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Speaking Power to Truth Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual
Casting doubt on the assertion that online discourse, with its proliferation of voices, will somehow yield collective wisdom, Speaking Power to Truth raises concerns that this wealth of digitally enabled commentary is, in fact, too often bereft of the hallmarks of intellectual discourse: an epistemological framework and the provision of evidence to substantiate claims. Instead, the pursuit of t…
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- 216 pages
Social Democracy After the Cold War
Offering a comparative look at social democratic experience since the Cold War, the volume examines countries where social democracy has long been an influential political force—Sweden, Germany, Britain, and Australia—while also considering the history of Canada’s NDP and the emergence of New Left parties in Germany and the province of Québec. The case studies point to a social democracy…
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- 978-1-926836-87-4
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- 340 pages
Narratives of Mass Atrocity: Victims and Perpetrators in the Aftermath
ndividuals can assume – and be assigned – multiple roles throughout a conflict: Perpetrators can be victims and, vice versa, heroes can be reassessed as complicit and compromised.
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- 9781009110693
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- T 364.15 FED n
Small Cities, Big Issues Reconceiving Community in a Neoliberal Era
If local governments accept a social agenda as part of its responsibilities, the contributors to Small Cities, Big Issues believe that small cities can succeed in reconceiving community based on the ideals of acceptance, accommodation, and inclusion. With contributions by Lorry-Ann Austin, Jacques Caillouette, Graham Day, Robert Harding, Wendy Hulko, Paul Jenkinson, Kathie McKinnon, Sharlene…
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- 9781771991636.01
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- 6 x 9, 334 pages
Narrative Science Reasoning, Representing and Knowing since 1800
Narrative Science examines the use of narrative in scientific research over the last two centuries. It brings together an international group of scholars who have engaged in intense collaboration to find and develop crucial cases of narrative in science. Motivated and coordinated by the Narrative Science
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- 9781009004329
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Money-Pump Arguments
Suppose that you prefer A to B, B to C, and C to A. Your preferences violate Expected Utility Theory by being cyclic. Money-pump arguments offer a way to show that such violations are irrational.
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Model Organisms
This Element presents a philosophical exploration of the concept of the 'model organism' in contemporary biology.
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- 9781108593014
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- T 578.7 ANK m c.1
Mind, State and Society: Social History of Psychiatry and Mental Health in Br…
The present work emerged from more than a decade of conversations, co-organising events and co-authoring articles. Much of this has taken place through the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) Psychiatry Section activities, especially at its programme on Psychiatry in Dialogue with Neuroscience Medicine and Society.
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- 9781911623793
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- T 362.209 IKK m c.1
Mind and Rights: The History, Ethics, Law and Psychology of Human Rights
Mind and Rights combines historical, philosophical, and legal perspectives with research from psychology and the cognitive sciences to probe the justifi cation of human rights in ethics, politics and law. Chapters critically examine the growth of the human rights culture, its roots in history and current human rights theories.
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- 9781316875520
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- T 341.48 MAH m c.1
Advances in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory
This text focuses on the algebraic formulation of quantum field theory, from the introductory aspects to the applications to concrete problems of physical interest. The book is divided in thematic chapters covering both introductory and more advanced topics. These include the algebraic, perturbative approach to interacting quantum field theories, algebraic quantum field theory on curved spaceti…
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- 978-3-319-21353-8
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- XII, 453
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- Mathematical Physics Studies
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- 530.15 ADV a
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