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The daring idea that convention - human decision - lies at the root both of necessary truths and much of empirical science reverberates through twentieth-century philosophy, constituting a revolution comparable to Kant's Copernican revolution. This book provides a co... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:38 | In his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche observes that Greek tragedy gathered people together as a community in the sight of their gods, and argues that modernity can be rescued from 'nihilism' only through the revival of such a festival. This is commonly t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:38 | Local television newscasts around the country look alike and are filled with crime, accidents, and disasters. Interviews with more than 2,000 TV journalists around the country demonstrate that news looks this way because of the ingrained belief that 'eye-ball grabber... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:38 | This book critically engages Jurgen Habermas's comprehensive vision of constitutional democracy in the European Union. John P. McCormick draws on the writings of Max Weber (and Habermas's own critique of them) to confront the difficulty of theorizing progressive poli... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:38 | What distinguishes a peace enforcement operation from an invasion? This question has been asked with particular vehemence since the US intervention in Iraq, but it faces all military operations seeking to impose peace in countries torn by civil war. This book highlig... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:38 | This volume in the Econometric Exercises series contains questions and answers to provide students with useful practice, as they attempt to master Bayesian econometrics. In addition to many theoretical exercises, this book contains exercises designed to develop the c... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:38 | Taking a functional rather than an ecosystem or a utilitarian approach, Thomas and Packham provide a concise account of the structure of woodlands and forests. Using examples from around the world - from polar treelines to savannahs to tropical rain forests - the aut... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:39 | Creativity and civil courage are major dimensions of an intellectual's authority and contribute towards the enrichment of democracy. This book develops a sociological account of civil courage and creative behaviour in order to enhance our understanding of the nature ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:39 | Using data sets consisting of cross-sectional surveys drawn from nationally representative samples of adolescents in the U.S. and official sources of crime statistics, a portrait of aggression and violence among adolescents is presented. Fluctuations in self-reported... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:39 | Through an exploration of women authors' engagements with copyright and married women's property laws, American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869, revises nineteenth-century American literary history, making women's authorship and copyright law central. ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:39 | In the United States today, the use or possession of many drugs is a criminal offense. Can these criminal laws be justified? What are the best reasons to punish or not to punish drug users? These are the fundamental issues debated in this book by two prominent philos... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | The wool market was extremely important to the English medieval economy and wool dominated the English export trade from the late thirteenth century to its decline in the late fifteenth century. Wool was at the forefront of the establishment of England as a European ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | Historical GIS is an emerging field that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to research the geographies of the past. Ian Gregory and Paul Ell's study, first published in 2007, comprehensively defines this field, exploring all aspects of using GIS in historic... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | This beautifully illustrated 2007 volume describes the entire flora and fauna of the famous Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil - one of the world's most important fossil deposits, exhibiting exceptional preservation. A wide range of invertebrates and vertebra... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | This study, based on Florentine repudiations of inheritance, reveals that inheritance was not simply an automatic process where the recipients were passive, if grateful. In influential European societies of the past, it was in fact a process that continued long after... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | This book proposes a selection model for explaining cross-national variation in economic voting: Rational voters condition the economic vote on whether incumbents are responsible for economic outcomes, because this is the optimal way to identify and elect competent e... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | The world is going through an exceptional commodity boom triggered by a global demand shock largely caused by the sudden emergence of China and India as sizeable raw material importers. Prices of numerous commodities tripled between 2003 and 2006, resulting in huge w... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | Long considered marginal in early modern culture, women writers were actually central to the development of a Protestant literary tradition in England. Kimberly Anne Coles explores their contribution to this tradition through thorough archival research in publication... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:41 | Property (T) is a rigidity property for topological groups, first formulated by D. Kazhdan in the mid 1960's with the aim of demonstrating that a large class of lattices are finitely generated. Later developments have shown that Property (T) plays an important role i... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:41 | In early modern England, religious sorrow was seen as a form of spiritual dialogue between the soul and God, expressing how divine grace operates at the level of human emotion. Through close readings of both Protestant and Catholic poetry, Kuchar explains how the dis... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:42 | In Wealth into Power, Bruce Dickson challenges the notion that economic development is leading to political change in China, or that China's private entrepreneurs are helping to promote democratization. Instead, they have become partners with the ruling Chinese Commu... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:42 | Their Eyes Were Watching God is a key text in African American literature. Its author Zora Neale Hurston has become an iconic figure for her literary works and for her invaluable contribution to documenting elements of black folk culture in the rural south and in the... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:42 | Throughout its history, America has been the scene of multiple encounters between communities speaking different languages. Literature has long sought to represent these encounters in various ways, from James Fenimore Cooper's frontier fictions to the Jewish-American... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:42 | Stalking has moved from being a novel area for study to become a core area of concern for mental health professionals, lawyers and other members of the criminal justice system. It has emerged as a significant social problem which not only commands considerable public... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:43 | After his earlier book Discourse and Context, also published by Cambridge University Press, Teun A. van Dijk in this study presents the second part of his new multidisciplinary theory of context. The main thesis of this theory is that the influence of society on disc... Полное описание |
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