Free Download Gerard Rodgers, "Being Gay in Ireland: Resisting Stigma in the Evolving Present"
English | ISBN: 1498555500 | 2018 | 228 pages | EPUB | 853 KB
In Being Gay in Ireland: Resisting Stigma in the Evolving Present, Gerard Rodgers argues that existing theory and research on the lives of gay men often exhibits a social weightlessness such that self-beliefs are frequently decoupled from an analysis of society. History and conventions inform and shape gay men's self-beliefs, yet psychology as a discipline rarely dialogues with historical or political scholarship. Rodgers corrects this oversight with a critical analysis of the decades of socio-political struggle in Ireland and elsewhere. Rodgers captures the lives of gay men who are situated in varied contexts and who all, despite their different situations, possess self-beliefs that are shaped by wider historical traditions and evolving social change. Rodgers argues that the nuances and particulars of self-beliefs are significantly affected by wider historical traditions and evolving social and political changes. Through his reconstruction, Rodgers provides practitioners of applied psychological and therapeutic disciplines with an in-depth picture of how historical context and social justice successes have interacted with gay men's self-beliefs, with a particular focus on how prosocial resistances against prejudice have incrementally eroded historical standards of gay stigma.

Free Download Santiago Zabala, "The Remains of Being: Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics"
English | 2009 | pages: 201 | ISBN: 0231148305 | PDF | 1,8 mb
In Basic Concepts, Heidegger claims that "Being is the most worn-out" and yet also that Being "remains constantly available." Santiago Zabala radicalizes the consequences of these little known but significant affirmations. Revisiting the work of Jacques Derrida, Reiner Schürmann, Jean-Luc Nancy, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Ernst Tugendhat, and Gianni Vattimo, he finds these remains of Being within which ontological thought can still operate.

Free Download Jerry Lane, "The Adventure of Being Human II: Mother Spirit Speaks: More Lessons on Soulful Living from the Heart of the Urantia Revelation"
English | 2015 | pages: 190 | ISBN: 1579830358 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
The central deity-personalities of the Urantia Revelation are humanity's spiritual parents-Christ Michael (or Jesus) and his coequal partner, Mother Spirit. In this sequel to The Adventure of Being Human: Lessons on Soulful Living from the Heart of the Urantia Revelation, the focus is exclusively on Mother Spirit-the all-loving, omnipresent mother of us all. She is the reality behind all of the cherished notions of a divine mother throughout human history as well as the majestic source of the Holy Spirit, and of life itself. In this charming guide you will learn all about her and discover how she regards the unique challenges of being human. She will explain why our lives on this complex and sometimes dangerous planet offer an ideal setting for our adventures of soul growth. This book provides a selection of Mother Spirit's teachings from her many years of "live" transmission sessions, along with rich supporting materials. Her unprecedented and delightful instructions on the art of soulful living are more accessible than ever before.

Free Download Roger Morgan-Grenville, "Not Out First Ball: the art of being beaten in beautiful places"
English | 2012 | pages: 136 | ISBN: 0956917607, 1903071666 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
A delightful and witty book that is also a love letter to cricket through the story of an accidental club that has lasted 25 years and 263 matches Not everyone can be a true sports hero. Most of us lost out in life's sports lottery, and we have to find whatever virtue we can in effort and incompetence. Not Out First Ball is a laugh-out-loud manifesto for anyone who has ever silently sobbed at the sight of their off stump cartwheeling off into the distance, or thrown their bat in disgust onto an autumn bonfire. "To field idly at long off in the evening sunshine is to peep back over the wall to when things moved slower, cost less and didn't always need to signify something. At a time of digital abundance, the whole glorious point of cricket is that so much of it is utterly pointless." Roger Morgan-Grenville and Richard Perkins have written a book that is not only funny but also immensely insightful and profound. All cricketers (and maybe even their wives) will identify with the authors' experiences and those of their teammates. Long listed for the MCC Book of the Year 2012.

