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  • New York : Palgrave Macmillan US  (154)
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  • 1
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137075116
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (195 pages)
    DDC: 302.14
    Keywords: Democracy.. ; Ethics.. ; Political science ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Principal Events in the Life of Erich Fromm -- 1. Introduction: The Quest -- 2. Freedom Lost -- 3. Humanistic Ethics -- 4. Toward a Gendered Humanism -- 5. Work -- 6. Consumption -- 7. Democracy -- 8. One World -- 9. Conclusion: Radical Humanism and Human Solidarity -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan US
    ISBN: 9781137066985
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 218 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; European Union ; Ethnicity ; Europe History ; France History ; Civilization History ; Emigration and immigration ; Race. ; Europe
    Abstract: Derderian looks at the large North African population in France and their attempts for recognition in a country which has long denied its rich immigration past and present. He considers how the North African community has developed from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, especially in their political and cultural initiatives. Derderian examines the radio station Radio Beur and the television show La Famille Ramdam , as well as political initiatives and the role of ethnic minorities in defining prominent French sites of memory such as the working-class suburbs or banlieues and the Algerian War. Based largely on oral history, Derderian draws from a wealth of interviews with North African artists and creators as well as various French cultural actors
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    Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9781402019104
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 448 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 59
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    Keywords: Grammar. ; Syntax. ; Linguistics. ; Comparative linguistics. ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Comparative Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Syntax
    Abstract: Core Questions about the Edge -- On the Left and on the Right -- The Left Periphery and Cyclic Spellout: The Case of Hungarian -- Unspecified Categories as the Key to Root Constructions -- Peripheral Effects without Peripheral Syntax: The Left Periphery in Korean -- Japanese Scrambling in a Comparative Perspective -- Left or Right? A View from the Kwa Periphery -- Cross-Linguistic Word Order Variation at the Left Periphery: The Case of Object First Main Clauses -- DP-Periphery and Clausal Periphery: Possessor Doubling in West Flemish -- Submove: Towards a Unified Account of Scrambling and D-Linking -- On the Edge -- Clausal Edges and Their Effects on Scope -- Edge Coordinations: Focus and Conjunction Reduction -- Broad Subjects and Clitic Left Dislocation -- Acquiring the Left Periphery of the Modern Greek DP -- Early Peripheries in the Absence of C.
    Abstract: The syntactic periphery has become one of the most important areas of research in syntactic theory in recent years, due to the emergence of new research programmes initiated by Rizzi, Kayne and Chomsky. However research has concentrated on the empirical nature of clausal peripheries. The purpose of this volume is to explore the question of whether the notion of periphery has any real theoretical bite. An important consensus emerging from the volume is that the edges of certain syntactic expressions appear to be the locus of the connection between phrase structure, prosody, and information structure. This volume contains 16 papers by researchers in this area. The book: - contains an extensive introduction setting out the research questions addressed and setting the contributions in an overall theoretical context, - has a distinct comparative slant, - brings together work from a range of theoretical perspectives, while maintaining a unity of purpose, - could serve as the basis for a graduate course on peripheral positions, - contains papers addressing: = the question of the fine-grainedness of syntactic representations, = the relevance of syntactic edges to locality and semantic interpretation, = the nature of the dependencies connecting peripheral elements to the syntactic core. Audience: Academics and graduate students interested in syntax and its interfaces with semantics and prosody, acquisition of syntax, cross-linguistic comparison.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Contents""
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    Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9781402026188
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 276 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology 50
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    Keywords: Epistemology. ; Philosophy. ; Phenomenology . ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Phenomenology
    Abstract: The Development of Hermeneutical Consciousness -- The Development of Hermeneutical Consciousness in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- The Genesis of Philological-Historical Hermeneutics -- Methodological Hermeneutics -- Toward a General Theory of Understanding -- A Typology of Understanding -- Cultural Understanding -- Method and Methodology -- The Unsolved Problems of Methodological Hermeneutics -- Parts, Wholes, and Circles -- The First Canon and the Philological-Historical Method.
    Abstract: The goal of the investigation is a phenomenological theory of the methods and later the methodology of the human sciences, first of all the philological interpretation of texts. The first part is a critical reflection on the historical development of hermeneutics as method of interpreting texts and the tradition including the first steps toward the emergence of scientific methodological hermeneutics. Such reflections show that the development of hermeneutics is onesidedly founded in the development of hermeneutical consciousness, i.e. the changing attitudes in the application and rejection of cultural traditions. All methods and finally methodologies are onesidedly founded in the activities of the lifeworld. The second part is a first attempt to develop an outline of a general phenomenological theory of pre-methodical and methodical understanding in the lifeworld. The third part offers a critical phenomenologically guided analysis of methodological hermeneutics. .
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    Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer | Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers
    ISBN: 9781402027109
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 161 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Philosophy and Education 13
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    Keywords: Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Education. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; Education—Philosophy. ; Education ; Education Philosophy
    Abstract: Some New York Philosophers -- Nelson Goodman at Penn -- Francis Keppel and the Harvard School of Education -- Some Education Colleagues -- Some London Philosophers -- Some Harvard Philosophers -- Turbulence in the 60's -- Chicago and Jerusalem Colleagues -- The Scholar and the Analyst -- Center for Advanced Study -- Some Invited Lectures -- Education Projects -- Philosophy of Education Research Center.
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    ISBN: 9781402081316
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 373 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: New ICMI Study Series 8
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    Keywords: Curriculums (Courses of study). ; Teaching. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Education—Curricula. ; Teachers—Training of. ; Education ; Curriculum planning ; Mathematics ; Teachers Training of ; Algebra ; Mathematikunterricht ; Computeralgebra
    Abstract: Solving the Problem with Algebra -- The Core of Algebra: Reflections on its Main Activities -- Responses to ‘The Core of Algebra’ -- The Early Development of Algebraic Reasoning: The Current State of the Field -- A Toolkit for Analysing Approaches to Algebra -- Research on the Role of Technological Environments in Algebra Learning and Teaching -- Computer Algebra Systems and Algebra: Curriculum, Assessment, Teaching, and Learning -- The History of Algebra in Mathematics Education -- Symbols and Language -- Teachers’ Knowledge and the Teaching of Algebra -- The Teaching and Learning of Tertiary Algebra -- Goals and Content of an Algebra Curriculum for the Compulsory Years of Schooling -- Algebra: A World of Difference.
    Abstract: This book presents a wide-ranging, international perspective on the state of the field of algebra from invited participants to the 12th ICMI Study Conference held in Melbourne, Australia in 2001. The authors are renowned academics from all around the world who have written individual chapters associated with the teaching and learning of algebra that relate to their particular areas of research and teaching expertise. The book includes information about different approaches to the teaching and learning of algebra - from early algebra to tertiary algebra, the impact of tools and technology (including Computer Algebra Systems), the role of symbols and language, teachers of algebra, and the history of algebra. The Future of the Teaching and Learning of Algebra: the 12th ICMI Study is of interest to researchers, curriculum developers, educational policy makers, teachers of mathematics, and trainee mathematics teachers.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""About ICMI""; ""Chapter 1 Solving the Problem with Algebra""; ""Chapter 2 The Core of Algebra: Reflections on its Main Activities""; ""Chapter 3 Responses to �The Core of Algebra�""; ""Chapter 4 Working Group on Early Algebra""; ""The Early Development of Algebraic Reasoning: The Current State of the Field""; ""Chapter 5 Working Group on Approaches to Algebra""; ""A Toolkit for Analysing Approaches to Algebra""; ""Chapter 6 Working Group on Technological Environments""; ""Research on the Role of Technological Environments in Algebra Learning and Teaching""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Chapter 7 Working Group on CAS and Algebra""""Computer Algebra Systems and Algebra: Curriculum‚ Assessment‚ Teaching‚ and Learning""; ""Chapter 8 Working Group on Algebra History in Mathematics Education""; ""The History of Algebra in Mathematics Education""; ""Chapter 9 Working Group on Symbols and Language""; ""Symbols and Language""; ""Chapter 10 Working Group on Teachers� Knowledge and the Teaching of Algebra""; ""Teachers� Knowledge and the Teaching of Algebra""; ""Chapter 11 Working Group on Teaching and Learning Tertiary Algebra""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""The Teaching and Learning of Tertiary Algebra""""Chapter 12 Working Group on Goals and Content of an Algebra Curriculum for the Compulsory Years""; ""Goals and Content of an Algebra Curriculum for the Compulsory Years of Schooling""; ""Chapter 13 Algebra: A World of Difference""; ""Conference Participants""; ""Index of Authors""; ""Index""
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    ISBN: 9781402029738
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 222 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 22
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    Keywords: Political philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Ethics. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Humanities ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Political science Philosophy ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Tragic Decisions -- Patient Selection and Medical Utility -- The Comparative Value of Lives -- Medical Utility Judgements and Rights -- Adequate Conscious Life and Age-Related Need -- Fair Innings and Need over a Lifetime -- Levels of Benefit, Utility Scores and the QALY Debate -- An Egalitarian Ethos -- A Threshold Level of Medical Benefit -- Waiting Lists and Lotteries in Practice -- Common Humanity and Reandom Selection -- Chance and the Challenge of Living.
    Abstract: Bioethicists, moral philosophers and social policy analysts have long debated about how we should decide who shall be saved with scarce, lifesaving resources when not all can be saved. It is often claimed that it is fairer to save younger persons and that age is an ethically relevant consideration in such tragic decisions. Medical benefit should be maximized and final selection should aim to minimize the contaminating influence of chance. These claims are challenged by Duff R. Waring in Medical Benefit and the Human Lottery, one of the few books that attempts a sustained defence of random patient selection. This book combines ethics and political philosophy in its novel and strict egalitarian approach to patient selection for transplantable organs. Waring addresses the question of whether we should choose between lives on the basis of fair chances or best outcomes. He argues that final selection criteria should be based on fair chances that equalize opportunity as opposed to best outcomes. His defence of "hardy" egalitarianism aims to show that random selection by lottery can affirm both a common humanity and the equal value of lives. The notion of patient selection by lottery has not fared well in bioethics and has been regarded by some as a moral affront. Waring argues that a human selection lottery may be neither as crude nor as ethically anomalous as some have supposed. Indeed, it can reflect a familiar conception of equality as a political and moral ideal. This conception abstracts from many undeniable differences between patients and claims that scarce resources should be allocated on the principled assumption that each of their lives is equally worth saving. The book is also notable for its critiques of some recent utilitarian notions of medical benefit which can have an age-biased impact on elderly patients. Waring then argues against the leading, contemporary age-based approaches to patient selection. He explores the way random selection by lottery can affirm his egalitarian ethos in cases where eligible transplant candidates have each passed a threshold level of prospective medical benefit that has been set by democratic deliberation. Taming chance with a human lottery is defended as the most lucid means of ensuring equal opportunity. In so doing, Waring argues that we give the principle of equal concern and respect a radical expression: above a noncomparative threshold of medical benefit, each candidate can have an equal claim to life.
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    Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9781402023989
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 154 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Law. ; Criminology. ; Law—Philosophy. ; Probabilities. ; Social sciences. ; Philosophy. ; Law—History. ; Law Philosophy ; Social sciences
    Abstract: Morality and Risks -- Realistic Discontent and Utopian Desire -- The Safety Utopia -- Characters and Manifestations -- The Pornographic Context of Sex Crimes -- Senseless Violence and the Sound of Silent Marches -- The Controversial Victim and the Offender -- Punishment, Control and Democracy -- The Changing Significance of Criminal Justice -- Criminal Proceedings as Tragedy -- Democratic Safety Policy -- Closing Comments.
    Abstract: My ?rst encounter with the world of crime and punishment was more than two decades ago, and it has since undergone vast changes. No one could have foreseen that crime-related problems would occupy such a prominent position in cultural awareness. Crime is on the rise, the public attention devoted to it has increased even more, and its political importance has mushroomed. The major change in the 1990s was perhaps the transformation of crime into a safety issue. Crime is no longer a matter involving offenders, victims, the police and the courts, it involves everyone and any number of agencies and institutions from security companies to the local authorities and from schools to pub and restaurant owners. Crime has become a much larger complex than the judicial system—a complex organized mentally and institutionally around this one concept of safety. In this book I make an effort to get to the bottom of this complex. It is the sequel to my dissertation Crime and Morality—The Moral Signi?cance of Criminal Justice in a Postmodern Culture (2000), where I hold that the victim became the essence of crime in Western culture, and that this in turn shaped public morality. In the second half of the twentieth century, a personal morality based on an awareness of our own and other people’s vulnerability, i. e. potential victimhood, succeeded the ethics of duty.
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    ISBN: 9781402021992
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 272 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Studies in Educational Leadership 3
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    Keywords: Social psychology. ; Education. ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; Personality. ; Difference (Psychology). ; Education
    Abstract: From the contents: Acknowledgements. List of tables. List of figures -- Section 1: The Critical Role Of Leadership For Organizational Learning And Improved Student Outcomes. 1 The Critical Role Of Leadership For Organizational Learning And Improved Student Outcomes -- Section 2: Using The Book. 2 Problem-Based Learning: A Vehicle For Professional Development Of School Leaders -- Section 3: The Problem-Based Learning Package. 4 Workshop Problem/Situation Outline. 5 The Altona Case Study. 6 The Heronwood Case Study. 7 Survey Data -- Section 4: A Challenge. 8 The Survey Instruments And A Challenge To Use Them In Your Own School -- Appendixes: 1 Conditions Fostering Organizational Learning In Schools. 2 Leadership For Organizational Learning In Australian Secondary Schools. 3 The Altona Case Study: Short Version. 4 The Heronwood Case Study: Short Version -- References. Other readings.
    Abstract: The change in paradigm in our field is away from the great man or woman theory of leadership and the teacher in his or her own classroom to the development of learning communities which value differences and support critical reflection and encourage members to question, challenge, and debate teaching and learning issues. How to achieve such learning communities is far from clear, but we believe the areas of problem-based learning (PBL) and organizational learning (OL) offer valuable clues. The indications are that the successful educational restructuring agenda depends on teams of leaders, whole staffs and school personnel, working together (i.e., OL) linking evidence and practice in genuine collaboration (i.e., PBL). The book is unique in that it is both about and uses these two concepts.
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    Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9781402021961
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 359 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna Vienna Circle Society, Society for the Advancement of Scientific World Conceptions 11
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    Keywords: Philosophy and science. ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Logic. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; Philosophy—History. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Philosophy, modern ; Science Philosophy
    Abstract: Induction and Deduction in the Philosophy of Science: a Critical Account since the Methodenstreit -- Historicizing Deduction: Scientific Method, Critical Debate, and the Historian -- Inference to the Best Theory, rather than Inference to the Best Explanation — Kinds of Abduction and Induction -- The Significance of Explanatory Considerations -- Truth-seeking by Abduction -- Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism -- Adaptive Logics and the Integration of Induction and Deduction -- Argument, Inference and Reasoning — Integrating Induction and Deduction -- Laws are Persistent Inductive Schemes -- Physical Intuition as Inductive Support -- Frege, Neo-Logicism and Applied Mathematics -- Remarks About a “General Science of Reasoning” -- Two Questions About the Revival of Frege’s Programme -- Handling Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, and the Bayesian Controversy -- Artificial Intelligence and Its Methodological Implications -- Supplying Planks for Neurath’s Boat: Can Economists Meet the Demands of the Dynamics of Scientific Theories? -- Informational Economy and Creativity -- The Place of the Notion of Corroboration in Karl Popper’s Philosophy of Science -- How can a Falsified Theory Remain Corroborated ? -- Inductivism in 19th Century German Economics -- The Uniformity of Nature: What Purpose does it Serve? -- Planning, Democratization and Popularization with ISOTYPE, ca. 1945: a Study of Otto Neurath’s Pictorial Statistics with the Example of Bilston, England -- Reviews -- Activities 2003 -- Preview 2004 -- Remembering Dick Jeffrey (1926-2002) (Maria Carla Galavotti) -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: The articles in this volume deal with the main inferential methods that can be applied to different kinds of experimental evidence. These contributions - accompanied with critical comments - by renowned scholars in the field of philosophy of science aim at removing the traditional opposition between inductivists and deductivists. They explore the different methods of explanation and justification in the sciences in different contexts and with different objectives. The volume contains contributions on methods of the sciences, especially on induction, deduction, abduction, laws, probability and explanation, ranging from logic, mathematics, natural to the social sciences. They present a highly topical pluralist re-evaluation of methodological and foundational procedures and reasoning, e.g. focusing in Bayesianism and Artificial Intelligence. They document the second international conference in Vienna on "Induction and Deduction in the Sciences" as part of the Scientific Network on "Historical and Contemporary Perspectives of Philosophy of Science in Europe", funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF).
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; A Critical Account since the Methodenstreit
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    Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer | Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer
    ISBN: 9781402032110
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 360 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Epistemology. ; Philosophy and science. ; Logic. ; Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Science Philosophy
    Abstract: Hintikka on Epistemological Axiomatizations -- Hintikka on the Problem with the Problem of Transworld Identity -- What is Epistemic Discourse About? -- Interrogative Logic and the Economic Theory of Information -- A Metalogical Critique of Wittgensteinian ‘Phenomenology’ -- Theoretical Commensurability By Correspondence Relations: When Empirical Success Implies Theoretical Reference -- What is Abduction?: An Assessment of Jaakko Hintikka's Conception -- The Dialogic of Just Being Different: Hintikka's New Approach to the Notion of Episteme and its Impact on “Second Generation” Dialogics -- Probabilistic Features in Logic Games -- On Some Logical Properties of ‘Is True’ -- The Results are in: The Scope and Import of Hintikka's Philosophy.
    Abstract: Jaakko Hintikka is one of the most creative figures in contemporary philosophy. He has made significant contributions to virtually all areas of the discipline, from epistemology and the philosophy of logic to the history of philosophy and the philosophy of science. Part of the fruitfulness of Hintikka’s work is due to its opening important new lines of investigation and new approaches to traditional philosophical problems. This volume gathers together essays from some of Hintikka’s colleagues and former students exploring his influence on their work and pursuing some of the insights that we have found in his work. This book includes a comprehensive overview of Hintikka’s philosophy by Dan Kolak and John Symons and an annotated bibliography of Hintikka’s work.
    Description / Table of Contents: ForewordHintikka on Epistemological Axiomatizations -- Hintikka on the Problem with the Problem of Transworld Identity -- What is Epistemic Discourse About. Interrogative Logic and the Economic Theory of Information -- A Metalogical Critique of Wittgensteinian ‘Phenomenology’ -- Theoretical Commensurability By Correspondence Relations: When Empirical Success Implies Theoretical Reference -- What is Abduction?: An Assessment of Jaakko Hintikka's Conception -- The dialogic of just being different: Hintikka's new approach to the notion of episteme and its impact on "second generation" dialogics -- Probabilistic Features in Logic Games. On Some Logical Properties of ‘Is True’ -- The Results are in: The Scope and Import of Hintikka's Philosophy -- Annotated Bibliography of Jaakko Hintikka -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9780306485183
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 207 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Teaching. ; Teachers—Training of. ; Education ; Teachers Training of ; Großbritannien ; Lehrerfortbildung
    Abstract: The Issues and some Attempted Solutions -- Evolving Principles: Experience of Two Large Scale Programmes -- Professional Development for Cognitive Acceleration: Initiation -- Professional Development for Cognitive Acceleration: Elaboration -- Empirical Evidence -- Measurable Effects of Cognitive Acceleration -- Testing an Implementation Model -- A Long-Term Follow-up of some Case Schools -- Teachers in the School Context -- Making the Process Systemic: Evaluation of an Authority Programme -- Modelling Professional Development -- Researching Professional Development: Just How Complex is It? -- Elaborating the Model -- Evidence-Based Policy?.
