E Smith: 544 books

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Scripture, Logic, Language

Essays on Dharmakirti and his Tibetan Successors

by Tom J. F. Tillemans, E. Gene Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

Dharmakirti, an Indian Buddhist philosopher of the seventh century, explored the nature, limits, and justifications of rationality within the context of Buddhist religious and metaphysical concerns. While Dharmakirti is widely recognized for his crucial innovations in Indian logic and semantic theory,...
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Complexities

Social Studies of Knowledge Practices

by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2002

Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplicity and complexity to reveal that this dichotomy, itself, is too simplistic. John Law and Annemarie Mol have gathered a distinguished panel of contributors...
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Growing Explanations

Historical Perspectives on Recent Science

by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub, Peter Galison
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2004

For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components—nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on—but over the past forty years there has been a marked turn toward explaining phenomena by building them...
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The Provocative Joan Robinson

The Making of a Cambridge Economist

by Nahid Aslanbeigui, Guy Oakes, Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009

One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903–83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. Robinson studied economics at Cambridge University, where she made a career that lasted some fifty years. She was...
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by David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, Brian K Gran
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015

Long the province of international law, human rights now enjoys a renaissance of studies and new perspectives from the social sciences. This landmark book is the first to synthesize and comprehensively evaluate this body of work. It fosters an interdisciplinary, international, and critical engagement...
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Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China

Plurality and Synthesis

by Volker Scheid, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2002

As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? If, as some claim, it...
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Dry Creek

Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp

by W. Roger Powers, R. Dale Guthrie, John F. Hoffecker
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017

With cultural remains dated unequivocally to 13,000 calendar years ago, Dry Creek assumed major importance upon its excavation and study by W. Roger Powers. The site was the first to conclusively demonstrate a human presence that could be dated to the same time as the Bering Land Bridge. As Powers...
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King Alfonso VIII of Castile

Government, Family, and War

by Martín Alvira Cabrer, Carlos de Ayala Martinez, Janna Bianchini
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019

Continues Fordham's work to bring scholarship on medieval Iberia to an anglophone audience
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World at the Crossroads

Towards a sustainable, equitable and liveable world

by Philip B. Smith, Samuel E. Okoye, Jaap de Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

Thirty years ago the Russell-Einstein Manifesto warned humanity that our survival is imperilled by the risk of nuclear war.In the spirit of that Manifesto, we now call on all scientists to expand our concerns to a broader set of interrelated dangers: destruction of the environment on a global scale,...
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MediaWriting

Print, Broadcast, and Public Relations

by W. Richard Whitaker, Ronald D. Smith, Janet E. Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019

MediaWriting is an invaluable resource for students planning to enter the dynamic and changing world of media writing in the twenty-first century. With easy-to-read chapters, a wealth of updated, real-world examples, and helpful "How To" boxes throughout, this textbook explains the various...
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Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 1

From improved varieties to local applications

by Denise E. Costich, J. Stephen Smith, Dr Candice Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017

Maize is one of the most important and widely grown cereal crops in the world and is a staple food for almost a billion people, particularly in the developing world. It has been estimated that maize yields need to increase by 60% by 2050. There is an urgent need to increase yields in the face of such...
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Broken Bones, Broken Bodies

Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches for Accumulative Trauma and Violence

by Petra Banks, Eric J. Bartelink, Derek A. Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017

Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in...
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Asperger Syndrome and Sensory Issues

Practical Solutions for Making Sense of the World

by Brenda Smith Myles Ph.D., Katherine Tapscott Cook Ph.D., Nancy E. Miller M.Ed.
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2000

Asperger Syndrome and Sensory Issues attempts to explain how many children with Asperger Syndrome (AS) relate to the world through their senses. Chapter 1 is an overview of sensory integration terminology and a discussion of how the sensory systems impact behavior. Chapter 2 takes an indepth look at...
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The Mouse in Biomedical Research

Normative Biology, Husbandry, and Models

by James G. Fox, Stephen Barthold, Muriel Davisson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006

Normative Biology, Husbandry, and Models, the third volume in the four volume set, The Mouse in Biomedical Research, encompasses 23 chapters whose contents provide a broad overview on the laboratory mouse’s normative biology, husbandry, and its use as a model in biomedical research. This consists...
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