1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000010644

Titolo

Biochemistry and metabolism of plant lipids / International symposium on the biochemistry and metabolism of plant lipids (5th : 1982 : Groningen, Netherlands) ; editors J. F. G. M. Wintermans and P. J. C. Kuiper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam [etc.] : Elsevier, 1982

ISBN

0-444.80457-9

Descrizione fisica

XVI, 606 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Collana

Developments in plant biology ; 8

Disciplina

581.19247

Soggetti

Grassi vegetali - Congressi

Grassi vegetali - Metabolismo - Congressi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961626003321

Autore

Hershock Peter D

Titolo

Valuing diversity : Buddhist reflection on realizing a more equitable global future / / Peter D. Hershock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, [2012]

ISBN

9781438444604

1438444605

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Disciplina

294.35

Soggetti

Buddhist ethics

Difference (Philosophy)

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

""Valuing Diversity: Buddhist Reflection on Realizing a More Equitable Global Future""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: Toward a New Paradigm of Difference""; ""Chapter 2: Variety and Diversity: Two Qualities and Directions of Difference""; ""Chapter 3: Time Differences: The Changing Nature of Change""; ""Chapter 4: Writing Histories, Making Differences""; ""Chapter 5: The Commodification of Difference: Media and the Emerging Attention Economy""; ""Chapter 6: Ethics and Differentiation: Turning Away from the Same""

""Chapter 7: Convergence on Variety: Modern Irony, Postmodern Ideal""""Chapter 8: Delinking Equity and Equality""; ""Chapter 9: Diversity and Equity: Global Relational Commons and Global Public Good""; ""Chapter 10: Making a Difference: Toward a New Structure of Feeling""; ""Epilogue: The Next Step?""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography of Works Cited""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Diversity matters. Whether in the context of ecosystems, education, the workplace, or politics, diversity is now recognized as a fact and as something to be positively affirmed. But what is the value of diversity? What explains its increasing significance? Valuing Diversity is a groundbreaking response to these questions and to the contemporary global dynamics that make them so salient.Peter D. Hershock examines the changes of the last century to show how the successes of Western-style modernity and industrially-powered markets have, ironically,



coupled progressive integration and interdependence with the proliferation of political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental differences. Global predicaments like climate change and persistent wealth inequalities compel recognition that we are in the midst of an era-defining shift from the primacy of the technical to that of the ethical. Yet, neither modern liberalism nor its postmodern critiques have offered the resources needed to address such challenges.Making use of Buddhist and ecological insights, Valuing Diversity develops a qualitatively rich conception of diversity as an emerging value and global relational commons, forwarding an ethics of interdependence and responsive virtuosity that opens prospects for a paradigm shift in our pursuits of equity, freedom, and democratic justice.