    Abstract: Hopkins, Bruce Joyce, Michael Huberman, Matthew Miles, and Virginia Richardson. But we have chosen to present our own experience and empirical data first and then, in Part 3, to show how this experience and data relates to models which have been proposed by others. We will address here methodological issues concerned with collecting and interpreting evidence of relationships amongst the many individual and situational factors associated with PD, and re-visit the arguments about ‘process-product’ research on PD. In the light of our experience, we will interrogate models of PD which have been proposed by others and attempt to move forward our total understanding of the process of the professional development of teachers for educational change. In conclusion, we will look at some current national practice in professional development, concentrating on the recent English experience of introducing ‘strategies’ into schools but referring also, by way of contrast, to the situation in the United States. WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? Why has the professional development of teachers already exercised so many good minds for so long? And how can we justify adding another book to this field? The answer to both questions must lie in the continuing demand from society in general (at least as interpreted by politicians and newspaper editors) for improvements in the quality of education.
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    ISBN: 9789401756204
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 191 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Law in Eastern Europe
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    Keywords: Public international law. ; International law. ; Law
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Political Map of the Caucasus""; ""Map of Georgian Cities""; ""Common Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Is There a Post-Soviet Legal Profession in Georgia?""; ""Chapter Outline""; ""Field-work""; ""Chapter 1. Approaching Georgian Lawyers""; ""Legal Professions (or the Study of Western Lawyers)""; ""Soviet Lawyers""; ""Post-Soviet Lawyers""; ""Accounting for the Georgian Difference""; ""Chapter 2. Georgian Legal Histories""; ""Introduction""; ""Indigenous Georgian Law""; ""The Tsarist Period""; ""Menshevik Georgia (1918-1921)""; ""Soviet Period""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Soviet Law and Lawyering (with Georgian Twists)""""Beyond Soviet Law and Lawyering: Georgian Non-State Law""; ""Perestroika""; ""Early Independence""; ""Chapter 3. The Legal Environment""; ""Regionalism""; ""Formal Law and Its Implementation""; ""Constitutional and Judicial Reforms""; ""Lawmaking""; ""Human Rights and Corruption""; ""Non-State Law""; ""Chapter 4. Legal Education""; ""Educating Lawyers""; ""The Numbers Boom""; ""Formal Legal Education""; ""Beyond Law School: Preparing Law Graduates for Practice""; ""Access to the Profession""; ""Educating the Public""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Chapter 5. The Politics of Regulation and Self-Regulation""""State Regulation""; ""The Players""; ""The Process""; ""Self-Regulation""; ""Restricting Supply""; ""Controlling Practice""; ""Prognosis for the Law on the Bar""; ""Chapter 6. Stratification and Professional Badges""; ""Stratification""; ""Mtatsminda Legal Consultation Bureau (LCB)""; ""The Firm-Georgia Consulting Group (GCG)""; ""Other Legal Occupations""; ""Professional Badges: Collegiality and Prestige""; ""Chapter 7. Comparisons with Armenia and Azerbaijan""; ""A Regional Legal History?""; ""Law and the Armenian Diaspora""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Azerbaijan's Late Statehood""""The Legal Environment""; ""Legal Education""; ""Regulation and Self-Regulation""; ""Armenia""; ""Azerbaijan""; ""Stratification and Professionalization: ""Musicians at a Funeral""?""; ""Conclusion: Professionalization and the Rule of Law""; ""Profession on the Rise""; ""Summary of Empirical Findings""; ""Implications for Studies of the Legal Profession""; ""Implications for the Rule of Law""; ""Type One Reforms-Changing the Laws""; ""Type Two Reforms-Institutions""; ""Type Three Reforms-Government Compliance with Law""; ""Lawyers and the Demand for Law""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cited Interviewees""""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""About the Author""
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9781402065453
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 1541 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Springer International Handbooks of Education 12
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    Keywords: Teaching. ; Learning. ; Instruction. ; Teachers—Training of. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education
    Abstract: Understanding the Nature and Development of Self-Study -- A History and Context of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices -- The Nature of Teaching and Learning in Self-Study* -- Self-Study As Teaching -- Finding A Way Through The Swamp: A Case For Self-Study As Research* -- Learning Through Self-Study: The Influence Of Purpose, Participants And Context* -- Fundamental Features and Approaches of The S-Step Enterprise* -- Voice in Self-Study* -- Self-Study In Professional Practice* -- Thinking about the Thinking about Self-Study: An Analysis of Eight Chapters -- Developing a Professional Knowledge Base for Teaching -- Professional Knowledge, Teacher Education and Self-Study* -- Links between Self-Study and Teacher Education Reform* -- Research, Practice, and Academia in North America* -- Humanistic Research in Self-Study: A History of Transformation* -- The Significance of Race and Social Class for Self-Study and The Professional Knowledge Base of Teacher Education$*$ -- Knowledge, Narrative And Self-Study -- Practitioner Inquiry, Knowledge, and University Culture* -- Knowledge, Social Justice and Self-Study* -- Examples of Practice: Professional Knowledge and Self-Study in Multicultural Teacher Education -- Revisioning And Recreating Practice: Collaboration In Self-Study* -- The Dialectics of Passion and Theory: Exploring The Relation Between Self-Study and Emotion* -- Representing Self-Study in Research and Practice -- The Methodology of Self-Study and Its Theoretical Underpinnings -- What Counts as Evidence in Self-Studies of Teacher Education Practices -- Self-Study Through Personal History -- Self-Study Through Action Research -- Visual Artistic Modes of Representation for Self-Study -- Using Information and Communication Technologies for the Self-Study of Teaching -- The Reflective Portfolio in Self-Study: Inquiring Into and Representing A Knowledge of Practice -- The Epistemological Dimensions and Dynamics of Professional Dialogue In Self-Study -- Afterword Moving The Methodology of Self-Study Research and Practice Forward: Challenges and Opportunities -- Self-Study in Teaching and Teacher Education -- Tracing the Development of Self-Study in Teacher Education Research and Practice -- Factors Important for the Scholarship of Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices -- Self-Study in School Teaching: Teachers’ Perspectives -- The Preservice Practicum: Learning Through Self-Study In A Professional Setting -- Self Study in Teaching About Teaching -- Self-Study Research in the Context of Teacher Education Programs -- Administrators also do Self-Study: Issues of Power and Community, Social Justice and Teacher Education Reform -- Identifying Ethical Issues in Self-Study Proposals -- Interpreting The What, Why and How of Self-Study In Teaching And Teacher Education.
    Abstract: The International Handbook on Self-study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices is of interest to teacher educators, teacher researchers and practitioner researchers. This volume: -offers an encyclopaedic review of the field of self-study; -examines in detail self-study in a range of teaching and teacher education contexts; -outlines a full understanding of the nature and development of self-study; -explores the development of a professional knowledge base for teaching through self-study; -purposefully represents self-study through research and practice; -illustrates examples of self-study in teaching and teacher education.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Preface; SECTION 1 UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-STUDY ; Section Editor - J. John Loughran; Foreword to Section 1; 1 A History and Context of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices ; 2 The Nature of Teaching and Learning in Self-Study ; 3 Self-Study as Teaching ; 4 Finding a Way Through the Swamp: A Case for Self-Study as Research ; 5 Learning Through Self-Study: The Influence of Purpose, Participants and Context ; 6 Fundamental Features and Approaches of the s-step Enterprise ; 7 Voice in Self-Study ; 8 Self-Study in Professional Practice
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 Thinking About the Thinking About Self-Study: An Analysis of Eight Chapters Appendix to Section 1; Personal History-Based Beliefs as Relevant Prior Knowledge in Course Work ; SECTION 2 DEVELOPING A PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE BASE FOR TEACHING ; Section Editor - Mary Lynn Hamilton; Foreword to Section 2; 10 Professional Knowledge, Teacher Education and Self-Study ; 11 Links Between Self-Study and Teacher Education Reform ; 12 Research, Practice, and Academia in North America ; 13 Humanistic Research in Self-Study: A History of Transformation
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 The Significance of Race and Social Class for Self-Study and the Professional Knowledge Base of Teacher Education 15 Knowledge, Narrative and Self-Study ; 16 Practitioner Inquiry, Knowledge, and University Culture ; 17 Knowledge, Social Justice and Self-Study ; 18 Examples of Practice: Professional Knowledge and Self-Study in Multicultural Teacher Education ; 19 Revisioning and Recreating Practice: Collaboration in Self-Study; 20 The Dialects of Passion and Theory: Exploring the Relation Between Self-Study and Emotion ; SECTION 3 REPRESENTING SELF-STUDY IN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
    Description / Table of Contents: Section Editor - Vicki Kubler LaBoskeyForeword to Section 3; 21 The Methodology of Self-Study and Its Theoretical Underpinnings ; 22 What Counts as Evidence in Self-Studies of Teacher Education Practices ; 23 Self-Study Through Personal History ; 24 Self-Study Through Action Research; 25 Visual Artistic Modes of Representation for Self-Study ; 26 Using Information and Communication Technologies for the Self-Study of Teaching ; 27 The Reflective Portfolio in Self-Study: Inquiring into and Representing a Knowledge of Practice
    Description / Table of Contents: 28 The Epistemological Dimensions and Dynamics of Professional Dialogue in Self-Study 29 Afterword: Moving the Methodology of Self-Study Research and Practice Forward: Challenges and Opportunities ; SECTION 4 SELF-STUDY IN TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION; Section Editor - Tom Russell; Foreword to Section 4; 30 Tracing the Development of Self-Study in Teacher Education Research and Practice ; 31 Factors Important for the Scholarship of Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices ; 32 Self-Study in School Teaching: Teachers' Perspectives
    Description / Table of Contents: 33 The Preservice Practicum: Learning Through Self-Study in a Professional Setting
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    ISBN: 9781402030673
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 508 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 189
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Medieval philosophy. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Religion—Philosophy. ; Philosophy—History. ; Philosophy, Medieval. ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, medieval ; Philosophy of mind ; Philosophy
    Abstract: Fantasy and the Historiography of Imagination -- Outlines of Perennial Philosophy -- Glory -- Divine Names -- Kosmos Anthropos -- Archetypes -- Spiritual Spaces -- Theology of Time -- The Return of Time -- Epochs and Eras -- Translatio Sapientiae -- The Echo of Perennial Philosophy -- Schelling's “World-Ages”.
    Abstract: The study features the five most important and most efficacious themes of Western spirituality in their ancient historical origins and in their unfolding up to early modernity: Divine names, Microkosmos-Makrokosmos, theories of creation, the idea of spiritual spaces, and the concepts of eschatological history.
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  • 16
    ISBN: 9781402025945
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IV, 162 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Education. ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; Education ; Bewertung ; Schule ; Immaterielles Wirtschaftsgut ; Intellektuelles Kapital
    Abstract: to the concept of intellectual capital -- Constructing a typology for intellectual capital -- The measurement of responsibility -- A new Profile Guide Chart Method for job evaluation in schools -- Pay and incentives in an education setting -- The retention of intellectual capital: managing continuity -- Implementing a knowledge continuity initiative: an adjunct of lessons from practice -- Intellectual capital metrics.
    Abstract: A teacher may get good, even astounding, results from his pupils while he is teaching them and yet not be a good teacher; because it may be that, while his pupils are directly under his influence, he raises them to a height which is not natural to them, without fostering their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again as soon as the teacher leaves the classroom. Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889 – 1951. It is difficult to measure effectiveness in not-for-profit organisations like schools, colleges and universities. There is no ‘bottom-line’ against which to gauge performance, they have limited technical development and managers struggle to make meaningful comparisons between outcomes and targets. In education, well-publicised attempts have been made to establish - some would say impose - a set of criteria by which organisations judge success or failure. These have been largely subjective - the percentage of inspected classes regarded as good, the extent to which staff is involved in decision making, the appropriateness of the leadership shown by senior managers, and so on – if occasionally peppered with quantitative measures, like the percentage of students achieving certain grades in public examinations, to sustain the illusion of objectivity. This is not to fault the aspiration necessarily, though initially at least it created a surveillance culture in schools that did justice to neither the inspected nor the argument for inspection. Happily, this is changing.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-161) and index
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  • 17
    ISBN: 9780306485152
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 356 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Management science. ; Higher education. ; Curriculums (Courses of study). ; Economics. ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; Environmental management. ; Ethics. ; Education—Curricula. ; Education, Higher. ; Education ; Environmental Management ; Ethics ; Education, Higher ; Curriculum planning
    Abstract: Problematics -- The Problematics of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction -- The Evolution of Sustainability Declarations in Higher Education -- Sustainability as Emergence: The Need for Engaged Discourse -- Critical Realism: A Philosophical Framework for Higher Education for Sustainability -- Higher Education, Sustainability, and the Role of Systemic Learning -- Assessing Sustainability: Criteria, Tools, and Implications -- The Problematics of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis -- Promise -- The Promise of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction -- Environmental Education for Sustainability: A Force for Change in Higher Education -- The Contribution of Environmental Justice to Sustainability in Higher Education -- Learning Our Way to a Sustainable and Desirable World: Ideas Inspired by Arne Naess and Deep Ecology -- The Contribution of Ecofeminist Perspectives to Stainability in Higher Education -- Sustainability and Transformative Educational Vision -- Teaching Interactive Approaches to Natural Resource Management: A Key Ingredient in the Development of Sustainability in Higher Education -- Living Sustainably Through Higher Education: A Whole Systems Design Approach to Organizational Change -- Disciplinary Explorations of Sustainable Development in Higher Education -- The Promise of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis -- Practice -- The Practice of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction -- Education and Sustainabile Development in United Kingdom Universities: A Critical Exploration -- Lighting Many Fires: South Carolina’s Sustainable Universities Initiative -- Integrating Education for the Environment and Sustainability Into Higher Education at Middlebury College -- Sustainability in Higher Education Through Distance Learning: The Master of Arts in Environmental Education at Nottingham Trent University -- The Pedagogy of Place: The Environmental Technology Center at Sonoma State University -- Developing Sustainability in Higher Education Using Aishe -- Curriculum Deliberation Amongst Adult Learners in South African Community Contexts at Rhodes University -- Incorporating Sustainability in the Education of Natural Resource Managers: Curriculum Innovation at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark -- The Practice of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis.
    Abstract: Sustainability challenges universities around the world to rethink their missions and to re-structure their courses, research programs, and life on campus. Graduates are increasingly exposed to notions of sustainability, which are emotionally, politically, ethically, and scientifically charged. They must be able to deal with conflicting norms and values, uncertain outcomes and futures, and a changing knowledge base. At the same time they will need to be able to contextualize knowledge in an increasingly globalized society. This book provides a variety of valuable theoretical and practical resources for students, teachers, researchers, and administrators who seek to integrate sustainability in higher education. Sustainability is not only explored as both an outcome and a process of learning, but as a catalyst for educational change and institutional innovation. The book raises the various problematics related to this inchoate field and provides an intellectual history and critical assessment of the prospects for institutionalizing sustainability in higher education.
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    ISBN: 9781402025297
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 309 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: GeoJournal Library 76
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    Keywords: Air pollution. ; Environmental management. ; Geography. ; Environmental Management ; Geography ; Environmental sciences ; Environmental protection ; Hyderabad ; Nairobi ; Abfallbehandlung
    Abstract: Markets, partnerships and sustainable development in solid waste management; raising the questions -- Markets, partnerships and sustainable development in solid waste management; raising the questions -- Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Urban Solid Waste -- Evolving partnerships in the collection of urban solid waste in the developing world -- Collection, transportation and disposal of urban solid waste in Hyderabad -- Collection, transportation and disposal of urban solid waste in Nairobi -- Trial and error in privatisation; the case of Hyderabad’s solid waste management -- Reuse, Recovery and Recycling of Urban Inorganic Solid Waste -- Reuse, recovery and recycling of urban inorganic solid waste; modalities, commodity chains and sustainable development -- Reuse, recovery and recycling of urban inorganic solid waste in Hyderabad -- Reuse, recovery and recycling of urban inorganic solid waste in Nairobi -- Reuse of Urban Organic Solid Waste -- Urban organic solid waste: reuse practices and issues for solid waste management in developing countries -- Urban organic solid waste: practices in Hyderabad -- Demand for compost from urban organic solid wastes in Hyderabad -- Urban organic solid waste: practices in Nairobi -- Conclusions -- Government, market and community in urban solid waste management; problems and potentials in the transition to sustainable development.
    Abstract: This book is for practising professionals and academics working in urban planning and international development: international project staff, trainers, urban development researchers and teaching staff in universities and polytechnics. Solid Waste Management and Recycling is unique in that it: -utilizes an 'integrated solid waste management perspective' in its analysis; -provides embedded case study data; -deals with both formal and informal actors and institutional arrangements in solid waste management and recycling; -has chapters written by experts from the countries concerned (Kenya and India); -can be used in graduate-level courses in urban development, urban management and planning, and technical engineering courses for students, project staff, and technical students.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-303)
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  • 19
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    ISBN: 9781402024757
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 204 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Entwicklung ; Sustainable development. ; Anthropology. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Environment. ; Social sciences. ; Environmental sciences ; Social sciences ; Anthropology ; Regional planning ; Sustainable development
    Abstract: Introduction: Conflictive domains of globalization and development -- Time and Contention in ‘the great globalization debate’ -- Ways forward in livelihood research -- Identity formation Issues, challenges and tools -- Governance in action -- Transcending the nation -- Unpacking and re-packing knowledge in development.
    Abstract: This book is a collective effort on the part of researchers affiliated with the CERES Research School in Development Studies in the Netherlands to discuss a series of themes and concepts crucial to the overlapping fields of globalization and development research. While development in the course of the 1980s and 1990s was becoming hinged onto globalization, prior approaches to development were increasingly being criticized. An impasse was announced by various actors in the field, and renewed reflection on some of the basic concepts and methods became inevitable. Much of the initial rethinking went under the sign of postmodernism and tended to give priority to micro- and actor-centered research. Later, with the emerging discussion on globalization, new macro dimensions were added, and efforts were launched to articulate local/global approaches. This book discusses a set of key themes and concepts that reflect these intellectual and historical developments. Used by politicians and researchers, they reflect the continuing concern about inequality and poverty by students and practitioners of development, and contain crucial perspectives for a critical engagement of current globalization processes and their consequences. The chapters in this book examine the notions and issues of globalization, livelihood, identity, governance, transnationalism, and knowledge.
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    ISBN: 9781402026768
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 232 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 26
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    Keywords: Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Applied linguistics ; Computational linguistics ; User interfaces (Computer systems). ; Artificial intelligence. ; Applied linguistics. ; Computational linguistics. ; Human-computer interaction.
    Abstract: Initial Stages -- Beyond Technology -- Design -- Ten Principles for Designing Human-Computer Dialog Systems -- Voice User Interface Design for Novice and Experienced Users -- Designing Error Recovery Dialogs -- Visualization Tools for Designing -- How to Wreck a Nice Speech Grammar -- Designing for Speaker -- Deployment -- Using VoiceXML 2.0 in the VxOne Unified Messaging Application -- New Ideas -- Building a Standards and Research Community with the Galaxy Communicator Software Infrastructure -- Building Spoken-Language Collaborative Interface Agents.
    Abstract: For professional speech researchers, there is a rich technical literature covering many years of primary research in speech. However, this literature is not necessarily applicable to the needs of business people, application developers, and students who are interested in learning about the practical uses of speech technology. On the other hand, while existing introductory resources cover the basic mechanics of development of application development as well as aspects of the voice user interface, they don’t go far enough in dealing with the details that have to be taken into account to make spoken dialog systems successful in practice. What’s missing is information in between the in-depth technical literature and the more introductory development resources. The goal of this book is to provide information for anyone who wants to take the next step beyond the basics of current speech applications but isn’t yet ready to dive into the technical literature. It is hoped that this book will help project managers, application developers, and students gain a fuller and more complete understanding of spoken dialog technology and the practical aspects of developing and deploying spoken dialog applications.
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    ISBN: 9781402025327
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXI, 275 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Space Regulations Library 3
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    Keywords: Observations, Astronomical. ; Astronomy—Observations. ; Law of the sea. ; International law. ; Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; Criminology. ; Astronomy ; Criminology ; Physics ; Aeronautics Law and legislation ; Comparative law ; Weltraumrecht ; Luftfahrtrecht
    Abstract: Introduction -- I: The International Legal Framework. A. International Responsibility and Reliability. B. Authorization and Supervision. C. Registration. D. Conclusions -- II: The National Legal Framework. A. United States of America. B. Russian Federation. C. Australia. D. United Kingdom. E. Ukraine. F. Sweden. G. South Africa. H. Japan. I. France. J. Canada. K. Harmonization and New Rules. L. Conclusions -- III: Argentine Space Law and Policy. A. National Application of International Law. B. Nature of Argentine National Space Law. C. Responsibility and Liability. D. Implementation of the Authorization and Supervision Principle. E. Implementation of the Registration Obligations. F. Conclusions -- IV: Conclusions and Proposal. A. Conclusions Regarding the International Legal Framework. B. Conclusions Regarding the National Legal Framework. C. Conclusions Regarding Argentine Space Law and Policy. D. Recommendations and Proposal -- About the Author -- Bibliography -- List of Acronyms.
