Author: Hisham M. Ramada
Publisher: AltaMira Pre
Keywords: contemporary, issues, islam, classical, islamic, law, understanding
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2006-04-28
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0759109915
ISBN-13: 9780759109919

Ramadan brings together essays to explain the history of Islamic law and its role in the contemporary world.

Author: William Shaw
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: contemporary, philosophy, utilitarianism, taking, ethics, account
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1999-01-14
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 0631202943
ISBN-13: 9780631202943

Aimed at undergraduates, Contemporary Ethics presupposes little or no familiarity with ethics and is written in a clear and engaging style. It provides students with a sympathetic but critical guide to utilitarianism, explaining its different forms and exploring the debates it has spawned. The book leads students through a number of current issues in contemporary ethics that are connected to controversies over and within utilitarianism. At the same time, it uses utilitarianism to introduce students to ethics as a subject. In these ways, the book is not only a guide to utilitarianism, but also

Author: Flora Macleod
Publisher: Falmer Press
Keywords: contemporary, analysis, education, challenge, parents, schools, amp
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 1989-07-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1850004994
ISBN-13: 9781850004998

The aim of this volume is to identify and examine the central issues underlying the current interest in parental involvement in schooling. The content and organization of this book is based on the view that the contemporary interest in home-school relations rests on two concerns - firstly, the desire to equalize educational opportunities in the face of discriminatory forces such as race, social class and gender, thought to operate in both schools and the broader community and secondly, the desire to increase accountability of schools to parents. This later desire is manifest in legislation on

Author: Michael Loux
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: contemporary, philosophy, introductions, introduction, metaphysics, routledge
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2006-07-07
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0415401348
ISBN-13: 9780415401340

Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction is aimed at students of metaphysics who have already completed an introductory philosophy course. This third edition of the successful textbook provides a fresh look at key topics in metaphysics and includes two new chapters on time and causation.Wherever possible, Loux links contemporary views to their classical sources in the history of philosophy. This new edition also keeps the user-friendly format, the chapter overviews summarizing the main topics and examples to clarify difficult concepts.

Author: Ellen Greene
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: contemporary, thought, classics, approaches, reading, sappho
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 1999-08
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520206010
ISBN-13: 9780520206014

Reading Sappho considers Sappho’s poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women’s Erotics". Contributors focus on literary history, mythic traditions, cultural studies, performance studies, recent work in feminist theory, and more.A legendary literary figure, Sappho has attracted readers, critics, and biographers ever since she composed poems on the island of Lesbos at the close of the seventh century B.C. Bringing

Author: Robert Audi
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: contemporary, philosophy, introductions, introduction, epistemology, routledge
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2002-12-23
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0415281091
ISBN-13: 9780415281096

Epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, is concerned with how we know what we do, what justifies us in believing what we do, and what standards of evidence we should use in seeking truths about the world and human experience. This comprehensive book introduces the concepts and theories central for understanding knowledge. The revised edition of this hugely successful book builds on the topics covered in the first edition and includes new material on subjects such as virtue epistemology, feminist epistemology and social epistemology. The chapter on moral, scientific and religious knowledg

Author: Michael Loux
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: contemporary, philosophy, introductions, readings, metaphysics, routledge
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2002-02-22
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415261082
ISBN-13: 9780415261081

Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that draws together leading philosophers writing on the major themes in Metaphysics. Chapter sections cover: Universals; Particulars; Modality and Possible Worlds; Causation; Time; and Realism and Anti-Realism. The readings are designed to complement Michael Loux’s Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, 2nd Edition.