Theory category: 79975 books
Understanding Institutions
The Science and Philosophy of Living Together
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Understanding Institutions proposes a new unified theory of social institutions that combines the best insights of philosophers and social scientists who have written on this topic. Francesco Guala presents a theory that combines the features of three influential views of institutions: as equilibria...
Institutional Theory in Political Science
The New Institutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Institutional Theory in Political Science provides an in-depth analysis of contemporary institutional theory, an essential tool to understand the world of politics and government.
Written by B. Guy Peters, a prominent expert in the field, the book argues that the new institutionalism comprises...
The Work of Music Theory
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
This collection brings together an anthology of articles by Thomas Christensen, one of the leading historians of music theory active today. Published over the span of the past 25 years, the selected articles provide a historical conspectus about a range of vital topics in the history of music theory,...
Filmspeak
How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Filmspeak is an accessible, innovative book which uses specific examples to show how once arcane literary and cultural theory has infiltrated popular culture.
Theory reaches us in ways we do not even realize. Issues such as the nature of knowledge or truth, the function of personal response...
The Time of Popular Sovereignty
Process and the Democratic State
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Democracy is usually conceived as based on self-rule or rule by the people, and it is this which is taken to ground the legitimacy of the democratic form of government. But who constitutes the people? Democratic political theory has a potentially fatal weakness at its core unless it can answer this...
by J D Vergados
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
This book contains a systematic and pedagogical exposition of recent developments in particle physics and cosmology. It starts with two introductory chapters on group theory and the Dirac theory. Then it proceeds with the formulation of the Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics, particle content...
Consociational Theory
McGarry and O’Leary and the Northern Ireland conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
Consociational power sharing is increasingly gaining ground, right around the world, as a means for resolving political conflict in divided societies. In this volume, edited by Rupert Taylor, nineteen internationally-respected scholars engage in a lively debate about the merits of the theory underlying...
by Luiz C L Botelho
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Functional Integrals is a well-established method in mathematical physics, especially those mathematical methods used in modern non-perturbative quantum field theory and string theory. This book presents a unique, original and modern treatment of strings representations on Bosonic Quantum Chromodynamics...
by Melanie Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Book 2 in the Melanie Smith violin theory series introduces students to new music and theory concepts which are fundamental in developing a deeper understanding of the violin. Book 2 will begin by covering the theory involving the ranges of notes for the violin and then moves into specific theory...
by Richard Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
A Theory of Contemporary Rhetoric describes, explains, and argues the overarching theory of contemporary rhetoric. This current view of rhetoric brings together themes in the communication arts, including political literary criticism; bi- and multi-lingualism; multimodality; framing as an artistic...
Henry James' 'The Art of Fiction' and the application of his theory in 'What Maisie knew'
'A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life'
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar), course: The Art of Fiction in 1890s Britain , 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Introduction Henry James is known...
The Power of International Theory
Reforging the Link to Foreign Policy-Making through Scientific Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This new study challenges how we think about international relations, presenting an analysis of current trends and insights into new directions.
It shows how the discipline of international relations was created with a purpose of helping policy-makers to build a more peaceful and just world....
by Dr. Nora Hämäläinen
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Literature and Moral Theory investigates how literature, in the past 30 years, has been used as a means for transforming the Anglo-American moral philosophical landscape, which until recently was dominated by certain ways of "doing theory†?. It illuminates the unity of the overall agenda of...
Understanding Rawls
A Reconstruction and Critique of A Theory of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Since its publication in 1971, John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice has been the subject of a lively debate among philosophers, economists, and political scientists. In this book, Robert Paul Wolff provides an interpretation and critique of Rawls’ theory that both clarifies it and reveals its basic...