1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456403903321

Autore

Emberley Peter C (Peter Christopher), <1956->

Titolo

Values education and technology : the ideology of dispossession / / Peter C. Emberley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

1-282-00285-6

9786612002854

1-4426-8301-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Collana

Toronto Studies in Education

Disciplina

370.114

Soggetti

Moral education

Values - Study and teaching

Technology - Moral and ethical aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Values and Values Education: Towards a New Regime -- 2. The World and Spirit as Possession -- 3. Values Education: Three Models -- 4. Values Development: The Hegelian Experiment -- 5. Values Clarification: The Nietzschean Experiment -- 6. The Technological Environment -- 7. From Dispossession to Possession -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

For decades, values education has been one of the most hotly contested areas of reappraisal in school curricula. This book contributes to the debate with the controversial proposition that the current modes of values education are not cultivating the qualities associated with moral judgment and character, that they are in fact producing a consciousness which merely reinforces some of the potentially destructive tendencies of modern technology.Emberley sets the stage for his argument with an examination of the progressive initiatives in education since the 1960s. He discusses the expectations



which arose with the proposals to teach values as an explicit component of the curriculum, and reveals a hidden agenda which undermines their explicit objectives. He goes on to explore the relation between values education and technology, building on the thought of Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin. Technology, according to Emberley, is becoming the entire context for our understanding of reason, politics, and the intellectual or spiritual life. The question is raised whether technology has become the ontology of our age, as George Grant suggested, and whether it has eclipsed essential relations and experiences which have traditionally defined our humanity. Emberley depicts technological development as proceeding through three historical phases which he characterizes as a mechanical order, an organic order, and an electric field. By the third phase, he proposes, traditional humanism has nearly disappeared.Emberley offers a systematic analysis of three of the dominant models of values education and suggests that they bolster this deconstruction of humanism by playing out the philosophic relation between Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. His analysis also indicates how these models replicate the structure of each of the technological phases. The consequence of this collusion between values education and technological consciousness is a person who cannot be critical of technology, one who cannot recognize any limits to our technological prowess. Whether this collusion is intentional or inadvertent is one of the many issues Emberley pursues. He proposes pedagogical options which revive the spirit (though not the letter) of the `traditional curriculum.' He argues that the aim of education is to produce a character that does not allow reason to become merely a faculty of shrewd calculation and technical expertise.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463885303321

Autore

Kelly Tobias

Titolo

This side of silence [[electronic resource] ] : human rights, torture, and the recognition of cruelty / / Tobias Kelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-89655-9

0-8122-0523-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Disciplina

364.6/7

Soggetti

Torture - Moral and ethical aspects - Great Britain

Political prisoners - Abuse of - Great Britain

Political prisoners - Legal status, laws, etc - Great Britain

Suffering - Political aspects - Great Britain

Human rights - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Talking about Torture after the Human Rights Revolution -- Chapter 2. The Legal Recognition of Torture Survivors -- Chapter 3. Clinical Evidence about Torture -- Chapter 4. Predicting the Future Risk of Torture -- Chapter 5. Prosecuting Torture -- Chapter 6. The Shame of Torture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

We are accustomed to thinking of torture as the purposeful infliction of cruelty by public officials, and we assume that lawyers and clinicians are best placed to speak about its causes and effects. However, it has not always been so. The category of torture is a very specific way of thinking about violence, and our current understandings of the term are rooted in recent twentieth-century history. In This Side of Silence, social anthropologist Tobias Kelly argues that the tensions between post-Cold War armed conflict, human rights activism, medical notions of suffering, and concerns over immigration have produced a distinctively new way of thinking about torture, which is saturated with notions of law and trauma. This Side of Silence asks what forms of



suffering and cruelty can be acknowledged when looking at the world through the narrow legal category of torture. The book focuses on the recent history of Britain but draws wider comparative conclusions, tracing attempts to recognize survivors and perpetrators across the fields of asylum, criminal law, international human rights, and military justice. In this thorough and eloquent ethnography, Kelly avoids treating the legal prohibition of torture as the inevitable product of progress and yet does not seek to dismiss the real differences it has made in concrete political struggles. Based on extensive archival research and ethnographic fieldwork, the book argues that the problem of recognition rests not in the inability of the survivor to communicate but in our inability to listen and take responsibility for the injustice before us.

3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996387595903316

Autore

Indagine Johannes ab <d. 1537.>

Titolo

[Briefe introductions ... vnto the art of chiromancy] [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Imprinted at London, : By Ihon Daye, for Richarde Iugge, dwellinge at the northe dore of Poules Church, at the signe of the Bible, [1558]

Descrizione fisica

[262+] p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

WithersFabian

Soggetti

Palmistry

Physiognomy

Astrology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of Indagine's "Chiromantia"--Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints.

