Death and love: psychoanalytic and philosophical perspectives
【ISBN】9781032663449
【编者】Julie Reshe, Todd McGowan
【出版社】Routledge (2025)
【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心（东）
【索书号】B84-06 /D285 /E
【简 介】Death and Love brings together notable psychoanalytic and philosophical theorists to explore the connection between death and love.
The book examines how these phenomena shape human existence and relationships, challenging the conventional dichotomy between life-affirming and death-driven dimensions. The volume features contributions from international scholars who illustrate these ideas through various lenses, including literature, film, and theology. The chapters consider the role of the death drive in shaping social bonds, the transformative power of love beyond individual existence, and the notion that, both philosophically and psychoanalytically, love aligns with the realm of death.
Death and Love will be essential reading for academics and students of philosophy, psychoanalysis, existentialism, theology, and psychology. It will also be of interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and to all readers wishing to explore this thought-provoking topic.
The Philosophy of Money and Finance
【ISBN】9780198978725
【编者】Joakim Sandberg, Lisa Warenski
【出版社】Oxford University Press(2025)
【馆藏地】理科馆理科书库
【索书号】F830 /P568 /E
【简 介】Most people use money almost every day, and financial assets have become so important to modern life that they determine our fate both as individuals and as societies. Yet we seldom stop to think about what all of this means, how it works, and how it ought to work. How can a small piece of paper in your wallet have value? How can so much power be vested in the numbers that roll across bankers' computer screens? What role should financial assets and financial institutions play in our lives and in society?
The philosophy of money and finance inquires into these types of questions, and takes a look 'under the hood' of money and finance, to address issues concerning the nature of money and the normative foundations of financial systems. Although philosophical theorizing about money and finance dates back to antiquity, the topic has only recently emerged as a central research focus. Economic globalization, technological innovation, the events of the 2008 financial crisis, and the Covid pandemic, have brought new urgency to a broad array of questions in this field.
The Philosophy of Money and Finance presents sixteen original chapters providing a comprehensive introduction to this exciting new field. The book is divided into four parts, covering metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. Within each part, questions that are central to the topic are presented and discussed by leading scholars. The essays are written in a clear and straightforward manner and without presupposing any background in either philosophy or finance.
Futurekind: design by and for the people
【ISBN】9780500519790
【作者】Robert Phillips
【出版社】Thames & Hudson Ltd. (2025)
【馆藏地】管理学院政立书库
【索书号】J50-05 /P562 /E
【简介】We have grown accustomed to two beliefs: first, that only experts can be designers, and second, that our everyday activities are harming the planet. Yet, by bringing together digital communication and engaged online communities, products can be designed by anyone for the social and environmental good.
From a playground-powered water pump in South Africa to a DIY cellphone, Futurekind showcases design projects―across every scale, budget, and material―that have made a genuine difference in individual lives and in communities around the world. Each of these groundbreaking projects is presented through fascinating and life-affirming narratives, and reveal how design practice is being transformed by crowd-sourcing and the latest digital technologies that enable people to actualize ideas together.
Vivid photography celebrates the humanity of the endeavor and the mechanisms and motivations behind each design approach. Both manual and manifesto, inspiration and call to arms, this rich and timely survey tells the true stories of world-changing collaborations between designers and communities, providing hope for humankind.
Rethinking Sport and Society
【ISBN】9781803926810
【作 者】Elizabeth C.J. Pike
【出版社】Edward Elgar Publishing (2025)
【馆藏地】理科馆理科书库
【索书号】G80-051 /P635 /E
【简介】This pioneering book presents a rethinking of sport and society informed by a diverse array of cultural viewpoints and life experiences. Elizabeth C.J. Pike conducts interviews with global thought leaders from a wide range of continents and backgrounds, delving into key social issues and their evolving relationships with sport.
Set against the backdrop of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, rapid technological advances, and significant geopolitical events, chapters showcase a novel approach to understanding sport and society. Pike discusses ways to make sport more accessible, the redistribution of power between civil society and state institutions, and the importance of hearing from younger generations and those outside of sport. Ultimately, the book highlights the growing contribution of sport to the realisation of development and peace, emphasising the need to draw on the perspectives of a wide variety of global stakeholders.
Students and academics in sociology and social policy, sports, and sports management will benefit from the insights in this book. Its focus on real-world content also makes this an essential read for professionals and researchers looking to rethink the role of sport in society.
By Consent Alone: Marriage Law and German Romance, 1186–1210
【ISBN】9781032757018
【著者】Jonathan Seelye Martin
【出版社】Routledge (2025)
【馆藏地】理科馆外教中心（东）
【索书号】I516.06 /M381 /E
【简介】The twelfth and early thirteenth centuries saw some of the most important changes to marriage laws in European history, the foremost being the decision of the Catholic Church to recognize consent as an overriding requirement for marriage. Though this revolutionary position promised far greater personal freedom and individual autonomy, these promises went largely unfulfilled.
By Consent Alone explores the developing laws of marriage in this period through the lens of the “case” (Kasus), a short narrative form that asks its audience to judge the new laws against the larger ideology of free consent. The book compares literary depictions of romance and marriage in seven canonical German romances with cases in the historical record, focusing on legal questions of consent, coerced consent, impediments to marriage, spousal abuse, and divorce. It argues that medieval German literature advocated for an expansive definition of individual and women’s rights in marriage.
Comparing the fictional depictions of marriage cases with historical law, By Consent Alone provides a unique window into medieval thought and the culture of marriage, often not as it was, but as it was wished to be.
Beyond the screen: the future of television and advertising
【ISBN】9781041037873
【著者】Frank A. Aycock
【出版社】Routledge (2025)
【馆藏地】理科馆理科书库
【索书号】G223 /A974 /E
【简 介】Written in an accessible style, this book explores the complex future of television, across its different industries, providing professional producers with key insights and pathways to adapt and prepare.
