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Re-Thinking Time at the Interface of Physics and Philosophy: The Forgotten Pr…
The current volume of the Parmenides Series “On Thinking” addresses our deepest and most personal experience of the world, the experience of “the present,” from a modern perspective combining physics and philosophy. Many prominent researchers have contributed articles to the volume, in which they present models and express their opinions on and, in some cases, also their skepticism abou…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-10446-1
- Collation
- X, 274
- Series Title
- On Thinking
- Call Number
- 101
Reasoning and Public Health: New Ways of Coping with Uncertainty
This book argues that in order to be truly effective, public health must embrace a group of reasoning strategies that have traditionally been characterized as informal fallacies. It will be demonstrated that these strategies can facilitate judgements about complex public health issues in contexts of uncertainty. The book explains how scientists and lay people routinely resort to the use of the…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-15013-0
- Collation
- XIII, 242
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- -
- Call Number
- 153
Constructing Virtue and Vice; Femininity and Laughter in Courtly Society (ca.…
The study examines textual representations of women’s laughter and smiling and their imagined connection to female virtue in a wide variety of discourses and contexts of the German Middle Ages, including medieval epic, ecclesiastical texts, conduct literature, lyric, and sculpture
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- 5
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- 9783737001199
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 179.9 TRO c
Comparative Perspectives on Gender Equality in Japan and Norway; Same but Dif…
This book compares perspectives on gender equality in Norway and Japan, focusing on family, education, media, and sexuality and reproduction as seen through a gendered lens.
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- 1
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- 1000528405, 9781000528404
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 155.33 KUN c
Rudolph Agricola : Six Lives and Erasmus’s Testimonies
Rudolph Agricola: Six Lives and Erasmus’s Testimonies The Frisian humanist Rudolph Agricola (1443-1485) is rightly famous for single-handedly bringing the Italian Renaissance to the North. Owing to his fascinating personality and many talents, he attracted the love and admiration of his contemporaries and the following generations. As a result, six biographies on Agricola have been preserved.…
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- -
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- 978 90 232 5072 2
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- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 144.092 RUD
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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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780312523107
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 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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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-4614-9621-2
- Collation
- XIII, 196
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 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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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-08150-2
- Collation
- XV, 108
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Psychology
- Call Number
- 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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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-19896-5
- Collation
- XXII, 343
- Series Title
- Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
- Call Number
- 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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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781771991759.01
- Collation
- 194
- Series Title
- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
- Call Number
- 194 pages
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