations in which they live. This book sees ageing as a life journey that incorporates a process of citizening in which people build their identity as part of their family and community. But the social experience of illness frailty disability and reaching the end of life may de-citizen older people by devaluing the social identity that comes from continuing social engagement. We de-citizen older people by emphasizing dependence on services and their cost to public expenditure instead of valuing the interdependence of participation and mutual respect. This book argues that older people retain full citizenship for the whole of their lives up to the moment of death; but what does this mean for health and social care? In this groundbreaking book Malcolm Payne argues that social work with older people must build re-citizening practice strategies to value both the common and the special aspects of the citizenship of older people. Current models of social care and social work create dependency rather than relying on values of participative interdependence. The failure to recognize the end of life as a crucial element in all social care and social work for older people means that the lessons learned in providing palliative and end-of-life care in healthcare have not been transferred to social care and the priorities of end-of-life care have not been adequately encompassed in social work with older people. | Older Citizens and End-of-Life Care Social Work Practice Strategies for Adults in Later Life

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Double Exposure Memory and Photography

Double Exposure Memory and Photography

Over the past decade historians and sociologists have increasingly used visual materials in particular photographs in their work. This volume brings together historians sociologists anthropologists and media and visual scholars to articulate how photography as a practice and as a visual medium can provide insights into national memory collective identities and the historical imagination. This collection allows the reader to trace parallel conceptual developments occurring in the sociology and anthropology of memory and in the history and theory of photography and to illustrate the unique angles of vision these disciplines offer. Photographic images commonly accompany historical accounts from documentaries to family scrapbooks and since the early days of commercial photography pictures have been viewed as tools to capture memories. Later critical writing has challenged this equation by inverting it: photos along with other archival practices were often viewed as falling short of their supposed function as vessels of memory and at times even denounced as devices that distorted memories. How does photography participate in the formation and maintenance of collective identities and shared memory discourses from the family to the nation? Furthermore how can we begin to conceptualize photography's effects on the historical imagination of individuals and groups? Double Exposure endeavors to answer these questions by calling attention to the variety of contexts in which images circulate and to the narratives from which they spring and which they in turn shape. This is the latest volume in Transaction's Memory and Narrative series. | Double Exposure Memory and Photography

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Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall

Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall

Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is a collection of fifteen essays dealing with ‘iconic’ film composers who perhaps to the surprise of many fans of film music nevertheless maintained lifelong careers as composers for the concert hall. Featured composers include Erich Wolfgang Korngold Franz Waxman Miklós Rózsa Bernard Herrmann Nino Rota Leonard Rosenman and Ennio Morricone. Progressing in chronological order the chapters offer accounts of the various composers’ concert-hall careers and descriptions of their concert-hall styles. Each chapter compares the composer’s music for films with his or her music for the concert hall and speculates as to how music in one arena might have affected music in the other. For each composer discussed in the book complete filmographies and complete works lists are included as appendices. Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is accessible for scholars researchers and general readers with an interest in film music and concert music.

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A History of Religion in America From the End of the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

A History of Religion in America From the End of the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

A History of Religion in America: From the End of the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century provides comprehensive coverage of the history of religion in America from the end of the American Civil War to religion in post 9/11 America. The volume explores major religious groups in the United States and examines the following topics: The aftermath of the American Civil War Immigration’s impact on American religion The rise of the social gospel The fundamentalist response Religion in Cold War America The 60’s counterculture and the backlash Religion in Post-9/11 America Chronologically arranged and integrating various religious developments into a coherent historical narrative this book also contains useful chapter summaries and review questions. Designed for undergraduate religious studies and history students A History of Religion in America provides a substantive and comprehensive introduction to the complexity of religion in American history. | A History of Religion in America From the End of the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

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The Ongoing End: On the Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative

The Ongoing End: On the Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative

The world keeps turning to apocalypticism. Time is imagined as proceeding ineluctably to a catastrophic perhaps revelatory conclusion. Even when evacuated of distinctly religious content a broadly ecclesial structure persists in conceptions of our precarious life and our collective journey to an inevitable fate—the extinction of the human species. It is commonly believed that we are propelled along this course by human turpitude myopia hubris or ignorance and by the irreparable damage we have wrought to the world we inhabit. Yet this apprehension is insidious. Such teleological convictions and crises-laden narratives lead us to undervalue contingent hesitant and provisional forms of experience and knowledge. The essays comprising this volume concern a range of writers’ engagements with apocalyptic reasoning. Extending from a reading of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Triumph of Life’ to critiques of contemporary American novels they examine the ways in which ‘end times’ reasoning can inhibit imaginative reflection blunt political advocacy or – more positively – provide a repertoire for the critique of complacency. By gathering essays concerning a wide range of periods and literary dispositions this volume makes an important contribution to thinking about apocalypticism in literature but also as a social and political discourse. This book was originally published as a special issue of Studia Neophilologica. | The Ongoing End: On the Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative

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Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016 The End of the Illusion

Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016 The End of the Illusion

Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016: The End of the Illusion examines the situation in the Taiwan Strait since the election of Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party in the January 2016 general elections. Tracking the pragmatic approach taken by the Tsai administration this book positions the recent developments within a changing geopolitical context and analyzes Beijing’s reactions to an environment which has become increasingly skeptical of its intentions. It shows that despite President Tsai’s commitment to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait and pro-democracy policies which have been well received by the international community Xi Jinping continues to advocate for a unification policy which remains very unpopular in Taiwan. With in-depth on-the-ground analysis based on access to various government actors in Taiwan and abroad the author takes a deep dive into a highly complex relationship that is often misunderstood abroad with stakes that have direct implications for the future stability of the Indo-Pacific region. The first English language book to provide a full assessment of the four years of DPP rule since 2016 this book will be useful to students and scholars of Asian Studies and Taiwan Studies as well as Security Studies Politics and International Relations. | Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016 The End of the Illusion

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US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order 1988-1994

US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order 1988-1994

This book investigates the end of the Cold War in Africa and its impact on post-Cold War US foreign policy in the continent. The fall of the Berlin Wall is widely considered the end of the Cold War; however it documents just one of the many ends since the Cold War was a global conflict. This book looks at one of the most neglected extra-European battlegrounds the African continent and explores how American foreign policy developed in this region between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Drawing on a wide range of recently disclosed documents the book shows that the Cold War in Africa ended in 1988 preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall. It also reveals how since then some of the most controversial and inconsistent episodes of post-Cold War US foreign policy in Africa have been deeply rooted in the unique process whereby American rivalry with the USSR found its end in the continent. The book challenges the traditional narrative by presenting an original perspective on the study of the end of the Cold War and provides new insights into the shaping of US foreign policy during the so-called ‘unipolar moment’. This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War history US foreign policy African politics and international relations. | US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order 1988-1994

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Populations At Risk In America Vulnerable Groups At The End Of The Twentieth Century

Populations At Risk In America Vulnerable Groups At The End Of The Twentieth Century

As this century draws to a close and the new one approaches the United States is still struggling with serious and persistent social problems. These troubling dilemmas including poverty homelessness discrimination and severe inequity afflict some subgroups of the population more than others and it is the plight of these at-risk groups—childr | Populations At Risk In America Vulnerable Groups At The End Of The Twentieth Century

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American Evangelicals for Trump Dominion Spiritual Warfare and the End Times

American Evangelicals for Trump Dominion Spiritual Warfare and the End Times

This book introduces the American Evangelical movement and the role it played in the support of Donald Trump. Specifically it focuses on the Neocharismatic-Pentecostal (NCP) leaders their beliefs and their political strategies. The author examines why 81% of white evangelicals voted for Trump in 2016 and why he still received between 76% and 81% of their vote in 2020 despite losing the presidency. Additionally the book discusses how NCP leaders are part of the Christian Right a religious coalition with a political agenda centered on controversial issues such as anti-abortion activism opposition to LGBTQ+ rights and the protection of religious freedom. Structured around the three main ideas inspiring NCP leaders who supported Trump in 2016 and 2020—Dominion Spiritual Warfare and Eschatology (the End Times)—the book examines how these ideas have sustained the evangelicals close to U. S. political power in the Trump era. In light of the potential for Trump's return to power in 2024 the book serves as a warning of what a renewed alliance between Trump and his former NCP supporters could bring. It is an essential read for all students and researchers of Evangelicalism Religion in America Political Theology or Religion and Politics. | American Evangelicals for Trump Dominion Spiritual Warfare and the End Times

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Schizophrenia and Genetics The End of An Illusion

Schizophrenia and Genetics The End of An Illusion

Schizophrenia is a widely investigated psychiatric condition and though there have been claims of gene associations decades of molecular genetic studies have failed to produce confirmed causative genes. In this book Joseph focuses on the methodological shortcomings of schizophrenia genetic research. His findings have major implications not only on how we understand the causes of schizophrenia and other psychiatric conditions but also on how we understand the causes of human behavior in general. Chapters explore the differing theoretical concepts of schizophrenia molecular genetic research around schizophrenia family twin and adoption studies and non-medical prevention and intervention strategies. Prominent researchers and studies in the field are discussed and critiqued comprehensively throughout. This book is essential reading for psychiatrists psychologists behavioral scientists and anyone interested in the causes of human behavior. | Schizophrenia and Genetics The End of An Illusion

