“…In this book, David Sedley examines this question and illuminates new historical perspectives on the pantheon of thinkers who laid the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Versions of what we call the "creationist" option were widely favored by the major thinkers of classical antiquity, including Plato, whose ideas on the subject prepared the ground for Aristotle's celebrated teleology. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…re (October 14, 1682)""; ""Part Four. THE WESTERN MISSIONS AND THE EXPANSION OF NEW FRANCE""…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…8 Miniature Fuji: The Mountain Comes to the PeopleFujiko: Enshrining the Mountain; Fujizuka: Creating Miniature Fuji; Part 3 Fuji as Visual Ideal and Political Idea; 9 Woodblock Prints and Popular Arts; Ukiyo-e: Fuji in the Floating World of Japan; Ukiyo-e: Fuji in the Floating World of Hiroshige and Hokusai; Fuji as Decoration and Souvenir; 10 Western ""Discovery"" of Woodblock Prints; Ukiyo-e: Fuji in the Floating World of Japonisme; ""Japonaiserie Forever""; Japanese ""Rediscovery"" of Woodblock Prints; 11 The Enduring Image of Fuji in Modern Times…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…THE ORDOVICIAN CHITINOZOANS FROM THE WESTERN GONDWANA MARGIN, NORTHWESTERN ARGENTINAUPDATE AND IMPORTANCE OF THE CARBONIFEROUS AND PERMIAN PALAEONTOLOGICAL RECORDS OF THE TARIJA BASIN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA: GLOBAL COMPARISONS; ANÁLISIS TAFONOMICO DE CONCENTRACIONES DE OSTRAS ( OSTREA PATAGONICA) EN EL MIOCENO DE PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA; LIFE ON LAND AND SEA IN THE UPPER SILURIAN OF BOLIVIA; EVIDENCE OF DEEP-MARINE SEDIMENTATION IN THE PRESENT LONGITUDINAL DEPRESSION (...); LATE CRETACEOUS CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHIC SUCCESION FROM ARC TO NON-ARC MAGMATISM (...)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I History of Technology; 1 History of Technology; 2 Definitions of Technology; 3 Western Technology; 4 Chinese Technology; 5 Islamic Technology; 6 Japanese Technology; 7 Technology and War; Part II Technology and Science; 8 Technology and Science; 9 Science and Technology: Positivism and Critique; 10 Engineering Science; 11 Technological Knowledge; 12 The Interplay between Science and Technology; 13 Instruments in Science and Technology; 14 Social Construction of Science…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Necessary Reconsideration of Career PatternsNew Basis for Management Legitimacy; Coping with an Ageing Society; Integration of the Atypical Workers; Clash of Work Values in a Westernized HRM System; Role and Importance of Business-HR Partnership; Key Changes in the HR Function; A Response to Career Individualization; Needs for More Sophisticated Service-Related Expertise; Changes in the Following Five Years; Responses to the Diversification of Career Patterns; Adaptation of Performance-Based Systems to the Japanese Context; The Need for Cross-Cultural Skills; Talent Management; Conclusion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction / North-western Europe -- 2. Labour in the British shipbuilding and ship repairing industries in the twentieth century -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…FINAL APPROVAL OF DISTRIBUTION AND FEESACTUAL DISTRIBUTION OF SETTLEMENT FUNDS; EPILOGUE; NOTES; Chapter Six - BANK BROKERAGE PRODUCT LITIGATION: PINNEY v. GREAT WESTERN; PROLOGUE; CLASS LITIGATION BEGINS; NEGOTIATING THE SETTLEMENT; REGULATORY ACTION; SETTLEMENT; DISTRIBUTION; EPILOGUE: ELEVENTH HOUR MANEUVERING; NOTES; Chapter Seven - COLLATERAL PROTECTION INSURANCE LITIGATION: GRAHAM v. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Hervé Le Bras -- Ghetto, son statut d'icône et la ligne américaine de partage des couleurs / Elijah Anderson -- Globalization, transnationalism, diasporas -- facing new realities and conceptual challenges / Judit Bokser Liwerant -- Savoir lire et écrire en perspective globale-- biologie, culture et société / Brian Stock -- Mondialisation du savoir -- obstacles intellectuels, organisationnels et culturels / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Autre mondialisation -- la contribution de l'Amérique latine / Ernesto Ottone -- Génération globale, notre "point aveugle" / Imma Tubella -- Secularism after Western hegemony / Rajeev Bhargava -- Sécularisation, sécularisme, laïcité dans une perspective sociologique / Jean Bauberot -- Recomposition du religieux et du séculier est-elle possible dans le récit de la modernité? