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Ambivalent Encounters
Jenny Huberman provides an ethnographic study of encounters between western tourists and the children who work as unlicensed peddlers and guides along the riverfront city of Banaras, India. She examines how and why these children elicit such powerful reactions from western tourists and locals in their community as well as how the children themselves experience their work and render it meaningfu…
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A Norse Farmstead in the Outer Hebrides; Excavations at Mound 3, Bornais, Sou…
Volume ini meneliti South Uist, sebuah pulau kecil di bagian selatan Hebrides Luar. Di tengah pulau terletak kota kecil Bornais. Kota ini mencakup area tanah yang sangat datar, yang berarti bahwa tiga gundukan dapat dilihat dengan lebih jelas. Gundukan ini telah diidentifikasi berasal dari periode Viking, dengan bukti pemukiman pra-Viking di lokasi yang berasal dari pecahan-pecahan dari Zaman B…
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- 9781789258837
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- 941.1402 SHA n
Vagaries of Desire: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
Vagaries of Desire is a major collection of new essays by Timo Airaksinen on the philosophy of desire. The first part develops a novel account of the philosophical theory of desire, including Girard. The second part discusses Kafka’s main works, namely The Castle, The Trial, and Amerika, and Thomas Hobbes and the problems of intentionality. The text develops such linguistic tropes as metaphor…
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- 9789004410305
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- 236 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 340 Value Inquiry Book Series Online, Volume: 340 Philosophy, Literature, and Politics, Volume: 340
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Un piccolo esempio. La psicagogia matematica di Platone
‘Let me give you a simple example of what I mean, and you will see the rest for yourself.’ This is how Plato usually introduces mathematical examples to illustrate important philosophical puzzles. The research presented in this book offers a systematic analysis of these examples and demonstrates their crucial psychagogical function. Providing a toolkit of paradoxical objects that challenge …
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- '9789004701472
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- 224 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Brill's Plato Studies Series, Volume: 18
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Historical Background of Wang Yang-ming’s Philosophy of Mind = From the Per…
This open access book offers comprehensive information on Wang Yang-ming’s life, helping readers identify and grasp the foundations on which his philosophy was established. Though a great man, Wang had an extremely difficult life, full of many hardships. Based on various official histories, Wang’s own writings, and his disciples’ records, the book explores the legendary life of this ancie…
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- 9789811530364
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- X, 199 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The future of Europe : reform or decline
Includes index.A provocative argument that unless Europe takes serious action soon, its economic and political decline is unavoidable, and a clear statement of the steps Europe must take before it's too late.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262266949
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- 1 online resource (x, 186 pages) :illustrations
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Perspectives on the Performance of the Continental Economies
Economists disagree on what ails the economies of continental western Europe, which are widely perceived to be underperforming in terms of productivity and other metrics. Is it some deficiency in their economic system—in economic institutions or cultural attitudes? Is it some effect of their welfare systems of social insurance and assistance? Or are these systems healthy enough but weighed do…
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- 1 online resource (vi, 500 pages) :illustrations.
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Mountain Masculinity the Life and Writing of Nello “Tex” Vernon-Wood in …
In 1906, Nello Vernon-Wood (1882–1978) reinvented himself as Tex Wood, Banff hunting guide and writer of “yarns of the wilderness by a competent outdoorsman.” His homespun stories of a vanishing era, in such periodicals as The Sportsman, Hunting and Fishing, and the Canadian Alpine Journal, have much to tell us about the west as envisioned by those who wanted to leave the industrialized w…
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- Andrew Gow and Julie Rak
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- 9781897425022.01
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Year 1 :a philosophical recounting
"A reconsideration of the first century, before there were chronological centuries, and how it troubles our contemporary boundaries between religion, philosophy, and law"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363542
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Islamic science and the making of the European Renaissance
"The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and in general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations - the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations…
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- 9780262282888
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- 1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) :illustrations.
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