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Romance in the ivory tower :the rights and liberty of conscience
Should the choice to engage in a faculty-student romance be protected or precluded? An argument that the right to choose a romantic partner is a fundamental right of conscience, protected by the U.S Constitution.Allen Ginsberg once declared that "the best teaching is done in bed," but most university administrators would presumably disagree. Many universities prohibit romantic relationships bet…
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- 0262266733
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- 1 online resource (172 pages)
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Movies and the moral adventure of life
Films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262297035
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages).
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The really hard problem :meaning in a material world
"A Bradford book."A noted philosopher proposes a naturalistic (rather than supernaturalistic) way to solve the "really hard problem": how to live a life that really matters-even as a finite material being living in a material world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262272803
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages) :illustrations
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NGO diplomacy :the influence of nongovernmental organizations in internationa…
Provides an analytical framework for assessing the impact of NGOs on intergovernmental negotiations on the environment and identifying the factors that determine the degree of NGO influence, with case studies that apply the framework to negotiations on cl.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268417
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 244 pages)
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Children and pensions
An analysis of the effect of public pension schemes on a country's fertility rate and a proposal for policies to reform pension coverage in light of this.The rapidly aging populations of many developed countries--most notably Japan and member countries of the European Union--present obvious problems for the public pension plans of these countries. Not only will there be disproportionately fewer…
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- 9780262270342
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 204 pages) :illustrations.
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Describing inner experience? :proponent meets skeptic
"A Bradford book."A psychologist and a philosopher with opposing viewpoints discuss the extent to which it is possible to report accurately on our own conscious experience, considering both the reliability of introspection in general and the particular self-reported inner experiences of "Melanie," a subject interviewed using the Descriptive Experience Sampling method. Can conscious experience b…
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- 9780262275934
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- 1 online resource (viii, 322 pages).
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Folk psychological narratives :the sociocultural basis of understanding reasons
"A Bradford book."An argument that challenges the dominant "theory theory" and simulation theory approaches to folk psychology by claiming that our everyday understanding of intentional actions done for reasons is acquired by exposure to and engaging in specific kinds of n.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275996
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 343 pages)
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Coming clean :information disclosure and environmental performance
"Coming Clean is the first book to investigate the process of information disclosure as a policy strategy for environmental protection. This process, which requires that firms disclose information about their environmental performance, is part of an approach to environmental protection that eschews the conventional command-and-control regulatory apparatus, which sometimes leads government and i…
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- 0262295202
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 249 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Conservation refugees :the hundred-year conflict between global conservation …
How native people--from the Miwoks of Yosemite to the Maasai of eastern Africa--have been displaced from their lands in the name of conservation. Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations. About half of these areas were occupied or regularly used by indigenous peop…
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- 9780262322515
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- 1 online resource (376 pages).
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Velvet revolution at the synchrotron :biology, physics, and change in science
Change in scientific practice and its implications for the status of scientific claims, examined through an analysis of three episodes at a synchrotron laboratory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258746
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- 1 online resource (viii, 152 pages) :illustrations.
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