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Tyler Burge offers an agenda-setting, scientifically rigorous account of the most primitive form of representational mind: perception. He explains ...

A fresh and inter-disciplinary study of faith and social culture in Nigeria, this uses extensive archival material, interviews and fieldwork to exp...

Targeting readers with backgrounds in economics, Intermediate Financial Theory, Third Edition includes new material on the asset pricing implicatio...

This book focuses on exclusivist Indian nationalism, and identifies its distinction from inclusivist nationalism. It highlights shifts in 'another ...

Investigates the most important themes in the philosophy of Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925): his distinction between objects and functio...

Reducere. Otto Brunner contends that prevailing notions of medieval social and constitutional history had been shaped by the nineteenth-century nation state ...

This volume presents a selection of John Broome's most important work since 2000 in an area of philosophy where he has led the way. Topics discusse...

The distinction between norms and facts is long-standing in providing a challenge for psychology. The central argument in this book is twofold. Fir...

Reducere. DescriptionCharles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) was an American philosopher, physicist, mathematician, and the founder of pragmatism. Despite his imp...

In the introduction to this 1833 work on the 'lives of distinguished northerns' - including Andrew Marvell, Anne Clifford, Richard Arkwright, and J...

Reducere. An introduction to the concepts and principles of sound design practice, with more than 175 exercises that teach readers to put theory into practic...

This book brings together for the first time an updated, revised collection of influential essays and articles that capture some of the most exciti...

Colonel Moses Hazen's 2nd Canadian Regiment was one of the first "national" regiments in the American army. Created by the Continental Congress, it...

Reducere. No judgment of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the mo...

This book discusses the most important techniques available for longitudinal data analysis, from simple techniques such as the paired t-test and su...

Reducere. Winner of the 2001 Gustavus Myers Program Book Award. Contrary to simple textbook tales, the civil rights movement did not arise spontaneously in 1...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan BloomA comprehensive survey that brilliantly captures the essence of Islamic culture.&nbspReview citationsBooklist...

Reducere. Pauline Allen translates Frederick Field's text of John Chrysostom's twelve homilies on Paul's Letter to the Colossians. Chrysostom concentrates in...

In his study of the Greek cults of the Roman emperor in Asia minor, Simon Price attempts to discover why the Roman Emperor was treated like a god. ...

DescriptionForty years in the making, this long-awaited reinterpretation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit is a landmark contribution to philo...

In the fourth century, clerics began to distinguish themselves from members of the laity by virtue of their augmented claims to holiness. Because c...

Reducere. The book of Zechariah is "the longest and most obscure" of the Twelve Minor Prophets, Jerome remarked. That may have been the reason why in 386 he ...

DescriptionIn Kyrios Christos, Wilhelm Bousset argues that the Hellenistic Church's declaration of "Jesus as Lord" is a transformation of the pre-C...

Reducere. Basil of Caesarea is considered one of the architects of the Pro-Nicene Trinitarian doctrine adopted at the Council of Constantinople in 381, which...

DescriptionOver the last twenty-five years, a dramatic transformation in the American public's view of homosexuality has occurred, symbolized best ...

Reducere. TV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era takes a deep dive into writing for today's audiences, against the backdrop of a rap...

Reducere. Bordering all but two of South America's other nations and by far Latin America's largest country, Brazil differs linguistically, historically, and...

Tyler Burge offers an agenda-setting, scientifically rigorous account of the most primitive form of representational mind: perception. He explains ...

Reducere. If philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that cloud the mind. In this bo...

Reducere. The eleven essays in this volume constitute Kant's theoretical, pre-critical philosophical writings from 1755 to 1770. Several essays have never be...

DescriptionTheory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the cole Normale Sup rieure in 1976 and 1977. The top...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Elizabeth "betita" MartinezNamed the 2009 AAUP Best of the Best - Outstanding Book Distinction The history of Mexican Ameri...

Reducere. In this new and brilliantly organized book of essays, Anthony Giddens discusses three main theoretical traditions in social science that cut across...

The history of National Socialism as a movement and a regime remains one of the most compelling and intensively studied aspects of twentieth-centur...

