Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic Over Role-Playing Games Says About Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds
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The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and...
Developing the Virtues: Integrating Perspectives
Darcia Narvaez, Nancy E. Snow and Julia Annas
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Ethicists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in the development of virtue in...
Eschatology: Biblical, Historical, and Practical Approaches
D. Jeffrey Bingham and Glenn R. Kreider
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We live today in a world whose problems far surpass our ability to manage them. Social unrest and...
Phenomenology and the Extreme Sport Experience
Eric Brymer and Robert Schweitzer
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Understanding the motivations behind those who partake in extreme sports can be difficult for some....
Physical Culture, Ethnography and the Body: Theory, Method and Praxis
Michael D. Giardina and Michele K. Donnelly
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The corporeal turn toward critical, empirically grounded studies of the body is transforming the way...
Structuring Mind: The Nature of Attention and How it Shapes Consciousness
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What is attention? How does attention shape consciousness? In an approach that engages with...
Swimming in the Sea of Scripture: Paul's Use of the Old Testament in 2 Corinthians 4:7-13:13
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In examining the appropriation of Scripture in 2 Corinthians 4-13, Han argues that the apostle is...
Under the Totem: In Search of a Path
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Totem conveys spirit, a sense of the sacred. Freud attempted to get under the totem and explore...
High Efficiency Video Coding: Coding Tools and Specification
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The video coding standard High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) targets at improved compression...
Uncertainty in Risk Assessment: The Representation and Treatment of Uncertainties by Probabilistic and Non-Probabilistic Methods
Terje Aven, Enrico Zio, Piero Baraldi and Roger Flage
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Explores methods for the representation and treatment of uncertainty in risk assessment In providing...