Theory category: 79975 books
by Umberto Eco
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 1976
"... the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." —Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
"... draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide range of scholarship... raises...
Politics and Vision
Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought - Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision inspired and instructed two generations of political theorists after its...
THE THEORY OF CELESTIAL INFLUENCE
MAN, THE UNIVERSE AND COSMIC MYSTERY
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
THE THEORY OF CELESTIAL INFLUENCE – MAN, THE UNIVERSE AND COSMIC MYSTERY
RODNEY COLLIN
Synopsis
The Theory of Celestial Influence with the subtitle: Man, The Universe and Cosmic Mystery is an exploration of the universe and man’s place in it. Rodney Collin examines 20th-century scientific...
Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital'
A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
This book seeks to reclaim Capital from the myth of internal inconsistency, a myth that serves to justify the censorship of Marx's critique of political economy and present-day research based upon it. Andrew Kliman shows that the alleged inconsistencies are actually caused by misinterpretation. By...
Text, Theory, Space
Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Text, Theory, Space is a landmark in post-colonial criticism and theory. Focusing on two white settler societies, South Africa and Australia, the contributors investigate the meaning of 'the South' as an aesthetic, political, geographical and cultural space.
Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines...
Of Literature and Knowledge
Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution and Game Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
"Of Literature and Knowledge looks ... like an important advance in this new and very important subject... literature is about to become even more interesting." – Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University.
Framed by the theory of evolution, this colourful...
by William Poundstone
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Should you watch public television without pledging?...Exceed the posted speed limit?...Hop a subway turnstile without paying? These questions illustrate the so-called "prisoner's dilemma", a social puzzle that we all face every day. Though the answers may seem simple, their profound implications...
by Annette Huber, Benjamin Friedrich, Jonas von Wangenheim
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
This book casts the theory of periods of algebraic varieties in the natural setting of Madhav Nori’s abelian category of mixed motives. It develops Nori’s approach to mixed motives from scratch, thereby filling an important gap in the literature, and then explains the connection of mixed motives...
by Fayyazuddin, Riazuddin
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
This book provides a comprehensive account of basic concepts of quantum mechanics in a coherent manner. The book is self-contained and not only covers basic concepts in quantum mechanics but also provides a basis for applications in atomic and laser physics, nuclear and particle physics, and condensed...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2003
This 2003 book comprehensively covers all major topics of Vygotskian educational theory and its classroom applications. Particular attention is paid to the Vygotskian idea of child development as a consequence rather than premise of learning experiences. Such a reversal allows for new interpretations...
by Ian Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
In the 1800s mathematicians introduced a formal theory of symmetry: group theory. Now a branch of abstract algebra, this subject first arose in the theory of equations. Symmetry is an immensely important concept in mathematics and throughout the sciences, and its applications range across the entire...
by Mark Blaug
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 1997
This is a history of economic thought from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes - but it is a history with a difference. Firstly, it is a history of economic theory, not of economic doctrines, that is, it is consistently focused on theoretical analysis, undiluted by entertaining historical digressions...
Objective Economics
How Ayn Rand's Philosophy Changes Everything about Economics
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Every price is set by someone; this is where economics begins. Building on that fundamental idea and on Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism, Objective Economics transforms economics. The thesis of this book is that Ayn Rand’s concept of “objective” is the indispensible base of valid economic...
by John Chipman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
When learning econometrics, what better way than to be taught by one of its masters. In this significant new volume, John Chipman, the eminence grise of econometrics, presents his classic lectures in econometric theory.
Starting with the linear regression model, least squares, Gauss-Markov...