“…Graham Priest presents an original exploration of philosophical questions concerning the one and the many. He covers a wide range of issues in metaphysics-including unity, identity, grounding, mereology, universals, being, intentionality, and nothingness-and deploys the techniques of paraconsistent logic in order to offer a radically new treatment of unity. …”

“…In recent years, the wearing of the full-face veil or burqa/niqab has proved a controversial issue in many multi-cultural European societies. Focussing on the socio-legal and human rights angle, this volume provides a useful comparative perspective on how the issue has been dealt with across a range of European states as well as at European institutional level. …”

“…The Finite Element Analysis of laminate and sandwich structures is briefly presented. Many solved examples illustrate the application of the techniques learned…”
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“…Since the middle of the twentieth century, economists have invested great resources into using statistical evidence to relate macroeconomic theories to the real world, and many new econometric techniques have been employed. …”

“…The text gives one approach to understanding how public opinion fits into the empirical world of politics and finds that it has little to do with the mass public. Concluding that many political actors reject the "voice of the people" as uninformed and nebulous, relying instead on interest groups and the media for representations of public opinion…”

“…Explore VBA programming and learn how to customize and automate many aspects of Excel. This plain-English guide shows what VBA is, how it works with Excel, essential programming concepts, and steps to creating dialog boxes, time-saving macros, Excel add-ins, and more…”

“…The combination of historical and contemporary perspectives in many contributions add comparative dimensions, while also shedding light on relevant socio-political developments and phenomena in those post-communist countries, thus uniting linguistic methods with cultural studies…”

“…In this radical new look at the theory and practice of urban design, Christopher Alexander asks why our modern cities so often lack a sense of natural growth, and suggests a set of rules and guidelines by which we can inject that 'organic' character back into our High Streets, buildings, and squares. At a time when so many of Britain's inner cities are undergoing, or are in need of, drastic renovation, Christopher Alexander's detailed account of his own experiments in urban-renewal in San Francisco makes thought-provoking reading…”

“…This book provides a survey of the most important historians and historiographical debates in the long eighteenth century, examining these debates' stylistic, philosophical and political significance. The chapters, many of which were specially commissioned for this volume, offer a mixture of accessible introduction and original interpretive argument; they will thus appeal both to the scholar of the period and the more general reader. …”

“…Francesca Bordogna asserts that the APA address was emblematic—it was just one of many gestures that James employed as he plowed through the barriers between academic, popular, and pseudoscience, as well as the newly emergent borders between the study of philosophy, psychology, and the “science of man.” …”

“…A cascade of water pouring from glaciers and a lake in the high mountains, a water fall tumbling from high up into the valley, a chain of lakes at the base of 10,000-foot peaks, rocky chasms disgorging the torrent, drawn-out gravel banks and mudflats, undercut banks and river bends, and extensive riparian forests at the river’s lower reaches: the Inn has many faces to show and an interesting tale to tell. …”
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“…Griffin examines the deep connection between the two and the philosophical consequences which follow from it. Grounding many of Leibniz's modal conceptions in his theology, Griffin develops a new interpretation of the ontological argument in Leibniz and Descartes. …”
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“…In The Warmth Dimension, Rohner breaks new ground by offering a theoretical foundation for the problem of child abuse. Drawing on data from many societies, both industrialized and non-industrialized, he studies the effects of parental rejection on children within the framework of his Parental-Acceptance Rejection Theory. …”
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“…Historiography plays an integral role in aiding undergraduate students to better understand the nature and purpose of historical analysis more generally by examining the many conflicting ways that historians have defined and approached history. …”

“…Medievalism has been used by many writers from the Renaissance to the present day as a means of commenting on their own societies and systems of values. …”

“…It develops the topological structures in connection with measure theory, convexity, Banach lattices, integration, correspondences (multifunctions), and the analytic approach to Markov processes. Many of the results were previously available only in works scattered throughout the literature. …”

“…The book describes Georgia's complex struggles with the many empires which have tried to control, fragment or even exterminate the country…”

“…Between Europe and Asia, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, between the mountain ranges of Pontus and Taurus a large variety of plants and a huge diversity of animals can be found. Many of them are immigrants that arrived from all directions,before, during and after the last ice age. …”

“…Over the centuries, they cleared the woodlands, created fields and pastures, and built their villages higher and higher in the mountains.These farmers were followed by many wild animals that found a new habitat in the changed landscape: wood grouse occupied the forest glades, rock partridges filled the mountain meadows, and red deer populated the alpine pastures. …”