T.p. lacking; title suggested by STC (2nd ed.).

Translated by Fabian Withers--Cf. STC (2nd ed.) and NUC pre-1956 imprints.

Place of publication and publisher from colophon.

Date of publication suggested by STC (2nd ed.).

Imperfect: all before A₁ lacking.

Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library.



Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0021

4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910158622203321

Titolo

The matchmaker brides collection / / Kim Vogel Sawyer [and eight others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Uhrichsville, Ohio : , : Barbour Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-68322-017-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (482 pages)

Classificazione

FIC042040

Disciplina

813.6

Soggetti

Heiresses

Man-woman relationships

Single women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The homegrown bride / by Diana Lesire Brandmeyer -- The unmatched bride / by Amanda Cabot -- Playing possum / by Lisa Carter -- Hog through bride / by Ramona K. Cecil -- The tinman's match / by Lynn A. Coleman -- Miss matched / by Susanne Dietz -- The backfired bride / by Kim Vogel Sawyer -- Sing of the mercy / by Connie Stevens -- A match made in Heaven / Liz Tolsma.

Sommario/riassunto

Escape to the late 1800s and meet nine women who bring couples together but are slow to detect romance with one of the men in their own lives



5.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910800039303321

Titolo

Eco-cities : a planning guide / / edited by Zhifeng Yang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, Fla. : , : CRC Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-429-19099-9

1-4398-8323-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (607 p.)

Collana

Applied ecology and environmental management

Altri autori (Persone)

YangZhifeng

Disciplina

307.1/416

Soggetti

Sustainable urban development

Urban ecology (Sociology)

City planning - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editor; Contributors; Chapter 1 - Eco-City Planning Theories and Thoughts; Chapter 2 - Integrated Urban Ecosystem Assessments; Chapter 3 - Planning of Ecological Spatial Systems; Chapter 4 - Planning of Industry System; Chapter 5 - Planning of Sustainable Energy and Air Pollution Prevention; Chapter 6 - Urban Water Environment Quality Improvement Plan; Chapter 7 - Eco-Habitat and Eco-Cultural System Planning; Chapter 8 - Urban Ecological Planning Regulation; Chapter 9 - Eco-City Guangzhou Plan; Chapter 10 - Eco-City Xiamen Plan

Chapter 11 - Eco-City Baotou PlanChapter 12 - Eco-City Wuyishan Plan; Chapter 13 - Eco-City Wanzhou Plan; Chapter 14 - Eco-City Jingdezhen Plan; Chapter 15 - Assessment of Sustainability for a City by Application of a Work Energy Balance and a Carbon Cycling Model; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

As cities undergo vast changes due to industrialization, urbanization, and globalization, environmental considerations assume a growing importance in the urban planning processes of an increasing number of governments around the world. Several cities and regions around the world have already enacted policies that signal the emergence of a paradigm of sustainability in eco-cities planning. Providing an overview of urban ecosystem structure, function, and change, Eco-Cities: A



Planning Guide addresses how to successfully accomplish eco-city planning that meets government requirements. It adds a

6.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911007456503321

Autore

Choobkar Sabrieh

Titolo

Digital Twin Technology for Smart Grid / / by Sabrieh Choobkar, Seyed Mohsen Hashemi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

3-031-90099-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (79 pages)

Collana

Computational Modeling of Energy Systems, , 2570-1347

Altri autori (Persone)

Mohsen HashemiSeyed

Disciplina

321.319

Soggetti

Electric power distribution

Power electronics

Virtual reality

Augmented reality

Internet of things

Artificial intelligence

Cooperating objects (Computer systems)

Energy Grids and Networks

Power Electronics

Virtual and Augmented Reality

Internet of Things

Artificial Intelligence

Cyber-Physical Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Digital Twin Overview -- Digital Twin in Industry -- Digital Twin Solutions for Smart Grid Applications -- Industrial Experience -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

The traditional power grid has been revolutionized in recent years, and its different domains are improving to form a new smart grid. To better understand smart electricity grid and recommend how its domains



function best, a comprehensive look at the power system in parallel with digitalization revolution is required. Recent digital twin (DT) technology promises to enhance industries, including smart grids, and this book studies DT architecture and its applications and benefits. Coverage includes DT solutions for smart grid domains and subsystems and describes advantages of employing DT in the smart grid. The book’s concept is based on merging DT technology with smart grid applications. Its structure follows an understanding of DT concepts and applications in smart grid domains. Digital Twin Technology for Smart Power Grid will be a valuable reference for power industry practitioners, researchers, and students. It explains the new digital twin technology and how it can enhance the current electricity system toward a smarter power grid. Explains digital twin technology; Includes a view of digital twin pros and cons for industry; Explores and describes digital twin solutions for smart power grid applications.