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Epicurus in Rome: Philosophical Perspectives in the Ciceronian Age
The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman Republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late Republic.
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- 9781009281416
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- 187 YON e
Debating Humanity: Towards a Philosophical Sociology
Debating Humanity explores sociological and philosophical efforts to delineate key features of humanity that identify us as members of the human species.
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- 9781316416303
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- 128 CHE d
Business School Leadership and Crisis Exit Planning: Global Deans' Contributi…
The European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) is the largest international accreditation body for business schools, with more than 950 members across 92 countries, including the world’s highestranked schools
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- 9781009083164
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- 174.4 COR b
Bread, Cement, Cactus: A Memoir of Belonging and Dislocation
In this exploration of themeaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the places in India from which she derives her sense of identity. She looks back on the now renamed city of her birth and the impossibility of belonging in the industrial township where she grew up.
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- 9781108886932
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- 155.2 ZAI b
Apocalypse without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits o…
Despite often being dismissed as bizarre, apocalyptic thought has persistent appeal in political life. This book explains apocalyptic thought's political appeal by examining it through the eyes of secular thinkers and makes original contributions to both the history of political thought and contemporary political philosophy.
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- 9781009037037
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- 181.06 JON a
Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems
Algorithms influence every facet of modern life: criminal justice, education, housing, entertainment, elections, social media, news feeds, work . . . the list goes on. Delegating important decisions to machines, however, gives rise to deep moral concerns about responsibility, transparency, freedom, fairness, and democracy.
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- 9781108895057
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A Theory of Bioethics
This volume offers a carefully argued, compelling theory of bioethics while eliciting practical implications for a wide array of issues including medical assistance-in-dying, the right to health care, abortion, animal research, and the definition of death.
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- 9781009026710
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Raw Data: A Novel on Life in Science
Chloe and Karen are ambitious and independent-minded young scientists, both trying to make their mark in the competitive world of biomedical science. They work in Tom Palmer’s lab at a top-tier research institute in the US. Life in the lab is full of excitement and passion, but also frustrations, jealousy and the fear of being scooped. When honesty and scientific integrity are questioned in …
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- 978-3-319-23974-3
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Latin American immigration ethics
Following an extended period of near silence on the subject, many social and political philosophers are now treating immigration as a central theme of the discipline. For the first time, this edited volume brings together original works by prominent philosophers writing about immigration ethics from within a Latin American context. Without eschewing relevant conceptual resources derived from Eu…
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- 978-0-8165-4426-4
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- 170.98 LAT
Healing Magic and Evil Demons : Canonical Udug-hul Incantations
This book brings together ancient manuscripts of the large compendium of Mesopotamian exorcistic incantations known as Udug.hul (Utukku Lemnutu), directed against evil demons, ghosts, gods, and other demonic malefactors within the Mesopotamian view of the world.It allows for a more accurate appraisal of variants arising from a text tradition spread over more than two millennia and from many anc…
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- 978-1-5015-0015-2
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