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The British Union
A Critical Edition and Translation of David Hume of Godscroft's De Unione Insulae Britannicae
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
De Unione Insulae Britannicae (The British Union) is a unique seventeenth-century tract that urged the fusion of the Scottish and English kingdoms into a new British commonwealth with a radically new British identity. Its author, David Hume of Godscroft (1558-c.1630) was a major intellectual figure...
by J.H. Leander
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
In most cases, fog is used in movies to entice the hairs on the back of out neck to stand on end. It warns us that evil is lurking around, ready to impart some monster from behind the darkness. We begin to cower in our seats and grasp the arms of our chair or the person sitting next to us tighter.
But...
Scientific Knowledge
Causation, Explanation, and Corroboration
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
With this defense of intensional realism as a philosophical foundation for understanding scientific procedures and grounding scientific knowledge, James Fetzer provides a systematic alternative to much of recent work on scientific theory. To Fetzer, the current state of understanding the 'laws' of...
by James K. Feibleman, Paul G. Morrison, Andrew J. Reck
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The year 1959 has been called The Centennial Year in view of the anniversary of the publication of The Origin of SPecies and the centenary of the births of many who later contributed much to the philosophy of the recent past, such as Samuel Alexander, Henri Bergson, John Dewey and Edmund Husser!'...
by Kartik N. Shinde, S.J. Dhoble, H.C. Swart
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The idea for this book arose out of the realization that, although excellent surveys and a phosphor handbook are available, there is no single source covering the area of phosphate based phosphors especially for lamp industry. Moreover, as this field gets only limited attention in most general books...
God, Schools, and Government Funding
First Amendment Conundrums
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In recent years, a conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, over vigorous dissents, has developed circumventions to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment that allow state legislatures unabashedly to use public tax dollars increasingly to aid private elementary and secondary education....
Erasing the Invisible Hand
Essays on an Elusive and Misused Concept in Economics
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
This book examines the use, principally in economics, of the concept of the invisible hand, centering on Adam Smith. It interprets the concept as ideology, knowledge, and a linguistic phenomenon. It shows how the principal Chicago School interpretation misperceives and distorts what Smith believed...
by Frances R. Aparicio, María Isabel Carvajal Araya, Julia Chindemi
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Sound, Image, and National Imaginary in the Construction of Latin/o American Identities addresses a gap in the many narratives discussing the cultural histories of Latin American nations, particularly in terms of the birth, configuration, and perpetuation of national identities. It argues that these...
Evolution of the Modern Sports Fan
Communicative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The concept of “fandom” has been revolutionized over the past 20 years because of various technological, cultural, and communicative advancements. Evolution of the Modern Sports Fan: Communicative Approaches explores the elements of the sports fan that have markedly changed since the turn of the...
Les Bâtisseurs du monde
Cal de Ter, T2
Language: French
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Lorsque Cal se réveille d'hibernation, six cents ans ont passé. Il trouve une civilisation moyenâgeuse, dirigée par des prêtres qui ont imposé une religion, celle de Frahal. Ils terrorisent le peuple qui est en train de se suicider lentement, les femmes n’ayant plus d’enfants. C'est une...
The World's Beaches
A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Take this book to the beach; it will open up a whole new world. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and graphics, it explores one of the planet’s most dynamic environments—from tourist beaches to Arctic beaches strewn with ice chunks to steaming hot tropical shores. The World’s...
by Ramona Cormier, James K. Feibleman, Sidney A. Gross
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Handbook of Psychoeducational Assessment
A Practical Handbook A Volume in the EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY Series
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
The Handbook of Psychoeducational Assessment is a practical guide for educational and psychological professionals using norm-referenced tests in the ability, achievement, and behavioral assessment of children. Written by key individuals involved in the construction and evolution of the most widely...
by D. J. H. Garling
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
The three volumes of A Course in Mathematical Analysis provide a full and detailed account of all those elements of real and complex analysis that an undergraduate mathematics student can expect to encounter in the first two or three years of study. Containing hundreds of exercises, examples and applications,...