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The Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Running
Running is a versatile form of physical exercise which does not reveal all of its dimensions at once. These dimensions escape the eye and are not revealed to the runner conceptually, but rather as sensations and emotions. Instead of concentrating on conceptual analysis, this book explores the emotions and experiences and examines the meaning that running has in runners´ lives. Using the partic…
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- 978-3-319-15597-5
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- XIV, 172
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The Phenomenological Critique of Mathematisation and the Question of Responsi…
This edited collection discusses phenomenological critiques of formalism and their relevance to the problem of responsibility and the life-world. The book deals with themes of formalization of knowledge in connection to the life-world, the natural world, the history of science and our responsibility for both our epistemic claims and the world in which we live. Readers will discover critiques…
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- 978-3-319-09828-9
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- X, 223
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- Contributions to Phenomenology
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The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook
Patients with a range of medical conditions undergo surgeries of varying levels of risk, and the evolving field of consult medicine aims to address their needs, whether pre- or post-surgery. This new edition of The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook provides useful information, advice, and guidelines based on a combination of clinical experience and evidence-based medicine. It covers topic…
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- 978-3-319-09366-6
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- XXVI, 318
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The Financial Crisis Reconsidered
Aronoff proposes a novel theory to account for the ultimate origins of secular stagnation and economic volatility. He shows how accumulation, which occurs when a person or country earns more than it ever plans to spend, generates both an excess of saving and a deficiency in demand. While savings provide the funds to promote booms, under-consumption ensures that these booms will turn bust and th…
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- 978-1349575473
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- 308 pages
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- The Financial Crisis Reconsidered
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The Forest of the Lacandon Maya
In The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide, linguist Suzanne Cook presents a bilingual Lacandon-English ethnobotanical guide to more than 450 plants in a tripartite organization: a botanical inventory in which main entries are headed by Lacandon names followed by common English and botanical names, and which includes plant descriptions and uses; an ethnographic inventory, which…
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- 1
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- 978-1-4614-9111-8
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- XXVII, 379, 38 b/w illustrations, 561 illustrations in colour
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- The Forest of the Lacandon Maya
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The Forest of the Lacandon Maya
In The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide, linguist Suzanne Cook presents a bilingual Lacandon-English ethnobotanical guide to more than 450 plants in a tripartite organization: a botanical inventory in which main entries are headed by Lacandon names followed by common English and botanical names, and which includes plant descriptions and uses; an ethnographic inventory, which…
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- 1
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- 978-1-4614-9111-8
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- XXVII, 379, 38 b/w illustrations, 561 illustrations in colour
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- The Forest of the Lacandon Maya
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The Foot
Kaj Klaue completed his Federal Diploma of Human Medicine at Lausanne University in 1978 and subsequently gained his PhD thesis from the University of Bern. Dr. Klaue began his studies of the locomotor system as a research fellow at the Laboratory for Experimental Surgery, Davos, under the direction of S.M. Perren. The rational context linking mechanical evidence with the biological response ha…
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- 2
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- 978-3-662-64001-2
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- XIII, 286, 350 b/w illustrations, 900 illustrations in colour
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- The Foot
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Laboratory experiments on large-scale geophysical flows
Laboratory experiments have been playing a unique role in the great scientific endeavor to better understand the complex phenomena of environmental flows for centuries. Thus, we find it quite appropriate to start our review – motivated by an Italian conference and written by Hungarian authors – with a historic reference to the heritage of the 17th century scholar Luigi Fernando Marsigli (16…
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- 978-3-7091-1893-1
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The Perfect Shape: Spiral Stories
This book uses the spiral shape as a key to a multitude of strange and seemingly disparate stories about art, nature, science, mathematics, and the human endeavour. In a way, the book is itself organized as a spiral, with almost disconnected chapters circling around and closing in on the common theme. A particular strength of the book is its extremely cross-disciplinary nature - everything is f…
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- 978-3-319-47373-4
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- XI, 258
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The Perception of Quality
Exploring the concept of quality management from a new point of view, this book presents a holistic model of how consumers judge the quality of products. It links consumer perceptions of quality to the design and delivery of the final product, and presents models and methods for improving the quality of these products and services. It offers readers an improved understanding of how and why the …
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- 978-1-4471-6627-6
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- IX, 265
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