Theory category: 79975 books
Social Contract Theory in American Jurisprudence
Too Much Liberty and Too Much Authority
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Despite decades of attempts and the best intentions of its members, the United States Supreme Court has failed to develop a coherent jurisprudence regarding the state’s proper relationship to the individual. Without some objective standard upon which to ground jurisprudence, decisions have moved...
Back Issues
Periodicals and the Formation of Critical and Cultural Theory in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2019
Using independent critical and cultural theory journals that cross the Canada/US border as key examples, this book shows how to interpret the original practices of periodicals by tracing editorial diasporas and transitions to electronic publishing.
Back Issues explains the role of independent...
by Thomas Malthus
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter.
Thomas Robert Malthus was the founding father of population theory of classical economics and his most well-known work AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION was initially published in 1798. Malthus was often misinterpreted,...
by John Mill
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter.
John Stuart Mill made essential contributions to social theory, political theory and political economy. He has been called "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century"....
Spatial Ecologies
Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the spatial turn in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Augé, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar reconsider the experience of space in the midst...
Critical Race Theory and Education
A Marxist Response
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This book, now in its second edition, focuses on the challenge to Marxism posed by Critical Race Theory as this relates to educational theory, policy, and practices with respect to both the US and UK. Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the realm of Education has a long history in the US, and is now a burgeoning...
by Olivier Bordellès
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Number theory was once famously labeled the queen of mathematics by Gauss. The multiplicative structure of the integers in particular deals with many fascinating problems some of which are easy to understand but very difficult to solve. In the past, a variety of very different techniques has been...
Is Marx's Theory of Profit Right?
The Simultaneist–Temporalist Debate
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
This collection focuses on a long-running debate over the logical validity of Karl Marx’s theory that exploitation is the exclusive source of capitalists’ profits. The “Fundamental Marxian Theorem” was long thought to have shown that orthodox Marxian economics succeeds in replicating Marx’s...
Critical Race Theory Matters
Education and Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Over the past decade, Critical Race Theory (CRT) scholars in education have produced a significant body of work theorizing the impact of race and racism in education. Critical Race Theory Matters provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of this influential movement, shining its keen light...
Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory
Perspectives on Literary Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory. The volume's goals are three-fold. The first aim of the book is to present some recent approaches to metaphor which have no immediate connection with cognitive...
Earth, Life, and System
Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Exploring the broad implications of evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis’s work, this collection brings together specialists across a range of disciplines, from paleontology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, and geobiology to developmental systems theory, archaeology, history of science, cultural...
The Higher Arithmetic
An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
The theory of numbers is generally considered to be the 'purest' branch of pure mathematics and demands exactness of thought and exposition from its devotees. It is also one of the most highly active and engaging areas of mathematics. Now into its eighth edition The Higher Arithmetic introduces the...
Quantum Triangulations
Moduli Space, Quantum Computing, Non-Linear Sigma Models and Ricci Flow
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This book discusses key conceptual aspects and explores the connection between triangulated manifolds and quantum physics, using a set of case studies ranging from moduli space theory to quantum computing to provide an accessible introduction to this topic.
Research on polyhedral manifolds...
by Masanori Ohya, I. Volovich
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
This monograph provides a mathematical foundation to the theory of quantum information and computation, with applications to various open systems including nano and bio systems.
It includes introductory material on algorithm, functional analysis, probability theory, information theory,...