Reducere. During his forty-five-year career, William Wyler (1902-1981) pushed the boundaries of filmmaking with his gripping storylines and innovative depth-...

Reducere. The story of the Blackshirt Movement in Great Britain has been well documented. What has never been adequately recorded before is the highly develo...

DescriptionAccording to its Constitution, the mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) was nothing less than the 'attainment by all peoples o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sandra MarkleIn 2007 only thirty Amur leopards remained in the wild. Scientists knew they needed to do more to help these b...

This book consists of two parts: "The Law of Peoples, " a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993, and the ess...

Contributor(s): Author: Robert KeganThe Evolving Self focuses upon the most basic and universal of psychological problems--the individual's effort ...

Reducere. "In this carefully written study of the constituents of human decision making, Robert Sokolowski lays an elaborate groundwork to develop the import...

The relationship among Judaism, Gnosticism, and Christianity perpetually eludes easy description. While it is clear that by the second and third ce...

DescriptionA provocative attempt to think about what was previously considered unthinkable: a serious philosophical case for the rights of robots.W...

Reducere. The Complexion of Race Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture Roxann Wheeler "A substantial contribution to the investigati...

Abizadeh uncovers the basic distinction underwriting Hobbes's ethics: between prudential reasons of the good and reasons of the right, for which we...

In this groundbreaking book, Randall Kiser presents a multi-disciplinary, practice-based introduction to the major soft skills for lawyers: self-aw...

DescriptionThis book introduces a theory of music analysis that one can use to explore aspects of segmentation and associative organization in a wi...

Reducere. The Epistle of James has long been a reminder that the Tree of Life-Christ's Cross and Gospel-was planted in rich, Jewish soil. James, steeped in I...

DescriptionMorphology is the study of how words are put together. A lively introduction to the subject, this textbook is intended for undergraduate...

Reducere. Diners were born in New England (Rhode Island, to be exact), and they have a long and colorful history as local eateries of distinction because of ...

Responding to questions put to him at a Roundtable held at Villanova University in 1994, Jacques Derrida leads the reader through an illuminating d...

DescriptionWhat does it mean to think about technology philosophically? Why try? These are the issues that Carl Mitcham addresses in this work, a c...

A compelling argument that the Internet of things threatens human rights and security and that suggests policy prescriptions to protect our future ...

A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity conservation Nature almost everywhere survives on human term...

William Hannibal Thomas served with distinction in the US Colored Troops in the Civil War and was a preacher, teacher, lawyer, state legislator, an...

Reducere. William Herzog shows that the focus of the parables was not on a vision of the glory of the reign of God but on the gory details of the way oppress...

Reducere. This book reconceptualizes the history of U.S. immigration and citizenship law from the colonial period to the beginning of the twenty-first centur...

In Living to Tell about It, James Phelan takes up the challenges offered by diverse narratives including Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss, Ernest Heming...

Did Christ assume a fallen human nature? "What is not assumed is not healed." So goes the Chalcedonian maxim articulated by Gregory of Nazianzus re...

Reducere. This comprehensive and accessibly written book brings together in one place for the first time the wealth of debates within cyberpsychology. Is the...

A law professor and former prosecutor reveals how inconsistent ideas about violence, enshrined in law, are at the root of the problems that plague ...

DescriptionOn March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more t...

Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is ...

This volume offers a major reconceptualization of linguistic theory through the lens of morphology, crucially collapsing the distinction between th...

As the distinction between domestic and international is increasingly blurred along with the line between internal and external borders, migrants--...

Contributor(s): Author: Hayden WhiteSince its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's Metahistory has remained an essential book for understand...

Reducere. Jamie Moynihan had the unique distinction of being the officer commanding the group of volunteers who carried out the first armed attack on crown f...

Reducere. There have been many books written about Johnny Cash, but The Man in Song is the first to examine Cash's incredible life through the lens of the so...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Steven J. JensenLiving the Good Life presents a brief introduction to virtue and vice, self-control and weakness, misery an...

DescriptionThe state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory ...