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Rethinking Moral Status
Common-sense morality implicitly assumes that reasonably clear distinctions can be drawn between the ‘full’ moral status usually attributed to ordinary adult humans, the partial moral status attributed to non-human animals, and the absence of moral status, usually ascribed to machines and other artefacts. These assumptions were always subject to challenge; but they now come under renewed pr…
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- 9780192894076
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The European Higher Education Area: Between Critical Reflections and Future P…
Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education
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- 9783319208770
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England in Europe : English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, c.1000-c.1150
In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of the Æthelred II and Cnut, and The Life of King Edward, written for Edith the wife of Edward the Confessor.Tyler offers a bold literary and historical analysis of both texts and reveals how the two queens actively engaged in the patronage of history-writing and poetry to e…
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- 9781442640726
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- 800 TYL e
Aspects of Language and Learning
This book is based on a series of lectures, which begin with a look at the history of the language that we use in order to encode our knowledge, particularly our scientific knowledge, i.e., the history of scientific English. Prof. M.A.K. Halliday poses the question of how a growing child comes to master this kind of language and put it to his or her own use as a means of learning. In subsequent…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-662-47821-9
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- VII, 149
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- The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
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- 372.6 HOL a
Asia Pacific Business Process Management: Third Asia Pacific Conference, AP-B…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third Asia Pacific Conference on Business Process Management held in Busan, South Korea, in June 2015. Overall, 37 contributions from ten countries were submitted. After each submission was reviewed by at least three Program Committee members, 12 full and two short papers were accepted for publication in this volume. These papers cover various top…
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- 978-3-319-19509-4
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- XII, 199
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- Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
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- 005.1 ASI a
Arts, Research, Innovation and Society
This book explores – at the macro, meso and micro levels and in terms of qualitative as well as quantitative studies – theories, policies and practices about the contributions of artistic research and innovations towards defining new forms of knowledge, knowledge production, as well as knowledge diffusion, absorption and use. Artistic research, artistic innovations and arts-based innovation…
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- 978-3-319-09909-5
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- X, 297
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- Arts, Research, Innovation and Society
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- 337 ART a
Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents: First International Symposium, ALIA 2…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents, ALIA 2014, held in Bangor, UK, in November 2014. The 10 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning and evolution; human interaction; robotic simulation.
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- 978-3-319-18084-7
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- XI, 141
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- Communications in Computer and Information Science
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- 006.3 ART a
Behind the Essenes : History and Ideology in the Dead Sea Scrolls
A collection of essays by Philip Davies on aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls. While composed to stand along, together these essays create a strong synthetic argument about the Essenes and the production of the Dead Sea Scrolls that remains important and challenging to the present day.
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- 9781946527219
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- 900 DAV b
The Life and Letters of William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod”
"William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and…
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- 9781783745029
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Handbook Global History of Work
What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? Did workers ever protest? If so, how? These and many other questions comprise the field of the global history of work – a young discipline that is introduced with this handbook.
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- 9783110424584,
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- 604 pages
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- De Gruyter Reference
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- 900
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