Nepal
Until 1951 Nepal was closed to the world, landlocked between the strongest Asian powers, India and China. With its exceptional landscape, it touts the highest mountains and the greatest biodiversity on earth. It is best known as the home of Mt. Ev...
Hinduism
Hinduism is currently followed by one-fifth of humankind. Far from a monolithic theistic tradition, the religion comprises thousands of gods, a complex caste system, and hundreds of languages and dialects. Such internal plurality inspires vastly r...
Power of You
Practical, motivating, and inspiring ways to unleash your potential--from one of today's most exciting spiritual teachers You are a masterpiece. You have everything you need right now to create your life exactly as you want it to be. Successful people will often say that when they're at their peak performance level, they feel a sense of some 'other presence' with them--something beyond themselves. That 'other presence' seems bigger than their own talent or personality. 'The Power of You' guides readers in discovering the 'other presence' that resides within all of us. As author and spiritual director Chris Michaels shows, once we are able to tap into this presence, we can use it to help improve every aspect of our lives.
Do You Remember Being Born?
A Best Book of 2023 - Marie Claire, Inside Hook, Our Culture Magazine, WIRED "[A] timely and lovely new novel."¿-Lincoln Michel, The New York Times Book Review "A compassionate and lyrical portrait . . . Do You Remember Being ...
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Democracy's Victory and Crisis
The contributors to this volume, first published in 1997, address questions central to the development and survival of democratic rule. Brought together under the auspices of a Nobel Symposium on democracy, leading experts in the field examine his...
Democracy and Development
This book is a thorough investigation into the requisites of democracy. Based on data from 132 sovereign states of the Third World, it first establishes a scale to measure the level of democracy existing in these countries. The author discusses va...
Idea of Socialism
The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet today it seems to have lost much of its appeal. Despite growing discontent, many would hesitate to invoke socialism...
Gunpowder Technology in the Fifteenth Century
The first full edition and English translation of the RA I.34 Firework Book. Produced from the early fifteenth century onwards, Firework Books are, broadly speaking, manuals on how to use gunpowder, witnessing a major development in warfare. Survi...
Armando Ruinelli Architetti
Rarely is an architect as closely connected to his or her place of work as is the case with Armando Ruinelli, born 1954, and his native village of Soglio in Val Bregaglia, Switzerland. Yet, far from what one might expect with such a small and remo...
Poverty of Our Freedom
There is no normative concept more appealing today than the idea of individual freedom. Political party manifestos are drawn up, legal reforms are defended, military interventions are undertaken, even decisions in personal relationships are justif...
Political and Social Thought in Post-Communist Russia
This is the first comprehensive study of Russian political and social thought in the post-Communist era. The book portrays and critically examines the conceptual and theoretical attempts by Russian scholars and political thinkers to make sense of ...
Recognition
The idea that we are mutually dependent on the recognition of our peers is at least as old as modernity. Across Europe, this idea has been understood in different ways from the very beginning, according to each country's different cultural and pol...
Location-Based Services
Location-based Services (LBSs) are mobile services for providing information that has been created, compiled, selected or filtered under consideration of the users' current locations or those of other persons or mobile devices. Typical examples ar...
Are Filter Bubbles Real?
There has been much concern over the impact of partisan echo chambers and filter bubbles on public debate. Is this concern justified, or is it distracting us from more serious issues? Axel Bruns argues that the influence of echo chambers and filte...
Are Filter Bubbles Real?
There has been much concern over the impact of partisan echo chambers and filter bubbles on public debate. Is this concern justified, or is it distracting us from more serious issues? Axel Bruns argues that the influence of echo chambers and filte...
I in We
In this volume Axel Honneth deepens and develops his highly influential theory of recognition, showing how it enables us both to rethink the concept of justice and to offer a compelling account of the relationship between social reproduction and i...
Freedom's Right
The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have only attained their high level of justification at great cost. By focusing on purely normative, abstract principle...
Institutions and Democratic Citizenship
This volume examines the nature and role of democratic citizenship, the conditions necessary for its development, and its relationship to the key institutions of the state. Comparing and contrasting the patterns of political development and practi...
Struggle for Recognition
In this book Axel Honneth re-examines arguments put forward by Hegel and claims that the 'struggle for recognition' should be at the centre of social conflicts.
Thermodynamic Foundations of the Earth System
Thermodynamics sets fundamental laws for all physical processes and is central to driving and maintaining planetary dynamics. But how do Earth system processes perform work, where do they derive energy from, and what are the limits? This accessibl...
Working Sovereign
What role does the organisation of labour relations play in the health of a democratic society? Axel Honneth's major new work is devoted to answering this question.¿ His central thesis is that participation in democratic will formation can only pr...
Disrespect
Over the last decade, Axel Honneth has established himself as one of the leading social and political philosophers in the world today. Rooted in the tradition of critical theory, his writings have been central to the revitalization of critical the...
Deleuze, Philosophy and the Creation of Concepts
One feature of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy is its effort to establish connections with other disciplines and to appeal to non-philosophers. However, Deleuze never establishes these connections without a constant and unconditional reaffirmation of ...
Homo Ritualis
Homo Ritualis
