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Cover of Virtue, Happiness and Duclos’ Histoire de Madame de Luz
by L.R. Free
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013

Cover of Tyssot De Patot and His Work 1655 – 1738
by A. Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Cover of Art Line Thought
by S.B. Mallin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Art Line Thought discusses the main issues that beset our time and philosophy by locating these same issues in artworks and describing closely what is shown there. While respecting their differences, art and philosophy are thus made to cross back and forth into one another, delineating in fresh ways...
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Complementary Notions

A Critical Study of Berkeley’s Theory of Concepts

by D.V. Parke
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

This volume grew out of work on Berkeley which was presented in a dissertation several years ago. Though now much revised and greatly expanded. particularly in respect of the theory of concepts, a good part of the present text rests on this earlier foundation. I therefore gladly take this opportunity...
Cover of Destiny, the Inward Quest, Temporality and Life
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011

“There is no greater gift to man than to understand nothing of his fate”, declares poet-philosopher Paul Valery. And yet the searching human being seeks ceaselessly to disentangle the networks of experiences, desires, inward promptings, personal ambitions, and elevated strivings which directed...
Cover of Theory and Politics / Theorie und Politik

Theory and Politics / Theorie und Politik

Festschrift zum 70. Geburstag für Carl Joachim Friedrich

by Carl Joachim Friedrich
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

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Johan Huizinga 1872–1972

Papers Delivered to the Johan Huizinga Conference Groningen 11–15 December 1972

by W.R.H. Koops
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

From 11 to 15 December 1972 a group of historians from many European countries assembled in Groningen to commemorate the centenary of Johan Huizinga's birth in that city on 7 December 1872. The conference was not intended simply as a tribute to the memory of a great historian but also as an attempt...
Cover of A Collection of Mostly Old Books on the History of Battles, Campaigns, Sieges in Past Centuries, Military Technics, Arms, Fortifications, Uniforms, Etc.
Cover of Karl Leonhard Reinhold and the Enlightenment
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2010

Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823) is a complex figure of the late German Enlightenment. Sometime Catholic priest and active Mason even when still a cleric in Vienna; early disciple of Kant and the first to try to reform the Critique of Reason; influential teacher and prolific author; astute commentator...
Cover of Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s ‘Timaeus’
by George S. Claghorn
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

The purpose of this study is to determine Aristotle's attitude toward the content and method of Plato's natural science. Plato and Aristotle have often been regarded as on opposite sides of a philosophic 'Great Divide'. On the other hand, those who have found that the two men were in agreement have...
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The Aesthetics of Communication

Pragmatics and Beyond

by H. Parret
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

AESTHETICIZING PRAGMATICS The Gamut of Pragmatics Pragmatics emerged among the sciences of language at the end of the 1960's in reaction to certain totalizing models in linguistics: structuralism (primarily in Europe) and generative grammar (initially in the United States). Certain disciples of Chomsky...
Cover of Inedible Meat by-Products
by A. M. Pearson, T. R. Dutson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013

Inedible meat, poultry and fish by-products are major contributors to the profitability of the slaughterers and processors of all types of muscle food. Although the by-products per se make important economic contributions to the productivity of the industries, their importance varies widely between...
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Sustainability Communication

Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Theoretical Foundation

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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011

Modern and professional communication is required to realise the goal of sustainability in society. This book develops a theoretical and empirical framework, integrating interdisciplinary perspectives from communications theory, psychology, sociology, educational sciences, systems theory and constructivism....
Cover of Marine Navigation 1 : Piloting
by Richard R. Hobbs
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Throughout the history of warfare at sea, navigation has been an important basic determinant of victory. Occasionally, new members of the fraternity of the sea will look upon navigation as a chore to be tolerated only as long as it takes to find someone else to assume the responsibility. In my experience,...
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