    Abstract: A. GENERAL BACKGROUND “The foremost goal of the international community in the area [of private space launch services] should be to induce states to implement effective licensing procedures applicable to commercial ventures for which state responsibility may 1 exist. ” 1. PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION IN THE SPACE INDUSTRY In the first decades of the space age, military and state security motivations indicated the direction of national space programs. Now the development of space activities depends essentially upon the possibility of recovering 2 investments. Private sector-driven commercial endeavors in outer space have been increasing exponentially and have experienced a significant quantitative growth over the last years. Spacefarers promote commercial participation of private companies in operations related to outer space, and, thus, the private sector is now increasingly providing satellite telecommunications, remote sensing, global positioning and space launch services directly to its customers. In this context, overall revenues for the worldwide space industry 3 amounted to US$ 82 billion in 2001. In the late 1990’s the transponder demand, in particular Ku- band transponders, was consistently on the rise due 4 to the escalated utilization of geostationary satellite transponders. Global positioning systems have been playing an increasingly important role in navigation, and remote sensing systems are mapping and documenting nearly 1 E. A. Frankle & E. J. Steptoe, “Legal Considerations Affecting Commercial Space Launches From International Territory”, (1999) 50 IISL at 10. Emphasis added. 2 H. L.
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    ISBN: 9781349731787
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (252 pages)
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    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction Conundrum, Challenge, and Choice -- Chapter 1 Glimpses of an Ecological Consciousness -- Part 1 Educational Forms and Processes Toward Ecological Consciousness -- Chapter 2 Transformative Learning for Bioregional Citizenship -- Chapter 3 Learning Ecology. A New Approach to Learning and Transforming Ecological Consciousness -- Chapter 4 Graduate Leadership Education in a Socio-Ecological Perspective: Working at the Paradigmatic Interface -- Chapter 5 The Ecology of Learning and Work: Learning for Transformative Work Practices -- Part 2 Learning Through Engagement in the Life World -- Chapter 6 A Pueblo Story for Transformation -- Chapter 7 Midwifing Transformative Change -- Chapter 8 Nurturing the Internal Flame: Sustained Commitment to Environmental Work -- Chapter 9 A Transformation Model for Passion in the Workplace -- Part 3 The Dynamic Relation of Personal Agency in Community Context -- Chapter 10 Personal and Social Transformation: A Complementary Process Toward Ecological Consciousness -- Chapter 11 Holding Flames: Women Illuminating Knowledge of s/Self-Transformation -- Chapter 12 From Intersubjective Psychotherapy to Esprit Networking: Mapping a Social Practice -- Chapter 13 Fostering Ways-of-Giving Within Communities -- Chapter 14 Transformative Rungs on Wisdom's Ladder -- Notes on Contributors.
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    ISBN: 9781402022456
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 321 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 83
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    Keywords: Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Cognitive psychology. ; Phenomenology . ; Anthropology. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; Philosophy—History. ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Anthropology ; Phänomenologie
    Abstract: The Ontopoietic Spread of the Logos of Life -- Around the Aretelogical Challenge of the “ontopoiesis of Life” -- The Cipher as the Unity of Signifier and Signified -- “Ontopoi?sis” and the Interpretation of Plato’s “khÔra” -- Self-individualization as the Main Principle in the Phenomenology of Life -- The Individualized Living Being as Node in Networks of Significant Affairs within a Vital System -- A Philosophy of the Unsayable: Apophasis and the Experience of Truth and Totality -- Creative Imagination Ciphering the Moral Discourse Between the Self and the Other -- Creative Process as a Factor and Condition of the Phenomenology of Life -- Levinas’ Disruptive Imagination: Time, Self and the Other -- Human Life as a Creative Completion of an An-archical Promise of Goodness in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas -- The Ethical Orientation of the Art of Human Creativity in the Book Ethics of Value and Hope by J. Tischner -- Creative “Représentance”: Ricoeur on Care, Death and History -- The Productive Function of the Will in the Philosophical Thought of William James -- The ‘Is-Ought Question’ Once More Reconsidered -- Multiple Rays of Creative Imagination Ciphering the Elemental Expansion of the Human Condition -- Wilderness: A Zoocentric Phenomenology — from Hediger to Heidegger -- Gewalt und Passibilität des Lebens: Entwurf Einer Praktischen Phänomenologie -- “African Vitalogy”: The African Mind and Spirituality -- The Tales of the Woods -- What the Eyes Alone Cannot See: Lakota Phenomenology and the Vision Quest -- The Ontopoiesis of the Dwelling: Art as Construction of a Human Space -- Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Organic Architecture”: An Ecological Approach in Theory and Practice -- The Creative Inwardness As a Forge of the Novel Types of Aesthetic Ciphers -- Creative Inwardness in Early Modern Italian Thought -- Creativity and Aesthetic Experience: The Problem of the Possibility of Beauty and Sensitiveness -- Confirmations of ‘life’ in a Phenomenology of Poetic Images -- The Sense of Creativity by Andrei Tarkovski -- Twilight of the Eidos: The Question of Form in Heidegger’s Reading of Nietzsche’s Thought upon Art -- Traditional Works of Art and Networks of Art: Phenomenological Reflection -- Vincent Van Gogh’s Five Bedrooms at Arles: An Analysis of Creative Copies -- Figureless Landscape: The Persistence of the Sublime in American Landscape Painting -- The Aestheticization of Life by Photography -- The Convergent ‘I’: Empathy as an Aesthetic Category -- Mass-media Communication as a Possible Creative Source -- La Modernidad y la Filosofía de la Historia -- Creativity, Intentionality, Hermeneutics; Husserlian Inquiries -- The Function of Intentionality and the Function of Creativity; A.-T. Tymieniecka and E. Husserl: A Confrontation -- Creativity in Husserl’s Impulsive Intentionality -- Merleau-Ponty and Expressive Life: A Hermeneutical Study -- The Philosophical Psyche and Creativity -- Sein und Zeit in the Works of Edith Stein -- Creative Imagination in the Invention of Ciphers of the Cognitive Scientific Logos -- Transworld Individuals Versus David Lewis’s Creation of Counterpart Individuals -- The Endurance of Aesthetic Objects and the Relative Durability of Scientific Theories -- Phenomenology of Creative Application of Mathematical Analogy in Arts and Literature -- The Analogy Between “Orthodox” Quantum Theory and Polyphony of Fiction -- A Systemic Typology of Scientific Phenomena -- New Humanism.
    Abstract: The fulgurating power of creative imagination - Imaginatio Creatrix - setting in motion the Human Condition within the-unity-of-everything there-is-alive is the key to the rebirth of philosophy. From as early as 1971 (see the third volume of the Analecta Husserliana series, The Phenomenological Realism of the Possible Worlds, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, ed.), Imaginatio Creatrix has been the leitmotif for the research work of the World Phenomenology Institute (now published in eighty-three Analecta Husserliana volumes), one that is eliciting echoes from all around. Husserl's diagnosis of a crisis in Western science and culture, the inspiration of much of postmodern phenomenology, has yielded place to a wave of scientific discovery, technological invention, and change in societal life, individual lifestyles, the arts, etc. These throw a glaring light on human creative genius and the crucial role of the imagination that gives it expression. This present collection is an instance of that expression and the response it evokes. It manifests the role of imagination in forming and interpreting our world -in-transformation in a new way and opens our eyes to marvel at the new world on the way. Papers by: Semiha Akinci, John Baldacchino, Angela Ales Bello, Elif Cirakman, Tracy Colony, Carmen Cozma, Charles de Brantes, Mamuka G. Dolidze, Edward Domagala, Shannon Driscoll, Nader E1-Bizri, Ignacy Fiut, William Franke, Elga Freiberga, Beata Furgalska, Nicoletta Ghigi, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, David Grünberg, Oliver W. Holmes, Milan Jaros, Rolf Kühn, Maija Kule, Rimma Kurenkova, Matthew Landrus, Nancy Mardas, David Martinez, William D. Melaney, Mieczyslaw, Pawel Migon, Martin Nkafu Nkemnkia, Leszek Pyra, W. Kim Rogers, Bruce Ross, Osvaldo Rossi, Julio E. Rubio, Diane G. Scillia, Mina Sehdev, Dennis E. Skocz, Mariola Sulkowska, Robert D. Sweeney, Jan Szmyd, Piero Trupia, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Richard T. Webster.
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    ISBN: 9781402022241
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 202 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture 11
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Philosophy. ; Religion. ; Ethics. ; Law—Philosophy. ; Ethics ; Philosophy of Law ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Naturrecht ; Ethik
    Abstract: Confronting Moral Pluralism: Assessing Universal Applicability -- Natural Law and Global Ethics -- Natural Law and Moral Pluralism -- Natural Law and Modern Meta-Ethics -- Moral Identity and the Natural Law Theory -- Engaging The Limits of Human Nature -- Global Ethics and Natural Law -- Natural Law and Conflict -- Natural Law and Historical Mindedness -- An Assessment of the Requirements of the Study of Natural Law -- Beyond Rationalistic Philosophy: Assessing Universal Accessibility -- Natural Law and Global Ethics -- The Perversity of Thomistic Natural Law Theory -- Natural Law and the Free Church Tradition -- Natural Law and the Free Church Tradition: A Biblicist Responds -- The Natural Law Tradition and a Culture in Crisis -- Insights and Hindsights from Seeking a Global Ethic.
    Abstract: Accounts of natural law moral philosophy and theology sought principles and precepts for morality, law, and other forms of social authority, whose prescriptive force was not dependent for validity on human decision, social influence, past tradition, or cultural convention, but through natural reason itself. This volume critically explores and assesses our contemporary culture wars in terms of: the possibility of natural law moral philosophy and theology to provide a unique, content-full, canonical morality; the character and nature of moral pluralism; the limits of justifiable national and international policy seeking to produce and preserve human happiness, social justice, and the common good; the ways in which morality, moral epistemology, and social political reform must be set within the broader context of an appropriately philosophically and theologically anchored anthropology. This work will be of interest to philosophers, theologians, bioethicists, ethicists and political scientists.
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    ISBN: 9781402024733
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(V, 261 p.)
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    Series Statement: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 15
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    Keywords: Ontology. ; Ethics. ; Criminal law. ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Ontology ; Criminal Law
    Abstract: Overpopulation and the Quality of Life -- Two Parfit Puzzles -- Critical-Level Population Principles And The Repugnant Conclusion -- O Repugnance, Where Is Thy Sting? -- Resolving The Repugnant Conclusion -- Person-Based Consequentialism And The Procreation Obligation -- Person-Affecting Moralities -- Repugnance Or Intransitivity: A Repugnant But Forced Choice -- The Root Of The Repugnant Conclusion And Its Rebuttal -- The Paradoxes Of Future Generations And Normative Theory -- Why We Ought To Accept The Repugnant Conclusion -- The Repugnant Conclusion And Worthwhile Living -- Postscript.
    Abstract: Most people (including moral philosophers), when faced with the fact that some of their cherished moral views lead up to the Repugnant Conclusion, feel that they have to revise their moral outlook. However, it is a moot question as to how this should be done. It is not an easy thing to say how one should avoid the Repugnant Conclusion, without having to face even more serious implications from one's basic moral outlook. Several such attempts are presented in this volume. This is the first volume devoted entirely to the cardinal problem of modern population ethics, known as 'The Repugnant Conclusion'. This book is a must for (moral) philosophers with an interest in population ethics.
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    ISBN: 9781402021275
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 570 p.)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 78
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    Keywords: Life sciences. ; Ethics. ; Medical ethics. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Ontology. ; Medical laws and legislation. ; Ethics ; Ontology ; Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Public health laws ; Bioethik
    Abstract: Introduction: Taking Stock of Bioethics From a Philosophical Perspective -- Introduction: Taking Stock of Bioethics From a Philosophical Perspective -- The Emergence of Bioethics -- The History of Bioethics as a Discipline -- Bioethical Theory -- Principles and Principlism -- Casuistry -- Virtue Theory in Philosophy of Medicine -- Common Morality -- Feminist Approaches to Bioethics -- Four Narrative Approaches to Bioethics -- Philosophy of Medicine and Medical Ethics: A Phenomenological Perspective -- Core Concepts in Clinical Ethics -- The Logic of Health Concepts -- Physicians and Patients in Relation: Clinical Interpretation and Dialogues of Trust -- Informed Consent -- Philosophical Challenges to the Use of Advance Directives -- Ethics Committees and Case Consultation: Theory and Practice -- The Public Policy Context -- The Ethics of Controlled Clinical Trials -- Ethical Issues in the Use of Cost Effectiveness Analysis for the Prioritization of Health Resources -- Sic Et Non: Some Disputed Questions in Reproductive Ethics -- Testing Genes and Constructing Humans — Ethics and Genetics -- Foundations of the Health Professions -- Death, Dying, Euthanasia, and Palliative Care: Perspectives from Philosophy of Medicine and Ethics -- Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry -- Nursing Ethics -- Geroethics -- Ethics and Philosophy of Public Health.
    Abstract: In general, the history of virtue theory is well-documented (Sherman, 1997; O’Neill, 1996). Its relationship to medicine is also recorded in our work and in that of others (Pellegrino and Thomasma, 1993b; 1996; Drane, 1994; Ellos, 1990). General publications stress the importance of training the young in virtuous practices. Still, the popularity of education in virtue is widely viewed as part of a conservative backlash to modern liberal society. Given the authorship of some of these works by professional conservatives like William Bennett (1993; 1995), this concern is authentic. One might correspondingly fear that greater adoption of virtue theory in medicine will be accompanied by a corresponding backward-looking social agenda. Worse yet, does reaffirmation of virtue theory lacquer over the many challenges of the postmodern world view as if these were not serious concerns? After all, recreating the past is the “retro” temptation of our times. Searching for greater certitude than we can now obtain preoccupies most thinkers today. One wishes for the old clarity and certitudes (Engelhardt, 1991). On the other hand, the same thinkers who yearn for the past, like Engelhardt sometimes seems to do, might stress the unyielding gulf between past and present that creates the postmodern reaction to all systems of Enlightenment thought (1996).
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    ISBN: 9781402020940
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 308 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Innovation and Change in Professional Education 2
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Education. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Professionalisierung
    Abstract: On the Long Way from Novice to Expert and How Travelling Changes the Traveller -- The Role of Experience in Professional Training and Development of Psychological Counsellors -- The Case of Plant Identification in Biology: When Is a Rose a Rose? -- Overcoming Problems of Knowledge Application and Transfer -- Does Practice Make Perfect? -- Fostering Managerial Problem-Solving -- From Theory to Practice in Medical Education -- Embedding and Immersion As Key Strategies in Learning to Teach -- Teaching Expertise -- Professional Learning: Deliberate Attempts at Developing Expertise -- Learning Professionals: Towards an Integrated Model -- From Individual Cognition to Communities of Practice -- Competence-Supporting Working Conditions -- Network Ties, Cognitive Centrality, and Team Interaction Within a Telecommunication Company.
    Abstract: About the Book Series The idea for the Book Series “Innovation and Change in Professional Education” (ICPE) was born in 1996. While working on another publication in this area, we noticed that professional educators faced similar problems without even knowing from each other. It was this observation that resulted in examining the possibilities for a new publication platform about professional education with input from different professions. We wanted to develop a publication source that would bring together educators and researchers to exchange ideas and knowledge about theory, research and professional practice. But we were not only striving for a book series informing readers about important themes in the professions. A second goal was to focus on processes of change and innovation. We were heavily involved in innovations going on in our institutions, and were convinced that a better understanding was needed in a wide range of issues critically important to the future of professional education. It was our belief that scholarly publications about innovation processes may support fundamental change in professional education. ICPE reflects our view that professional education deserves such a publication platform. It aims to approach critical questions of educational innovations, and to examine dynamics of educational change in various professional domains in the context of innovation processes. The books will include contributions from frontline practitioners, leading researchers, or distinguished scholars in professional education, delivering reports of empirical or theoretical research, reviews, interpretations of evaluation studies, or descriptions of innovative approaches.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Contents""
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    ISBN: 9781402025549
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 222 p.)
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    Series Statement: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 16
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Ontology. ; Ethics. ; Law—Philosophy. ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Ontology ; Philosophy of law
    Abstract: Proportionalism and its Justifications -- The Seriousness of Crimes -- The Severity of Punishments -- The Anchor Problem -- Proportionalism and Penal Practice -- Relaxed Proportionality.
    Abstract: The philosophical discussion of state punishment is well on in years. In contrast with a large number of ethical problems which are concerned with right and wrong in relation to a narrowly specified area of human life and practice and which hav- at least since the early 70’s - been regarded as a legitimate part of philosophical thinking constituting the area of applied ethics, reflections on punishment can be traced much further back in the history of western philosophy. This is not surprising. That the stately mandated infliction of death, suffering, or deprivation on citizens should be met with hesitation - from which ethical reflections may depar- seems obvious. Such a practice certainly calls for some persuasive justification. It is therefore natural that reflective minds have for a long time devoted attention to punishment and that the question of how a penal system can be justified has constituted the central question in philosophical discussion. Though it would certainly be an exaggeration to claim that the justification question is the only aspect of punishment with which philosophers have been concerned, there has in most periods been a clear tendency to regard this as the cardinal issue. Comparatively much less attention has been devoted to the more precise questions of how, and how much, criminals should be punished for their respective wrong-doings. This may, of course, be due to several reasons.
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    ISBN: 9781402030147
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 659 p.)
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 325
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Ethics. ; Metaphysics. ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy of mind
    Abstract: Personal Borders -- Border Control -- Physiological Borders -- Neurological Borders -- Spatial Borders -- Psychological Borders -- Causal Borders -- Metaphysical Borders -- Identity Borders -- Phenomenological Borders -- Transcendental Borders -- Moral Borders.
    Abstract: Borders enclose and separate us. We assign to them tremendous significance. Along them we draw supposedly uncrossable boundaries within which we believe our individual identities begin and end, erecting the metaphysical dividing walls that enclose each one of us into numerically identical, numerically distinct, entities: persons. Do the borders between us—physical, psychological, neurological, causal, spatial, temporal, etc.—merit the metaphysical significance ordinarily accorded them? The central thesis of I Am You is that our borders do not signify boundaries between persons. We are all the same person. Variations on this heretical theme have been voiced periodically throughout the ages (the Upanishads, Averroës, Giordano Bruno, Josiah Royce, Schrödinger, Fred Hoyle, Freeman Dyson). In presenting his arguments, the author relies on detailed analyses of recent formal work on personal identity, especially that of Derek Parfit, Sydney Shoemaker, Robert Nozick, David Wiggins, Daniel C. Dennett and Thomas Nagel, while incorporating the views of Descartes, Leibniz, Wittgenstein, Schopenhauer, Kant, Husserl and Brouwer. His development of the implied moral theory is inspired by, and draws on, Rawls, Sidgwick, Kant and again Parfit. The traditional, commonsense view that we are each a separate person numerically identical to ourselves over time, i.e., that personal identity is closed under known individuating and identifying borders—what the author calls Closed Individualism—is shown to be incoherent. The demonstration that personal identity is not closed but open points collectively in one of two new directions: either there are no continuously existing, self-identical persons over time in the sense ordinarily understood—the sort of view developed by philosophers as diverse as Buddha, Hume and most recently Derek Parfit, what the author calls Empty Individualism—or else you are everyone, i.e., personal identity is not closed under known individuating and identifying borders, what the author calls Open Individualism. In making his case, the author: * offers a new explanation both of consciousness and of self-consciousness * constructs a new theory of Self * explains psychopathologies (e.g. multiple personality disorder, schizophrenia) * shows Open Individualism to be the best competing explanation of who we are * provides the metaphysical foundations for global ethics. The book is intended for philosophers and the philosophically inclined—physicists, mathematicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, linguists, computer scientists, economists, and communication theorists. It is accessible to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
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    ISBN: 9781402022081
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 394 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; Environmental law. ; Environmental policy. ; Social sciences. ; Social sciences ; Environmental law
    Abstract: 1 The Consequences of International Regimes -- I: Simple Effectiveness -- 2 Methodological Challenges in the Study of Regime Effectiveness -- 3 Case Studies of the Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes -- 4 Causal Mechanisms and the Study of International Environmental Regimes -- 5 Boolean Analysis, Mechanisms, and the Study of Regime Effectiveness -- 6 A Quantitative Approach to Evaluating International Environmental Regimes -- 7 Formal Theory and Regime Effectiveness: Rational Players, Irrational Regimes -- 8 Does Regime Robustness Require a Fair Distribution of The Gains from Cooperation? -- II: Broader Consequences -- 9 Methodological Issues in the Study of Broader Consequences -- 10 Exploring Regime Interaction -- 11 International Regimes And Democracy -- 12 Into the Methodological Void -- 13 Regimes and Social Transformation -- III: Conclusion -- 14 Research Strategies for the Future.
