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An international team of experts explores the distinction between 'thin' concepts (general, evaluative terms like 'good' and 'bad') and 'thick' concepts (more specific concepts, such as 'brave', or 'rude'). Their essays touch on key debates in metaethics about the evaluative and normative, and raise fascinating questions about how language works.

Given the powerfully negative and ongoing impact of the Great Recession on western economies, the question of whether historically wealthy nations-the US, Western European countries, Japan-can stay wealthy has become an overriding concern for virtually every interested observer. In The Third Globalization, eminent political economists Dan Breznitz and John Zysman gather some of the discipline's leading scholars to assess the prospects for grow...

How can we reconcile economic growth with the need to protect the natural environment? Will scarcity of natural resources eventually force economic growth to cease? This book introduces key models and shows how modern growth theory can be used to shed light on the relation between economic growth, natural resources, and the environment.

This book examines the crisis of EMU through the lenses of comparative political economy. It retraces the development of wage-setting systems in the core and peripheral EMU member states, and how these contributed to the increasing divergence between creditor and debtor states in the late 2000s.

This book is the first comprehensive grammar in English of present-day standard Romanian. It is an indispensable resource for Romance linguists, from advanced undergraduate level and above.

The twelve essays in this volume aim at providing philosophers, neuroscientists, psychologists, and legal theorists with an opportunity to examine the cluster of related issues that will need to be addressed as scholars struggle to come to grips with the picture of human agency being pieced together by researchers in the biosciences.

An exploration of the duALIne project's insights, presenting state-of-the-art research in food sustainability and identifying priority areas for further study.

An accessible introduction to the unifying principles of ecology through the exploration of urban ecosystems.

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A book about being fit and healthy from a drinker's point of view, with practical food and alcohol facts, lifestyle tips and health information.

This book can stir-up hope within you, hope that will propel you to embrace the cost of your destiny-discipleship. To be a disciple is to be at work in His harvest. Jesus said that the fields are ripe for harvest, and we are in the days of the greatest harvest in history! This book will challenge and encourage you throughout its pages. You will be challenged to use the talents Jesus gives you. Jesus is full of grace and truth. Grace is not gra...

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Mark Green has weathered the early stages of business startup well. His company, Green Cycles, carved out a solid niche in the growing cycling industry, and he should be enjoying the fruits of his entrepreneurial activities. Instead, Mark is grappling to understand why a self-built, driven entrepreneur is quickly becoming unsettled with life. His restlessness leads him to put the company up for sale, and within a short time he has a potential ...

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What happens when a town's local resident spots a UFO? Silverville sees nothing but dollar signs. First an amusement park and museum and then a celestial motif for the whole town. Con artists and embezzlers, tourists and kooks all get caught up in the frenzy, some hoping to make a quick buck, others seeking a spiritual message from beyond the stars. Ride along on this irreverent adventure that reveals Colorado mountain culture at its most outr...

Valentine would come out of her oratory intensely excited, with her nerves on edge and the blood flowing hotly through her veins. At such times Benedict's glances and words laid waste her heart like a stream of molten lava. If he had been hypocritical or adroit enough to present adultery to her in a mystic light, Valentine would have been ruined with a prayer on her lips..." Deep in George Sand's own natal countryside of Berri in central Franc...

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First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.