Sher: 89 books
The Way of God
Soul Dwells in the Present Moment
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The way of God: It Just Is, there are no two ways, either you are living within this Spiritual fountain or waiting at seashore. In this book there are number of chapters; The Way of God, Spirit, Children of God, Are you a Gardener, Love force, Silence and many more to express the qualities or attitudes...
Jesuit Chreia in Late Ming China
Two Studies with an Annotated Translation of Alfonso Vagnones "Illustrations of the Grand Dao"
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Used by Classical and Medieval Western schools to teach rhetoric, a chreia is a brief moral story attributed to a famous historical figure. In Late Ming China, the Italian Jesuit Alfonso Vagnone, also named Gao Yizhi, and the Chinese scholar-official Han Yun collaborated on a project to write down...
Civil–Military Relations in Israel
Essays in Honor of Stuart A. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
This book, a collection of essays in honor of Stuart Cohen, examines a variety of issues in civil-military relations (CMR) in Israel and abroad. Beyond honoring Cohen’s work, this collection makes a substantial contribution to the field for a number of reasons. First, it brings together prominent...
The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion
Symbols, Sinners, and Saints
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The tie that binds all Americans, regardless of their demographic background, is faith in the American system of government. This faith manifests as a form of civil, or secular, religion with its own core documents, creeds, oaths, ceremonies, and even individuals. In The Rhetoric of American Civil...
by Junhao Chu, Arden Sher
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Narrow gap semiconductors obey the general rules of semiconductor science, but often exhibit extreme features of these rules because of the same properties that produce their narrow gaps. Consequently these materials provide sensitive tests of theory, and the opportunity for the design of innovative...
by R.B. Sher, R.J. Daverman
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
Geometric Topology is a foundational component of modern mathematics, involving the study of spacial properties and invariants of familiar objects such as manifolds and complexes. This volume, which is intended both as an introduction to the subject and as a wide ranging resouce for those already...
The Labour Markets of Emerging Economies
Has growth translated into more and better jobs?
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
The past few decades have witnessed the economic and geopolitical rise of a number of large middle-income countries around the world. This volume focuses on the labour market situations, trends and regulations in these emerging economies.
Me, You, Us
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
The essays in Me, You, Us address a range of issues in moral philosophy, political philosophy, and moral psychology, but are unified by their starkly individualistic view of the moral subject. That view regards persons as permanently separated from others by the impenetrability of their subjectivities,...
Transboundary Water Resources in Afghanistan
Climate Change and Land-Use Implications
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Transboundary Water from Afghanistan: Climate Change, and Land-Use Implications brings together diverse factual material on the physical geography and political, cultural, and economic implications of Southwest Asian transboundary water resources. It is the outgrowth of long-term deep knowledge and...
The Dynamics of Change
Tavistock Approaches to Improving Social Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
This book focuses on the hallmark or approaches of the Tavistock Institute—combining research in the social sciences with professional practice in organisational and social change. It shows how consultant and client system are partners in the process of organisational analysis and design.
by Gene I. Sher
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang presents both the theory behind, and the methodology of, developing a neuroevolutionary-based computational intelligence system using Erlang. With a foreword written by Joe Armstrong, this handbook offers an extensive tutorial for creating a state of the...
Who Knew?
Responsibility Without Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
Unlike most other discussions of responsibility, which focus on the idea that to be responsible, agents must in some sense act voluntarily, this book focuses on the relatively neglected idea that they must in some sense know what they are doing. Because it integrates first-and-third personal elements,...
by Lesley Tebbutt, Yve Griffin, Charlotte Staniforth
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Adolescents with developmental disabilities are a complex population who require specialised treatment and care. This interdisciplinary text examines the processes involved in working with this client group in forensic settings, and explores the ways in which their needs differ from those of other...
by George Sher
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2005
Blame is an unpopular and neglected notion: it goes against the grain of a therapeutically-oriented culture and has received relatively little philosophical attention. This book discusses questions about its nature, normative status, and relation to character. The book's most important conclusion is that blame is inseparable from morality itself.