Reinhold Niebuhr's ideas about ethics, social justice, and foreign policy have been hugely influential for American political thought, and this has been true across the political spectrum, from progressive social justice activists to neo-conservatives. A one-time leader in the Socialist party, Niebuhr worked with Eleanor Roosevelt to found Americans for Democratic Action. Jimmy Carter took inspiration from his ideas about love and justice, and Barack Obama has praised him as one of his fav...

Since the end of the Cold War, the new Chinese leadership generation has had to promulgate new guiding principles for handling global diplomacy which acknowledges China's new position. Given the dramatic changes in the international system and its domestic economic success for the growing "China's rise" idea on the global stage, China in the 21st century faces a mixture of old and new challenges, including terrorism, hegemonism, and authoritarianism. While Deng Xiaooping combined Taoism, a...

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fourteenth yearInspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes's Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its fourteenth volume.Best British Short Stories 2024 showcases an excellent and varied selection of stories, by British writers, first published during 2023 in magazines, journals, anthologies, collections, chapbooks and online.

This is a book of inspiration. To help those overcome hardship and more. This book helps you keep you life lite when life gets heavy.This is a book of inspiration. To help those overcome hardship and more. This book helps you keep you life lite when life gets heavy.

"Enviro-Man Issue #0001," created by Gregory Moore, introduces a groundbreaking superhero narrative centered around environmental sustainability. In this compelling debut, a catastrophic event awakens the hero within the protagonist, leading to the birth of Enviro-Man. Armed with the power to combat environmental hazards, Enviro-Man embarks on a quest against both natural and man-made threats to the planet. This comic book blends thrilling superhero action with important messages about env...

Tilbury's life is a puzzle, an enigma clouded by his past, as he is thrown into the world of AI technology, supercomputers and cybercrime, counter intelligence.The complexity of the darknet and the influence of 'the Chinese way' lead Tilbury into a different dark world.However, along the way he has to make a choice: who are his friends? What does he believe is the truth?Can the troubled Tilbury cope with his 'secret life', the paradox of truth, and a darkening new w...

Nietzsche and Science explores the German philosopher's response to the extraordinary cultural impact of the natural sciences in the late nineteenth century. It argues that the science of his day exerted a powerful influence on his thought and provided an important framework within which he articulated his ideas. The first part of the book investigates Nietzsche's knowledge and understanding of specific disciplines and the influence of particular scientists on Nietzsche's thought. The seco...

This is the best guide I've read for innovation leaders and practitioners, yet it reads like a good spy novel. It offers a fascinating glimpse into the inner workings of creative intelligence and is a practical compendium of relevant case studies, examples, stories, and advice. This remarkable book should be required reading for anyone interested in boosting organizational creativity, including every CIA leader and officer.Mike Mears, Retired CIA Chief HRThe authors bring u...

This volume shows Russell in transition from a neo-Kantian and neo-Hegelian philosopher to an analytic philosopher of the first rank. During this period his research centred on writing The Principles of Mathematics where he drew together previously unpublished drafts. These shed light on Russell's paradox. This material will alter previous accounts of how he discovered his paradox and the related paradox of the largest cardinal. The volume also includes a previously unpublished draft of an...

One of the most important works of the Enlightenment—in the first new, unabridged English translation in more than two centuriesPublished in four volumes between 1784 and 1791, Herder’s Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind is one of the most important works of the Enlightenment—a bold, original, and encyclopedic synthesis of, and contribution to, the era’s philosophical debates over nature, history, culture, and the very meaning of human expe...

A seminal figure in the philosophy of history, culture, and language, Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) also produced some of the most important and original works in the history of aesthetic theory. A student of Kant, he spent much of his life striving to reconcile the opposing poles of Enlightenment thought represented by his early mentors. His ideas influenced Hegel, Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, Dilthey, J. S. Mill, and Goethe.This book presents most of Herder's important writin...

In the early 1900s, thirty-five individuals left their current church to venture on a journey of starting a new church. This journey would change not only the community, but the lives of many. In Making a Difference in Our Father’s House, authors Bernice H. Eaton and Reverend Dr. Gregory E. Moore chronicle the history of the creation of Trinity Baptist Church in Fort Valley, Georgia.Eaton and Moore pieced the history together from written and oral resources including financial reco...