Theory category: 79975 books
Observing International Relations
Niklas Luhmann and World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Observing International Relations draws upon the modern systems theory of society, developed by Niklas Luhmann, to provide new perspectives on central aspects of contemporary world society and to generate theoretically informed insights on the possibilities and limits of regulation in global governance.
The...
Dialectics and Contemporary Politics
Critique and Transformation from Hegel through Post-Marxism
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Dialectics and Contemporary Politics recasts dialectical thought for a post-Marxist age in which labour movement politics is just one political option among many. The book is organized thematically around concepts such as immanent critique, ideology, experience, and resistance, and according to figures...
Public Values and Public Interest
Counterbalancing Economic Individualism
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
Economic individualism and market-based values dominate today's policymaking and public management circles—often at the expense of the common good. In his new book, Barry Bozeman demonstrates the continuing need for public interest theory in government. Public Values and Public Interest offers a direct...
The Curriculum
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2009
'This book will be of interest to educational practitioners, and many other professionals concerned with the education and development of the young' - ESCalate
`A very well-respected book [and a] Curriculum classic...[which offers] balance to current official publications...One of its strengths...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
The sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflict. However, there has been no concerted and focused attempt to introduce his ideas to the field of education broadly. This book rectifies this omission...
John Hicks
His Contributions to Economic Theory and Application
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Economist Sir John Hicks was the first British economist to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Science (1972) for his wide ranging contributions in general and his book Value and Capital in particular. Value and Capital showed that the basic results of consumer theory could be obtained from statistical...
by Paul W. Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary work, Paul W. Kahn argues that political order is founded not on contract but on sacrifice. Because liberalism is blind to sacrifice, it is unable to explain how the modern state has brought us to both the rule of law and the edge of nuclear annihilation. We...
Developments in Language Theory
20th International Conference, DLT 2016, Montréal, Canada, July 25-28, 2016, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, DLT 2016, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in July 2016.
The 32 full papers and 4 abstracts of invited papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. This...
Language and Automata Theory and Applications
10th International Conference, LATA 2016, Prague, Czech Republic, March 14-18, 2016, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications, LATA 2016, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in March 2016.
The 42 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected...
by James Tully
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
These two ambitious volumes from one of the world's most celebrated political philosophers present a new kind of political and legal theory that James Tully calls a public philosophy, and a complementary new way of thinking about active citizenship, called civic freedom. Professor Tully takes the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
In June 2003, the Convention on the Future of Europe released what may become the Constitution of the European Union. This timely volume provides one of the first critical assessments of the draft Constitution from the vantage point of political theory.
The work combines detailed institutional...
Teachers' Roles in Second Language Learning
Classroom Applications of Sociocultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This book is designed to provide practical applications of sociocultural theory with regard to teachers’ roles in second language education. By providing specific examples of teachers’ roles in the classroom, the book aims to help researchers, teacher educators, and classroom teachers make clear...
by Gerrit Coddens
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
From Spinors to Quantum Mechanics discusses group theory and its use in quantum mechanics. Chapters 1 to 4 offer an introduction to group theory, and it provides the reader with an exact and clear intuition of what a spinor is, showing that spinors are just a mathematically complete notation for group...
by Kailash Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
This introductory treatment begins with an overview of the basic ideas of perturbation theory, addressing the conditions under which the theory may be set up and the various forms of perturbation expansions. Subsequent chapters explore diagrammatic methods in terms of linked cluster theorem and general...