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This book documents the origins of modern comedy by examining the evolution of 'New Comedy', the Greek genre of which the works of Menander are the only surviving example. Earlier authors like Aristophanes wrote in a completely different style: raucous,...

Isaac Newton's Scientific Method examines Newton's argument for universal gravity and his application of it to resolve the problem of deciding between geocentric and heliocentric world systems by measuring masses of the sun and planets. William L. Harper...

Migration is normal. But as a topic it fuels a polarized political climate. It undermines the European Union: its political unity, and its founding principles of human rights and human dignity. This inquiry deconstructs the binary structure of this...

From the first awakening of his philosophical consciousness to his last philosophicalwork, Max Scheler pondered questions about the human being. He thought that theanthropological question provides unity to all philosophical inquiry. Scheler's thoughthas...

This book concerns the border area between philosophy and social sciences. To explain the status of social sciences, not only cognitive involvement of theory is necessary, but also ontic. Hence epistemology and ontology need to be combined in...

In drawing upon the work of Jacques Derrida, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger and aligning it with a new trend in interdisciplinary phenomenology, Ian Andrews provides a unique look at the role of chance in art and its philosophical implications. His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554811700Author Michael A. GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press Ltd

Is science getting at the truth? The sceptics-those who spread doubt about science-often employ a simple argument: scientists were 'sure' in the past, and then they ended up being wrong. Through a combination of historical investigation and...

This book uses the formal semantics of counterfactual conditionals to analyze the problem of non-locality in quantum mechanics. Counterfactual conditionals (subjunctive conditionals) enter the analysis of quantum entangled systems in that they enable us...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781964928081Author Lyle SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Studio of Books LLCPublisher Studio of Books LLCWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781964928142Author Lyle SimpsonFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Studio of Books LLCPublisher Studio of Books LLCWeight(grams) 767gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798337089010Author Li WeiguoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint American Academic PressPublisher American Academic PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

This textbook discusses and systemises several selected topics of philosophical anthropology. The problem of man cannot be grasped through only one main principle or aspect (as the principle of his or her "humanity"). The chapters of this book rather...

The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Fifth Conference on Collective Intentionality held at the University of Helsinki August 31 to September 2, 2006 and two additional contributions. The common aim of the papers is to...

Whitehead acknowledged that 'the philosophy of organism seems to approximate more to some strains of.Chinese thought.' Some scholars have attempted to explore this relationship and its implications. The Beijing Conference provided a good forum for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631814877Author Xuezhi LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint American Academic PressPublisher American Academic PressWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961225619Author Lyle L SimpsonFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Lyle L. SimpsonPublisher Lyle L. SimpsonWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896865513Author Peter McIntoshFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Staten HousePublisher Staten HouseWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952000294Author Wilhelm ReichFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint WRM PressPublisher WRM PressWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 18mm

In this highly-interdisciplinary volume, we systematically study the role of metaphors and analogies in (mis)shaping our understanding of the world. Metaphors and Analogies occupy a prominent place in scientific discourses, as they do in literature,...

This title was first published in 2001. Explaining and defending a Heideggarian account of the self and our knowledge of the world, this book addresses the fundamental issues of selfhood and the elemental question of what it means to be human. The author...

Articulates a method for integrating the individual disciplines that compose the cognitive sciences so that unified interdisciplinary theories are possible.How to Build a Theory in Cognitive Science specifies the characteristics of fruitful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039105649Author Frances ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 530g

What is morality? This is the question this book is dealing with. The aim of the study is to show the distorting character of many common pictures of what morality is, pictures found inside and outside of philosophy. The central idea of the book is that...

This title was first published in 2000. Philosophers have been greatly concerned with the nature of explanation, but no account has been fully satisfactory within science or plausible in the wider world. The author asserts that this is due to a misplaced...

"Krell creates a remarkable interplay of meanings, allusions, and connotations-an interplay of multiple resonance which is finely tuned to Derrida's thought and which makes his essay as artful as it is conceptually disciplined. He is surely one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789552401770Author Nyanatiloka MahatheraFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint Buddhist Publication Society,Sri LankaPublisher Buddhist Publication...

Nowadays advertising seems to be ubiquitous. We notice it everywhere, and we seem to intuitively grasp its pervasive nature. But is it possible to define it? This book is a pioneering attempt to offer a definition of the omnipresence of advertising. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789360451196Author Swami VivekanandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint IndiepressPublisher Westland Publications Limited

This volume contains contributions from the international and interdisciplinary scientific conference "Ethics and the Law in Medicine - in Research and Healthcare", which took place at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Adam Mickiewicz...

The number of manuscripts produced in the Indian sub-continent is astounding and is the result of a massive enterprise that was carried out over a vast geographical area and over a vast stretch of time. Focusing mainly on areas of Northern India and...

Over the last two decades foundationalism has been severely criticized. In response to this various alternatives to it have been advanced, notably coherentism. At the same time new versions of foundationalism were crafted, that were claimed to be immune...

Economic diplomacy is a multifaceted tool that European countries, both individually and collectively through the EU, use to promote their economic interests, enhance their global standing, and address pressing global challenges. In his book, Andreas N...

The book deals with manifestations and relics of magical thinking in the narrative folklore of Cieszyn Silesia (Teschen Silesia, Tesin Silesia). The point of departure is a phenomenological and social constructivist approach to human cognition. The...

This book seeks to answer how we can reposition the geopolitical situation of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region in the 21st century. CEE region defined by the socialist past has transformed in the 21st century. Within geopolitical thought we...

The present volume, based on a related conference in Erfurt, offers interdisciplinary insights on the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church or the Pan-Orthodox Council, convened on the island of Crete in June 2016. Although some Orthodox Churches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783849166878Author Vernon LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint tredition GmbHPublisher tredition GmbHWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789027976994Author Russell H. TuttleFormat HardbackPage Count 468Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 951g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110115109Author Lennart AqvistFormat HardbackPage Count 373Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 709g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039102006Author Magnus UllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 640g