By exploring traditional media industries, and how they have come to make up today’s streaming and broadcasting media world, the text provides a detailed discussion of the future of systems programming and television viewing. This includes a wide range of topics such as internet protocol television (IPTV), set-top boxes (STBs), ATSC 3.0, virtual reality (VR), holographic television and artificial intelligence (A.I.), as well as other cutting-edge technologies. Additionally, this book examines the future of content monetization by exploring the new and sometime controversial ways of advertising, product placement and search and promotion that will be required to be financially successful in this future television environment.
Beyond the Screen is an indispensable addition to the library of every television professional, academic, student, and television viewer who wants to know where this fascinating world of television is heading and what it will take to be successful within it.
A History of Rest
【ISBN】9781509561520
【作者】Alain Corbin
【出版社】Polity Press (2025)
【馆藏地】医科馆外文图书区
【索书号】R163-09 /C791 /E
【简介】Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt by human and animal alike. Through the centuries, different and conflicting definitions and forms of rest have blossomed, ranging from heavenly repose to what is prescribed for the modern affliction of burn-out. What has remained constant is its importance: long the subject of art and literature, everyone understands the need not to disturb the aimless, languishing, daydreaming Lotus-eater.
Not viewed simply as an antidote for fatigue, for a long time rest was seen as the prelude to eternal life, until everything changed in the nineteenth century and society entered the great ‘age of rest’. At this point, the renowned French historian Alain Corbin explains, rest took on new therapeutic and leisurely qualities, embodied by the new types of human that emerged. The modern epicurean frolicked on beaches and soaked up the rays, while melancholics were rejuvenated in pristine sanatoria, the new temples of rest. Paid holidays and a widespread acceptance of the need to build up the strength sapped during work followed, while the 1950s became the decade of ‘sea, sex and sun’.
This new book, as original as Corbin’s other histories of neglected aspects of human life, pans the long evolution of rest in a highly readable and engaging style.
The Social Psychology of the Human-Animal Bond
【ISBN】9781032912158
【作者】Laurent Bègue-Shankland
【出版社】Routledge (2026)
【馆藏地】江湾馆三楼理科借阅区
【索书号】Q958.12 /B418 /E
【简介】Winner of the 2024 Prix Emile Girardeau prize, rewarding exceptional work in the economic or sociological sciences, this book examines afresh our relationships of dominance with and affection for animals. It reviews how animals played a pivotal role in ancient civilizations, and still play a fundamental part in human lives, and looks at how many humans feel deep affection and other strong emotions towards animals. This book offers an understanding of human relationships with animals, providing an analysis of paradoxical human behaviour towards animals and a look at how empathy toward animals can be manipulated. Most notably, this book offers an in-depth look at Bègue-Shankland's adaptation of the famous Stanley Milgram’s experiment on submission to authority (this time, ordinary men and women are led to harm what they believe to be a lab animal (actually a robot) for the sake of science) to shed new light on what influences our behaviour and empathy towards animals. This book shows how much our relations with animals – from attachment to abuse – reveal our identity and our relations with others. It will provide a valuable resource not only to students and researchers studying human-animal relations, zoology, and human psychology, but also to a general reader interested in animal advocacy.
We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced
【ISBN】9781421447308
【著者】Muhammad H. Zaman
【出版社】Johns Hopkins University Press (2025)
【馆藏地】医科馆外文图书区
【索书号】R1-05 /Z23 /E
【简介】Around the world, millions are forcibly displaced by conflict, climate change, and persecution. Some cross international borders, while others are displaced within their own countries. In We Wait for a Miracle, Muhammad H. Zaman shares poignant stories across continents to highlight the health care experiences of refugees and forced migrants. For many of these people, health risks unfortunately become part of the fabric of everyday life as they navigate new countries that treat them with varying degrees of care and indifference.
Across widely varied local systems, countries of origin, health concerns, and other contexts, Zaman finds that barriers to health care share these key factors: trust, social network, efficiency of the health system, and the regulatory framework of the host environment. A combination of these factors explains difficulties in accessing health care across the geographic and geopolitical spectrum and challenges the existing global public health framework, which is based entirely on local context. In moving stories that span seven countries―Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Colombia, and Venezuela―Zaman shares the everyday struggles of refugees, the internally displaced, and the stateless in accessing the health care they need.
This unique look at an urgent global challenge addresses the issue of access for populations that are currently in distress due to civil war, economic collapse, or a conflict driven by external state actors. Organic social networks and trust, rather than top-down policies, are often what save the lives of migrants, refugees, and the stateless. Focusing on that trust―and its deficit―in camps, urban slums, hospitals, and clinics, Zaman combines personal and journalistic accounts of refugees with broad systemic analysis on global health care access to compare problems and solutions in different regions and provide holistic policy and practice recommendations for refugees, internally displaced persons, and stateless populations.
The Gated City: Planning Practice and the Challenges of Urban Fragmentation in Mexico
【ISBN】9781447375371
【作者】Emma Regina Morales
【出版社】Policy Press (2025)
【馆藏地】江湾馆理科书库
【索书号】C912.8 /M828 /E
【简介】The book tells the story of the proliferation of gated communities and the privatisation of public life and public space in Mexico over the last three decades. Drawing on research from Lomas de Angelópolis in Puebla, one of the largest gated communities in the world, Emma Regina Morales explores why such fortified spaces have proved popular with middle-class households.
Weaving together the multiple influences of housing policy, predatory financial markets, and an increased fear of crime, the book sets out how policy makers and planners can improve decision-making and provide non-gated solutions to urban anxiety.