What was this free market that Adam Smith was referring to? You will know the answer in this book that’s appropriate for children. You might think that such principles are too complex for kids but they’re not if you use the right learning tools. Go for books that have been written to match your child’s vocabulary, to facilitate easy understanding. Enjoy a good read!
The Mind Divine is a new sourcebook focused on the concept of godminds, psionic entities wielding power on the magnitude of deities. Within the pages of The Mind Divine can be found: - Over 25 new feats, including 10 new Mantra feats and 7 new Epic feats - Over 40 new psionic powers - Over 20 new psionic items, including new cursed items and a new minor psionic artifact - 6 new psionic organizations, including one that ties into the Enlightenment from Untapped Potential: New Horizons in Psionics - 12 new psionic godminds, including their power level, their psionic nodes, an overview of their philosophy, history, and demeanor, and the doctrine that those who follow are expected to adhere - 5 types of psionic locations, including sentient areas - 8 prestige classes, including a modified Spirituel from Hyperconscious: Explorations in Psionics - 10 new psionic creatures, 22 if you include the subtypes of Mentats and Phrenic Guardians
Containing the first eight of the High Psionics line of supplements, High Psionics Compilation, Volume 1 offers more than 100 pages of new psionic material. With over 100 new feats, 5 new prestige classes, 4 variant classes, 3 organizational specialty classes, 6 learning centers, one new anti-psionic organization, and rules for customized power displays, High Psionics Compilation, Volume 1 has something for any player or DM using psionics. Explore the options available to psionic characters, or unleash those things that even the most powerful manifesters fear. The choice is yours Included inside High Psionics Compilation: Volume I are: * High Psionics: Countermeasures * High Psionics: Learning Centers * High Psionics: Phrenic Diseases & Mental Maladies * High Psionics: Power Displays * High Psionics: Psicrystals Expanded * High Psionics: Psionic Feats * High Psionics: Sequestral Feats * High Psionics: Soulknives Discover just what psionics can really do with High Psionics Compilation: Volume I from Dreamscarred Press!
What was this free market that Adam Smith was referring to? You will know the answer in this book that's appropriate for children. You might think that such principles are too complex for kids but they're not if you use the right learning tools. Go for books that have been written to match your child's vocabulary, to facilitate easy understanding. Enjoy a good read!
Add some psionic character to your campaign! Whether your campaign is all-psionic or simply allows psionics for use, adding some psionic characters can add an extra dimension of intrigue for players who are used to NPCs always being the standard classes. The NPCs found in Psionics Embodied can serve as allies or enemies depending on the needs of the campaign, or even as an extra member of the adventuring group to help round out the party. Psionics Embodied takes care of the time of character building for support characters so you can focus on the campaign and get back to playing the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game! Psionic Embodied includes: Psionic NPCs for all ten psionic classes from Ultimate Psionics NPCs of all the psionic races plus the core races At least two NPCs for each class Backround information and how to use each NPC as an ally or as an enemy Stat blocks for use throughout the life of the campaign Rules used to create the different NPCs And more! Psionics Embodied references material found in Ultimate Psionics.
This Routledge Philosophy GuideBook introduces John Stuart Mill and one of his major works, On Liberty. We see that in On Liberty Mill outlines the importance of moral rights, respect for rule of law, and individuality. Written with students in mind, Jonathan Riley gracefully eases the reader into Mill's work, life, and philosophy. An ideal read for those coming to Mill for the first time, and for anyone with an interest in political philosophy.
The World We Want compares the future world that Enlightenment intellectuals had hoped for with our own world at present. In what respects do the two worlds differ, and why are they so different? To what extent is and isn't our world the world they wanted, and to what extent do we today still want their world? Unlike previous philosophical critiques and defenses of the Enlightenment, the present study focuses extensively on the relevant historical and empirical record first, by examining carefully what kind of future Enlightenment intellectuals actually hoped for; second, by tracking the different legacies of their central ideals over the past two centuries. But in addition to documenting the significant gap that still exists between Enlightenment ideals and current realities, the author also attempts to show why the ideals of the Enlightenment still elude us. What does our own experience tell us about the appropriateness of these ideals? Which Enlightenment ideals do not fit with human nature? Why is meaningful support for these ideals, particularly within the US, so weak at present? Which of the means that Enlightenment intellectuals advocated for realizing their ideals are inefficacious? Which of their ideals have devolved into distorted versions of themselves when attempts have been made to realize them? How and why, after more than two centuries, have we still failed to realize the most significant Enlightenment ideals? In short, what is dead and what is living in these ideals?
