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Maurice Merleau-Ponty : Between phenomenology and structuralism
This is a study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's social thought, its often troubled relations with Edmund Husserl's phenomenological philo-sophy, and its equally ambivalent stance toward those approaches in the human sciences which take Ferdinand de Saussure's struc-tural linguistics as their point of departure. It seeks to do justice to one of the more complex and elusive figures in contemporary phi…
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- 9780312523107
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- 194 SCH m
Bases of Adult Attachment : Linking Brain, Mind and Behavior
A great deal is known about how infants form attachments, and how these processes carry over into adolescence. But after that, the trail grows cold: the study of adult attachment emphasizes individual variations, paying little attention to the normative mechanisms of adult bonding. A much-needed corrective, Bases of Adult Attachment examines this under-investigated topic with an eye toward c…
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- 978-1-4614-9621-2
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- XIII, 196
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- 150
Behavioral Analysis of Maternal Filicide
Maternal filicide has been discussed in the medical, mental health, and child abuse fields, yet little research exists with a criminal justice/law enforcement perspective. Nevertheless, criminal justice professionals responsible for investigation and prosecution of these offenders often must give attention to unique behavioral, social, and psychological dynamics not considered in many other typ…
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- 978-3-319-08150-2
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- XV, 108
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- SpringerBriefs in Psychology
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- 150
Advanced Robotics for Medical Rehabilitation: Current State of the Art and Re…
Focussing on the key technologies in developing robots for a wide range of medical rehabilitation activities – which will include robotics basics, modelling and control, biomechanics modelling, rehabilitation strategies, robot assistance, clinical setup/implementation as well as neural and muscular interfaces for rehabilitation robot control – this book is split into two parts; a review of …
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- 978-3-319-19896-5
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- XXII, 343
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- Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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- 157.94 XIE a
My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell
He returned to Gleichen late in life—to the home left to him by his mother—and it was there that he began to reconnect with Blackfoot language and culture and to write his story. Although the terrific adversity Bear Chief faced in his childhood made an indelible mark on his life, his unyielding spirit is evident throughout his story.
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- 9781771991759.01
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- 194
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 194 pages
Holistic Pedagogy: The Self and Quality Willed Learning
This book illuminates what must always be at the heart of powerful schooling and authentic learning. Its focus is on free learning, with an emphasis on early East Asian thought as a vehicle through which learning may emerge. The volume describes learning as helping the learner become more conscious, more aware. As such the authors explain how quality learning encompasses all learning that is ch…
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- 978-3-319-14943-1
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- XV, 226
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- Critical Studies of Education
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- 150 CAR h
History as a Science and the System of the Sciences: Phenomenological Investi…
This volume goes beyond presently available phenomenological analyses based on the structures and constitution of the lifeworld. It shows how the science of history is the mediator between the human and the natural sciences. It demonstrates that the distinction between interpretation and explanation does not imply a strict separation of the natural and the human sciences. Finally, it shows that…
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- 978-3-319-13586-1
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- XVII, 443
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- Contributions to Phenomenology
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- 100 SEE h
Global Innovation of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
This book examines current trends in higher education and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. It introduces readers to pedagogical strategies that instructors worldwide are using to overcome some of the challenges they face in higher education. To maximize their students’ learning, this work argues that institutions are compelled to innovate their policies and instructors must be collab…
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- 978-3-319-10481-2
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- XVI, 369
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- Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education
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- 150 GLO
Horizons of Authenticity in Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Moral Psycholo…
This volume centers on the exploration of the ways in which the canonical texts and thinkers of the phenomenological and existential tradition can be utilized to address contemporary, concrete philosophical issues. In particular, the included essays address the key facets of the work of Charles Guignon, and as such, honor and extend his thought and approach to philosophy. To this end, the four…
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- 978-94-017-9441-1
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- XIII, 372
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- Contributions to Phenomenology
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- 150 HOR
Bernard de Mandeville's Tropology of Paradoxes
Edmundo Balsemão is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Coimbra. He graduated from the University of Coimbra, in Philosophy (1986). He has a Master degree in Contemporary Philosophy, obtained in 1990 with a thesis on Emmanuel Levinas, and a Ph. D. with a dissertation on Hegel’s Political Philosophy (1999). He studied at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Hegel-Archiv) during a research y…
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- 978-3-319-19380-9
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- X, 264
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- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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- 100
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