Filter by
Emotion, Reason and Action in Kant
This book explores how, in Kant’s world view, our actions are informed, contextualized and dependent on the tension between emotion and reason. Arguing that affects and passions are illnesses of the mind, because both hinder the sovereignty of reason, Borges demonstrates Kant’s recognition of the malleability of reason. To this end, the book explores the full range of negative and positive …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781350078376
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 160
Constraints of Agency Explorations of Theory in Everyday Life
This book explores the basic concept of agency and develops it further in psychology using it to better understand and explain psychological processes and behavior. More importantly, this book seeks to put an emphasis on the role of agency in four distinct settings: history of psychology, neuroscience, psychology of religion, and sociocultural theories of co-agency. In Volume 12 of the Annals o…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319101309
- Collation
- xv, 276 pages
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 153
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…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-15013-0
- Collation
- XIII, 242
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 153
Early Modern Russian Letters : Texts and Contexts
Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a spectrum of works and issues that shaped the development of modern Russian literature, from authorship and philosophy to gender and religion in Russian Enlightenment culture. The first part of the collection explores…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781934843680
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 800 LEV e
Handbook of Community Sentiment
This volume is the most comprehensive reference book on community sentiment available. The classic book about community sentiment is Norm Finkel’s “Commonsense Justice: Jurors’ Notions of the Law” (1995). A similarly influential book called “Justice, Liability, and Blame” was published at the same time, examining lay sentiment about a variety of criminal issues and suggesting way…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-4939-1898-0
- Collation
- XIV, 291
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 150 HAN
Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferents
CT afferents are receptors in mammalian hairy skin that fire action potentials when the skin is touched lightly which makes them particularly important in affective touch. Traditionally neuroscientific research has focused on more discriminative and haptic properties of touch that are mediated by large myelinated afferents and the coding properties and functional organization of unmyelinated C…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-4939-6418-5
- Collation
- XIII, 430
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 150 AFF a
Dostoevsky beyond Dostoevsky : Science, Religion, Philosophy
Dostoevsky beyond Dostoevsky is a collection of essays with a broad interdisciplinary focus. It includes contributions by leading Dostoevsky scholars, social scientists, scholars of religion and philosophy. The volume considers aesthetics, philosophy, theology, and science of the 19th century Russia and the West that might have informed Dostoevsky's thought and art. Issues such as evolutionary …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781618115263
- Collation
- 424 halaman
- Series Title
- Ars Rossica
- Call Number
- 100 EVD d
Green Chemistry and Sustainability in Pulp and Paper Industry
This book features in-depth and thorough coverage of Minimum Impact Mill Technologies which can meet the environmental challenges of the pulp and paper industry and also discusses Mills and Fiberlines that encompass “State-of-the-Art” technology and management practices. The minimum impact mill does not mean "zero effluent", nor is it exclusive to one bleaching concept. It is a much bigg…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-18743-3
- Collation
- XVI, 258
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 574 BAJ g
Rainwater Tank Systems for Urban Water Supply Design, Yield, Energy, Health …
Rainwater tank systems have been widely adopted across the world to provide a safe local source of water in underdeveloped rural areas, and as a substitution for mains water for non potable end uses in water stressed urban areas. They also provide flood control in monsoonal climates like Korea or in combined sewer systems like in Germany. The importance of these systems in cities has grown, as …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781780405360
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Tripolye Typo-chronology. Mega and Smaller Sites in the Sinyukha River Basin
The Tripolye phenomenon, which displays a specific artefact complex and an extraordinary settlement layout, is also known for its so-called ‘mega sites’. Five of the largest ‘mega’ or giant settlements measure between 150-320 ha in size. These, and other big settlements, are concentrated in the Sinyukha River Basin, which is a central part of modern Ukraine. In this region, more than 10…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789088909511
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography