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Pesky Essays on the Logic of Philosophy
This collection of essays explores the philosophy of human knowledge from a multitude of perspectives, with a particular emphasis upon the justification component of the classical analysis of knowledge and with an excursion along the way to explore the role of knowledge in Texas Hold ‘Em poker. An important theme of the collection is the role of knowledge in religion, including a detailed ar…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-08063-5
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- IX, 240
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- Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
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- 160 LUC p
Derailed Organizational Interventions for Stress and Well-Being: Confessions …
Providing an overview of researchers' and practitioners’ “confessions” on the fascinating phenomenon of failed or derailed organizational health and well-being interventions and contextualizing these confessions is the aim of this innovative volume. Organizational intervention failures, paradoxes and unexpected consequences can offer a lot of rich and extremely useful practical lessons on…
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- 1
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- 9789401798679
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- XXIV, 286
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 158.72
COMPASS and Implementation Science
This Brief examines COMPASS – the Collaborative Model for Promoting Competence and Success – a consultation-based intervention specialized for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Based on the Evidence-Based Practices in Psychology (EBPP) framework, the volume describes the processes that strengthen the expert support relationships between consultant and teacher (i.e., implementati…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-18554-5
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- XIII, 101
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Psychology
- Call Number
- 100
Anxiety Disorders and Gender
Anxiety and related disorders are common conditions that disproportionately affect women. In this book, the epidemiology, psychobiology, diagnosis, evaluation, pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy of major anxiety and related disorders are examined with special reference to the effects of gender and sex on clinical presentation and treatment. The conditions considered include generalized anxiety d…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-13060-6
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- XII, 168
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- -
- Call Number
- 150 ANX a
Impact of Visual Simulations in Statistics: The Role of Interactive Visualiza…
Glena Iten investigates the impact of interactive visual simulations on conceptual understanding of statistical principles. Overall, all students were able to increase their knowledge by working with visual simulations, whereas students who could manipulate statistical graphs in the simulation on their own were significantly faster. Currently, interactive learning tools explaining statistical c…
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-08334-2
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- IX, 48
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- BestMasters
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- 150 ITE i
Inequality in School Discipline: Research and Practice to Reduce Disparities
This edited volume fills a critical void by providing the most current and authoritative information on what is known about disciplinary disparities. School exclusion—out-of-school suspension and expulsion in particular—remains a substantial component of discipline in our nation’s schools, and those consequences continue to fall disproportionally on certain groups of learners. The negativ…
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-51256-7
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- XXI, 285
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- -
- Call Number
- 150 INE
Planetary Vistas: The Landscapes of Other Worlds
The word “landscape” can mean picture as well as natural scenery. Recent advances in space exploration imaging have allowed us to now have landscapes never before possible, and this book collects some of the greatest views and vistas of Mars, Venus’s Titan, Io and more in their full glory, with background information to put into context the foreign landforms of our Solar System. Here, lit…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-15242-4
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- XI, 185
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- -
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- 133.53 MUR p
Political Ethics and European Constitution
Is the dream of EU endangered? This book reviews classic and modern values and virtues, and uses them in order to rethink Europe’s present politics and its future. The idea of the Republic was born with the political ethics of ancient Greece. The current international crisis obliges Europe to face the mirror of truth: What has become of the European Idea and how fares the European Constitutio…
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- 1
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- 978-3-662-45600-2
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- XV, 81
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- SpringerBriefs in Law
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- 172 FER p
Politics in Socrates' Alcibiades: A Philosophical Account of Plato’s Dialog…
This volume provides the first full, political and philosophically rigorous account of Plato’s dialogue Alcibiades Major. The book argues that Alcibiades Major accomplishes its goal, which is to redirect Alcibiades’ political ambitions, not by arguing for specific propositions based on specific premises. The dialogue accomplishes its goal by generalizing the notion of argument to include ap…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-15269-1
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- XI, 143
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- SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
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- 160 ARC p
Positive Psychology Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
This book introduces readers to the principles of a fairly new branch of psychology – positive psychology – and demonstrates how they can be applied in the context of second language acquisition in a natural environment and in instructed foreign language (FL) learning. It focuses both on the well-being and success of the learner and the professional and personal well-being of the teacher. F…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-32954-3
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- XX, 366
- Series Title
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Call Number
- 150.198 GAB p
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