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William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life
The Cries of the Wounded
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find...
by D.M.R. Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
As one of the formative periods in Canadian history, the late nineteenth century witnessed the birth of a nation, a people, and a literature. In this study of Canada's first 'school' of poets, D.M.R. Bentley combines archival work, including extensive research in periodicals and newspapers, with close...
Roadmap Utility 4.0
Strukturiertes Vorgehen für die digitale Transformation in der Energiewirtschaft
Language: German
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Daniel Schallmo, Volker Herbort und Oliver D. Doleski diskutieren, dass – ähnlich der Situation in nahezu allen Lebens- und Wirtschaftsbereichen moderner Industriegesellschaften – auch die Energiewirtschaft dem gegenwärtig maßgeblichen Digitalisierungstrend unterliegt. Sie verweisen auf die...
Mapping "Race"
Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data...
Comparing Groups
Randomization and Bootstrap Methods Using R
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A hands-on guide to using R to carry out key statistical practices in educational and behavioral sciences research
Computing has become an essential part of the day-to-day practice of statistical work, broadening the types of questions that can now be addressed by research scientists applying...
by Johan G. Blickman, MD, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This third edition of Pediatric Radiology—a volume in The Requisites in Radiology series—covers everything from basic principles of interpreting diagnostic imaging studies through cutting-edge techniques. Expert authors Johan G. Blickman, MD, PhD and Patrick D. Barnes, MD are now joined by Bruce...
Making Waves
Traveling Musics in Hawai‘i, Asia, and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Musical sounds are some of the most mobile human elements, crossing national, cultural, and regional boundaries at an ever-increasing pace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whole musical products travel easily, though not necessarily intact, via musicians, CDs (and earlier, cassettes),...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 1
Genetics, breeding and production techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...
by K.K. Ang, M. Baumann, S.M. Bentzen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The impact of basic science radiobiological research is now being recognized of significant importance in clinical radiation oncology. Observations made in the laboratory using animals as'well as tissue culture have led to a better biologic understanding of techniques for altered fractionation, techniques...
Unerhörter Mut
Eine Liebe in der Zeit des Rassenwahns
Language: German
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Zu Ostern 1942 befreit der 22-jährige Deutsche Heinrich Heinen unter lebensgefährlichen Bedingungen seine jüdische Braut Edith Meyer aus dem Ghetto von Riga. Gemeinsam flüchten sie Richtung Schweiz, wo sie hoffen, eine Zukunft für ihre Liebe zu finden. In Feldkirch an der Grenze zur Schweiz scheitert...
by Anne Ducastel, Pierre Savary, Frédéric Encel
Language: French
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Toute l'actualité 2015 : tous les sujets et les chiffres clés de l'actualité de l'année pour vous préparer aux écrits et aux oraux des concours (grandes écoles, administratifs…) et examens.
Cet ouvrage propose une synthèse des événements majeurs de 2015 en France et dans le monde.
Il...
by Régine Delamotte-Legrand, Frédéric François, Louis Porcher
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1996
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1996
« Langage, éthique, éducation » est un ouvrage pour lequel les auteurs n’ont pas cherché à exposer une théorie homogène et à l’organiser dans un exposé commun et consensuel. Il s’agit bien au contraire de proposer trois éclairages différents du même questionnement, celui des rapports...
Histoire des pays d'Islam
De 1453 à nos jours
Language: French
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Cette vaste synthèse sur le monde musulman du XVe s. à nos jours offre un panorama unique sur l’histoire politique, économique, culturelle et artistique des pays d’Islam. L’ouvrage couvre l’ensemble des territoires concernés : partie occidentale méditerranéenne (Maghreb), partie proche...
by John D. Rateliff, J. R. R. Tolkien
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
A major new examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece ‘The Hobbit’, including his complete unpublished draft version of the story, and many little-known illustrations and previously unpublished maps by Tolkien himself. For the first time in one volume, The History...