    Abstract: This volume has a long and distinguished pedigree. It is the product of an effort to devise clear and unambiguous methods for demonstrating that international regimes make a difference stretching back at least to the early 1990s. What has transpired in the meantime is the development of a suite of useful techniques of analysis rather than the creation of a single, correct methodology for use in this field of study. Our assumption is that we can be relatively confident regarding assessments of the consequences of individual regimes when those employing a variety of methods converge on the same conclusions. When different methods yield divergent conclusions, on the other hand, we can take this as a signal that more work is needed to arrive at convincing judgments regarding the consequences of the regimes in question. Along the way, we came to understand that there is an important distinction between what we describe in this book as simple effectiveness and broader consequences. Most analyses of the effectiveness of international regimes focus on individual cases and seek to assess the performance of regimes on a case-by-case basis. This is entirely understandable. Yet it is now clear that individual regimes not only interact with one another but also operate in and affect broader settings. The study of these broader consequences is less mature than research on the effectiveness of individual regimes.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Contributing Authors; Preface; Chapter 1 The Consequences of International Regimes ; Part I: Simple Effectiveness ; Chapter 2 Methodological Challenges in the Study of Regime Effectiveness ; Chapter 3 Case Studies of the Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes ; Chapter 4 Causal Mechanisms and the Study of International Environental Regimes ; Chapter 5 Boolean Analysis, Mechanisms, and the Study of Regime Effectiveness ; Chapter 6 A Quantitative Approah to Evaluating International Environmental Regimes
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7 Formal Theory and Regime Effectiveness: Rational Players, Irrational Regimes Chapter 8 Does Regime Robustness Require a Fair Distribution of the Gains from Cooperation?; Part II: Broader Consequences ; Chapter 9 Methodological Issues in the Study of BroaderConsequences; Chapter 10 Exploring Regime Interaction ; Chapter 11 International Regimes and Democracy; Chapter 12 Into the Methodological Void ; Chapter 13 Regimes and Social Transformation ; Part III: Conclusion; Chapter 14 Research Strategies for the Future ; Index
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    ISBN: 9781402019159
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXIII, 289 p.)
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    Keywords: Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Education ; Mathematics
    Abstract: The Context for Change: A Model for Discussion -- The Role of the Mathematics Co-Ordinator: A Source of in-School Support -- The Role of the School in Developing Mathematics -- The Mediating Role of Textual Materials in Teachers’ Response to Calls for Classroom Reform -- Responses of Teachers to a Course of Intensive Training -- The Dynamics of Teacher Decision-Making: Case Studies of Teachers Responding to the National Numeracy Strategy -- Professional Development from a Cognitive and Social Standpoint -- Teacher Reflection, Identity and Belief Change in the Context of Primary Came -- Drawing Conclusions.
    Abstract: Abstract. This introduction sets the scene for the remainder of the book by considering first the international context of widespread concern about the improvement of numeracy skills. This is related to reform movements in the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries aimed at modernising primary (elementary) school mathematics curricula. A detailed account is given of the National Numeracy Strategy in England, a systemic government-imposed response to concern about standards implemented in 1999/2000. This includes a discussion of the alternative meanings of numeracy. An earlier initiative sponsored by a United Kingdom charitable trust reacting to concern about primary numeracy was the Leverhulme Numeracy Research Programme. This large-scale longitudinal study and linked set of case-study projects, focusing on reasons for low attainment, took place during 1997-2002. This book, and each other in the same series, is based on results of that research. The timescale fortuitously enabled the research team to also report on some effects of the systemic reform in the National Numeracy Strategy. 1. THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT In many countries, there are recurring periods of national concern about the low standards of calculation skills shown by children in primary (elementary) schools. Recently, these concerns have become more urgent and more political with the publication of international comparisons of mathematical achievement, first at secondary and more recently at primary level (e. g. Lapointe, Mead, & Askew 1992; Mullis et al. , 1997).
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    ISBN: 9781402020742
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 368 p.)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Philosophy and Religion 25
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    Keywords: Religion. ; Philosophy. ; Metaphysics. ; Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Metaphysics ; Religion (General)
    Abstract: Philosophy of Religion for a New Century: Introduction -- The Future of Religion in the West: Prospects at the Beginning of a Millennium -- The Grammar of Transcendence -- Does Philosophy Tolerate Christening? Thomas Aquinas and the Notion of Christian Philosophy -- God in the Summa Theologiae: Entity or Event? -- Morality and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts -- Value Judgments, God, and Ecological Ecumenism -- An Audience for Philosophy of Religion? -- What’s a Philosopher of Religion to Do? -- Nietzsche and Christians with Beautiful Feet -- The Religious (Re)Turn in Recent French Philosophy -- Instances: Levinas on Art and Truth -- Appropriating Beginnings: Creation and Natality -- ‘Moralizing’ Love In Philosophy of Religion -- The Role of Concepts of God in Cross Cultural Comparative Theology -- God and Nothingness: Two Sides of the Same Coin? -- Universal Religion and Comparative Philosophy -- Religion and Politics, Fear and Duty -- On the Proper Roles of Secular Reason and Religious Reason in a Liberal Democracy -- Eugene Thomas Long: A Brief Biography -- The Works of Eugene Thomas Long.
    Abstract: Philosophy of Religion for a New Century represents the work of nineteen scholars presented at a conference in honor of Eugene T. Long at the University of South Carolina, April 5-6, 2002. This volume is a good example of philosophy in dialogue; there is both respect and genuine disagreement. First, an account of our present situation in the Philosophy of Religion is given, leading to a discussion of the very idea of a 'Christian Philosophy' and the coherence of the traditional concept of God. The implications of science and a concern for the environment in our concepts of God are carefully examined. A discussion follows on the possibility of speech about God and silence about God. Since much of modern European philosophy is concerned with the `Death of God' theme, the positions of Nietzsche and some of his twentieth-century interpreters are presented. There are presentations on Feminist Approaches to Philosophy of Religion, and Comparative Religion is examined in relation to cultures and the demands of rationality. The volume concludes with a critical dialogue on the relation of Religious Discourse to the Public Sphere. Developing global awareness has led to significant change in the Philosophy of Religion. One-dimensional approaches have given way to honest dialogue. The traditional boundaries between the secular and the religious have shifted, and new approaches to traditional problems are required. This volume presents examples of these new approaches.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; List of Authors; Preface; Philosophy of Religion for a New Century: Introduction; The Future of Religion in the West: Prospects at the Beginning of a Millennium ; The Grammar of Transcendence; Does Philosophy Tolerate Christening? Thomas Aquinas and the Notion of Christian Philosophy ; God in the Summa Theologiae: Entity or Event?; Morality and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts; Value Judgments, God, and Ecological Ecumenism; An Audience for Philosophy of Religion?; What's a Philosopher of Religion to Do?; Nietzsche and Christians with Beautiful Feet
    Description / Table of Contents: The Religious (Re)Turn in Recent French PhilosophyInstances: Levinas on Art and Truth; Appropriating Beginnings: Creation and Natality; 'Moralizing' Love In Philosophy of Religion; The Role of Concepts of God in Cross Cultural Comparative Theology ; God and Nothingness: Two Sides of the Same Coin?; Universal Religion and Comparative Philosophy; Religion and Politics, Fear and Duty; On the Proper Roles of Secular Reason and Religious Reason in a Liberal Democracy ; Eugene Thomas Long: A Brief Biography; The Works of Eugene Thomas Long; Index
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 216 p.)
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    Keywords: Higher education. ; Education. ; Education, Higher. ; Education ; Education, Higher
    Abstract: Liberalism, Mass Education and a Loss of Academic Trust -- The Market Metaphor — A Good Basis for Trust? -- What Form of Trust Might be Appropriate for Universities to Build a Praxis of Higher Education Designed to Encourage Authenticity? -- Education in a Culture of Suspicion? -- If Not the Market Model, then Perhaps a Heideggerian Perspective? -- A University’s Authenticity is in its Community -- Trusting in Thinking about Knowing -- Trusting in Teaching to Let Learn -- A Trusting Praxis for Higher Education Institutions -- Reflections.
    Abstract: The world in which we learn is changing rapidly. That rapidity is driven by a range of influences, conveniently, but inadequately, clustered under the rubric of globalisation. . The context in which globalisation and education is often linked is that of progression, progression realisable through technology, the free movement of finances and the optimum utilisation of human capital. To fuel this progression, formal educational institutions have grown, adapted and changed to provide highly skilled ‘outputs’ to satisfy demand. Along the way, I will argue, the questioning, learning, reflecting and worthiness of formal education has been sacrificed for instrumentality, compliance and self-interest. This is seen throughout the educational system but this book concentrates on higher education and, more importantly, higher educational institutions that are known as universities. I will try to argue for a distinctive place for universities that does not resist progression but defines it differently from that allowable by the market. I propose a university system where students and faculty are together allowed to ‘let learn’ who they might become, rather than realise their being as the artefact of economic imperatives. I accept from the very beginning that this might be incompatible with universities being in the world of commerce and industry, in fact, I demand that they are not! However, my text is not a polemic against the capitalist entrapment of education per se but for the development of centres that question whilst engaging with the realities of our existence.
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 61
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    Keywords: Languages. ; Language and languages. ; Comparative linguistics. ; Indo-Iranian languages. ; Syntax. ; Linguistics ; South Asian Languages ; Comparative linguistics ; Indo-Iranian philology ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax
    Abstract: Functional Projections -- Some Developments in the Functional Architecture of the Kannada Clause -- Two Types of Negation in Bengali -- Argument Structure -- The Serial Verb Construction in Malayalam -- Causation and Reflexivity in Kannada -- Light Verb Raising, Empty Preposition and Zero Derivation -- Case Theory -- The Status of Case -- Structural Case, Lexical Case and the Verbal Projection -- Movement Phenomena -- Particle Movement in Sinhala and Japanese -- The Topic Interpretation in Universal Grammar -- Remarks on Adsentential, Adnominal, and Extraposed Relative Clauses in Hindi.
    Abstract: The researchers in the field of theoretical and theoretically inclined descriptive linguistics have for a long time felt a need for detailed and clearly presented linguistic treatments of various syntactic phenomena in South Asian languages. Clause Structure in South Asian Languages: provides a comprehensive overview and covers major aspects of clause structure in a variety of South Asian languages; provides detailed analyses of several aspects of phrase structure of many prominent South Asian languages; gives theoretically up-to-date treatment of several important issues in South Asian syntax and semantics; contains papers by some of the most prominent linguists working on South Asian languages.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 168 p)
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    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Classical literature ; Literature, Medieval ; Fiction ; Literature, Ancient.
    Abstract: Geoffrey Chaucer was not a writer, primarily, but a privileged official place-holder. Prone to violence, including rape, assault, and extortion, the poet was employed first at domestic personal service and subsequently at police-work of various sorts, protecting the established order during a period of massive social upset. Chaucer's Jobs shows that the servile and disciplinary nature of the daily work Chaucer did was repeated in his poetry, which by turns flatters his aristocratic betters and deals out discipline to malcontent others. Carlson contends that it was this social-political quality of Chaucer's writings, not artistic merit, that made him the 'Father of English Poetry'
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 279 p)
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    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: Literature ; History, Ancient ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Great Britain History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Literature, Medieval ; Europe
    Abstract: The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages. At one end of the spectrum, questions of dress call up feminist theoretical investigations into the body and subjectivity, while broadening those inquiries to include theories of masculinity and queer identity as well. At the other extreme, the production and distribution of textiles carries us into the domain of economic history and the study of material commodities, trade and cultural patterns of exchange within western Europe and between east and west. Contributors to this volume represent a broad array of disciplines currently involved in rethinking medieval culture in terms of the material world
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    Keywords: British literature ; Cultural studies ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature ; Culture Study and teaching ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; European literature.
    Abstract: George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics celebrates the lives, literature, and politics of a group of four 'radical eccentrics' - the Tory anarchist poet Stevie Smith, the Marxist Indian nationalist Mulk Raj Anand, and the glamour-girl-turned-socialist Inez Holden - who formed a friendly circle around the famously radical and eccentric George Orwell. Demonstrating that Smith, Anand, and Holden matter for literary history just as they mattered for Orwell, George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics gives name and shape to a neglected movement within interwar and wartime English writing. It focuses on the lives and texts of Smith, Anand, and Holden in order to argue that these three writers throw into question limiting assumptions about art and politics-about standard relations between literary form and sex, gender, race, class, and empire-in ways that their group's most influential radical, Orwell, cannot. Embarking upon a kind of biographical-political-cultural-literary criticism, this book brings the radical eccentrics' vital, potentially transformative conversation to the attention of scholars of English literature for the first time, suggesting fascinating new approaches to the study of literary London during the thirties and forties
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 301 p)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Gender identity Religious aspects ; Sociology ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Religion ; Christianity ; Catholic Church ; Religion Philosophy ; Religion and sociology. ; Religion.
    Abstract: What ever happened to the Virgin Mary in the modern Catholic Church? For the past forty years her presence has been radically minimized. In a groundbreaking work, Charlene Spretnak cuts across the battle lines delineated by the left and the right within the Church to champion the recovery of the full spiritual presence of Mary. Spretnak, a liberal Catholic, asserts that a deep loss ensues for women in particular when Mary's female embodiment of grace and mystical presence is denied and replaced with a strictly text-bound version of her as a Nazarene housewife. Complete with a striking insert of contemporary Marian art, Missing Mary is a deeply insightful reflection on Mary in the modern age
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 240 p)
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    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: History ; Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Classical literature ; Literature, Medieval ; Philosophy ; Science ; Literature, Ancient.
    Abstract: The twentieth-century discovered the concept of sacred place largely through the work of Martin Heidegger and Mircea Eliade. Their writings on sacred place respond to the modern manipulation of nature and secularization of space, and so may seem distinctively post-modern, but their work has an important and unacknowledged precedent in the Neoplatonism of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism traces the appearance and development of sacred place in the writings of Neoplatonists from the third to ninth centuries, and sets them in the context of present-day debates over place and the sacred
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    ISBN: 9781137122612
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 199 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Theater ; Performing arts ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; America Literatures ; Environment
    Abstract: After Dorothy L. Sayers became famous for her fictional sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, she began investigating the mysteries of Anglo-Catholic Christianity, writing plays for both stage and radio. However, because her modernist contemporaries disdained both best-sellers and religious fiction, Sayers has been largely overlooked by the academy. Writing Performances is the first work to position Sayers' diverse writings within the critical climate of high modernism. Employing exuberant illustrations from Sayers' detective fiction to make theoretical issues accessible, the book employs insights from performance theory to argue that Sayers, though a popularizer, presciently anticipated the postmodern ironizing of Enlightenment rationality and scientific objectivity
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 267 p)
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    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: History ; History, Ancient ; Europe History ; Great Britain History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Civilization History ; Social history ; Europe
    Abstract: This timely volume examines the commitments of historicism in the wake of New Historicism. It contributes to the construction of a materialist historicism while, at the same time, proposing that discussions of work need not be limited to the clash between labour and capital. To this end, the essays offer more than a strictly historical view of the complex terms, social and literary, within which labour was treated in the medieval period. Several of the essays strive to reformulate the very critical language we use to think about the categories of labour and work through a continually doubled engagement with modern theories of labour and medieval theories and practices of labour
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 275 p)
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    Keywords: British literature ; Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature, Modern 18th century ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Poetry ; America Literatures ; European literature.
    Abstract: Emily Dickinson (1830-86) recasts British-Romantic themes of natural and spiritual perception for an American audience. Her poems of science and technology reflect her faith in experience. Her lyrics about natural history build on this empiricism and develop her commitment to natural religion. Her poems of revealed religion constitute her experience of faith. Thus Dickinson stands on the experiential common ground between empiricism and evangelicalism in Romantic Anglo-America. Her double perspective parallels the implicit androgyny of her nineteenth-century feminism. Her counterintuitive combination of natural models with spiritual metaphors champions immortality. The experience/faith dialectic of her Late-Romantic imagination forms the heart of her legacy
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    ISBN: 9781137062284
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 279 p)
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    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: History ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Great Britain History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Civilization History ; Social history
    Abstract: Charlemagne's Mustache presents the reader with seven engaging studies, 'thick descriptions', of cultural life and thought in the Carolingian world. The author begins by asking questions. Why did Charlemagne have a mustache and why did hair matter? Why did the king own peacocks and other exotic animals? Why was he writing in bed and could he write at all? How did medieval kings become stars? How were secrets kept and conveyed in the early Middle Ages? And why did early medieval peoples believe in storm and hailmakers? The answers, he found, are often surprising
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    ISBN: 9781137097941
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIV, 238 p)
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    Keywords: History ; History, Modern ; America History ; United States History ; Political science ; World politics ; Europe Politics and government
    Abstract: Reclaiming the American Revolution examines the struggles for political ascendancy between Federalists and the Republicans in the early days of the American Republic. Watkins views the struggle through the lens of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, charters written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison respectively, that were responses to the Alien and Sedition Acts passed by Federalists that, among other things, made criticism of the federal government a crime. Viewing those acts as a threat to states' rights, as well as indicative of a national government that sought supreme power, the Resolutions restated the principles of the American Revolution and sought to return the nation to the tenets of the Constitution, in which rights for all were protected by checking the power of the national government
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    ISBN: 9781137114518
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 243 p)
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    Keywords: History, Ancient ; Literature, Modern ; Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Classical literature ; Literature, Medieval ; European literature ; Europe ; Literature, Ancient.
    Abstract: Troubled Vision is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the interface between gender, sexuality and vision in medieval culture. The volume represents an exciting array of scholarship dealing with visual and textual cultures from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth centuries. Bringing together a range of theoretical approaches that address the troubling effects of vision on medieval texts and images, the book mediates between medieval and modern constructions of gender and sexuality. Troubled Vision focuses thematically on four central themes: Desire, looking, representation and reading. Topics include the gender of the gaze, the visibility of queer desires, troubled representations of gender and sexuality, spectacle and reader response, and the visual troubling of modern critical categories
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    ISBN: 9781137085764
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 232 p)
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    Keywords: Political science ; Europe Politics and government ; International relations ; Politics and war ; Terrorism ; Political violence
    Abstract: How have the September 11th terrorist attacks and the subsequent U.S. led war on terrorism impacted American foreign policy at home and abroad? The consistent theme throughout this collection of essays is that September 11th was a watershed event, which sparked a redefinition and reassessment of U.S. foreign policy, governmental institutions, and the public's sense of internal and external security. The Bush Administration's endeavor to remake American foreign policy with an emphasis on a preemptive, first strike doctrine and its attempt to build an internal security apparatus are not only consequential in the war on terrorism, such efforts are challenging the very fundamentals of American political life and its perception throughout the world
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    ISBN: 9781349633401
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 260 p)
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    Keywords: Religion ; Christianity ; United States History ; Literature
    Abstract: Turn the Pulpit Loose features the lives and words of eighteen women evangelists including Sojourner Truth and Evangeline Booth, and lesser-known figures such as Jarena Lee (an African Methodist from the early 1800s) and Uldine Utley (a child evangelist in the early 1900s) who helped to shape American religious life from the nation’s infancy to the present. Highlighting substantial primary sources – sermons, articles, diaries, letters, speeches, and autobiographies – Priscilla Pope-Levison weaves together fascinating narratives of each woman’s life: her conversion and calling to preach, her primary evangelistic method, and her reflections about women in general. This anthology, complete with photographs of each evangelist, is an indispensable resource for a wide range of academic fields, including religion, history, women's studies, and literature.
