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A Voice and Nothing More
The voice was not a major philosophical topic until the 1960s, when Derrida and Lacan separately proposed it as a central theoretical concern. Here, Dolar goes beyond Derrida's idea of "phonocentrism" and revives and develops Lacan's claim that the voice is one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object. He proposes that, apart from the uses of the voice as a vehicle of meaning a…
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- 9780262288057
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- 1 online resource (213, [1] pages) :illustrations.
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The media snatcher PC CORE TURBO ENGINE GRAFX 16 CDROM2 SUPER DUO ARCADE RX
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- 9780262354868
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- 1 online resource (208 pages).
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Flint fights back :environmental justice and democracy in the Flint water crisis
An account of the Flint water crisis shows that Flint's struggle for safe and affordable water is part of a broader struggle for democracy. When Flint, Michigan, changed its source of municipal water from Lake Huron to the Flint River, Flint residents were repeatedly assured that the water was of the highest quality. At the switchover ceremony, the mayor and other officials performed a celebrat…
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- 9780262352932
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- 1 online resource (432 pages) :illustrations
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Impossible persons
A groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core."Impossible persons, Daniel Harbour's comprehensive and groundbreaking formal theory of grammatical person, upends understanding of a universal and ubiquitous grammatical category. Breaking with much past work, Harbour establishes three core theses, on…
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- 9780262336048
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 312 pages) :illustrations.
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Wage Dispersion: Why Are Similar Workers Paid Differently?
Why are workers with identical skills found in both "good" jobs and "bad" jobs? Why are workers who do similar jobs paid differently, contrary to standard competitive theory? Observable differences in workers doing the same job account for only 30 percent of wage variation. In Wage Dispersion, Dale Mortensen examines the reasons for pay differentials in the other 70 percent. He finds that these…
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- 9780262280242
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- 1 online resource (xii, 143 pages) :illustrations.
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War and Reconciliation: Reason and Emotion in Conflict Resolution
A study of the role of reconciliation in intrastate and international conflict resolution and an argument for the value of integrating emotion in our conceptions of human rationality and problem-solving.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278522
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- 1 online resource (x, 235 pages) :illustrations
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Fighting king coal :the challenges to micromobilization in central Appalachia
In the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining and coal-industry-related flooding, water contamination, and illness have led to the emergence of a grassroots, women-driven environmental justice movement. But the number of local activists is small relative to the affected population, and recruiting movement participants from within the region is an ongoing challenge.…
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- 9780262333597
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Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming
This book presents in detail a pair of models of the economics of climate change. The models, called RICE-99 (for the Regional Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy) and DICE-99 (for the Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy) build on the authors' earlier work, particularly their RICE and DICE models of the early 1990s. Humanity is risking the health of the natural e…
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- 9780262280747
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- 1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) :illustrations
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Waste Trading among Rich Nations: Building a New Theory of Environmental Regu…
When most people think of hazardous waste trading, they think of egregious dumping by U.S. and European firms on poor countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. But over 80 percent of the waste trade takes place between industrialized nations and is legal by domestic and international standards. In Waste Trading among Rich Nations, Kate O'Neill asks why some industrialized nations v…
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- 9780262280891
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- 1 online resource (xix, 298 pages).
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Essays on Plato’s Epistemology
Through a careful survey of several significant Platonic texts, mainly focussing on the nature of knowledge, Essays on Plato's Epistemology offers the reader a fresh and promising approach to Plato's philosophy as a whole. From the very earliest reception of Plato's philosophy, there has been a conflict between a dogmatic and a sceptical interpretation of his work and thou…
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- Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1
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