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Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations
Among Jean-Jacques Rousseau's chief preoccupations was the problem of self-interest implicit in all social relationships. A person with divided loyalties (i.e., to both himself and his cohorts) was, in Rousseau's thinking, a divided person. According to John Warner's Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations, not only did Rousseau never solve this problem, he believed it was fundamentally uns…
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- 210.1
Water, Race, and Disease
A qualitative and quantitative analysis of the effect of public water and sewer systems on African American life expectancy in the Jim Crow era.Why, at the peak of the Jim Crow era early in the twentieth century, did life expectancy for African Americans rise dramatically? And why, when public officials were denying African Americans access to many other public services, did public water and se…
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 251 pages) :illustrations.
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Derrida After the End of Writing: Political Theology and New Materialism
This book explores some of the implications of interpreting Derrida through the new materialist lens of technicity or plasticity, attending to the significance of ethics, religion and politics in his later work. Here the intersection of religion and politics becomes the site for Derrida to develop a “political theology without sovereignty.” By reading Derrida from a new materialist perspect…
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- 9780823277834
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- 297.272
The myth of the moral brain :the limits of moral enhancement
"Throughout history, humanity has been seen as being in need of improvement, most pressingly in need of moral improvement. Today, in what has been called the beginnings of "the golden age of neuroscience," laboratory findings claim to offer insights into how the brain "does" morality, even suggesting that it is possible to make people more moral by manipulating their biology. Can "moral bioenha…
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The Wealth of the World and the Poverty of Nations
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Tuning up! the Innovative Potential of Musikvermittlung
Professional musicians who perform in hospitals, retirement homes and prisons, creatively stimulated by the residents; babies crawling over exercise mats, enjoying classical music together with their parents; concert-goers who take their seats between the musicians in order to experience music up close with all their senses - the opportunities to make and experience music are almost unlimited. …
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- 9783839456811
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- 216 halaman
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- Volume 1 in the series Forum Musikvermittlung - Perspektiven aus Forschung und Praxis
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- 700 TUN
Infrastructural ecologies :alternative development models for emerging econom…
Of Case Study Infrastructural EcologiesNotes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Acronyms; Glossary; Recommended Readings; Index.An integrated, holistic model for infrastructure planning and design in developing countries.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262340694
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- 1 online resource (vi, 305 pages)
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A Grammar of Kham
First published in 2002, this is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a mirative system, and a rich class of derived adjecti…
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- Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions
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Weaving A Lexicon
"A Bradford Book."The studies in Weaving a Lexicon make a significant contribution to the growing field of lexical acquisition by considering the multidimensional way in which infants and children acquire the lexicon of their native language. They examine the many strands of knowledge and skill--including perceptual sensitivities, conceptual and semantic constraints, and communicative intent--t…
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- 9780262274777
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 648 pages) :illustrations
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The Semantic Web the Semantic Web - ISWC 2015 14th International Semantic Web…
The two-volume set LNCS 9366 and 9367 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2015, held in Bethlehem, PA, USA, in October 2015. The International Semantic Web Conference is the premier forum for Semantic Web research, where cutting edge scientific results and technological innovations are presented, where problems and solutions are discus…
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