Some of the most challenging questions in philosophical ethics concern the justification of action. Can you have reasons to do something that you are not, and perhaps cannot be, motivated to do? If reasons rest on desires, why respect the rights and interests of others when doing so prevents us from getting what we want? In other words, why be moral? In his 1979 essay, "Interna...(展开全部)

Internal family systems therapy, or IFS, is one of the fastest growing models of psychotherapy today. Focused on psychic multiplicity and the healing effects of compassion, this non-pathologizing therapy has been adopted by clinicians around the world. Internal Family Systems Therapy: New Dimensions builds on Richard Schwartz's foundational introductory texts, illustrating how...(展开全部)

Some of the most challenging questions in philosophical ethics concern the justification of action. Can you have reasons to do something that you are not, and perhaps cannot be, motivated to do? If reasons rest on desires, why respect the rights and interests of others when doing so prevents us from getting what we want? In other words, why be moral? In his 1979 essay, "Interna...(展开全部)

Some of the most challenging questions in philosophical ethics concern the justification of action. Can you have reasons to do something that you are not, and perhaps cannot be, motivated to do? If reasons rest on desires, why respect the rights and interests of others when doing so prevents us from getting what we want? In other words, why be moral? In his 1979 essay, "Interna...(展开全部)

This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision of colonization as simultaneously internal and external, colonizing one’s own people as well as others, is crucial for scholars of e...(展开全部)

This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision of colonization as simultaneously internal and external, colonizing one’s own people as well as others, is crucial for scholars of e...(展开全部)

This book develops the general principles of linguistic change that form the foundations of historical linguistics, dialectology and sociolinguistics. It is concerned with the factors that govern the internal development of linguistic structures: the mechanisms of change, the constraints on change, and the ways in which change is embedded in the larger linguistic system. While...(展开全部)

The central problem of social theory is 'structure and agency'. How do the objective features of society influence human agents? Determinism is not the answer, nor is conditioning as currently conceptualised. It accentuates the way structure and culture shape the social context in which individuals operate, but it neglects our personal capacity to define what we care about most...(展开全部)

This book develops the general principles of linguistic change that form the foundations of historical linguistics, dialectology and sociolinguistics. It is concerned with the factors that govern the internal development of linguistic structures: the mechanisms of change, the constraints on change, and the ways in which change is embedded in the larger linguistic system. While...(展开全部)

โทโมโกะ เป็นสาวงามผู้มีชะตากรรมน่าพิศวง ตั้งแต่แม่ตาย เธออาศัยบนเกาะเล็กโดดเดี่ยวกับยายและครูส่วนตัว เมื่ออายุเต็มสิบแปด โทโมโกะต้องจากบ้านเกิดมาโตเกียวเพื่อเลือกคู่ครอง ทว่าก่อนเดินทาง เธอกลับได้รู้ความจริงเรื่องชาติกำเนิดซึ่งเกี่ยวพันกับพิณเปื้อนเลือดในห้องปิดตาย คินดะอิจิถูกว่าจ้างให้ร่วมขบวนไปรับเธอ ด้วยมีจดหมายขู่ลึกลับห้ามหญิงสาวออกจากเกาะ แต่ผู้จ้างวานกลับไม่ยอมเปิดเผยตั...(展开全部)