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    ISBN: 9781137044976
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 312 p)
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    Keywords: History ; Political economy ; United States History ; Civilization History ; Social history ; Economic sociology ; Industrial sociology ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: This single-volume comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labour history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social and cultural history, as well as charting changes in trade union and managerial practices, and integrating the economics and politics of labour history. It includes documents that treat household relations as well as industrial relations; women as domestic workers and unpaid household labour as well as factory workers; and African American, Hispanic American (especially Mexican and Mexican American), and Asian workers as well as white workers. American Labor offers readers an insight into the full spectrum historically of workers, their daily lives, and the movements that they created
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 284 p)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Motion pictures and television ; Religion and culture ; Culture Study and teaching ; Communication ; America Literatures ; Television broadcasting. ; Motion pictures. ; Ethnology.
    Abstract: The expansion of the suburban environment is a fascinating cultural development. In fact, the United States is primarily a suburban nation, with far more Americans living in the suburbs that in either urban or rural areas. Why were suburbs created to begin with? How do we define them? Are they really the promised land of the American middle class? The concept of space and how we create it is a concept that is receiving a great deal of academic attention, but no one has looked carefully at the suburban landscape through the lens of fiction and of film
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    ISBN: 9781137074539
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 226 p)
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    Keywords: European Union ; Russia Politics and government ; Political science ; Europe Politics and government ; International relations ; Politics and war
    Abstract: Calhoun innovatively examines how the ideology of liberal democracy influences one of the most contentious and potentially traumatic and divisive issues facing countries transitioning from authoritarian regimes to democracy: how to confront the past violations of human rights. Competing views of liberal democracy frame debates about how to confront the past and in particular how to deal with the truth of systematic human rights violations. Democratic values may not determine the precise method of dealing with the past - whether through truth commissions, lustration, or tribunals - but the very process of debate inherent in democratic theory and practice has important implications for the perceived fairness of the result. These implications are examined through a comparison of transitional justice in East Germany, Poland and Russia. The result is a provocative integration of democratic theory and comparative politics
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    ISBN: 9781137064493
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 216 p)
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    Keywords: Political science ; Europe Politics and government ; International relations
    Abstract: The presidency of George W. Bush has been a curious one: born in contention, challenged by the most dramatic foreign directed attack on American soil, and transformed by a combination of crisis and conflict that has generated considerable support domestically. And yet, while much attention has been focused on the Bush administration's extrernal policies, how it has pursued its goals and had its effects on the domestic scene has been as important. Examining the push and pull of the Bush presidency by looking especially at domestic dynamics, the authors look at the tendency towards centralizing power and its implications for American politics. From the midterm elections of 2002, where the Republicans scored historic victories, to relations with the press, and from executive branch relations with Congress to increased federal involvement in education, the authors examine and shed light on crucial issues. This book examines how words and deeds in a time of crisis will define the Bush presidency place in American politics and history
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    ISBN: 9789401761925
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxii, 379 p)
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    Series Statement: Nova et vetera iuris gentium 23
    Series Statement: Series A, Modern international law
    Keywords: Law ; Public international law. ; Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; Political science. ; Comparative law. ; International law. ; Internationales Recht
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    ISBN: 9780306480171
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    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer-11648 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library 161
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; Science—Philosophy. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Frau ; Wissenschaftstheorie ; Frau ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie
    Abstract: Woman is Not a Rational Animal: On Aristotle’S Biology of Reproduction -- Aristotle and the Politicization of the Soul -- The Unit of Political Analysis: Our Aristotelian Hangover -- Have Only Men Evolved? -- Evolution and Patriarchal Myths of Scarcity and Competition -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forerunner of a Feminist Social Science -- The Trivialization of the Notion of Equality -- How Can Language be Sexist? -- A Paradigm of Philosophy: The Adversary Method -- The Man of Professional Wisdom -- Gender and Science -- The Mind’S Eye -- Individualism and the Objects of Psychology -- Political Philosophy and the Patriarchal Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Epistemology and Metaphysics -- The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism -- Why Has the Sex/Gender System Become Visible Only Now?.
    Abstract: Are Western epistemology, metaphysics, methodology and the philosophy of science grounded only in men's distinctive understandings of themselves, others, and nature? Does this less than human understanding distort our models of reason and of scientific inquiry? In different ways, the papers in this collection explore the evidence for these increasingly reasonable and intriguing questions. They identify how it is distinctively masculine perspectives on masculine experience which have shaped the most fundamental and formal aspects of systematic thought in philosophy and the natural and social sciences - precisely the aspects of thought believed most gender-neutral. They show how these understandings ground Aristotle's biology and metaphysics; the very definition of the problems of philosophy in Plato, Descartes, Hobbes and Rousseau; the `adversary method' which is the paradigm of philosophic and scientific reasoning; principles of individuation in philosophical ontology and the philosophy of language; individualistic assumptions in psychology; functionalism in sociological and biological theory; evolutionary theory; the methodology of political science; Marxist political economy; and conceptions of `objective inquiry' in the social and natural sciences. These essays also begin to identify for us the distictive aspects of women's experience which can provide the resources needed for the creation of a truly human understanding. Audience: The book will be of interest to those involved in epistemology, and philosophy of the natural and social sciences, as well as feminist scholars in philosophy. The work will also be of value for theorists, methodologists, and feminist scholars in the natural and social sciences.
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    ISBN: 9780306472343
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    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
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    Keywords: Education ; Mathematics ; Mathematics—Study and teaching .
    Abstract: What Is Science? -- On Education -- On a Science of Education -- A Science of Mathematical Education.
    Abstract: A title that sounds like poetry, and a subtitle that seems to contradict the title! But the subtitle is right, and originally it was just the title. A strange subtitle, isn’t it? Preface to a Science of Mathematical Education. All sciences – in their prenatal stage – have known this kind of literature: only the term used was not ‘Preface’, but, for instance, ‘Prolegomena’, which * means the same though it sounds less provisional. In fact such works were thicker than the present one, by up to ten times. There is much more that can be said about a science before it comes into being than after; with the first results comes modesty. This is the preface to a book that will never be written: not by me, nor by anybody else. Once a science of mathematical education exists, it will get the preface it deserves. Nevertheless this preface – or what for honesty’s sake I have labelled so – must fulfil a function: the function of accelerating the birth of a science of mathematical education, which is seriously impeded by the unfounded view that such already exists. Against this view I have to argue: it rests on a wrong estimation – both over and under estimation at the same time – of what is to be considered as science.
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    ISBN: 9789401760317
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(V, 176 p. 14 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Public international law. ; International law. ; Law
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    ISBN: 9781402031304
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(V, 191 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Catholic Studies in Bioethics 84
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    Keywords: Medical ethics. ; Ethics. ; Religion. ; Bioethics. ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Medical ethics ; Religion (General)
    Abstract: Introduction: John Paul II's Contribution to Catholic Bioethics -- Pope John Paul II's Teaching on Human Dignity and its Implications for Bioethics -- John Paul II's Encyclical Veritatis Splendor and Bioethics -- Liberty and Responsibility: John Paul II, Ethics, and the Law -- Bioethics in the Ruins of Christendom: Why John Paul II's Diagnosis Requires a More Radical Cure Than May and Colvert Provide -- Protecting Persons -- The Human Body and Sexuality in the Teaching of Pope John Paul II -- Protestants, Natural Law, and Reproductive Ethics -- John Paul II on the Good of Life -- Karol Wojtyla on Treating Patients as Persons -- John Paul II and the Goods of the Body (of Christ).
    Abstract: Any list of the most influential figures of the second half of the twentieth century would arguably have to begin with the name of Pope John Paul II. From 1978, when he was inaugurated, to the present, over a quarter of a century later, the Pope has been a dominant force in the world, both within the Catholic and Christian Church, and in the larger international community. Among the areas in which the Pope has been of signal importance to contemporary discussion, argument, and policy has been the field of bioethics. This collection brings together for the first time in an accessible and readable form a summary and assessment of John Paul II's contribution to bioethical issues and theories. It includes discussion of the Pope's views on the dignity of the person and the sanctity of human life, and the application of these views to various difficulties in medical ethics such as abortion and embryo research, the right to health care and the problem of suffering. Throughout, attention is paid to the way in which the Pope stands as a recognizably authentic voice for the Catholic faith in the medical arena.
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    ISBN: 9781402079214
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 262 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series 3
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Education. ; User interfaces (Computer systems). ; Educational technology. ; Human-computer interaction. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education ; Computer science ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Computerunterstützter Unterricht ; Kooperatives Lernen ; Hochschulunterricht
    Abstract: It is All About Learning! -- CSCL in Higher Education? -- Practices and Orientations of CSCL -- Learning, Collaboration and Assessment -- Building Collaborative Knowing -- Learning, Assessment and Collaboration in Computer-Supported Environments -- What do you Mean by‘Support’? -- Instructional Support in CSCL -- Computer Software Support for CSCL -- Human Support in CSCL -- Technology and Interaction -- CSCL-Ware in Practice -- Designing Sociable CSCL Environments -- Conclusion -- What We Know About CSCL.
    Abstract: A Dutch policy scientist once said the information and knowledge in the twenty-first century has the shelf life of fresh fish, and learning in this age often means learning where and how to find something and how to relate it to a specific situation instead of knowing everything one needs to know. On top of this, the world has become so highly interconnected that we have come to realise that every decision that we make can have repercussions somewhere else. To touch as many bases as possible, we need to work with knowledgeable others from different fields (multiple agents) and take heed of their points of view (multiple representations). To do this, we make increasing use of computers and computer-mediated communication. If computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is not simply a newly discovered hype in education, what is it and why are we writing a book about it? Dissecting the phrase into its constituent parts, we see that first of all CSCL is about learning, and in the twenty-first century this usually means constructivist learning.
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    ISBN: 9781402020810
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(II, 358 p. 123 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science 38
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    Keywords: Statistical physics. ; Dynamical systems. ; Optical data processing. ; Cognitive psychology. ; Artificial intelligence. ; System theory. ; Image processing—Digital techniques. ; Computer vision. ; Mathematical physics. ; Philosophy (General) ; Artificial intelligence ; Computer vision ; Physics ; Engineering ; Consciousness ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Erkenntnistheorie ; Kognitive Entwicklung
    Abstract: Seeing and Thinking: A New Approach -- Neural Models of Seeing and Thinking -- Functional Architecture of the Visual Cortex and Variational Models for Kanizsa’s Modal Subjective Contours -- Gestalt Theory and Computer Vision -- Towards an Analytic Phenomenology: The Concepts of “Bodiliness” and “Grabbiness” -- Internal Representations of Sensory Input Reflect the Motor Output with Which Organisms Respond to the Input -- Movemes for Modeling Biological Motion Perception -- Form Constraints in Motion Integration, Segmentation and Selection -- Scintillations, Extinctions, and Other New Visual Effects -- Commonalities between Visual Imagery and Imagery in Other Modalities; an Investigation by Means of fMRI -- Forms and Schemes of Perceptual and Cognitive Self-Organisation -- Microgenesis, Immediate Experience and Visual Processes in Reading -- Language, Space and the Theory of Semantic Forms -- Emotion-Cognition Interaction and Language -- Appearance of Structure and Emergence of Meaning in the Visual System -- The Embodied Meaning: Self-Organisation and Symbolic Dynamics in Visual Cognition.
    Abstract: According to Putnam to talk of “facts” without specifying the language to be used is to talk of nothing; “object” itself has many uses and as we creatively invent new uses of words “we find that we can speak of ‘objects’that were not ‘values of any variable’in 1 any language we previously spoke” . The notion of object becomes, then, like the notion of reference, a sort of open land, an unknown territory. The exploration of this land - pears to be constrained by use and invention. But, we may wonder, is it possible to guide invention and control use? In what way, in particular, is it possible, at the level of na- ral language, to link together program expressions and natural evolution? To give an answer to these onerous questions we should immediately point out that cognition (as well as natural language) has to be considered first of all as a peculiar fu- tion of active biosystems and that it results from complex interactions between the - ganism and its surroundings. “In the moment an organism perceives an object of wh- ever kind, it immediately begins to ‘interpret’this object in order to react properly to it . . . It is not necessary for the monkey to perceive the tree in itself. . . What counts is sur- 2 vival” .
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Preliminaries""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""NEURAL MODELS OF SEEING AND THINKING""; ""FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE VISUAL CORTEX AND VARIATIONAL MODELS FOR KANIZSA�S MODAL SUBJECTIVE CONTOUR""; ""GESTALT THEORY AND COMPUTER VISION""; ""TOWARDS AN ANALYTIC PHENOMENOLOGY""; ""INTERNAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SENSORY INPUT REFLECT THE MOTOR OUTPUT WITH WHICH ORGANISMS RESPOND TO THE INPUT""; ""MOVEMES FOR MODELING BIOLOGICAL MOTION PEPCEPTION""; ""FORM CONSTRAINTS IN MOTION INTEGRATION, SEGMENTATION AND SELECTION""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""SCINTILLATIONS, EXTINCTIONS AND OTHER NEW VISUAL EFFECTS""""COMMONALITIES BETWEEN VISUAL IMAGERY AND IMAGERY IN OTHER MODALITIES""; ""MICROGENESIS, IMMEDIATE EXPERIENCE AND VISUAL PROCESSES IN READING""; ""LANGUAGE, SPACE AND THE THEORY OF SEMANTIC FORMS""; ""EMOTION-COGNITION INTERACTION AND LANGUAGE""; ""APPEARANCE OF STRUCTURE AND EMERGENCE OF MEANING IN THE VISUAL SYSTEM""; ""THE EMBODIED MEANING""; ""NAME INDEX""; ""SUBJECT INDEX""
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    ISBN: 9781402025396
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 159 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 18
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    Keywords: Political philosophy. ; Ethics. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Political science Philosophy ; Todesstrafe ; Medizinische Ethik ; Todesstrafe ; Medizinische Ethik
    Abstract: Medicalisation of Capital Punishment -- Role/Professional Versus Ordinary Morality -- The Morality of Euthanasia and Its Implications for the Medicalisation of Capital Punishment -- The Military Doctor -- Medical Involvement in the Wider Capital Punishment Process -- Kantian Theory -- Utilitarian Arguments for Medicalisation -- The Medical Doctor and a Condemned Prisoner.
    Abstract: The morality of capital punishment has been debated for a long time. This however has 1 not resulted in the settlement of the question either way. Philosophers are still divided. In this work I am not addressing the morality of capital punishment per se. My question is different but related. It is this. Whether or not capital punishment is morally right, is it moral or immoral for medical doctors to be involved in the practice? To deal with this question I start off in Chapter One delineating the sort of involvement the medical associations consider to be morally problematic for medical doctors in capital punishment. They make a distinction between what they call 2 “medicalisation” of and “involvement” in capital punishment, and argue that there is a moral distinction between the two. Whilst it is morally acceptable for doctors to be “involved” in capital punishment, according to the medical associations, it is immoral to medicalise the practice. I clarify this position and show what moral issues arise. I then suggest that there should not be a distinction between the two. The medical associations argue that the medicalisation of capital punishment, especially the use by medical doctors of lethal injection to execute condemned prisoners is immoral and therefore should be prohibited, because it involves doctors in doing what is against the aims of medicine.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-152) and index
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    ISBN: 9781402020414
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 238 p.)
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    Series Statement: Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers 6
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Epistemology. ; History. ; Philosophy, Ancient. ; Ontology. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Philosophy—History. ; Ontology ; History ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, classical ; Genetic epistemology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aristoteles v384-v322 ; Logik
    Abstract: On Aristotle’s Notion of Existence -- Semantical Games, the Alleged Ambiguity of “Is”, and Aristotelian Categories -- Aristotle’s Theory of Thinking and Its Consequences for His Methodology -- On the Role of Modality in Aristotle’s Metaphysics -- On the Ingredients of An Aristotelian Science -- Aristotelian Axiomatics and Geometrical Axiomotics -- Aristotelian Induction -- Aristotelian Explanations -- Aristotle’s Incontinent Logician -- On the Development of Aristotle’s Ideas of Scientific Method and the Structure of Science -- What Was Aristotle Doing in His Early Logic, Anyway? A Reply to Woods and Hansen -- Concepts of Scientific Method from Aristotle to Newton -- The Fallacy of Fallacies -- Socratic Questioning, Logic and Rhetoric.
    Abstract: Aristotle thought of his logic and methodology as applications of the Socratic questioning method. In particular, logic was originally a study of answers necessitated by earlier answers. For Aristotle, thought-experiments were real experiments in the sense that by realizing forms in one's mind, one can read off their properties and interrelations. Treating forms as independent entities, knowable one by one, committed Aristotle to his mode of syllogistic explanation. He did not think of existence, predication and identity as separate senses of estin. Aristotle thus serves as an example of a thinker who did not rely on the distinction between the allegedly different Fregean senses, thereby shedding new light on our own conceptual presuppositions. This collection comprises several striking interpretations that Jaakko Hintikka has put forward over the years, constituting a challenge not only to Aristotelian scholars and historians of ideas, but to everyone interested in logic, epistemology or metaphysics and in their history.
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    ISBN: 9781402024917
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 181 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Aesthetics. ; Metaphysics. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; Philosophy—History. ; Aesthetics ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von 1775-1854 ; Ästhetik ; Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von 1775-1854 ; Ästhetik
    Abstract: The Dissertation of 1792 on the Origin of Evil -- Schelling’s Timæus -- The Essay on the Possibility of a Form of All Philosophy (1794) -- The Opposition Between the Unconditional -- The Dramatization of Contrast -- The Paradox of Opposition -- Philosophy of Nature -- The System of Transcendental Idealism (1800) -- Epilogue on Earth.
    Abstract: This book is not a merely historical reconstruction of Schelling’s thought; its main goal is to provide a contribution for a better comprehension of the importance of the philosophical quest of the young German philosopher from within, which represents a turning point for the whole thought of modernity. I did not describe the various fields of Schelling’s work, but I pointed out the central position of his Aesthetics, through the analysis of the inner mechanisms of his concepts. This mechanism, in my opinion, shows the reason why an Aesthetic philosophy is possible, and why its origin can be traced to Kant’s Aesthetics (particularly in Kant’s Critique of Judgement) and in the speculations of the early post-Kantian philosophy. The young Schelling’s philosophical problems precede his encounter with Fichte’s philosophy. Schelling discovers these problems, related to Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Wolff, Leibniz and Kant, in the protestant college of the Stift in Tübingen. Fichte confirmed the necessity of an urgent reform of transcendental philosophy, and offered to the young philosopher a philosophical dictionary and an orientation. Schelling exploited these resources with a great degree of autonomy, independence and originality. In these years Hölderlin’s influence on Schelling was much greater. Schelling’s and Hölderlin’s speculations, in these crucial years, were tightly connected.
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    ISBN: 9781402028359
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 355 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 6
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    Keywords: Management science. ; International education . ; Comparative education. ; Education. ; Economics. ; Education ; Comparative Education ; Economics
    Abstract: Markets in Higher Education: Do They Promote Internal Efficiency? -- Cost-Sharing and Equity in Higher Education: Implications of Income Contingent Loans -- Transparency and Quality in Higher Education Markets -- Regulation and Competition in Higher Education -- The Evaluation of Welfare Under Alternative Models of Higher Education Finance -- Higher Education Policy as Orthodoxy: Being One Tale of Doxological Drift, Political Intention and Changing Circumstances -- Market Coordination of Higher Education: The United States -- ‘Madly off in All Directions’: Higher Education, Marketisation and Canadian Federalism -- Australian Higher Education: National and Global Markets -- The Higher Education Market in the United Kingdom -- Rapid Expansion and Extensive Deregulation: The Development of Markets for Higher Education in the Netherlands -- Is There a Higher Education Market in Portugal? -- Higher Education and Markets in France -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This volume presents the most comprehensive international discussion of the role of markets in higher education ever published. It reflects on both the political and economic implications of the rising trend towards introducing market elements in higher education. The book draws together many leading international scholars in the economic and policy analysis of higher education to explore different theoretical perspectives and present new empirical evidence on market mechanisms in higher education in several Western countries. The authors present a dispassionate and ideologically neutral view of the advantages and disadvantages of the introduction of market-mechanisms in higher education and of its effects in terms of access, equity, quality of provision, student learning, research and scholarship, and so on. And they balance the performance of markets in higher education against the alternative of more, or a different kind of, governmental intervention.
