Living Powers(RLE Edu K)

Living Powers(RLE Edu K)
Author: Peter Abbs
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136495177

When originally published this was the first book to offer a collective history of all the arts – Art, Drama, Dance, Music, Literature and Film – in the curriculum. It also offers a coherent framework for the teaching of arts which is in line with the best current trends since the Gulbenkian Report of 1982. It insists that the arts, seen together should be an essential part of the national curriculum.

The Educational Imperative

The Educational Imperative
Author: Peter Abbs
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1994
Genre: Aesthetics
ISBN: 0750703326

The final section examines some of the intellectual forces shaping current arguments, and offers critical appraisals of some influential figures in the field: Herbert Read, Peter Fuller and David Holbrook.

Against the Flow

Against the Flow
Author: Peter Abbs
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2003
Genre: Arts
ISBN: 9780415297929

This book calls for education to become an end in itself, as opposed to the means to an end, and for a place to be found in contemporary education for the spiritual, the aesthetic and the ethical.

Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization

Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization
Author: Miles Kahler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2006-04-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 113945269X

Predictions that globalization would undermine territorial attachments and weaken the sources of territorial conflict have not been realized in recent decades. Globalization may have produced changes in territoriality and the functions of borders, but it has not eliminated them. The contributors to this volume examine this relationship, arguing that much of the change can be attributed to sources other than economic globalization. Bringing the perspectives of law, political science, anthropology, and geography to bear on the complex causal relations among territoriality, conflict, and globalization, leading contributors examine how territorial attachments are constructed, why they have remained so powerful in the face of an increasingly globalized world, and what effect continuing strong attachments may have on conflict. They argue that territorial attachments and people's willingness to fight for territory depends upon the symbolic role it plays in constituting people's identities, and producing a sense of belonging in an increasingly globalized world.

Nuclear Statecraft

Nuclear Statecraft
Author: Francis J. Gavin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2012-10-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801465761

We are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, and issues ranging from a nuclear Iran to the global zero movement are generating sharp debate. The historical origins of our contemporary nuclear world are deeply consequential for contemporary policy, but it is crucial that decisions are made on the basis of fact rather than myth and misapprehension. In Nuclear Statecraft, Francis J. Gavin challenges key elements of the widely accepted narrative about the history of the atomic age and the consequences of the nuclear revolution. On the basis of recently declassified documents, Gavin reassesses the strategy of flexible response, the influence of nuclear weapons during the Berlin Crisis, the origins of and motivations for U.S. nuclear nonproliferation policy, and how to assess the nuclear dangers we face today. In case after case, he finds that we know far less than we think we do about our nuclear history. Archival evidence makes it clear that decision makers were more concerned about underlying geopolitical questions than about the strategic dynamic between two nuclear superpowers. Gavin's rigorous historical work not only tells us what happened in the past but also offers a powerful tool to explain how nuclear weapons influence international relations. Nuclear Statecraft provides a solid foundation for future policymaking.

Living Powers

Living Powers
Author: Peter Abbs
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1987
Genre: Art in education
ISBN: 9781850001683

The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas

The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas
Author: Emily O. Goldman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2003
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780804745352

Antologi. Sikkerhedspolitiske forskere giver deres vurdering af følgerne af informationsalderens opgør med hidtidig kendt våbenteknologi og doktriner i forbindelse med den globale spredning af know-how på området.

The War Puzzle Revisited

The War Puzzle Revisited
Author: John A. Vasquez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2009-07-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 052188179X

A scientific explanation of the onset and expansion of war and the conditions of peace.

War on Sacred Grounds

War on Sacred Grounds
Author: Ron E. Hassner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2010-12-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0801460417

Sacred sites offer believers the possibility of communing with the divine and achieving deeper insight into their faith. Yet their spiritual and cultural importance can lead to competition as religious groups seek to exclude rivals from practicing potentially sacrilegious rituals in the hallowed space and wish to assert their own claims. Holy places thus create the potential for military, theological, or political clashes, not only between competing religious groups but also between religious groups and secular actors. In War on Sacred Grounds, Ron E. Hassner investigates the causes and properties of conflicts over sites that are both venerated and contested; he also proposes potential means for managing these disputes. Hassner illustrates a complex and poorly understood political dilemma with accounts of the failures to reach settlement at Temple Mount/Haram el-Sharif, leading to the clashes of 2000, and the competing claims of Hindus and Muslims at Ayodhya, which resulted in the destruction of the mosque there in 1992. He also addresses more successful compromises in Jerusalem in 1967 and Mecca in 1979. Sacred sites, he contends, are particularly prone to conflict because they provide valuable resources for both religious and political actors yet cannot be divided. The management of conflicts over sacred sites requires cooperation, Hassner suggests, between political leaders interested in promoting conflict resolution and religious leaders who can shape the meaning and value that sacred places hold for believers. Because a reconfiguration of sacred space requires a confluence of political will, religious authority, and a window of opportunity, it is relatively rare. Drawing on the study of religion and the study of politics in equal measure, Hassner's account offers insight into the often-violent dynamics that come into play at the places where religion and politics collide.

War in the Age of Intelligent Machines

War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
Author: Manuel De Landa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1991
Genre: Artificial intelligence
ISBN:

The author aims to show how the emergence of intelligent and autonomous bombs and missiles equipped with artificial perception and decision-making capabilities represents a profound historical shift in the relation of human beings both to machines and to information.