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Reasonableness and Effectiveness in Argumentative Discourse: Fifty Contributi…
This volume presents 50 contributions on the themes of reasonableness and effectiveness and their connections, which are central issues in argumentation theory. It discusses van Eemeren’s views on the study of argumentation; the approach to argumentation adopted in pragma-dialectics; pragma-dialectical perspectives on the dialectical and pragmatic dimensions of argumentative discourse; the no…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-20955-5
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- XXIV, 904
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- Argumentation Library
- Call Number
- 400
Geospatial Semantic Web
This book covers key issues related to Geospatial Semantic Web, including geospatial web services for spatial data interoperability; geospatial ontology for semantic interoperability; ontology creation, sharing, and integration; querying knowledge and information from heterogeneous data source; interfaces for Geospatial Semantic Web, VGI (Volunteered Geographic Information) and Geospatial Seman…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-17800-4
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- VII, 194
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- -
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- 401.43 ZHA g
Impact Craters in South America
A complete and updated catalogue of impact craters and structures in South America from 2014 is presented here. Approximately eighty proven, suspected and disproven structures have been identified by several sources in this continent. All the impact sites of this large continent have been exhaustively reviewed: the proved ones, the possible ones and some very doubtful. Many sites remain without…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-13092-7
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- X, 104
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences
- Call Number
- 415 IMP
God and Mental Causation
This book lies at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of religion and operates on the assumption that dialogue between the two disciplines can be fruitful. In particular it focuses on how debates in the philosophy of mind regarding the nature of mental causation relate to debates in the philosophy of religion regarding divine action, creaturely causation, and existence of God…
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- -
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- 978-3-662-47425-9
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- XIV, 100
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- -
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- 100
The Givenness of Desire: Human Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God
This book examines the human desire for God through the lens of Bernard Lonergan's 'concrete subjectivity.' With Lonergan as an integrating thread, the author engages a variety of thinkers, including Hans Urs von Balthazar, Jean-Luc Marion, Rene Girard, Lawrence Feingold, John Milbank, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Pope France, among others. The Givenness of Desire investigates our paradoxical de…
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- -
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- 9781487500313
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- -
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- -
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- 210.1
The Science Communication Challenge: Truth and Disagreement in Democratic Kno…
The Science Communication Challenge explores and discusses the whys – as distinct from the hows – of science communication. Arguing that the dominant science communication paradigm is didactic, it makes the case for a political category of science communication, aimed at furthering discussions of science-related public affairs and making room for civilized and reasonable exchanges between d…
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- -
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- 9781783087532
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- -
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- -
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- 297.27
A Comparative Doxastic-Practice Epistemology of Religious Experience
This book takes a theoretical enterprise in Christian philosophy of religion and applies it to Buddhism, thus defending Buddhism and presenting it favorably in comparison. Chapters explore how the claims of both Christianity and Theravada Buddhism rest on people’s experiences, so the question as to which claimants to religious knowledge are right rests on the evidential value of those expe…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-09455-7
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- -
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies
- Call Number
- 200.11 WEB c
Living on the Land Indigenous Women's Understanding of Place
An extensive body of literature on Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing has been written since the 1980s. This research has for the most part been conducted by scholars operating within Western epistemological frameworks that tend not only to deny the subjectivity of knowledge but also to privilege masculine authority. As a result, the information gathered predominantly reflects the types o…
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- -
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- 9781771990417.01
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- -
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- 228 pages
Plug In Electric Vehicles in Smart Grids; Integration Techniques
This book focuses on the state of the art in worldwide research on applying optimization approaches to intelligently control charging and discharging of batteries of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) in smart grids. Network constraints, cost considerations, the number and penetration level of PEVs, utilization of PEVs by their owners, ancillary services, load forecasting, risk analysis, etc. are…
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- 1
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- 978-981-287-299-9
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- IX, 349
- Series Title
- Power Systems
- Call Number
- 621.31042 RAJ p
Pocket Guide to Critical Care Pharmacotherapy
This is a no-nonsense guide to drug treatment in the intensive care unit. It covers the most commonly encountered conditions and is organized by system. Management of each condition is tersely outlined step-by-step in table format. The book also includes non-drug information that is essential to making informed, evidence-based pharmacotherapy decisions, such as risk scores, scales, and asses…
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- 2
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- 978-1-4939-1853-9
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- XVI, 171
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 616.025 PAP p
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