    Note: Contains edited versions of papers presented at a seminar "Markets in Higher Education", held as the 3rd of the Douro Seminars of Higher Education Research , Includes bibliographical references
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    ISBN: 9781402028922
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 233 p.)
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    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology 52
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    Keywords: Epistemology. ; Phenomenology . ; Cognitive psychology. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Neuropsychology. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of mind ; Psychology, clinical ; Consciousness
    Abstract: Situational Understanding: A Gurwitschian Critique of Theory of Mind -- Vertical Context after Gurwitsch -- Schizophrenia: A Disturbance of the Thematic Field -- Intentionality, Consciousness, and Intentional Relations: From Phenomenology to Cognitive Science -- The Experience of the Present Moment -- Field Theories of Mind and Brain -- The Marginal Body -- Experimental Evidence for Three Dimensions of Attention -- The Structure of Context and Context Awareness -- The Field of Consciousness as a Living System: Toward a Naturalized Phenomenology of Cognition -- The Three Species of Relevancy in Gurwitsch -- Kinds of Knowledge: Phenomenology and the Sciences.
    Abstract: When I heard the rumor that the findings about the central nervous system obtained with new technology, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET), were too subtle to correlate with the crude results of many decades of behavioristic psychology, and that some psychologists were now turning to descriptions of subjective phenomena in William James, Edmund Husserl, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty—and even in Buddhism—I asked myself, “Why not Aron Gurwitsch as well?” After all, my teacher regularly reflected on the types, basic concepts, and methods of psychology, worked with Adhémar Gelb and Kurt Goldstein in the institute investigating brain-injured veterans at Frankfurt in the 1920s, conspicuously employed Gestalt theory to revise central Husserlian doctrines, and taught Merleau-Ponty a thing or two. That the last book from his Nachlass had recently been published and that I had recently written an essay on his theory of 1 psychology no doubt helped crystallize this project for me. What is “cognitive science”? At one point in assembling this volume I polled the participants, asking whether they preferred “the cognitive sciences” or “cognitive science. ” Most who answered preferred the latter expression. There is still some vagueness here for me, but I do suspect that cognitive science is 2 another example of what I call a “multidiscipline. ” A multidiscipline includes participants who confront a set of issues that is best approached under more than one disciplinary perspective.
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    ISBN: 9789401756068
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 323 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Nijhoff Law Specials 59
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    Keywords: Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; Sociology. ; Comparative law. ; International law. ; Law
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    ISBN: 9781402022388
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 246 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 188
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Religion. ; History. ; Philosophy—History. ; History ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Science Congresses history ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Newton, Isaac 1643-1727 ; Newton, Isaac 1643-1727 ; Rezeption ; Newton, Isaac 1643-1727 ; Religion ; Newton, Isaac 1643-1727
    Abstract: The New Newtonian Scholarship and the Fate of the Scientific Revolution -- Plans for Publishing Newton’s Religious and Alchemical Manuscripts, 1982–1998 -- Digitizing Isaac: The Newton Project and an Electronic Edition of Newton’s Papers -- Was Newton a Voluntarist? -- Providence and Newton’s Pantokrator: Natural Law, Miracles, and Newtonian Science -- Eighteenth-Century Reactions to Newton’s Anti-Trinitarianism -- Prosecuting Athanasius: Protestant Forensics and the Mirrors of Persecution -- Lust, Pride, and Ambition: Isaac Newton and the Devil -- Women, Science, and Newtonianism: Emilie du Châtelet versus Francesco Algarotti -- Reflections on Newton’s Alchemy in Light of the New Historiography of Alchemy -- The Trouble with Newton in the Eighteenth Century.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Proceedings of a conference held in Nov. 2000 at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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    ISBN: 9781402031717
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXIV, 408 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Educational Innovation in Economics and Business 9
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Assessment. ; Education. ; Educational technology. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Educational tests and measurements. ; Education ; Educational tests and measurements
    Abstract: Breaking Boundaries for Global Learning -- Teams and Collaborative Learning -- Creating Conditions for Collaborative Learning -- Michaelsen’s Model of Team-Based Learning Applied in Undergraduate Kinesiology Classes -- Cross-Cultural Virtual Teamwork: Implications from the Multicultural E-Classroom -- Collaborative Learning Applied in the Orientation Process of Undergraduate Students -- Transitioning from Academic Settings to the Workplace -- Online Learning: Learner’s Liberation? -- Learning to Work: Easing the Transition -- Breaking the Boundaries Between Academic Degrees and Lifelong Learning -- An Innovation in Access: Developing the Generic Skills of Business Students Through a Virtual Corporate Experience -- Role of Information Technology in the Learning Process -- Can “Learning by Teaching” Contribute to E-Learning? -- A Collaborative Tool for Argumentation-Based Learning: Examining Face-to-Face and Computer-Based Approaches in a UK Secondary School -- Adapting a Face-to-Face Training Program to a Distance Delivery Model: A Case Study of a Professional Training Program -- An Innovative Approach to Addressing Heterogeneity of Large Classes: Results from Teaching Business Statistics -- Using Information Technology in Teamwork During Collaborative Extra-Class Activities -- Program-Level Innovation Strategy -- Contextual Learning in Higher Education -- A Multi-Step Process for Assessing Student Outcomes in the Business Curriculum -- Student Characteristics and Academic Success -- Making Space for Twenty-First Century Management Learning -- The Value of Multidisciplinary Integration: Evidence from two Engineering Courses -- A Survey of Distance Education Programs.
    Abstract: Like previous volumes in the Educational Innovation in Economics and Business Series, this book is genuinely international in terms of its coverage. With contributions from nine different countries and three continents, it reflects a global interest in, and commitment to, innovation in business education, with a view to enhancing the learning experience of both undergraduates and postgraduates. It should prove of value to anyone engaged directly in business education, defined broadly to embrace management, finance, marketing, economics, informational studies, and ethics, or who has responsibility for fostering the professional development of business educators. The contributions have been selected with the objective of encouraging and inspiring others as well as illustrating developments in the sphere of business education. This volume brings together a collection of articles describing different aspects of the developments taking place in today’s workplace and how they affect business education. It describes strategies for breaking boundaries for global learning. These target specific techniques regarding teams and collaborative learning, transitions from academic settings to the workplace, the role of IT in the learning process, and program-level innovation strategies. This volume addresses issues faced by professionals in higher and further education and also those involved in corporate training centers and industry.
    Note: "Drawn from conference papers presented at the EDiNEB IX Annual Conference held in Guadalajara, Mexico in mid June of 2002"--Pref , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781402020988
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 299 p.)
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    Series Statement: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 150
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    Keywords: Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; Microbiology. ; Social sciences. ; Law ; Microbiology ; Comparative law ; Social sciences ; C-Waffen-Übereinkommen 1992 September 03 ; B-Waffen-Abkommen 1971 Dezember 16 ; Abrüstung ; Kontrolle
    Abstract: The Implementation of Legally Binding Measures to Strengthen the BTWC -- The Implementation of Legally Binding Measures to Strengthen the BTWC -- The Requirement for Legally Binding Measures -- The Requirement to Strengthen the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention -- A Short History of Biological Warfare and Weapons -- Critical Aspects of Biotechnology in Relation to Proliferation -- Implementation of Legally Binding Measures -- The Key Elements of a Legally Binding Instrument to Strengthen the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention -- The Chemical Weapons Convention Regime and its Evolution -- The Experience of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons -- The Experience of a CWC National Authority -- Provisions for Declarations and for Declaration Follow-up Procedures -- Implications for Government of Provisions for Declarations and for Declaration Follow-up Procedures in a Legally Binding Instrument -- Implications for Biological Defence of Legally Binding Declarations and Declaration Follow-up Procedures -- Implications for Industrial Facilities of Declarations and Declaration Follow-up Procedures -- Declaration Clarification Procedures — Randomly Selected Visits: UK Experience from Practice Visits -- Provisions for Field and Facility Investigations -- Investigation of Outbreaks of Disease -- Implications for Governments of Field and Facility Investigations -- Implications for Industry of Field and Facility Investigations -- Provisions for International Cooperation and Assistance -- Provisions for International Cooperation and Assistance -- Implications for Governments of International Cooperation and Assistance Provisions -- Implications for Research and Development of International Cooperation and Assistance Provisions -- Implications for Production Facilities of International Cooperation and Assistance Provisions -- Provisions for Incentives and Safeguards -- An Industry Organization Perspective on Incentives and Safeguards -- An Industry Perspective: Issues & Concerns -- Global Outreach and Education -- The Strengthening of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.
    Abstract: Incidents of bioterrorism and biowarfare are likely to recur, leading to increased public concern and government action. The deficiencies of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) are in urgent need of attention: the BTWC is the central international agreement to prevent the proliferation of biological warfare programmes. Uniquely, this book is written by diplomats involved in the decade-long effort (1991-2001) in which State Parties to the BTWC tried to agree a Protocol to the Convention with legally binding measures to strengthen its effectiveness, and academics concerned with the negotiations. Just before negotiations foundered, when the Chairman's proposed text was virtually complete, the problems and proposed solutions were examined thoroughly, leading to this book. The book is wide-ranging in its review of the history of biological warfare, the reasons why the current biological revolution is of such concern, and the main features of the BTWC itself. The core of the book examines the key elements of the proposed protocol - declarations, visits, challenge-type investigations, and enhanced international cooperation - and the implications for government, industry and biodefence, giving us all a better understanding of what still remains to be done to avert a biowarfare catastrophe.
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    ISBN: 9781402027970
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 495 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 5
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    Keywords: Higher education. ; Assessment. ; International education . ; Comparative education. ; Education, Higher. ; Educational tests and measurements. ; Education ; Comparative education ; Educational tests and measurements ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europäische Union ; Hochschule ; Qualitätssicherung ; Evaluation ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Europäische Union ; Hochschule ; Akkreditierung ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: Accreditation in the Framework of Evaluation Activities: A Comparative Study in the European Higher Education Area -- Accreditation and Differentiation: A Policy to Establish New Sectors in Austrian Higher Education -- Czech Quality Assurance: The Tasks and Responsibilities of Accreditation and Evaluation -- Ministerial Approval and Improvement-Oriented Evaluation in Denmark: An Alternative to Accreditation? -- Three Rounds of Evaluation and the Idea of Accreditation in Finnish Higher Education -- Quality Assurance and Accreditation in the Flemish Community of Belgium -- The Changing Role of the State in French Higher Education: From Curriculum Control to Programme Accreditation -- Shift of Paradigm in Quality Assurance in Germany: More Autonomy but Multiple Quality Assessment? -- The National System of Higher Education in Greece: Waiting for a Systematic Quality Assurance System -- Quality Assurance in Motion. Higher Education in Hungary after the Change of Regime and the First Cycle of Accreditation -- Practice and Procedures Regarding Accreditation and Evaluation in the Irish Republic -- Italy: Accreditation in Progress. Autonomy, Minimum Standards, Quality Assurance -- Latvia: Completion of the First Accreditation Round — What Next? -- Multipurpose Accreditation in Lithuania: Facilitating Quality Improvement, and Heading towards a Binary System of Higher Education -- The Netherlands: A Leader in Quality Assurance Follows the Accreditation Trend -- The Blurring Boundaries Between Accreditation and Audit: The Case of Norway -- Accreditation and Evaluation in Poland: Concepts, Developments and Trends -- Portugal: Professional and Academic Accreditation — The Impossible Marriage? -- A Decade of Quality Assurance in Spanish Universities -- From Audit to Accreditation-Like Processes: The Case of Sweden -- Accreditation and Related Regulatory Matters in the United Kingdom.
    Abstract: This volume presents a rich account of the development of accreditation and evaluation in 20 European countries. The authors are leaders in the field and they have cooperated in this effort by writing richly different, often deep and insightful analyses of the situation in their country. The two editors have added a synopsis detailing the main trends, and sketching commonalities as well as contrasts in the developments across Europe. The book shows how accreditation is becoming a main mechanism in the steering of higher education all over Europe. The book is unique in its analysis of forces driving towards the spread of different models of accreditation in the emerging European Higher Education area. Readers will obtain an up-to-date picture of the state of affairs of accreditation in the framework of evaluation activities in Europe. They will gain an understanding of why accreditation and evaluation systems have evolved the way they have, and subsequently, they will obtain more realistic views on potentialities for European comparability and cooperation in this area.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Preface; 1 Accreditation in the Framework of Evaluation Activities:A Comparative Study in the European Higher Education AreaSTEFANIE SCHWARZ & DON F. WESTERHEIJDEN; 2 Accreditation and Differentiation: A Policy to Establish NewSectors in Austrian Higher EducationHANS PECHAR & CORNELIA KLEPP; 3 Czech Quality Assurance: The Tasks and Responsibilities ofAccreditation and EvaluationHELENA ŠEBKOVÁ; 4 Ministerial Approval and Improvement-Oriented Evaluation inDenmark: An Alternative to Accreditation?DORTE KRISTOFFERSEN
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Three Rounds of Evaluation and the Idea of Accreditation inFinnish Higher EducationJUSSI VÄLIMAA6 Quality Assurance and Accreditation in the Flemish Communityof BelgiumDIRK VAN DAMME; 7 The Changing Role of the State in French Higher Education:From Curriculum Control to Programme AccreditationTHIERRY CHEVAILLIER; 8 Shift of Paradigm in Quality Assurance in Germany: MoreAutonomy but Multiple Quality Assessment?ANGELIKA SCHADE; 9 The National System of Higher Education in Greece: Waiting fora Systematic Quality Assurance SystemHARILAOS BILLIRIS
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Quality Assurance in Motion. Higher Education in Hungary afterthe Change of Regime and the First Cycle of AccreditationCHRISTINA ROZSNYAI11 Practice and Procedures Regarding Accreditation and Evaluationin the Irish RepublicMAUREEN KILLEAVY; 12 Italy: Accreditation in Progress. Autonomy, MinimumStandards, Quality AssuranceCARLO FINOCCHIETTI & SILVIA CAPUCCI; 13 Latvia: Completion of the First Accreditation Round -What Next?ANDREJS RAUHVARGERS
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 Multipurpose Accreditation in Lithuania: Facilitating QualityImprovement, and Heading towards a Binary System of HigherEducationBIRUT� VICTORIA MOCKIEN�15 The Netherlands: A Leader in Quality Assurance Follows theAccreditation TrendMARGARITA JELIAZKOVA & DON F. WESTERHEIJDEN; 16 The Blurring Boundaries Between Accreditation and Audit:The Case of NorwayBJØRN STENSAKER; 17 Accreditation and Evaluation in Poland: Concepts, Developments and Trends EWA CHMIELECKA & MARCIN DĄBROWSKI; 18 Portugal: Professional and Academic Accreditation - ALBERTO AMARAL & MARIA JOÄO ROSA
    Description / Table of Contents: 19 A Decade of Quality Assurance in Spanish UniversitiesJOSÉ-GINÉS MORA20 From Audit to Accreditation-Like Processes: The Case ofSwedenSTAFFAN WAHLÉN; 21 Accreditation and Related Regulatory Matters in the UnitedKingdomJOHN BRENNAN & RUTH WILLIAMS; About the Contributors
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    ISBN: 9781402032370
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 272 p.)
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    Keywords: Criminology. ; Criminal law. ; Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; Political science. ; Comparative law. ; International law. ; Social sciences ; Criminal Law ; Comparative law ; Criminology ; Political science
    Abstract: A Synergistic Relationship: The Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Special Court for Sierra Leone -- The Contribution of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to Prosecutions -- The Inter-Relationship Between the Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification and the Search for Justice in National Courts -- The Salvadoran Truth Commission and the Search for Justice -- An Overview of Ghana's National Reconciliation Commission and its Relationship with the Courts -- Justice and Reconciliation in East Timor. The Relationship Between the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation and the Courts -- Initial Truth Establishment by Transitional Bodies and the Fight Against Denial -- Whose Truth? Objective Truth and a Challenge for History -- Truth, Law and Official Denial: The Case of Bloody Sunday.
    Abstract: Criminal justice for human rights abuses committed during periods of political repression or dictatorship is one of the great challenges to post-con?ict societies. In many cases, there has been no justice at all. Sometimes serious political concerns that e?orts at accountability might upset fragile peace settlements have militated in favour of no action and no accountability. In many cases, the outgoing tyrants have conditioned their departure upon a pledge that there be no prosecutions. But thinking on these issues has evolved considerably in recent years. Largely driven by the view that collective amnesia amounts to a violation of fundamental human rights, especially those of the victims of atrocities, attention has increasingly turned to the dynamics of post-con?ict accountability. At the high end of the range, of course, sit the new international criminal justice institutions: the ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the various ‘‘hybrid’’ tribunals in Kosovo, East Timor and Cambodia, and the new International Criminal Court. But in terms of sheer numbers, the most signi?cant new institutions are truth and reconciliation commissions. Of va- able architecture, depending upon the prerogatives of the society in question and the features of the past con?ict, they have emerged as a highly popular mechanism within the toolbox of transitional justice. In some cases, the truth commission is held out as an alternative to criminal justice.
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    ISBN: 9781403981691
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 330 p)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
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    Keywords: History ; Oral history ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Italy History ; World War, 1939-1945 ; World politics
    Abstract: On March 24, 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before. Portelli has crafted an eloquent, multi-voiced oral history of the massacre, of its background and its aftermath. The moving stories of the victims, the women and children who survived and carried on, the partisans who fought the Nazis, and the common people who lived through the tragedies of the war together paint a many-hued portrait of one of the world's most richly historical cities. The Order Has Been Carried Out powerfully relates the struggles for freedom under Fascism and Nazism, the battles for memory in post-war democracy, and the meanings of death and grief in modern society
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    ISBN: 9781137042699
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXVIII, 327 p)
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    Series Statement: New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Ethnology Latin America ; Religion and culture ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Feminist theory ; Anthropology ; Sociology ; Ethnicity ; Ethnology-Latin America.
    Abstract: In Chicana/o popular culture, nothing signifies the working class, highly-layered, textured, and metaphoric sensibility known as "rasquache aesthetic" more than black velvet art. The essays in this volume examine that aesthetic by looking at icons, heroes, cultural myths, popular rituals, and border issues as they are expressed in a variety of ways. The contributors dialectically engage methods of popular cultural studies with discourses of gender, sexuality, identity politics, representation, and cultural production. In addition to a hagiography of "locas santas," the book includes studies of the sexual politics of early Chicana activists in the Chicano youth movement, the representation of Latina bodies in popular magazines, the stereotypical renderings of recipe books and calendar art, the ritual performance of Mexican femaleness in the quinceañera, and mediums through which Chicano masculinity is measured
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    ISBN: 9781137055323
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 243 p)
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Religion ; Ethnology Africa ; Africa History ; Political science
    Abstract: Donal Cruise O'Brien is a leading authority on Islam in Africa. This is a collection of his writing over the last 30 years, some significantly rewritten to render this a coherent book to use for teaching about the interplay between politics and Islam in Africa. The author's main argument is that much of politics in Africa is negotiated through use of symbols, and can not be separated from the religious origins and the systems of belief from which they originate. The book focuses on Senegal, a fascinating example of the spread of Muslim brotherhoods and their overarching influence on the construction and decision-making processes of the state
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    ISBN: 9781137051752
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 376 p)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social inequality ; Ethnicity ; Christianity ; Social history ; Anthropology ; Social structure ; Religion and sociology ; Race. ; Equality.