Free Download Temple Davis Okoro, "Modernity and Destining of Technological Being: Beyond Heidegger's Critique of Technology to Responsible and Reflexive Technology"
English | 2016 | pages: 458 | ISBN: 3631672888 | PDF | 2,3 mb
Facing Heidegger's critique of modern technology, the author analyses the question of technology and ethical responsibility and the call for reflexivity towards technology. He examines Heidegger's thoughts about how science and technology conceal the enigmatic and distinctive presencing of Being and exhibits how modern technology has brought unintended consequences and risks. The author extends the deliberation among diverse epistemologies, interested parties and laypersons, a component of reflexive modernization. Such epistemic community opens the way for a new reflexive democratization of technology, in which different actors should be involved in decision making about technology as it affects the society, the environment and individuals.

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English | 2010 | pages: 23 | ISBN: 1854379062 | EPUB | 1,4 mb

Free Download Deconstructing Behavior, Choice, and Well-being: Neoclassical Choice Theory and Welfare Economics
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031367111 | 654 Pages | EPUB (True) | 27 MB
Neoclassical economists assume that people act to maximize their well-being: they choose based on their desires and only desire what they will like. Neuroscientists and psychologists disagree. Their research demonstrates that cues and evolutionary quirks cause people to act against their best interests, even choosing alternatives they will not like.

Free Download Frank J. Marchese PhD, "Coming Into Being: Sabina Spielrein, Jung, Freud, and Psychoanalysis"
English | 2015 | pages: 136 | ISBN: 0968796753 | EPUB | 0,1 mb
Sabina Spielrein was a Russian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, a respected colleague of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. As a young woman, she was Jung's first psychoanalytic patient, and, during the course of her therapy, they began an intense romantic relationship, which continued for several years. Although Freud himself acknowledged the importance of her work, she nearly vanished from the psychoanalytic landscape for many decades. Only recently have scholars begun to recognize her valuable contributions to psychoanalysis and analytical psychology. In this profile of Spielrein, psychologist Frank Marchese explores the nature of her contributions, notably the idea of the death instinct. He also examines the intricacies of her relationships with Jung and Freud, both personal and professional, and addresses the question of why she was overlooked by the psychoanalytic establishment for so long.This second edition includes an index.

Free Download Ian Leask, "Being Reconfigured"
English | 2011 | pages: 145 | ISBN: 1443825514 | PDF | 0,8 mb
Being Reconfigured presents some of the most brilliant and audacious theses in recent phenomenological research. Challenging so much post-Heideggerian doxa, it argues against contemporary phenomenology s denegation of Being, but suggests, as well, that phenomenology itself can provide a viable and fruitful alternative to this impasse. Specifically, Being Reconfigured delineates the source of phenomenology s refusal of Being, in Husserl; the main strands it demonstrates, in Marion and Levinas; and the fundamental problems its entails in Marion, the necessary retention of a metaphysical subject, and in Levinas, the necessary revival of Kantian dualisms and diremptions. Beyond this critical survey, however, Leask also provides an alternative perspective, through a reassessment of Edith Stein s generous ontology. This reassessment involves: delineating Stein s Patristic and Scholastic sources; amplifying her suggestions, through the work of Michel Henry, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas himself; and demonstrating the contemporary significance of Stein s phenomenology of Being-sustained and Being-safe(ty). By considering Being in these Steinian terms of support, safety and charity, Leask concludes, we might begin to overcome the difficulties described in the book s earlier chapters and to do so by radically reassessing the nature of the Being that we take for granted.

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English | 2023 | ISBN: 303126259X | 181 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 11 MB
This open access book examines an interdependent approach to happiness and well-being, one that contrasts starkly with dominant approaches that have originated from Western culture(s). It highlights the diversity of potential pathways towards happiness and well-being globally, and answers calls - voiced in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals - for more socially and environmentally sustainable models.