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Cover of The United Nations and Decolonization: The Role of Afro — Asia
by Y. El-Ayouty
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

When the United Nations' Charter was signed in San Francisco in 1945, the number of African member states of the Organisation was only 4. By the end of 1960 it had risen to 22. Today it is 41. How has this come about? The answer is given in this valuable book by Dr. Yassin EI-Ayouty. The handful of...
Cover of Africa and international organization
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

As an emerging Continent, with a rich past, dynamic present and promising future, Africa has an important role to play in the develop­ ment of international organization. Well before Africa Year, 1960, when several African States attained their independence and their rightful place in the community...
Cover of Passions in William Ockham’s Philosophical Psychology
by Vesa Hirvonen
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2004

Cover of Aquinas’s Philosophical Commentary on the Ethics
by J.C. Doig
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013

Is Aquinas's Sententia libri Ethicorum an interpretation of Aristotle based on `principles of Christian ethics'? Or do we have in that work a presentation of the foundation of Aquinas's moral philosophy? Professor Doig answers these questions through an examination of the historical context within...
Cover of Edward Channing and the Great Work
by D.D. Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Twenty years after Edward Channing's death in 1931, historians differed rather widely in their evaluation of his work. A British author, surveying American historiography since 1890, was quite critical of Channing's major contribution, the six-volume History of the United States, contending that it...
Cover of The Paxton Papers
by John R. Dunbar
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

An attempt has been made to arrange the pamphlets reprinted in this volume in a chronological/argumentative sequence. The grammar, punctuation, and spelling of the originals have been kept; however, occasionally, where the spelling in the original might arouse serious question in the mind of the reader,...
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Understanding Imagination

The Reason of Images

by Dennis L Sepper
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

This book discusses that imagination is as important to thinking and reasoning as it is to making and acting. By reexamining our philosophical and psychological heritage, it traces a framework, a conceptual topology, that underlies the most disparate theories: a framework that presents imagination...
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Decision Making and Change in Human Affairs

Proceedings of the Fifth Research Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making, Darmstadt, 1–4 September, 1975

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

It is only just recently that people have the tools to judge how well they are doing when making decisions. These tools were conceptualized in the seventeenth century. Since then many people have worked to sharpen the concepts, and to explore how these can be applied further. The problems of decision-making...
Cover of Field Manual of Diseases on Trees and Shrubs
by R. Kenneth Horst
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013

The Trees and Shrubs manual is a reference manual on diseases which attack trees, shrubs, and vines. The manual identifies various types of diseases which are known to invade these plants located throughout North, Central, and South America. The recordings include diseases caused by fungi, bacteria,...
Cover of Artificial Reefs in European Seas
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Artificial Reefs in European Seas focuses on artificial reef research in the Mediterranean and NE Atlantic. The book describes most of the long-term projects running in European seas, presents the legal and economic issues, and suggests future uses for artificial reefs in the European context. Readership:...
Cover of James and Husserl: The Foundations of Meaning
by R. Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

" ... a universe unfinished, with doors and windows open to possibilities uncontrollable in advance." 1 A possibility which William James would certainly not have envisaged is a phenomenological reading of his philosophy. Given James's personality, one can easily imagine the explosive commen­...
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Pneumatic Conveying of Solids

A theoretical and practical approach

by G.E. Klinzing, F. Rizk, R. Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

Pneumatic conveying is one of the most popular methods of handling bulk powdered and granular materials in mining, chemical and agricultural industries. This 3rd edition of this successful book covers both theoretical and practical aspects of the subject. It is unique in its blending of academic materials...
Cover of New Advances in Gastrointestinal Motility Research
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

Research into gastrointestinal motility has received renewed interest in part due to recent advances in the techniques for measuring the structure and function of gastrointestinal cells, tissue and organs. The integration of this wealth of data into biophysically based computation models can aid in...
Cover of Fundamentals of Mechanics of Robotic Manipulation
by Marco Ceccarelli
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013

This book has evolved from a course on Mechanics of Robots that the author has thought for over a dozen years at the University of Cassino at Cassino, Italy. It is addressed mainly to graduate students in mechanical engineering although the course has also attracted students in electrical engineering....
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