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This book is extensively dealing with Technology and Applied Sciences. It covers the first technologies, irrigation systems, road networks and wheeled vehicles, a pictographic form of writing and building techniques. It carries on with the 19th century sciences and new technologies, such as the telegraph, the telephone, electricity generation and photography. It continues into the 20th century with advances in the natural sciences, including ...

FREE WILL, EXTISTENTIALISM, COMBATIBILISM: Free will is the philosophical aspect of freedom of humans where they have choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention. Thus 'condemned to be free' and to have a voluntary choice or decision as in 'I do this of my own free will'. Where as existentialism is a chiefly twentieth century philosophical movement embracing diverse doctrines but centring on analysis of indi...

Philosophy and Politics have many different areas, classified according to the subject-matter of the problems being addressed. Thus, this volume includes eight books on: Epistemology, British Philosophers (Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Burke, Bentham, and Mill), about Machiavelli, Hegel, Rousseau, Marxism, Plato, and Aristotle. This tome of the eight books attempts to describe the use of reason and argument in the search for truth and the nature of re...

Experience My Befriended Ideal. ISBN: 0952725304 Year: 1996 This anthology consists of metaphysical poems, verses with philosophical simplicity and romantic compositions.

If one schematically compares the three principal tendencies in psychotherapy (Freud, Jung, Adler) with regard to the direction in which their central thought leads, one could say: The analytical method of Sigmund Freud looks for the causae efficientes, the causes of the later behavioural disturbances. Alfred Adler considers and treats the initial situation with regard to a causa finalis and both see in the drives the causae materiales. In Car...

This book describes Philology and its associated subjects of literature, linguistic and other arts. It explains Philology as part of all other human activities, reflecting the ancient, classical, ecclesiastical, medieval and modern concepts, including the current social and economic conditions. Also, the philological class stratification as it appears in life, among the primitive civilisations and modern European literature. It includes the l...

Sociology as a social science refers to the systematic study of the development, structure, and functioning of society. In the last two centuries sociologists analysed many facets of their own societies, in the more general context of observing the causes and consequences of the transition from traditional pre-industrial life to modern societies. The fundamental postulate of sociology is that human beings act not by their own free decisions t...

An instinct is the mechanism by which animals and humans can perform complex behaviour patterns without learning or conscious effort. Instinctive behaviours are inherited and have evolved to be adaptive, fitting the organism to its particular role. Instinct is of particular importance in animal behaviours such as courtship, mating, and other reproductive activities. More general behaviours such as feeding and defence may have an instinctive...

Winds of Change This is the third book of poems composed by Andreas Sofroniou. In this anthology the reader will discover the philosophical simplicity of his poems, the metaphors and the symbolism are all present in this collection. Uniquely, every poem is preceded by a picture, a drawing, or a photograph, each one closely portrayed. Andreas Sofroniou wrote his first serious poem at the age of thirteen years and published his first co...

EXPERT SYSTEMS, KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING FOR HUMAN REPLICATION. An expert system is a computer program that attempts to replicate the expertise and decision-making abilities of a human expert. Expert systems are the most widely developed area of artificial intelligence, with a variety of applications ranging from medical diagnosis through to financial decision-making and geological prospecting. They often use a heuristic or self-learning ap...

This presentation of Jung's psychotherapy is intended to give a condensed picture and an introduction to his extensive publications and method of therapy. Jung popularised the terms 'introvert and extravert', interpreted the deeper conscious levels, and established psychotherapy as the treatment of disorders. His theory of 'psychic energy' emphasised a final point of view as against a purely causal one. His discovery and exploration of the 'co...

Yusuf's Odyssey: From one range of mountains to the next hilly land, the adventures of a young man in the eastern-most of islands in the Mediterranean sea, a beautiful youth, willingly and against his wishes and by fate, he is thrown into the bitter conflicts of human races and their cultures. Bitter fights follow him, from one country to the other. His unexpected adventures continue as a modern-day slave in a male brothel in London. His ma...

They were both children of poverty, born into the dark slums of East London. Yet their worlds could hardly have been more different. Eric De Milo blessed with a loving Italian family and an artistic gift that gave him a chance for a better life. On the other hand, Helena Whitman who knew little of love or kindness, her gift was for survival. Then astonishingly, love blossoms between them, and for a while, it seems that nothing can tear them ap...

Hegel rejected the distinction commonly drawn between knowledge and reality. Knowledge is reality and reality is knowledge, for if the two were separate reality would be unknowable and knowledge would be illusory. In Hegel's famous words, the real is rational. Truth, according to Hegel means coherence, i.e. a judgement is true in so far as it is consistent with other judgements, and more true the wider the range of judgements with which it is...

In reading through this book, the reader will find that through the centuries, philosophy as a subject contributed more than any other subject in the shaping of our lives, how we exist, behave and how we control our destiny. The content of this book will still be of importance to the reader and without any compromising, a training tool for the philosopher, psychologist. sociologist and behaviourist. There is no doubt that this subject is deep...

PSYCHOTHERAPY, CONCEPTS OF TREATMENT The simplistic explanation of psychotherapy is that it deals with the treatment of disorders of emotion or personality by psychological methods. There are arguments about the effectiveness of psychotherapies, but it is generally agreed that success depends on a secure, confiding relationship between the therapist and patient and on a shared confidence in the capacity of the therapist and his or her theor...

Machiavelli's first post was that of Clerk in the Second Chancery of the Commune and in I498 he was promoted as a Second Chancellor and Secretary. He continued in this office till the year 15I2. While thus employed he undertook a large number of diplomatic missions both to the petty courts of Italy and to other countries, and it was the experience of these missions which was largely responsible for forming the views which he subsequently expo...

This Systems Engineering book is mostly concerned with the systems architecture, the development, and the management of the people involved, the system engineering practitioners who work on their own, and those who work in groups to design the systems applicable to users, in multi-national corporations, academia, and government departments. Based on the contents, training courses can be prepared to suit the candidates, mainly workshops concern...

THREE MILLENNIA OF HELLENIC PHILOLOGY This book describes the Greek Philology and its associated subjects of literature, linguistic and other arts. It explains the Hellenic era of three millennia of Philology as part of all other human activities, reflecting the ancient, classical, ecclesiastical, medieval and modern concepts, including the current social and economic conditions. Furthermore, it elaborates on the philological class stratif...

Epistemology is the explanation of how we think. It is required in order to be able to determine the true from the false, by determining a proper method of evaluation. It is needed in order to use and obtain knowledge of the world around us. This book attempts to provide a systematic overview of the epistemological problems that several questions may raise and focus in some depth on issues relating to the structure and the limits of knowled...