Discovering Reality

Discovering Reality
Author: Sandra Harding
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401001014

This collection of essays, first published two decades ago, presents central feminist critiques and analyses of natural and social sciences and their philosophies. This work provides a splendid opportunity for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy and the social sciences to explore some of the most intriguing and controversial challenges to disciplinary projects and to public policy today.

Exploring Reality and Its Uncertainties

Exploring Reality and Its Uncertainties
Author: Ernest Krausz
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2010-10-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1836241682

Using the tools of science, philosophy and the social sciences, this book explores the numerous facets of what we understand reality to mean. It focuses on the human side, especially on the individual experience of reality as manifested through personality, cognitive power, self-consciousness, and rationalistic and communicative endowments.

Discover Zen

Discover Zen
Author: David Fontana
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2001-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780811831963

This illustrated and inspiring guide to Asian philosophy has straightforward text and 30 step-by-step exercises through classic Zen practices such as meditation, koans and rock gardens. Illustrations.

Knowledge

Knowledge
Author: Nico Stehr
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780415317382

The increasing investment in scientific knowledge, in its production, distribution and reproduction, is acquiring greater social significance. Everything that is regarded as knowledge in society has become a legitimate subject matter for academic investigations from various disciplines and for practitioners.

Unique

Unique
Author: Katherine Oktober Matthews
Publisher: House of Oktober
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2018-12-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 949307501X

What is a “unique” photograph? Is it still possible to make photographs that are unique, given the medium’s ubiquity in our world? Unique: Making Photographs in the Age of Ubiquity is a thoughtful guide for photographers through today’s complex landscape of images, with the ultimate goal of understanding how to make images that matter. Artist and editor Katherine Oktober Matthews leads readers through a way of thinking about images over three parts: Understanding Photographs, Making Photographs, and Moving in Pursuit of Unique. In images, Unique features work by nearly fifty contemporary artists, both established and emerging, who have taken a role in defining the language of photography.

Culture, Society and Sexuality

Culture, Society and Sexuality
Author: Richard Parker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2007-01-24
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1134137737

Clearly structured and presented, this new and revised edition brings together a broad and international selection of readings to provide insights into the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of sexuality and relationships.

Knowledge That Matters

Knowledge That Matters
Author: Lucy Tatman
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2001-12-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781841273457

Lucy Tatman identifies the events and ideas that influenced the formation of a North american feminist paradigm. She explores the components of this paradigm, particularly the way in which they affect the understanding of knowledge. She then examines the representation of these elements in the theologies of three prominent feminist theologians in North America: Rosemary Radford Ruether, Carter Heyward, and Sallie McFague. From her discussion of these scholars, she proposes that a responsible feminist practice of epistemology requires participatory discernment.

Claiming Reality

Claiming Reality
Author: Louise Levesque-Lopman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1988
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780847675814

An important, yet little explored, area of feminist research is women's subjective experience of everyday life. Claiming Reality is the first study to apply the insights of the growing discipline of phenomenological sociology to women's experience, particularly the experience of childbirth, in an attempt to develop a feminist phenomenological perspective.

The Best Thing That Never Happened

The Best Thing That Never Happened
Author: Joey Lott
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 162625771X

“Just a few years ago I spent my days lying on a moldy mattress praying for death or an end to suffering, whichever came first.” Joey Lott suffered for decades from extreme anxiety, obsessions, compulsions, eating disorders... and spiritual seeking. And then, nearing the brink of death he stumbled upon something miraculous: the freedom he had long sought was to be found in the very experiences he had tried so desperately to avoid. This is a profound book—but with a lightness of touch that makes it reader-friendly. Part memoir, part take-no-prisoners immediacy, The Best Thing that Never Happened offers a unique and refreshing message—that you cannot be other than yourself. With the repeated instructions to meet what is already present, including what you most want to avoid, the author points you to the radical discovery of true freedom which is available for each of us in this very moment.

Leading Beyond Change

Leading Beyond Change
Author: Michael Sahota
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2021-08-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 152309348X

This guide shows readers how to transform a traditional organization into an evolutionary one with a framework and mindset that offer a new way of leading and approaching change. Now more than ever, society is demanding change, and organizations are being asked to shift into more conscious and agile business practices. Yet, most of what people believe about leadership, effective workplaces, and how to create lasting change is either incomplete or outright incorrect. And even if the desire to change is there, understanding of how to achieve it is elusive. This book holds the key. It introduces the Shift Evolutionary Leadership Framework (SELF), which helps leaders create the understanding and application needed to evolve high performance. At the core of the book are dozens of business patterns that cut across seven dimensions of organizational functioning. The traps of traditional organizations are contrasted with the high-performance practices of evolutionary organizations. Authors Michael Sahota and Audree Tata Sahota explain the steps of leading beyond change—evolving beyond servant leadership to make the inner shift needed to unlock the practical skills and techniques. Whether readers call this shift business agility, Teal Agility, evolutionary, or the future of work, it is possible to create high-performing organizations filled with energized people who are able to surf the waves of change.