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Metaphysics is not often spoken of as a venue for dialogue about any-thing, let alone culture or religion, which are more readily associated with phenomenology or hermeneutics in contemporary thinking. This collection of essays, however, by the late Boston College philosopher Oliva Blanchette, maintains the absolute necessity of metaphysics as a prerequisite for examining any particular 'realm of being, ' in all areas of human inquiry, from th...

Kids need confidence when starting something new, and Kindergarten is coming! Give your little ones confidence with these skills before sending them off into their big new world. From learning to do up a zipper, to reading their own name, the growing independence is exciting to see as your child's confidence builds, so when they start school they can focus on the important things, like making new friends!

Nicholas, a middle-aged stock broker finds himself in a downward spiral that ultimately leads to finding out he has a miraculous gift of healing. Through constant rejection, bizarre dreams, and often humbling situations, he ultimately finds hope through the wise guidance of a local priest and a co-worker. Upon hitting rock-bottom in his life, the gift is imparted, unbeknownst to Nick. In the midst of discovering his gift he is relentlessly p...

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, no matter what your age, nine giants seek you out daily. Join a teenager trying to make the transition between boyhood and manhood. With the help of a kind shopkeeper, a strange compass, and a deep faith, he finds himself in mortal combat in the biggest adventure he has ever known. Welcome to Repahim, the Valley of the Giants!

This volume, LNAI 13385, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2022, held in Haifa, Israel, in August 2022. The 32 full research papers and 9 short papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: Satisfiability, SMT Solving, Arithmetic, Calculi and Orderings, Knowled...

The most familiar of experiences is of the conscious self. And it is of the conscious self as a free determinant, it is an entity that consciously decides what it will do. And the experience is that the freedom that is experienced is authentic in a sense that it is true freedom. The experience is that freedom is as real as other real things. Some, though, distrusting their own experiences, believe that the experience of freedom is an illusion...

In China's New Red Guards, Jude Blanchette illuminates two trends in contemporary China that point to its revival of Mao Zedong's legacy-a development that he argues will result in a more authoritarian and more militaristic China. This book not only reshapes our understanding of the political forces driving contemporary China, it also demonstrates how ideologies can survive and prosper despite pervasive rumors of their demise.

The author provides an original reflection on the notion of selfhood as intersubjective, taking the form of phenomenological reflections on the building blocks of the perennial philosophy, recasting Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics from the perspective of a phenomenology"--

As countless alterations have taken place in medicine in the twenty-first century so too have literary artists addressed new understanding of disease and pathology. Dis/ability studies, fat studies, mad studies, end-of-life studies, and critical race studies among other fields have sought to better understand what social factors lead to pathologizing certain conditions while other variations remain "normalized." While recognizing that these sc...

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This volume documents the decade in which Canada's influence on world affairs was at its apex, and contains speeches and writings of Lester B. Pearson, Sydney Smith, Howard C. Green and Paul Martin.

In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In Porkopolis Alex Blanchette explores how this rural community has been reorganized around the life and death cycles of corporate pigs. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork, Blanchette immerses readers into the workplaces that underlie modern meat, from slaugh...

Alex Blanchette explores how the daily lives of a Midwestern town that is home to a massive pork complex were reorganized around the life and death cycles of pigs while using the factory farm as a way to detail the state of contemporary American industrial capitalism.

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In China's New Red Guards, Jude Blanchette illuminates two trends in contemporary China that point to its revival of Mao Zedong's legacy-a development that he argues will result in a more authoritarian and more militaristic China. This book not only will reshape our understanding of the political forces driving contemporary China, it will also demonstrates how ideologies can survive and prosper despite pervasive rumors of their demise.

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This volume demonstrates Canada's continuing involvement with the United Nations and nato, the shiftingemphasis away from some traditional concerns, and the Canadian perspective.

This collection of more than 60 articles from GrowerTalks magazine is written for professional growers by the industry's leading floriculture experts, academic researchers, and professional growers. Articles highlight proven methods and tips on crop control, growth regulation of perennial crops, pest control, and marketing perennial crops. The controversial issue of forcing perennial flowers out of season so customers can buy colorful plants i...

In Frege's Conception of Logic Patricia A. Blanchette explores the relationship between Gottlob Frege's understanding of conceptual analysis and his understanding of logic.