Being born

Abstract Being has been at the forefront of philosophical debate from its very beginning, whereas non-being has been often considered as a derivative of being and an...

The monograph develops the theoretical and methodological foundations of the sociology of well-being as an independent branch of sociology designed to investigate how people define...

In this masterful work, leading German philosopher Lorenz B. Puntel answers the primordial question of philosophy: "Why is there Being at all and not absolutely nothing?" ...

A previously unstudied stage of the child’s life in current scholarship, the pre-born child is an essential expression of the child’s life in the ancient Near East. Through Mesopot...

This chapter examines how the Chicago Police Department figured in the native-born Protestant elite's attempt to control urban life in the city during the 1870s. In the 1870s, it b...

Among the scientists and policymakers, measurability of well-being is now almost uncontroversial—only the individual measures are. Philosopher Daniel Hausman, however, argues that ...

Abstract Christian Zionism in the Twenty-First Century: Evangelical Public Opinion on Israel explores religious beliefs and foreign policy attitudes of the largest r...

This book documents the rise (and rise) of fashion design in China. Told through the stories of three generations of designers: those born in the 1950s and early 1960s during the C...