David Farrell: 14 books
Daimon Life
Heidegger and Life-Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1992
Daimon Life is life-enchancing. To read it is to become richer in wor(l)d." –John Llewelyn
Disclosure of Martin Heidegger’s complicity with the National Socialist regime in 1933-34 has provoked virulent debate about the relationship between his politics and his philosophy. Did Heidegger’s...
Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care
What You Do Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
"This book represents the intersection of nursing and culture change. Read it. Do it with, not for, your staff."—Sarah Burger, RNC, MPH, FAAN, Gerontological Nurse Consultant"This book should be required reading for all who work in care settings, and the text used for leadership and...
Derrida and Our Animal Others
Derrida’s Final Seminar, the Beast and the Sovereign
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Jacques Derrida’s final seminars were devoted to animal life and political sovereignty—the connection being that animals slavishly adhere to the law while kings and gods tower above it and that this relationship reveals much about humanity in the West. David Farrell Krell offers a detailed account...
The Sea
A Philosophical Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry. The sea cradles and soothes us, we visit it often for solace and inspiration, it is familiar, being the place where life ultimately...
Intimations of Mortality
Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
Heidegger’s thinking has an underlying unity, this book argues, and has cogency for seemingly diverse domains of modern culture: philosophy and religion, aesthetics and literary criticism, intellectual history and social theory. “The theme of mortality—finite human existence—pervades Heidegger’s...
A Long-Term Care Leader's Guide to High Performance
Doing Better Together
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
“Essential reading for all current and future leaders in long-term care. The authors are outstanding in this field, and provide valuable insight.”
—Nicholas G. Castle, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Health Policy & Management, University of Pittsburgh
“A really good book for anyone who...
Tailoring Health Messages
Customizing Communication With Computer Technology
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Through the use of new technologies, researchers, and practitioners in health education and health communication can now provide health information and behavior change strategies that are customized based on the unique needs, interests, and concerns of different individuals. These tailored health...
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
by David Armstrong, Theo Farrell, Hélène Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
In this fully updated and revised edition, the authors explore the evolution, nature and function of international law in world politics and situate international law in its historical and political context. They propose three interdisciplinary 'lenses' (realist, liberal and constructivist) through...
Rhetorical Criticism
Perspectives in Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Now in its second edition, Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action presents a thorough, accessible, and well-grounded introduction to contemporary rhetorical criticism. Systematic chapters contributed by noted experts introduce the fundamental aspects of a perspective, provide students with an...
Indigenous Homelessness
Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related...
by Claudia Bernardi, Roberto Cuéllar, Rev. Carlos Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Archbishop Romero and Spiritual Leadership in the Modern World presents a contemporary and integrated understanding of one of the most remarkable pastoral leaders of our time. This bishop, Oscar Romero of El Salvador, experienced deeply the overwhelming sufferings of the Salvadoran people, as well...
by Colin J. Brauner, David J. McKenzie, Anthony P. Farrell
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Primitive fishes are a relatively untapped resource in the scientific search for insights into the evolution of physiological systems in fishes and higher vertebrates. Volume 26 in the Fish Physiology series presents what is known about the physiology of these fish in comparison with the two fish...
by William S. Hoar, David J. Randall, Anthony P. Farrell
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1992
This book and its companion, Fish Physiology, Volume 12, Part B, are the first major syntheses of recent advances, general concepts, and species diversity of fish in almost 25 years. It provides broad coverage of the major aspects of cardiovascular physiology and is a definitive sourcebook for the field....