    Abstract: Around the Sacred Fire is a compelling cultural history of intertribal activism centered on the Indian Ecumenical Conference, an influential movement among native people in Canada and the U.S. during the Red Power era. Founded in 1969, the Conference began as an attempt at organizing grassroots spiritual leaders who were concerned about the conflict between tribal and Christian traditions throughout Indian country. By the mid-seventies thousands of people were gathering each summer in the foothills of the Rockies, where they participated in weeklong encampments promoting spiritual revitalization and religious self-determination. Most historical overviews of native affairs in the sixties and seventies emphasize the prominence of the American Indian Movement and the impact of highly publicized confrontations such as the Northwest Coast fish-ins, the Alcatraz occupation, and events at Wounded Knee. The Indian Ecumenical Conference played a central role in stimulating cultural revival among native people, partly because Conference leaders strategized for social change in ways that differed from the militant groups. Drawing on archival records, published accounts, oral histories, and field research, James Treat has written the first comprehensive study of this important but overlooked effort at postcolonial interreligious dialogue
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    ISBN: 9781137039002
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 332 p)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Ethnicity ; Culture Study and teaching ; African Americans ; Dance ; Arts ; Race. ; Communication. ; Culture.
    Abstract: What is the essence of black dance in America? To answer that question, Brenda Dixon Gottschild maps an unorthodox 'geography', the geography of the black dancing body, to show the central place black dance has in American culture. From the feet to the butt, to hair to skin/face, and beyond to the soul/spirit, Brenda Dixon Gottschild talks to some of the greatest choreographers of our day including Garth Fagan, Francesca Harper, Meredith Monk, Brenda Buffalino, Doug Elkins, Ralph Lemon, Fernando Bujones, Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, Jawole Zollar, Bebe Miller, Sean Curran and Shelly Washington to look at the evolution of black dance and it's importance to American culture. This is a groundbreaking piece of work by one of the foremost African-American dance critics of our day
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    ISBN: 9781349730698
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 311 p)
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    Series Statement: New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Ethnology Latin America ; America History ; Civilization History ; Social history ; Latin America Politics and government ; Sociology ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity
    Abstract: On November 17, 1901, Mexico City police raided a private party and arrested 41 men, half of whom were dressed as women. Clandestine transvestite balls were not unheard of at this time, and a raid would not normally gain national attention. However, Mexican cultural trends in literature, art, the sciences, and in journalism were inciting an atmosphere of sexual curiosity that was in search of the right turn of events to ignite a discursive explosion and focus interest on what was not a new phenomenon, but what was about to become a new concept: homosexuality. The editors treat the "nefarious" ball as a cultural event in itself and have assembled pictures, including the famous engravings by Posada, and have translated part of an historical novel about the event. At the same time, they uncover the underworld in Mexico City with essays on prison conditions, criminology, mental health discourse, and working class masculinities to create a rare and comprehensive slice of Mexican history at the turn of the century
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    ISBN: 9780306482069
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 285 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
    Series Statement: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education 18
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    Keywords: Science education. ; Learning. ; Instruction. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Education. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education ; Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; Bibliografie ; Kognitive Entwicklung ; Kreativität ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kognitive Entwicklung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Interesse
    Abstract: How do People Learn? -- The Neurological Basis of Self-Regulation -- Brain Maturation, Intellectual Development and Descriptive Concept Construction -- Brain Maturation, Intellectual Development and Theoretical Concept Construction -- Creative Thinking, Analogy and a Neural Model of Analogical Reasoning -- The Role Analogies and Reasoning Skill in Theoretical Concept Construction and Change -- Intellectual Development During the College Years: Is There a Fifth Stage? -- What Kinds of Scientific Concepts Exist? -- Psychological and Neurological Models of Scientific Discovery -- Rejecting Nature of Science Misconceptions by Preservice Teachers -- Implications for the Nature of Knowledge and Instruction.
    Abstract: A goal of mine ever since becoming an educational researcher has been to help construct a sound theory to guide instructional practice. For far too long, educational practice has suffered because we have lacked firm instructional guidelines, which in my view should be based on sound psychological theory, which in turn should be based on sound neurological theory. In other words, teachers need to know how to teach and that "how-to-teach" should be based solidly on how people learn and how their brains function. As you will see in this book, my answer to the question of how people learn is that we all learn by spontaneously generating and testing ideas. Idea generating involves analogies and testing requires comparing predicted consequences with actual consequences. We learn this way because the brain is essentially an idea generating and testing machine. But there is more to it than this. The very process ofgenerating and testing ideas results not only in the construction of ideas that work (i. e. , the learning of useful declarative knowledge), but also in improved skill in learning (i. e. , the development of improved procedural knowledge).
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    ISBN: 9789400710153
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 231 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Klinnert, Lars, 1972 - Modern Biotechnology in Postmodern Times? A Reflection on European Policies and Human Agency 2005
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Ethics. ; Ontology. ; Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; Technology—Philosophy. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Ontology ; Technology Philosophy
    Abstract: 1: Biotechnology in Modern Times -- 2: Council of Europe Policies on Biotechnology -- 3: Biotechnology and Human Agency -- 4: Biotechnology Beyond Modernity -- European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine ETS 164 (Full text) with list of declarations -- Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings ETS 168 (Full text) with list of declarations -- Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine on Transplantation of Organs and Tissues of Human Origin. ETS186. (Full text) -- References.
    Abstract: Modern Biotechnology in Postmodern Times? A Reflection on European Policies and Human Agency is for bioethicists, ethicists (theologians/philosophers), professionals in biotechnology, EU and national policy makers, and professors/teachers of courses in applied ethics (master level or equivalent). This volume presents an interdisciplinary reflection on the nature and scope of current biotechnology in Europe. The author contemplates upon the actual structures and potential functions of biotechnology in our societies in order to allow for a balanced discussion and common reflection on the topic. This volume is unique in that it offers a concise presentation of the current biotechnological arena in Europe with its ethical implications. It provides a survey of topical Council of Europe documents and treaties.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1: Biotechnology in Modern Times2: Council of Europe Policies on Biotechnology -- 3: Biotechnology and Human Agency -- 4: Biotechnology Beyond Modernity -- European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine ETS 164 (Full text) with list of declarations -- Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings ETS 168 (Full text) with list of declarations -- Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine on Transplantation of Organs and Tissues of Human Origin. ETS186. (Full text) -- References.
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    ISBN: 9780306481574
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 274 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
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    Keywords: Economic growth. ; Professional education. ; Vocational education. ; International education . ; Comparative education. ; Educational sociology. ; Economic development. ; Comparative Education ; Education ; Endogenous growth (Economics) ; Berufsbildung ; Flexibilität ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Shaping conditions for a flexible VET -- Institutional And Organisational Aspects Of Flexibility -- Vocational education and training in transition: From Fordism to a learning economy -- Learning organisations for VET -- Perspectives on institutional and organisational flexibility in VET -- Educational Tools and Resources for Flexibility -- Institutional responses to a flexible unified system -- Demand and supply of qualifications: systems’ change towards flexibility -- Developments in vocational education in Ireland -- From a unified to a flexible vocational system: the Hungarian transition case -- Design and effects of a flexible VET system: a case study in Dutch agricultural education -- Valuing learning outcomes acquired in non-formal settings -- Resources for flexibility: critical comments -- Professional Conditions -- Professionalism as a path for the reform of VET systems -- Transforming VET policies and professionalism: a view from Finland -- HRD as a professional career? Perspectives from Finland, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom -- Challenges of supporting learning of newly qualified professionals in health care -- The practices of a new VET profession.
    Abstract: Flexibility seems to be the core concept of economic and educational change in our time. The promise of solutions to many problems at the individual, institutional, and national level evokes as much controversy as acclaim. This might be related to the different perspectives of actors and researchers involved in problem-solving in Vocational Education and Training (VET), where, on the one hand, solutions should be sought in key qualifications and transferability, in changing teaching and learning processes, while, on the other, political, institutional, organisational, and professional conditions are seen as the key interventions to build a responsive workforce on the basis of a re-engineered VET system. Consequently, flexibility in connection with vocational education and training and the labour market has several divergent connotations.
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    ISBN: 9789401002011
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVI, 407 p.)
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    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 20
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    Keywords: Syntax. ; Grammar. ; Cognitive psychology. ; Linguistics. ; Computational linguistics. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Linguistics ; Artificial intelligence ; Computational linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax
    Abstract: 1 The Penn Treebank: An Overview -- 2 Thoughts on Two Decades of Drawing Trees -- 3 Bank of English and Beyond -- 4 Completing Parsed Corpora from Correction to Evolution -- 5 Syntactic Annotation of a German Newspaper Corpus -- 6 Annotation of Error Types for a German Newsgroup Corpus -- 7 The PDT: A 3-level Annotation Scenario -- 8 An HPSG-Annotated Test Suite for Polish -- 9 Developing a Spanish Treebank -- 10 Building a Treebank for French -- 11 Building the Italian Syntactic-Semantic Treebank -- 12 Automated Creation of a Medieval Portuguese Treebank -- 13 Sinica Treebank -- 14 Building a Japanese Parsed Corpus -- 15 Building a Turkish Treebank -- 16 Encoding Syntactic Annotation -- 17 Parser Evaluation -- 18 Dependency-based Evaluation of Minipar -- 19 Extracting Stochastic Grammars from Treebanks -- 20 Stochastic Lexicalized Tree Grammars -- 21 From Treebank Resources To LFG f-Structures -- Contributing Authors.
    Abstract: Linguists and engineers in Natural Language Processing tend to use electronic corpora more and more. Most research has long been limited to raw (unannotated) texts or to tagged texts (annotated with parts of speech only), but these approaches suffer from a word by word perspective. A new line of research involves corpora with richer annotations such as clauses and major constituents, grammatical functions and dependency links. The first parsed corpora were the English Lancaster treebank and Penn Treebank. New ones have recently been developed for other languages. This book: provides a state of the art on work being done with parsed corpora; gathers 21 papers on building and using parsed corpora raising many relevant questions; deals with a variety of languages and a variety of corpora; is for those working in linguistics, computational linguistics, natural language, syntax, and grammar.
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    ISBN: 9780306481529
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 326 p.)
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    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 7
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    Keywords: Epistemology. ; Cultural heritage. ; History. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Cultural property. ; History ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Humanities ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wissenschaftliches Manuskript ; Naturwissenschaften ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The Hanging Chain: A Forgotten “Discovery” Buried in Galileo’s Notes on Mition -- The Chymical Laboratory Notebooks of George Starkey -- Newton’s Optical Notebooks: Public Versus Private Data -- At Play with Nature: Luigi Galvani’s Experimental Approach to Muscular Physiology -- The Practice of Studying Practice: Analyzing Research Records of Ampère and Faraday -- From Agents to Cells: Theodor Schwann’s Research Notes of the Years 1835–1838 -- Narrating by Numbers: Keeping an Account of Early 19th Century Laboratory Experiences -- Exploring Contents and Boundaries of Experimental Practice in Laboratory Notebooks: Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Mapping of the Infra-Red Region of the Solar Spectrum -- The Pocket Schedule -- From Lone Investigator to Laboratory Chief: Ivan Pavlov’s Research Notebooks as a Reflection of His Managerial and Interpretive Style -- Carl Correns’ Experiments with Pisum, 1896–1899 -- Errors and Insights: Reconstructing the Genesis of General Relativity from Einstein’s Zurich Notebook -- Hans Krebs’ and Kurt Henseleit’s Laboratory Notebooks and Their Discovery of the Urea Cycle-Reconstructed with Computer Models -- Laboratory Notebooks and Investigative Pathways -- The Scholar’s Seeing Eye.
    Abstract: Research records composed of notes and protocols have long played a role in the efforts to understand the origins of what have come to be seen as the established milestones in the development of modern science. The use of research records to probe the nature of scientific investigation itself however is a recent development in the history of science. With Eduard Dijksterhuis, we could address them as a veritable "epistemologiCal laboratory". The purpose of a workshop entitled "Reworking the Bench: Laboratory Notebooks in the History of Science", held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin was to bring together historians who have been exploiting such resources, to compare the similarities and differences in the materials they had used and and to measure the potential and scope for future explorations of "science in the making" based on such forms of documentation. The contributions which form this volume are based on papers presented at this workshop or written afterward by participants in the discussions. This is the first book that addresses the issue of research notes for writing history of science in a comprehensive manner. Its case studies range from the early modern period to present and cover a broad range of different disciplines.
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    ISBN: 9780306480782
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 233 p.)
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    Series Statement: Inclusive Education: Cross Cultural Perspectives 2
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    Keywords: Education. ; Education ; Education Philosophy ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Integrative Erziehung
    Abstract: Beyond Schooling -- Including Ourselves: Teaching, Trust, Identity and Community -- ‘They Believe that They Participate ... but’: Democracy and Inclusion in Norwegian Schools -- Participation and Democracy: What’s Inclusion Got to do with it? -- Why does Education for all Have to be Inclusive Education? -- Challenging Understanding -- The Social Construction of Adulthood with a Difference in Iceland -- Inclusion and Problem Groups: The Story of Adhd -- Working Past Pity: What We Make of Disability in Schools -- An Outsider’s Perspective on the Reality of Educational Inclusion Within Former Yugoslavia -- Pressing for Change -- Understanding the Changing Role of English Local Education Authorities in Promoting Inclusion -- Daring to Think Otherwise? Educational Policymaking in the New Scottish Parliament -- ‘Race’ and the Discourse on ‘Inclusion’ -- Teacher Education, Government and Inclusive Schooling: The Politics of the Faustian Waltz -- Concluding Remarks.
    Abstract: The question of inclusive education is one which many societies are attempting to address. It is a fundamentally serious and complex issue raising challenges that cover conceptual, organizational, pedagogical, curricular and socio-economic concerns and questions. In this edited collection of papers the reader is confronted with these challenges through, on the one hand, a critical informative analysis of some of the key existing ideas and, on the other, a series of alternative insights and questions requiring further exploration and debate. Adding to the overall qu- ity of the book is the much needed cross-cultural dimension in terms of insights, knowledge, understanding and difficult questions. This is an important book in which new research and interpretations are reported on and discussed. Overall, the papers provide a serious critique of such factors as: the limitations of existing definitions of inclusive education; the narrowness of the focus within which inclusive issues are too often presented; the negative impacts of marketisation, performativity and the standards agenda on the realisation of inclusive values and practice and the constraints of significant socio-economic inequalities and disadvantages within and between communities and schools. These raise serious questions concerning the extent to which schools can make a positive difference in the lives of many pupils.
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    ISBN: 9780306481345
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 342 p.)
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 91
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    Keywords: Semantics. ; Logic. ; Phenomenology . ; Philosophy of mind. ; Psycholinguistics. ; Semiotics. ; Logic ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of Mind ; Psycholinguistics ; Semantics ; Philosophy (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Psychologismus ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Psychologism in Logic: Bacon to Bolzano -- Between Leibniz and Mill: Kant’s Logic and the Rhetoric of Psychologism -- Psychologism and Non-Classical Approaches in Traditional Logic -- The Concept of ‘Psychologism’ in Frege and Husserl -- Psychologism and Sociologism in Early Twentieth-Century German-Speaking Philosophy -- The Space of Sings: C.S. Peirce’s Critique of Psychologism -- Quinean Dreams or, Prospects for a Scientific Epistemology -- Late froms of Psychologism and Antipsychologism -- Propositions and the Objects of Thought -- The Concepts of Truth and Knowledge in Psychologism -- Psychologism Revisited in Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology -- Why There is Nothing Rather Than Something: Quine on Behaviorism, Meaning, and Indeterminacy -- Cognitive Illusions and the Welcome Psychologism of Logicist Artificial Intelligence.
    Abstract: Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism presents a remarkable diversity of contemporary opinions on the prospects of addressing philosophical topics from a psychological perspective. It considers the history and philosophical merits of psychologism, and looks systematically at psychologism in phenomenology, cognitive science, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophical semantics, and artificial intelligence. It juxtaposes many different philosophical standpoints, each supported by rigorous philosophical argument. Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism is intended for professionals in the fields indicated, advanced undergraduate and graduate students in related areas of study, and interested lay readers.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 417 p.)
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    Series Statement: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science 3
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    Keywords: Medicine—History. ; History. ; Medicine. ; Medical ethics. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; History ; Humanities ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Regional planning ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Volksmedizin ; Volksmedizin ; Geschichte ; Altertum ; Medizin ; Geschichte ; Entwicklungsländer ; Medizin
    Abstract: Continuity, Change, and Challenge in African Medicine -- Medicine in Ancient Egypt -- Medicine in Ancient China -- ?yurveda -- Cultural Perspectives on Traditional Tibetan Medicine -- Traditional Thai Medicine -- Oriental Medicine in Korea -- Globalization and Cultures of Biomedicine: Japan and North America -- Traditional Aboriginal Health Practice in Australia -- When Helaing Cultures Collide: A Case From the Pacific -- Native American Medicine: Herbal Pharmacology, Therapies, and Elder Care -- Lords of the Medicine Bag: Medical Science and Traditional Practice in Ancient Peru and South America -- Medicine In Ancient Mesoamerica -- Healing Relationships in the African Caribbean -- Medicine in Ancient Hebrew and Jewish Cultures -- Islamic Medicines: Perspectives on the Greek Legacy in the History of Islamic Medical Traditions in West Asia -- How Different are Western and Chinese Medicine? The Case of Nerves -- Religion and Medicine -- The Relation Between Medical States and Soul Beliefs Among Tribal Peoples.
    Abstract: Medicine Across Cultures: The History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures consists of 19 essays dealing with the medical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Egyptian, and Tibetan medicine, the book includes essays on comparing Chinese and western medicine and religion and medicine. The essays address the connections between medicine and culture and relate the medical practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both the history of medicine and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 430 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
    Series Statement: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education 17
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    Keywords: Chemistry. ; Science education. ; Teaching. ; Learning. ; Instruction. ; Chemistry ; Science Study and teaching ; Teachers Training of ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Chemieunterricht ; Ausbildung ; Chemielehrer
    Abstract: Chemistry and Chemical Education -- The Nature of Chemical Knowledge and Chemical Education -- The History of Chemistry: Potential and Actual Contributions to Chemical Education -- Models and Modelling in Chemical Education -- Learning Chemistry in a Laboratory Environment -- The Curriculum for Chemical Education -- Chemistry Curricula for General Education: Analysis and Elements of A Design -- The Roles of Chemistry in Vocational Education -- Informal Chemical Education -- Context-Based Approaches to the Teaching of Chemistry: What are They and What Are Their Effects? -- Teaching and Learning about Chemical Compounds -- The Particulate Nature of Matter: Challenges in Understanding the Submicroscopic World -- Bonding -- Problem-Solving in Chemistry -- Teaching and Learning About Chemical Change -- The Teaching and Learning of Chemical Equilibrium -- Teaching and Learning Chemical Kinetics -- The Teaching and Learning of Electrochemistry -- From Chemical Energetics to Chemical Thermodynamics -- Developing Teachers and Chemical Education -- Exploring Chemistry Teachers’ Knowledge Base -- Research and Development for the Future of Chemical Eeducation.
    Abstract: Chemical education is essential to everybody because it deals with ideas that play major roles in personal, social, and economic decisions. This book is based on three principles: that all aspects of chemical education should be associated with research; that the development of opportunities for chemical education should be both a continuous process and be linked to research; and that the professional development of all those associated with chemical education should make extensive and diverse use of that research. It is intended for: pre-service and practising chemistry teachers and lecturers; chemistry teacher educators; chemical education researchers; the designers and managers of formal chemical curricula; informal chemical educators; authors of textbooks and curriculum support materials; practising chemists and chemical technologists. It addresses: the relation between chemistry and chemical education; curricula for chemical education; teaching and learning about chemical compounds and chemical change; the development of teachers; the development of chemical education as a field of enquiry. This is mainly done in respect of the full range of formal education contexts (schools, universities, vocational colleges) but also in respect of informal education contexts (books, science centres and museums).
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 280 p.)
