Methodology category: 1297 books

The essays in this volume discuss the various approaches to New Materialism in Sociology and Philosophy. They raise the questions of what New Materialism consists of and whether it in fact should be considered a radical change in Social Theory. Are the ideas of a “material turn”, as the theory...

"Il Saggiatore, nel quale con bilancia squisita e giusta si ponderano le cose contenute nella Libra" è un trattato scritto da Galileo Galilei, a cura dell'Accademia dei Lincei e dedicato all'accademico e maestro di Camera del papa Virginio Cesarini. Dopo aver avuto l'imprimatur dal teologo...

The revitalisation of audience studies is not only about new approaches and methods; it entails a crossing of disciplines and a bridging of long-established boundaries in the field. The aim of this volume is to capture the boundary-crossing processes that have begun to emerge across the discipline...

Using an engaging how-to approach that draws from scholarship, real-life, and popular culture, this textbook offers students practical reasons why they should care about research methods and a guide to actually conducting research themselves. Examining quantitative, qualitative, and critical research...

In this study Dr. Gregory examines how Diderot borrowed from Lucretius, Buffon, Maupertuis, and probability theory, and combined ideas from these sources in an innovative fashion to hypothesize that species are mutable and that all life arose randomly from a single prototype.

This book constitutes the outcome of an international conference held at the Otto-Mobes-Volkswirtschaftsschule, Graz-Stifting( Austria), from June 16 to 22, 1974. The conference was initiated by a project group working on determinants and controls of social science development at the In­ stitute...

How do archaeologists work with the data they identify as a record of the cultural past? How are these data collected and construed as evidence? What is the impact on archaeological practice of new techniques of data recovery and analysis, especially those imported from the sciences? To answer...

En este libro, escrito en un lenguaje sencillo y abordable para todos, del científico-biólogo Vladimir Antonov, se habla de lo más importante: de lo que es Dios, del lugar del ser humano en la Evolución de la Conciencia Universal, de los principios de la formación y corrección del destino, de cómo...

¡Las personas hacen tantas cosas diferentes por motivos religiosos! Ellas oran a Dios pidiéndole la «salvación», realizan diversos ritos, matan animales «como un sacrificio para Dios», se torturan y asesinan los unos a los otros...Sin embargo, el Creador considera todo esto como manifestaciones...

Philosophical hermeneutics provides a model of interreligious dialogue that acknowledges the interpretive variability of truth claims while maintaining their relation to a preinterpretive reality. The dialectic and tensive structure of philosophical hermeneutics directly parallels the tension between...

"Ghost Hunting Step By Step", covers intriguing aspects on how to make your very own paranormal investigation. The book covers some historic background and what to consider, when making your investigation.The book covers best practices and pitfalls, met by authors, that are paranormal investigators themselves.

(a5, 140 páginas) - Na sociedade capitalista em que se vive, como diria Sartre, “tudo é aparência e engano”. Os valores do capital, aos quais ressaltamos o Consumismo, o Individualismo, a Meritocracia e a Mercantilização de todas as coisas, sejam elas materiais e/ou imateriais, têm sido...

(A5, 228 PÁGINAS) - A obsolescência programada - globalização da globalização e dos principais fundamentos do mundo Neoliberal e Pós-moderno capitalista - trouxe para a sociedade planetária problemas que ela não sabe e não sabe resolver. Problemas relacionados às dimensões humanas,...

(A5, 199 P.) - Vários filósofos, desde o período grego clássico, embora tenha existido um maior aprofundamento e desenvolvimento de estudos a partir da era moderna (Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Hegel, Marx, Edmund Husserl etc.), têm se preocupado com o problema do conhecimento...