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Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases

Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases

Chronic diseases—cardiovascular disease cancer chronic respiratory disease and diabetes—are not only the principal cause of world-wide mortality but also are now responsible for a striking increase in the percentage of sickness in developing countries still grappling with the acute problems of infectious diseases. This double disease burden poses demanding questions concerning the organisation of health care allocation of scarce resources and strategies for disease prevention control and treatment; and it threatens not only improvement in health status but economic development in the many poorer countries of the Asia Pacific region. This book presents an historical account of the development of the double disease burden in Asia and the Pacific a region which has experienced great economic social demographic and political change. With in-depth analysis of more than fifteen countries this volume examines the impact of the double disease burden on health care regimes resource allocation strategies for prevention and control on the wealthiest nations in the region as well as the smallest Pacific islands. In doing so the contributors to this book elaborate on the notion of the double disease burden as discussed by epidemiologists and present real policy responses whilst demonstrating how vital health is to economic development. Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific will be of great value to both scholars and policy makers in the fields of public health the history of medicine as well as to those with a wider interest in the Asia-Pacific region. | Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases

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The End of Morality Taking Moral Abolitionism Seriously

The End of Morality Taking Moral Abolitionism Seriously

According to the moral error theorist all moral judgments are mistaken. The world just doesn’t contain the properties and relations necessary for these judgments to be true. But what should we actually do if we decided that we are in this radical and unsettling predicament—that morality is just a widespread and heartfelt illusion? One suggestion is to eliminate all talk and thought of morality (abolitionism). Another is to carry on believing it anyway (conservationism). And yet another is to treat morality as a kind of convenient fiction (fictionalism). We tend to think of moral thinking as valuable and useful (e. g. for motivating cooperative behavior) but we can also recognize that it can be harmful (e. g. hindering compromise) and even disastrous (e. g. inspiring support for militaristic propaganda). Would we be better off or worse off if we stopped basing decisions on moral considerations?This is a collection of twelve brand new chapters focused on a critical examination of the options available to the moral error theorist. After a general introduction outlining the topic explaining key terminology and offering suggestions for further reading the chapters address questions like:• Is it true that the more that people are motivated by moral concerns the more likely it is that society will be elitist authoritarian and dishonest?• Is an appeal to moral values a useful tool for helping resolve conflicts or does it actually exacerbate conflicts?• Would it even be possible to abolish morality from our thinking? • If we were to accept a moral error theory would it be feasible to carry on believing in morality in everyday contexts?• Might moral discourse be usefully modeled on familiar metaphorical language where we can convey useful and important truths by uttering falsehoods?• Does moral thinking support or undermine a commitment to feminist goals?• What role do moral judgments play in addressing important decisions affecting climate change?The End of Morality: Taking Moral Abolitionism Seriously is the first book to thoroughly address these and other questions systematically investigating the harms and benefits of moral thought and considering what the world might be like without morality. | The End of Morality Taking Moral Abolitionism Seriously

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Frankenstein Urbanism Eco Smart and Autonomous Cities Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City

Frankenstein Urbanism Eco Smart and Autonomous Cities Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City

This book tells the story of visionary urban experiments shedding light on the theories that preceded their development and on the monsters that followed and might be the end of our cities. The narrative is threefold and delves first into the eco-city second the smart city and third the autonomous city intended as a place where existing smart technologies are evolving into artificial intelligences that are taking the management of the city out of the hands of humans. The book empirically explores Masdar City in Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong to provide a critical analysis of eco and smart city experiments and their sustainability and it draws on numerous real-life examples to illustrate the rise of urban artificial intelligences across different geographical spaces and scales. Theoretically the book traverses philosophy urban studies and planning theory to explain the passage from eco and smart cities to the autonomous city and to reflect on the meaning and purpose of cities in a time when human and non-biological intelligences are irreversibly colliding in the built environment. Iconoclastic and prophetic Frankenstein Urbanism is both an examination of the evolution of urban experimentation through the lens of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and a warning about an urbanism whose product resembles Frankenstein’s monster: a fragmented entity which escapes human control and human understanding. Academics students and practitioners will find in this book the knowledge that is necessary to comprehend and engage with the many urban experiments that are now alive ready to leave the laboratory and enter our cities. | Frankenstein Urbanism Eco Smart and Autonomous Cities Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City

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