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by W. K. C. Guthrie
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1977
The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of these parts...
Guidelines for Laboratory Design
Health, Safety, and Environmental Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Proven and tested guidelines for designing ideal labs for scientific investigations
Now in its Fourth Edition, Guidelines for Laboratory Design continues to enable readers to design labs that make it possible to conduct scientific investigations in a safe and healthy environment. The book brings...
Radio Telescope Reflectors
Historical Development of Design and Construction
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2017
This book demonstrates how progress in radio astronomy is intimately linked to the development of reflector antennas of increasing size and precision. The authors describe the design and construction of major radio telescopes as those in Dwingeloo, Jodrell Bank, Parkes, Effelsberg and Green Bank since...
Philanthropy in England, 1480 - 1660
A study of the Changing Patterns of English Social Aspirations
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This study documents a momentous shift which occurred in men's aspirations for their society in the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The author has examined gifts and bequests left for charitable causes over a period of nearly two centuries. in ten English counties, in order to assess...
Legislated Rights
Securing Human Rights through Legislation
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The important aspects of human wellbeing outlined in human rights instruments and constitutional bills of rights can only be adequately secured as and when they are rendered the object of specific rights and corresponding duties. It is often assumed that the main responsibility for specifying the...
How Do We Know?
An Introduction to Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
What does it mean to know something? Can we have confidence in our knowledge? Epistemology, the study of knowledge, can often seem like a daunting subject. And yet few topics are more basic to human life. We are inquisitive creatures by nature, and the unending quest for truth leads us to raise difficult...
by JeiDong Ryu, Sarah K. Corrigan, Kwon Jong Yoo
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
This book takes a different approach to the history of philosophy, exploring a neglected theme, the relationship between catastrophe and philosophy. The book analyzes this theme within texts from ancient times to the present, from a global perspective. The book’s focus is timely and relevant today,...
The Hollywood Connection
The Influence of Fictional Media and Celebrity Politics on American Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
The Hollywood Connection: The Influence of Fictional Media and Celebrity Politics on American Public Opinion is one of the first edited volumes offered in the political science discipline on the effects of fictional media and celebrity on public opinion, and synthesizes many niche areas of research...
by Gregory L. Fox, Paul P. Kreisa, David H. Dye
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Fourteen experts examine the current state of Central Valley prehistoric research and provide an important touchstone for future archaeological study of the region.
The Mississippi Valley region has long played a critical role in the development of American archaeology and continues to be widely...
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee
Intellectual, Methodological, and Theoretical Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee tells the engrossing story of Southeastern archaeology in the 1930s. The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of May 1933 initiated an ambitious program of flood control and power generation by way of a chain of hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee River. The construction...
Internal Security and Statebuilding
Aligning Agencies and Functions
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book examines international efforts to provide security in post-conflict sites and explains why internal security should be given precedence in statebuilding endeavours.
The work begins by exploring the evolution of security sectors in mature liberal democratic states, before examining...
by Jeffrey K. McKee, Frank E. Poirier, W Scott Mcgraw
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
For the one-term course in human evolution, paleoanthropology, or fossil hominins taught at the junior/senior level in departments of anthropology or biology.
This new edition provides a comprehensive overview to the field of paleoanthropology–the study of human evolution by analyzing fossil remains....
Vectors, Pure and Applied
A General Introduction to Linear Algebra
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Many books in linear algebra focus purely on getting students through exams, but this text explains both the how and the why of linear algebra and enables students to begin thinking like mathematicians. The author demonstrates how different topics (geometry, abstract algebra, numerical analysis, physics)...
by Robert L. Arrington, Peter M. Burkholder, Shannon Dubose
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
With this issue we initiate the policy of expanding the scope of Tulane Studies in Philosophy to include, in addition to the work of members of the department, contributions from philosophers who have earned advanced degrees from Tulane and who are now teaching in other colleges and universities....