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    Series Statement: Yearbook of Morphology
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    Keywords: Grammar. ; Linguistics. ; Comparative linguistics. ; Historical linguistics. ; Germanic languages. ; Romance languages. ; Linguistics ; Comparative linguistics ; Germanic languages ; Romance languages
    Abstract: Preverbs ((guest) editors: Geert Booij and Ans van Kemenade) -- Preverbs: an introduction -- Aspectual contrasts and lexeme derivation in Estonian: a realization-based morphological perspective -- Preverbs and particles in Old French -- Preverbs and their origins in Georgian and Udi -- Particles and prefixes in Dutch and English -- Preverbs, argument linking and verb semantics: Germanic prefixes and particles -- Preverbs as an open word class in Northern Australian languages: synchronic and diachronic correlates -- Moved preverbs in German: Displaced or misplaced? -- Other articles -- Distribution-driven morpheme discovery: a computational/experimental study -- Morphological ‘gangs’: constraints on paradigmatic relations in analogical change -- Book reviews -- Book Reviews.
    Abstract: A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology series, published since 1988, has proven to be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it contains articles on topics which are central in the current theoretical debates, and which are frequently referred to. Thus it has set a standard for morphological research. In the Yearbook of Morphology 2003 a large number of articles is devoted to the phenomenon of complex predicates consisting of a verb preceded by a preverb. Such complex predicates exhibit both morphological and syntactic behaviour, and thus form a testing ground for theories of the relation between morphology and syntax. Evidence is presented from a wide variety of languages including Germanic, Romance, Australian, and Uralic languages. A number of articles present historical evidence on the change of preverbal elements into prefixes. Topics such as grammaticalization, constructional idioms, and derivational periphrasis are also discussed. In addition, this Yearbook of Morphology contains articles on morphological parsing, and on the role of paradigmatical relations in analogical change.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preverbs: an introduction -- Aspectual contrasts and lexeme derivation in Estonian: a realization-based morphological perspective -- Preverbs and particles in Old French -- Preverbs and their origins in Georgian and Udi -- Particles and prefixes in Dutch and English -- Preverbs, argument linking and verb semantics: German prefixes and particles -- Preverbs as an open word class in Northern Australian languages: synchronic and diachronic correlates -- Moved preverbs in German: displaced or misplaced?- Other articles. Distribution-driven morpheme discovery: a computational/experimental study -- Morphological `gangs': constraints on paradigmatic relations in analogical change -- Book reviews. J. Zeller (2001), Particle verbs and local domains -- Morphology 2000. Selected Papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24-28 February 2000, edited by S. Bendjaballah, et al.
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    ISBN: 9780306480430
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 215 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
    Series Statement: Philosophy and Education 10
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    Keywords: Philosophy and social sciences. ; Education. ; Education—Philosophy. ; Education ; Education Philosophy ; Forschung ; Philosophie ; Pädagogik ; Bildungsforschung ; Philosophie
    Abstract: A ‘biographical positioning’ -- Introduction: philosophising about educational research -- Philosophising as and in educational research -- The discipline(S) of educational research -- Educational theory, practice and research: pragmatic perspectives -- Educational research: pursuit of truth or flight into fancy? -- Narratives, fiction and the magic of the real -- Narratives in history, fiction and educational research -- Quality and relevance in educational research -- ‘Nothing about us without us’: the ethics of outsider research -- Research for Sale: moral market or moral maze? -- ‘Fiction written under oath?’ Ethics and epistemology in educational research -- From philosophising about research to researching philosophy: reflections on a reflective log.
    Abstract: The essays bring to contemporary debates about educational research both a first hand familiarity with the practices and arguments of the educational research community and a clear grasp of the ways in which philosophical sources and analysis can inform them. They are both measured and passionate - sparked by an intense personal curiosity, which takes Bridges into unexpected resources and territory (such as the insights of museology into debates on educational research as narrative fiction) as well as more familiar material relating to, for example, issues about the assessment of quality of educational research and the concern for its relevance. The book makes an articulate case, by its own example as well as in its argument, for the continuing contribution of philosophical thinking to the development and critique of educational research. It will be essential reading for researchers already engaged in this development and for masters and doctoral students who are coming to terms with educational research, and it offers a contribution to the literature in philosophy of education which is richly grounded in the wider field of educational research.
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    ISBN: 9780306480843
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 210 p.)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Educational Leadership 2
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    Keywords: Education. ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; Education ; Schulleitung
    Abstract: Diversity, Educational Leadership and Inclusion -- Educational Approaches to Diversity and Inclusion -- Leadership and Inclusion: A Review -- Administrator Perceptions of “Race” and Racism -- Antiracism: Strategies for Combating Racism -- Promoting Inclusive School-Community Relationships -- Administrator Perceptions of and Responses to Difference -- Dealing with Dilemmas of Difference: Two Cases -- Educative Leadership in Diverse Contexts -- The Barriers to Inclusion -- Leadership and Inclusion.
    Abstract: This book explores the challenges that school administrators face in ethnically diverse contexts. Based on an empirical study, it shows how principals do or do not promote inclusive practices in their schools. The various chapters cover principal perceptions of, and responses to, racism and antiracism, school community relationships, and difference. Also addressed are administrators' efforts to learn about diversity and to educate others in their school communities about it. This volume is the first of its kind to specifically target school administrators and ethnic diversity. While collections of essays and individual articles have explored general and specific aspects of diversity, no book to date has targeted leadership and ethnical diversity specifically, is supported by empirical data, or follows a consistent theme throughout. This book will be of interest to school administrators, prospective administrators, teachers, graduate students, academics and all others who are concerned about education, leadership, diversity and inclusion.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-202) and index
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    ISBN: 9780306481642
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 193 p.)
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    Series Statement: Inclusive Education: Cross Cultural Perspectives 1
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    Keywords: International education . ; Comparative education. ; Educational sociology. ; Education. ; Education ; Comparative Education ; Frankreich ; Großbritannien ; Bildungspolitik ; Integrative Erziehung
    Abstract: Researching the Practices and Processes of Policy Making -- Space, Place and Policy Making: Developing a Theoretical Framework -- Process, Practice and Emotion: Researching Policy and Space within a Cross-Cultural Framework -- The History of Special Education: Humanitarian Rationality or ‘Wild Profusion of Entangled Events’? -- Space, Place and Exclusion: Constructing Alternative Histories -- Four Settings: Dividing Spaces -- Discourse, Power and Policy Making: Uncovering the Politics of Social Practice in England -- Landscapes of Naming and Placing: Structures and Practices of Selection and Sorting in France -- Conclusion: Space, Place and the Production of the Other.
    Abstract: This is an extremely important book containing a wealth of ideas and insights and raising important questions for discussion and further exploration. In a lucid and cogently argued analysis, the author both challenges dominant ideas and interp- tations and provides some alternative innovatory perspectives. These include, the making and meaning of policy; the varied and complex ways in which inclusion and exclusion can be understood; the nature and function of categorisation, labelling and discursive practices within official discourse and procedures and the position and relationship between space, place and identities in relation to the experience of marginalized people including disabled children and young people. Drawing on concepts and insights from social and cultural geography Armstrong is able to seriously examine and discuss daily activities within institutional and social settings in England and France from several different angles. In sensitive, thoughtful and imaginative ways the micro-politics of social settings and encounters are explored through a process of deconstruction and reconstruction. Subtle, overt and contradictory features of interactions are carefully identified and critically discussed. This covers how meanings, decisions and outcomes of such encounters are developed, challenged and changed. Both in relation to discussions of the history of special education and her cri- cal self-reflections on the research process, the author challenges homogeneous conceptions and sanitized accounts of what, she argues, is an essentially messy process. It is the unevenness, discontinuities and contradictions of social conditions and relations that are depicted in insightful and disturbing ways.
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    ISBN: 9780306481321
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 214 p.)
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    Series Statement: Studies of Organized Crime 2
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    Keywords: Criminology. ; Sociology. ; Anthropology. ; Criminology ; Sociology ; Anthropology ; Philadelphia, Pa. ; Schwarze ; Organisiertes Verbrechen ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Social History 1968–1974 -- 1968–1972: The Origins of the Black Mafia -- 1973–1974: Murder and Infamy -- 1968–1974: Social Movements, Social Systems and the Black Mafia -- The Politics of Ignorance and the ART of Exploitation -- Research Methodology -- Social History, 1975–2002 -- 1975–1984: Philadelphia’s Black Mafia on the Wane -- 1985–2002: Old Heads, Old Habits -- Criminology and the History of African-American Organized Crime -- Discussion: Contemporary Academic Perspectives on the Black Mafia and African-American Organized Crime -- Conclusions.
    Abstract: Philadelphia's 'Black Mafia' could be used as primary reading in deviance and organized crime courses. Academicians in the fields of criminology, sociology, history, political science and African-American Studies will find the book compelling and important. This book provides the first sociological analysis to date of Philadelphia's infamous "Black Mafia" which has organized crime (with varying degrees of success) in predominantly African-American sections of the city dating back to the late 1960's. Philadelphia's 'Black Mafia': -is a first step in developing both data and sophisticated theoretical propositions germane to the ongoing study of organized crime; -uses primary source documents, including confidential law enforcement files, court transcripts and interviews; -explores the group's activities in detail, depicting some of the most notorious crimes in Philadelphia's history; -thoroughly examines the organization of the Black Mafia and the group's alliances, conspiracies and conflicts; -challenges many of the current historical and theoretical assumptions regarding organized crime.
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    ISBN: 9780306481253
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 299 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
    Series Statement: Innovation and Change in Professional Education 1
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    Keywords: Assessment. ; Science education. ; Learning. ; Instruction. ; Education. ; Educational tests and measurements. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Educational tests and measurements ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Schulleistungsmessung
    Abstract: The Era of Assessment Engineering: Changing Perspectives on Teaching and Learning and the Role of New Modes of Assessment -- New Insights Into Learning and Teaching and Their Implications for Assessment -- Evaluating the Consequential Validity of New Modes of Assessment: The Influence of Assessment on Learning, Including Pre-, Post-, and True Assessment Effects -- Self and Peer Assessment in School and University: Reliability, Validity and Utility -- A Framework for Project-Based Assessment in Science Education -- Evaluating the Over All Test: Looking for Multiple Validity Measures -- Assessment for Learning: Reconsidering Portfolios and Research Evidence -- Students’ Perceptions about New Modes of Assessment in Higher Education: A Review -- Assessment of Students’ Feelings of Autonomy, Competence, and Social Relatedness: A New Approach to Measuring the Quality of the Learning Process through Self- and Peer Assessment -- Setting Standards in the Assessment of Complex Performances: The Optimized Extended-Response Standard Setting Method -- Assessment and Technology.
    Abstract: French novelist Marcel Proust instructs us that, “a voyage of discovery consists, not of seeking new landscapes, but of seeing through new eyes.” Nowhere in the practice of education do we need to see through new eyes than in the domain of assessment. We have been trapped by our collective experiences to see a limited array of things to be assessed, a very few ways of assessing them, limited strategies for communicating results and inflexible roles of players in the assessment drama. This edited book of readings jolts us out of traditional habits of mind about assessment. An international team of innovative thinkers relies on the best current research on learning and cognition, to describe how to use assessment to promote, not merely check for, student learning. In effect, they explore a new vision of assessment for the new millennium. The authors address the rapidly expanding array of achievement targets students must hit, the increasingly productive variety of assessment methods available to educators, innovative ways of collecting and communicating evidence of learning, and a fundamental redefinition of both students’ and teachers’ roles in the assessment process.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Preface""; ""The Era of Assessment Engineering: Changing Perspectives on Teaching and Learning and the Role of New Modes of Assessment""; ""New Insights Into Learning and Teaching and Their Implications for Assessment""; ""Evaluating the Consequential Validity of New Modes of Assessment: The Influence of Assessment on Learning, Including Pre-, Post-, and True Assessment Effects""; ""Self and Peer Assessment in School and University: Reliability, Validity and Utility""; ""A Framework for Project-Based Assessment in Science Education""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Evaluating the OverAll Test: Looking for Multiple Validity Measures""""Assessment for Learning: Reconsidering Portfolios and Research Evidence""; ""Students� Perceptions about New Modes of Assessment in Higher Education: a Review""; ""Assessment of Students� Feelings of Autonomy, Competence, and Social Relatedness: A New Approach to Measuring the Quality of the Learning Process through Self- and Peer Assessment""; ""Setting Standards in the Assessment of Complex Performances: The Optimized Extended-Response Standard Setting Method""; ""Assessment and Technology""; ""Index""
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    ISBN: 9780306480935
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 178 p. 9 illus.)
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    Keywords: Health psychology. ; Education. ; Medical education. ; Sociology. ; Clinical health psychology. ; Education ; Medical Education ; Sociology ; Psychology, clinical
    Abstract: Examining Medicine with New Lenses -- Theoretical Dissection of Medicine: Practice -- Putting It All Together: The Culture of Junior Doctors -- Medical Habitus -- Future of Medical Habitus: Medical Identity.
    Abstract: Medical Education and Sociology of Medical Habitus: "It's not about the Stethoscope!" is a new and outstanding contribution to understanding the working life of junior doctors. Here Dr Haida Luke uses a medical sociological framework to help us understand how young doctors fresh out of medical school enter the medical culture as junior doctors and begin the rapid professional education and intense enculturation processes. What sets Medical Education and Sociology of Medical Habitus: "It's not about the Stethoscope!" apart from other works in this area is that it opens out the field of research in sociology and inserts junior medical doctor culture right into medical sociology and professional medical education. Central to this analysis are Dr Haida Luke's innovative use of Pierre Bourdieu's sociological framework and the concept of habitus.
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    ISBN: 9781137052629
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIX, 506 p)
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    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: History ; Europe History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; History, Ancient ; History, Modern ; Literature ; Sociology ; Europe-History-476-1492. ; Europe-History.
    Abstract: Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. But marriage re-emphasized her sex which, in the medieval scheme of gender-power relations relegated her to the position of Lady in relation to her Lordly husbands. In this collection, essays provide a context for Eleanor's life and further an evolving understanding of Eleanor's multifaceted career. A valuable collection on the greatest heiress of the medieval period
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    ISBN: 9781137110145
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 272 p)
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    Keywords: Religion ; Religion History ; Europe History ; Italy History ; Philosophy ; Catholic Church ; History, Modern ; Europe-History. ; Philosophy (General). ; Religion-History. ; Italy-History.
    Abstract: Since 1600, whenever a Pope dies, the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church convene in Rome to elect a successor. The Papal Conclave is an event like no other. Highly secret and conducted behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, it happens about eight times every century. It is an event that has evolved over the centuries and is always filled with high drama: cardinals meeting en masse in their scarlet robes, throngs of the faithful standing watch in St. Peter's Square, the black or white smoke billowing from the chimney signalling the election of a new Pontiff Since secrecy was not heavily invoked until the twentieth century, there is a vast store of rich material to work from and Fred Baumgartner uses it to its utmost detailing the bickering and blatant politicking that goes on behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel in this important and timely book
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 216 p)
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    Keywords: History ; Sociology ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Europe History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; World history ; Classical literature ; Literature, Ancient. ; Sex.
    Abstract: Zeikowitz explores both affirming and denigrating discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse fourteenth-century chivalric texts and describes the sociopolitical forces motivating those discourses. He attempts to dethrone traditional heteronormative views by drawing attention to culturally normative 'queer' desire. Zeikowitz articulates possible homoeroticized spectatorial interactions between male readers and imagined or actual model knights, dramatized accounts of same-sex unions, and mutually stimulating - or competing - forces of homosocial and heterosexual desire in chivalric texts, such as Charny's Book of Chivalry , Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , and Troilus and Criseyde . He also examines how intimate male bonds are rendered sodomitically-inflected, dangerous attachments in chronicle narratives of the reigns of Edward II and Richard II
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 279 p)
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    Series Statement: Early Modern Cultural Series
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; British literature ; Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Culture Study and teaching ; Poetry ; European literature ; European literature.
    Abstract: The last two decades have witnessed a profound change in the way we receive the literary texts of early modern England. One could call this a move from 'text' to 'culture'. Put briefly, earlier critics tended to focus on literary texts, strictly conceived: plays, poems, prose fictions, essays. Since the mid-1980s, however, it has been just as likely for critics to speak of the 'culture' of early modern England, even when they do so in conjunction with analysis of literary texts. This 'cultural turn' has clearly enriched the way in which we read the texts of early modern England, but the interdisciplinary practices involved have frequently led critics to make claims about materials - and about the 'culture' these materials appear to embody - that exceed those materials' representativeness. Shakespeare and the Question of Culture addresses the central issue of 'culture' in early modern studies through both literary history and disciplinary critique. Douglas Bruster argues that the 'culture' literary critiques investigate through the works of Shakespeare and other writers is largely a literary culture, and he examines what this necessary limitation of the scope of 'cultural studies' means for the discipline of early modern studies
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 249 p)
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    Series Statement: Comparative Feminist Studies Series
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Epistemology ; Social inequality ; Sociology ; Ethnicity ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Literature Philosophy ; Feminist theory ; Social structure ; Sex. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Feminism. ; Equality. ; Race.
    Abstract: In light of postcolonial and feminist critiques of 'experience' and 'identity', how can feminists engage stories of marginalized peoples' experience in the development of feminist theories and modes of activism that take account of the diversity of women's situations? How can feminists use the powerful tools of storytelling in ways that do not essentialize or objectify marginalized women? Shari Stone-Mediatore brings together the theoretical perspectives of Hannah Arendt and postcolonial theory to develop a 'post-positivist' account of narrative which can form the basis for a progressive feminist politics
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 311 p)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Sociology ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Literature ; Feminist theory ; Feminism. ; Sex.
    Abstract: This volume, a collection of essays by a number of high-profile personalities working in philosophy, literature, sociology, cinema, theatre, journalism, and politics, covers a number a of recent and crucial developments in the field of French Feminisms that have made a reassessment necessary. Beyond French Feminisms proposes to answer the question: what is new in French Feminism at the beginning of the twenty-first century? The essays reflect the shift from the theoretical and philosophical approaches that characterized feminism twenty years ago, to the more social and political questions of today. Topics include: the 'parité' and PACS debates, the France-USA dialogue, the 'multicultural' issues, and the new trends in literature and film by women
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    ISBN: 9781137098351
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 302 p)
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    Keywords: History, Ancient ; Sociology ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; History ; Historiography ; Europe History ; Great Britain History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Sex. ; Europe
    Abstract: Never before have the women of the Capetian royal dynasty in France been the subject of a study in their own right. The new research in Capetian Women challenges old paradigms about the restricted roles of royal women, uncovering their influence in social, religious, cultural and even political spheres. The scholars in the volume consider medieval chroniclers' responses to the independent actions of royal women as well as modern historians' use of them as vehicles for constructing the past. The essays also delineate the creation of reginal identity through cultural practices such as religious patronage and the commissioning of manuscripts, tomb sculpture, and personal seals
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    ISBN: 9781137076373
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 289 p)
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    Keywords: Literature ; Imperialism ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Fiction
    Abstract: In 1916, Kafka writes of The Sugar Baron , a dime-store colonial adventure novel, '[it] affects me so deeply that I feel it is about myself, or as if it were the book of rules for my life.' John Zilcosky reveals that this perhaps surprising statement - made by the Prague-bound poet of modern isolation - is part of a network of remarks that exemplify Kafka's ongoing preoccupation with popular travel writing, exoticism, and colonial fantasy. Taking this biographical peculiarity as a starting point, Kafka's Travels elegantly re-reads Kafka's major works ( Amerika , The Trial , The Castle ) through the lens of fin-de siecle travel culture. Making use of previously unexplored literary and cultural materials - travel diaries, train schedules, tour guides, adventure novels - Zilcosky argues that Kafka's uniquely modern metaphorics of alienation emerges out of the author's complex encounter with the utopian travel discourses of his day
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    ISBN: 9781349731169
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 398 p)
    Edition: Second Edition
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    Keywords: Literature ; Poetry
    Abstract: In this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work. Through essays on memory and metaphor, pacing, and the intricacies of voice and tone, and thoughtful appreciations of Chekhov, Ritsos, Mandelstam, and Rilke, Dobyns guides readers and writers through poetry's mysterious twilight communiques. For this new second edition, Dobyns has added two new essays, one dealing with the idea of "beauty" in poetry and another dealing with the almost mystical way poets connect seemingly disparate elements in a single work
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