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Achieving Sustainability:
Visions, Principles and
Practices
2 Volume Set
Pub Date February 2014
ISBN 9780028662015
$452.00
Pub Date January 2014
eISBN 9780028662046
$564.40
Sustainable development is essential to a future of reduced
human suffering, higher quality of life, and ongoing
sustenance for the planet's ecosystems. Achieving
Sustainability presents and analyzes the underpinnings of
the muti-disciplinary concept of sustainability and covers
economic and environmental ideas, as well as governance,
demographic, and socio-cultural aspects for the concept.
R E L I G I O N
Worldmark Encyclopedia
of Religious Practices,
2nd Edition
4 Volume Set
Coming Soon October 2014
ISBN 9781414498706
$654.00
eISBN 9781414498751
$720.00
Worldmark Encyclopedia of
Religious Practices, 2nd Edition, provides information on
current religious practices around the world with an
emphasis on how religions impact the daily lives of their
followers. Volume 1, Religions and Denominations, contains
20-to 40-page entries on 13 major religions, such as
Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, and 8- to 14-page
entries on 28 religious denominations/sects, such as Tibetan
Buddhism, Roman Catholicism and Shiism. Volumes 2, 3,
and 4 focus on the significant religions practiced in
195 countries; entries range from 6 to 13 pages. Using the
standardized rubric format of the Worldmark series, the
entries provide easy access to information and encourage
comparisons across different religions, religious groups,
and countries.
R E L I G I O N
New Catholic Encyclopedia:
Supplement 2012-2013:
Ethics and Philosophy
4 Volume Set
Pub Date 2013
ISBN 9781414480855
$687.00
eISBN 9781414482255
$858.40
The New Catholic Encyclopedia
Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy expands upon
and complements the scholarship in the 2003, 2nd edition
of the New Catholic Encyclopedia. It features 700 signed,
peer-reviewed articles dedicated to philosophical themes,
with a focus on philosophy in the Western tradition.
The 4-volume publication covers a wide range of topics
including ethics; metaphysics; epistemology; logic;
aesthetics; philosophy of literature, art and music; political
philosphy; and philosophy of law. It contains numerous
articles of special relevance to Catholic thought and
culture covering such areas as the philosophical aspects of
love, hope, wisdom, marriage, friendship, death, pain and
suffering, the human person and the human soul, and the
philosophy of God and religion.
