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Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest

Interpreting the Technicity of Action

By: Ernst Wolff

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Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest

Interpreting the Technicity of Action

By: Ernst Wolff

Most human action has a technical dimension. This book examines four components of this technical dimension. First, in all actions, various individual, organizational or institutional agents combine actional capabilities with tools, institutions, infrastructure and other elements by means of which they act. Second, the deployment of capabilities and means is permeated by ethical aspirations and hesitancies. Third, all domains of action are affected by these ethical dilemmas. Fourth, the dimensions of the technicity of action are typical of human life in general, and not just a regional or culturally specific phenomenon. In this study, an interdisciplinary approach is adopted to encompass the broad anthropological scope of this study and combine this bigger picture with detailed attention to the socio-historical particularities of action as it plays out in different contexts. Hermeneutics (the philosophical inquiry into the human phenomena of meaning, understanding and interpretation) and social science (as the study of all human affairs) are the two main disciplinary orientations of this book. This study clarifies the technical dimension of the entire spectrum of human action ranging from daily routine to the extreme of violent protest.

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310

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110725142

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9783110725148

Beside the Syrian Sea

By: James Wolff

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Beside the Syrian Sea

By: James Wolff

Jonas works for the UK secret service as an intelligence analyst. When his father is kidnapped and held for ransom by ISIS gunmen in Syria, he takes matters into his own hands and begins to steal the only currency he has access to: secret government intelligence. He heads to Beirut with a haul of the most sensitive documents imaginable and recruits an unlikely ally – an alcoholic Swiss priest named Father Tobias. Despite barely surviving his previous contact with ISIS, Tobias agrees to travel into the heart of the Islamic State and inform the kidnappers that Jonas is willing to negotiate for his father’s life. When the British and American governments realise they may be dealing with betrayal on a scale far greater than that of Edward Snowden, they try everything in their power to stop Jonas, and he finds himself tested to the limit as he fights to keep the negotiations alive and play his enemies off against each other. As the book races towards a thrilling confrontation in the Syrian desert, Jonas will have to decide how far he is willing to go to see his father again.

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185

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Bitter Lemon Press

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1908524995

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9781908524997

Ladies Prefer Rogues

Four Novellas of Time-Travel Passion

By: Janet Chapman,Sandra Hill,Veronica Wolff,Trish Jensen

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Four Novellas of Time-Travel Passion

By: Janet Chapman,Sandra Hill,Veronica Wolff,Trish Jensen

Four of today's most cherished romance novelists prove that when it comes to love, there's no time like the present—no matter what century you're in. In New York Times bestselling author Janet Chapman's "Man from the Moon," a young woman encounters a band of 23rd-century warriors on a mission to save mankind. But when one of them is wounded, she is his only hope for life—and for love… In "Tomorrow is Another Day," New York Times bestselling author Sandra Hill plunges a woman back in time to post-Civil War Louisiana, where the poor southern belle must make a living as a matchmaker. Now, if she could only get her handsome neighbor to join in… A 17th-century Scotsman avenges the death of his greatest love and becomes a notorious pirate for twenty years. When the past and present become entangled, he wonders if it could be his haunted heart adrift in "The Drowning Sea" by national bestselling author Veronica Wolff… USA Today bestselling author Trish Jensen spins a fetching fable about a woman from the Wild West who lands in modern day Nevada. The gruff local sheriff can hardly believe her story, or that he’d never fall so hard for an older woman—older by "Sixteen Decades"… From the Paperback edition.

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309

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Penguin

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1101185007

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9781101185001

How to Betray Your Country

By: James Wolff

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How to Betray Your Country

By: James Wolff

PW STARRED REVIEW: “Brilliant sequel to 2018’s Beside the Syrian Sea. James Wolff skillfully portrays an espionage agent on the verge of losing himself to his demons. This is spy fiction like no other.” Publishers Weekly ------- April thriller of the Month: "Wolff’s examination of the crises of conscience caused by spying, however, make this a distinctly more thought-provoking novel than is customary in the genre. Turkish delight.” The Times------ Disgraced British spy August Drummond is on his way to Istanbul when he sees a passenger throw away directions to a cemetery just moments before being arrested. August can’t resist the temptation to go in his place. But when he comes face to face with a terrifying figure from Islamic State, he realizes he’s about to confront the greatest challenge of his career...

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278

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Bitter Lemon Press

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1913394522

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9781913394523

Journal of the Rev. Josepf Wolff: in a Series of Letters to Sir Thomas Baring, Bart.

By: Joseph Wolff

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Journal of the Rev. Josepf Wolff: in a Series of Letters to Sir Thomas Baring, Bart.

By: Joseph Wolff

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

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414

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385141850

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9783385141858

Sports Illustrated 100 Years of Hoops

By: Alexander Wolff

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Sports Illustrated 100 Years of Hoops

By: Alexander Wolff

A fond look back at the sport of basketball.

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216

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Random House Value Publishing

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0517146908

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9780517146903

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

By: Tobias Wolff

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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

By: Tobias Wolff

Variously funny, frightening, poignant, and exhilarating, these collected stories displays the best American writers at the peak of their powers and the national narrative at its most eloquent, truthful, and inventive. The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an alternate map of the United States that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches. Contributors and stories include: Mary Gaitskill, "A Romantic Weekend"; Andre Dubus, "The Fat Girl"; Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried"; Raymond Carver, "Cathedral"; Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"; Mona Simpson, "Lawns"; Ann Beattie, "A Vintage Thunderbird"; Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"; Stuart Dybek, "Chopin in Water"; Ron Hansen, "Wickedness"; Denis Johnson, "Emergency"; Edward P. Jones, "The First Day"; John L'Heureux, "Departures"; Ralph Lombreglia, "Men Under Water"; Robert Olmstead, "Cody's Story"; Jayne Anne Phillips, "Home"; Susan Power, "Moonwalk"; Amy Tan, "Rules of the Game"; Stephanie Vaughn, "Dog Heaven"; Joy Williams, "Train"; Dorothy Allison, "River of Names"; Richard Bausch, "All The Way in Flagstaff, Arizona"; and more.

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580

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Vintage

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0679745130

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9780679745136

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Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest

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Journal of the Rev. Josepf Wolff: in a Series of Letters to Sir Thomas Baring, Bart.

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Sports Illustrated 100 Years of Hoops

Sports Illustrated 100 Years of Hoops

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

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