Open Book Publishers: 120 books
Tacitus, Annals, 15.20–23, 33–45
Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villains, and Tacitus’ Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text plunges us straight into the moral...
Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119
Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar’s death, Cicero and Mark Antony found themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly bitter and dangerous battle for control. Philippic...
Science as Social Existence
Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
In this bold and original study, Jeff Kochan constructively combines the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) with Martin Heidegger’s early existential conception of science. Kochan shows convincingly that these apparently quite different approaches to science are, in fact, largely compatible,...
Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint
An Introduction to Moral Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint addresses in a novel format the major topics and themes of contemporary metaethics, the study of the analysis of moral thought and judgement. Metathetics is less concerned with what practices are right or wrong than with what we mean by ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’
Looking...
by Mark Dimmock and Andrew Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Tailored to the Ethics components of AQA Philosophy and OCR Religious Studies.
What does pleasure have to do with morality? What role, if any, should intuition have in the formation of moral theory? If something is ‘simulated’, can it be immoral?
This accessible and wide-ranging textbook explores...
World of Walls
The Structure, Roles and Effectiveness of Separation Barriers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
"We’re going to build a wall.”
Borders have been drawn since the beginning of time, but in recent years artificial barriers have become increasingly significant to the political conversation across the world. Donald Trump was elected President of the United States while promising to build...
Measuring the Master Race
Physical Anthropology in Norway, 1890-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
The notion of a superior ‘Germanic’ or ‘Nordic’ race was a central theme in the ideology of the Nazis. But it was also a commonly accepted idea in the early twentieth century, and an actual scientific concept originating from anthropological research on the physical characteristics of Europeans....
by William J. Sutherland, Lynn V. Dicks, Nancy Ockendon
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners with answers to these and many other questions about practical conservation. This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 1277 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence. The 2018 edition contains...
by John W. Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Is time travel just a confusing plot device deployed by science fiction authors and Hollywood filmmakers to amaze and amuse? Or might empirical data prompt a scientific hypothesis of time travel? Structured on a fascinating dialogue involving a distinguished physicist, Dr. Rufus, a physics graduate...
Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice
The Capability Approach Re-Examined
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
How do we evaluate ambiguous concepts such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice? How do we develop policies that offer everyone the best chance to achieve what they want from life? The capability approach, a theoretical framework pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s,...
Xiipúktan (First of All)
Three Views of the Origins of the Quechan People
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
The Quechan people live along the lower part of the Colorado River in the United States. According to tradition, the Quechan and other Yuman people were created at the beginning of time, and their Creation myth explains how they came into existence, the origin of their environment, and the significance...
by Hans Walter Gabler
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent exploring textual criticism, genetic criticism, and literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and...
Hanging on to the Edges
Essays on Science, Society and the Academic Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
What does it mean to be a scientist working today; specifically, a scientist whose subject matter is human life? Scientists often overstate their claim to certainty, sorting the world into categorical distinctions that obstruct rather than clarify its complexities. In this book Daniel Nettle urges...
Searching for Sharing
Heritage and Multimedia in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary heritage...