Why on earth is economics perceived to come in only one or at best two different a-cultural if not a-moral guises? There are real, and many, alternatives to the economic mainstream. The trouble is, of course, that they are hidden from us. In Integral Economics Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer pave the way for a sustainable approach to economics, building on the richness of diverse economic approaches from all over the globe. By introducing the most evolved economic perspectives and bringing them into creative dialogue they argue that neither individual enterprises nor wider society will be transformed for the better without a new economic perspective. Here, they introduce a comprehensive framework based on the same 'Four Worlds' model that is applied to enterprise and research in their earlier works. Given the richness of even mainstream economic theory reviewed in this book, let alone the variety of alternative approaches introduced, it is frustrating that policymakers and business practitioners are impoverished by a lack of apparent economic choice – between a seemingly failing capitalism and an already failed communism. The 'villains of the piece' in relation to this lack of choice are not so much the financial community and governments, though they do have much to answer, but the schools of economics and the business schools, that have created the very social ethos, the philosophical principles, and the mathematical models, that influence events. Integral Economics is partly addressed to academics and students in those very schools, who have either realized the error of their ways, or, less dramatically, are curious to explore whether our businesses and communities could be run in a different way. It will be welcomed by informed senior practitioners, eager to understand the current rethink of economic theory and practice and to discover how to position themselves, their organizations, and their society within a new framework.
Drawing on a rich, yet untapped source of Scottish autobiographical writing, this book provides a fascinating insight into the nature and extent of early-modern religious narratives. Over 80 such personal documents, including diaries and autobiographies (both manuscript and published), are examined and placed both within the context of seventeenth-century Scotland, as well as the broader history of 'conversion'.
This handbook offers a comprehensive and varied study of deification within Christian theology. Forty-six leading experts in the field examine points of convergence and difference on the constitutive elements of deification across different writers, thinkers, and traditions.
Taking a practical, evidence-based approach, this text explores critical, modern topics with a unique chapter on Juveniles and Cybercrime, that discusses cyberbullying, cyberstalking, child pornography, and digital piracy.
The first full-length study of the authorial and cross-media practices of the English novelist Elinor Glyn (1864-1943), Elinor Glyn as Novelist, Moviemaker, Glamour Icon and Businesswoman examines Glyn’s work as a novelist in the United Kingdom followed by her success in Hollywood where she adapted her popular romantic novels into films. Making extensive use of newly available archival materials, Vincent L. Barnett and Alexis Weedon explore Glyn’s experiences from multiple perspectives, including the artistic, legal and financial aspects of the adaptation process. At the same time, they document Glyn’s personal and professional relationships with a number of prominent individuals in the Hollywood studio system, including Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg. The authors contextualize Glyn’s involvement in scenario-writing in relationship to other novelists in Hollywood, such as Edgar Wallace and Arnold Bennett, and also show how Glyn worked across Europe and America to transform her stories into other forms of media such as plays and movies. Providing a new perspective from which to understand the historical development of both British and American media industries in the first half of the twentieth century, this book will appeal to historians working in the fields of cultural and film studies, publishing and business history.
Arguing for the importance of wit beyond its use as a literary device, Roger D. Lund outlines the process by which writers in Restoration and eighteenth-century England struggled to define an appropriate role for wit in the public sphere. He traces its unpredictable effects in works of philosophy, religious pamphlets, and legal writing and examines what happens when literary wit is deliberately used to undermine the judgment of individuals and to destabilize established institutions of church and state. Beginning with a discussion of wit's association with deception, Lund suggests that suspicion of wit and the imagination emerges in attacks on the Restoration stage, in the persecution of The Craftsman, and in criticism directed at Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and works by writers like the Earl of Shaftesbury, Thomas Woolston, and Thomas Paine. Anxieties about wit, Lund shows, were in part responsible for attempts to suppress new communal venues such as coffee houses and clubs and for the Church's condemnation of the seditious pamphlets made possible by the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695. Finally, the establishment's conviction that wit, ridicule, satire, and innuendo are subversive rhetorical forms is glaringly at play in attempts to use libel trials to translate the fear of wit as a metaphorical transgression of public decorum into an actual violation of the civil code.
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