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) -- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) -- International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF) -- Caribbean Community (CARICOM) -- International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF) -- Secretariats of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS Conventions) -- Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) -- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) -- Organization of American States (OAS) -- World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) -- Glossary -- Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) -- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) -- World Trade Organization (WTO/OMC) -- Classifications of IOs -- Asian Harmonization Working Party (AHWP) -- World Meteorological Organization (WMO) -- ASTM International -- International Telecommunication Union (ITU) -- Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) -- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) -- UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) -- Preface -- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) -- Foreword and acknowledgements -- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -- International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) -- European Commission (EC) -- Acronyms of participating international organisations -- Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML) -- Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) -- Common Market for East/Southern Africa (COMESA) -- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) -- International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) -- Executive summary -- International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) -- The survey exercise, structure and respondents -- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) -- United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) -- International Competition Network (ICN) -- The contours of international regulatory co-operation within international organisations -- International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) -- The governance and operational modalitiesof international organisations -- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) -- International Air Transport Association (IATA) -- Secretariat for the Vienna Convention and its Montreal Protocol – Ozone Layer (OZONE) -- International Accreditation Forum (IAF) -- Implementation and impacts of the instruments of international organisations -- Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) -- Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme (PIC/S)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…About the Editors ix -- Preface to "Recent Advances in Geological Oceanography" xi -- Geological Oceanography: Towards a Conceptual Framework 1 -- Natural Processes and Anthropogenic Activity in the Indus River Sedimentary Environment in Pakistan: A Critical Review 5 -- Geological Oceanography of the Pliocene Warm Period: A Review with Predictions on the Future of Global Warming 27 -- Mechanisms for Overpressure Development in Marine Sediments 47 -- Organic Matter Burial in Deep-Sea Fans: A Depositional Process-Based Perspective 69 -- Ecological Constraints of Plankton Bio-Indicators for Water Column Stratification and -- Productivity: A Case Study of the Holocene North Aegean Sedimentary Record 85 -- Geochemical and Mineral Properties of Quaternary Deep-Sea Sediments in the Central-Tropical Pacific and Its Response to the Mid-Pleistocene Transition 101 -- Taphofacies and Petrofacies Theoretical Marine Models Applied to the Coquina of the Amaral Formation (Lusitanian Basin, Portugal) 113 -- Depositional Sedimentary Facies, Stratigraphic Control, Paleoecological Constraints, and Paleogeographic Reconstruction of Late Permian Chhidru Formation (Western Salt Range, Pakistan) 139 -- Fish Teeth Sr Isotope Stratigraphy and Nd Isotope Variations: New Insights on REY -- Enrichments in Deep-Sea Sediments in the Pacific 163 -- Integrated Porosity Classification and Quantification Scheme for Enhanced Carbonate Reservoir Quality: Implications from the Miocene Malaysian Carbonates 179 -- Geochemical Analysis of Cretaceous Shales from the Hazara Basin, Pakistan: Provenance Signatures and Paleo-Weathering Conditions 201 -- The Tanais Bay of the Eastern Paratethys Sea at the Sarmatian-Maeotian Transition (Late Miocene): Widespread Desiccations and Local Uplifts in the Light of Historical Information 225 -- Bryozoan Diversity Dynamics at the Devonian-Carboniferous Transition: Evidence from Transcaucasia 237 -- Contourite and Turbidite Features in the Middle Caspian Sea and Their Connection to Geohazards Derived from High-Resolution Seismic Data 249 -- Simulation of the Nearshore Sediment Transport Pattern and Beach Morphodynamics in the Semi-Enclosed Bay of Myrtos, Cephalonia Island, Ionian Sea 275 -- Prediction of Overpressure Zones in Marine Sediments Using Rock-Physics and Other Approaches 305 -- Islands in the Caucasian Sea in Three Mesozoic Time Slices: Novel Dimension of Geoheritage and Geotourism 331 -- Fragmentation Characteristics of Seafloor Massive Sulfides: A Coupled Fluid-Particle Flow Simulation 351 -- Organic Geochemical Signatures of the Upper Miocene (Tortonian-Messinian) Sedimentary Succession Onshore Crete Island, Greece: Implications for Hydrocarbon Prospectivity 371 -- New Model of Coastal Evolution in the Ria de Vigo (NW Spain) from MIS2 to Present Day Based on the Aeolian Sedimentary Record 387 -- Seasonal Variability in Present-Day Coccolithophore Fluxes in Deep Eastern Mediterranean Sea: A Multi-Year Study (2015-2017) of Coccolithophore Export in SE Ionian Sea at 4300 m Depth 413 -- Correction: Fazal et al. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Platform Poetics: Instapoetry in the Age of Platformization <i>Zak Bronson and Warren Steele (University of Western Ontario, Canada)</i> <i> </i>Chapter 13. What's the Carbon Footprint of an (Insta)Poem?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Navigating the midwifery waters in Mexico -- Situated author: Hanna Laako -- Situated author: Georgina Sánchez-Ramírez -- The structure of the book -- Notes -- References -- 1 Underdogs, turf wars and revivals: Politically situated Mexican midwiferies in historical, multiscale perspective -- Introduction -- Situated knowledges -- The birth of the modern midwife and her dilemmas in the Western world -- Two meandering paths: Mexican professional and traditional midwifery in historical perspective -- The two meandering paths in contemporary perspective: The emergence of autonomous midwives -- Conclusions: Autonomy in midwifery -- Notes -- References -- 2 She breaks paradigms and leaves a trail: The contested terrains of midwifery activism -- Introduction: Midwives and contentious politics -- Autonomous midwives and the methodology of this investigation -- On human rights in social movements -- Midwives, social movements and human rights -- The politicization of autonomous midwives in Mexico -- Herstory 1: Autonomous science- and spirit-based midwifery in Chiapas -- Herstory 2: Autonomous rights- and apprentice-based midwifery in Chiapas and Mexico City -- Conclusions: Articulating and unfolding autonomy in midwifery -- Notes -- References -- 3 From infantilization to body-territoriality: Birth centers in Mexico -- Introduction: Hospital birth in modern Mexico -- From infantilization to empowerment: The "conscious birth" and birth centers -- Birth centers in global perspective -- In labor: Birth centers in Mexico -- Almost clandestine: Birth centers and the methodology of this research -- The visited facilities/homes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; China's Own FCPA; Fraud; Company-Specific and Corporate Culture Issues; Conducting Due Diligence in China versus Western Countries; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2: Due Diligence in China; Due Diligence for Different Types of Deals…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Genre Editing Styles I; Expectations Posed by Genre; Conventions; Crossing Genres; The Ritual Object; Expectations; The Western Rides into the Sunset; Science Fiction and Fantasy; Visual Effects; Computer-Generated Images; Compositing; Motion Capture…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Section 2 The academic status of consumptionSection 3 Classification of human consumption; Section 4 The theoretical framework of consumption; 3Classical theories of consumption; Section 1 Consumption theory in Chinese traditional culture; Section 2 Consumption theory in Western economics; Section 3 The consumption theory of Karl Marx; Section 4 The consumption thought of Deng Xiaoping; 4Consumption and economic law; Section 1 Law of three important consumptions leading to the circular spiral development of economy; Section 2 Market financial and economic law…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mapping Migrant Women's Journeys for Education and Opportunities / Sondra Cuban (Western Washington University, USA) ; 13. Perceptions of Education Among Young Asylum-Seeking Women / Faith Mkwananzi (The University of the Free State, South Africa) ; 14. …”