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Alain Badiou is perhaps the world's most significant living philosopher. In his annual seminars on major topics and pivotal figures, Badiou developed vital aspects of his thinking on a range of subjects that he would go on to explore in his influential works. In this seminar, Badiou offers a tour de force encounter with a lesser-known seventeenth-century philosopher and theologian, Nicolas Malebranche, a contemporary and peer of Spinoza and Leibniz.The seminar is at once a record of Badiou's thought at a key moment in the years before the publication of his most important work, Being and Event, and a lively interrogation of Malebranche's key text, the Treatise on Nature and Grace. Badiou develops a rigorous yet novel analysis of Malebranche's theory of grace, retracing his claims regarding the nature of creation and the relation between God and world and between God and Jesus. Through Malebranche, Badiou develops a radical concept of truth and the subject. This book renders a seemingly obscure post-Cartesian philosopher fascinating and alive, restoring him to the philosophy canon. It occupies a pivotal place in Badiou's reflections on the nature of being that demonstrates the crucial role of theology in his thinking

Prompted by the thirtieth anniversary of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan's death, this exchange between two prominent intellectuals is rich with surprising insights. Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical ?masters," Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. Élisabeth Roudinesco supplements Badiou's experience with her own perspective on the troubled landscape of the French analytic world since Lacan's death?crit

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A 'state factor' model of ecosystems can serve as a conceptual framework for researching and managing urban ecosystems. This approach provides alternative goals and narratives to those derived from historically grounded dichotomies between nature and culture, which can reify constructions of human influence as inherently destructive. The integration of human behaviour and state factors is critical to the application of a state factor model to urban ecosystems. We emphasize the role of culture in co-producing urban ecosystems and the importance of feedbacks between urban ecosystems and state factors. We advocate for ecosystem models that encourage local agency and actions that enhance the capacity of cities to constructively adapt to environmental change. We contrast this approach to efforts intended to minimize human impacts on ecosystems. The usefulness of the state factor model for informing such efforts is assessed through a consideration of the norms and practices of urban forest restoration in New York City. Despite the limitations and challenges of applying a state factor model to urban ecosystems, it can inform comparative research within and between cities and offers an intuitive framework for understanding the ecological conditions created in cities by human behaviour.

Front Cover -- Understanding Female Offenders -- Understanding Female Offenders -- Copyright -- Contents -- Biographies -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - Introduction -- The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R): Our Independent Measure -- The Rorschach: Our Dependent Measure -- Caveats for Understanding the PCL-R & -- Rorschach -- Two Examples -- Understanding Female Offenders -- References -- 2 - Understanding Bias in Diagnosing, Assessing, and Treating Female Offenders -- Science and the Scientific Method -- Logic & -- the Scientific Method -- Logical Fallacy -- Political Correctness -- Clinical Judgment, Implicit Bias, & -- Cognitive Heuristics -- Confirmation Bias -- Illusory Correlation -- Suggestibility -- Misinformation Effect -- Racial Bias -- Gender Bias -- A Case of Bias -- Myths about Female Offenders and Psychopaths -- Myth #1: Psychopathy, Sociopathy, and Antisocial Personality Disorder are Equivalent -- Myth #2: Male and Female Psychopaths are Equivalent -- Myth #3: Female Psychopaths do not Exist -- Myth #4: Trauma Causes Psychopathic Symptoms and Criminal Behavior in Women -- Myth #5: Female Offenders are Treated more Harshly than Men by the Criminal Justice System -- Myth #6: Women are not Violent and the Reports of Increased Violence in Women is a Fallacy -- Myth #7: Women Commit Crimes to Support Their Children -- Myth #8: Female Psychopaths are More Amenable to Treatment -- Myth #9: Women do not Commit Sexual Offenses -- Myth #10: Female Offenders Get Less Attention in the Media than Male Offenders -- Summary and Discussion -- References -- 3 - Understanding Antisocial and Psychopathic Women -- Sociopathy, Antisocial Personality Disorder, & -- Psychopathy -- Summary -- Hysteriac -- Summary -- Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) -- PCL-R Studies with Females -- Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) -- Summary.

ABSTRACTIn 2017, KPMG discovered that several high-ranking partners in its Department of Professional Practice (DPP) had surreptitiously obtained highly confidential information on upcoming PCAOB inspections. In obtaining this information, these KPMG partners were able to anticipate and prepare for PCAOB inspections, causing the firm's inspection deficiency rate to plummet and its executives to tout the success of their efforts to improve audit quality. Once the firm discovered the scandal, the individuals involved were terminated, and six of them were ultimately convicted of felonies. This case study introduces students to relevant auditing standards, audit quality concepts, and facilitates discussion of a number of ethical issues. Learning objectives for this case include obtaining an understanding of the PCAOB and its inspection program, understanding audit documentation standards, demonstrating the ability to evaluate ethical issues, applying the fraud triangle in a unique setting, and assessing responsibility for the various parties involved.