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This edition has been revised and extended to include eleven new entries on Berlin, Chomsky, Derrida, Rorty and many others. Key features of this unique guide include:* 170 entries from 96 contributors, many of whom are leading authorities in their field* alphabetically arranged entries which include brief biographies, outlines of major ideas and suggestions for further reading* coverage of Western and Third World political theorists as well a...

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Frontmatter -- Editorial Notes -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notations and Symbols -- I General Concepts -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Programming Languages for Robot Controlling -- 3 Object-Orientation and Logic Programming -- II Robot Programming and Concurrency -- 4 PROLoop for Robot Programming -- 5 The Object-Oriented Robot Programming Environment -- III Performance Aspects -- 6 Task Scheduling for Concurrent Rob...

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Introducing the reader to the basics of coding theory, this text covers practical and theoretical computing and problem-solving. Number theory and combinatorics are treated from scratch and coding theory is discussed without the use of group theory or finite fields.

Providing nearly a hundred pages of additional material, this title offers the English translation of the account of Stoic ethics by Anus Didysmus, and sources on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Scepticism, expanded representation of Plutarch and Cicero, and a fuller representation of papyrological evidence.

This book explores aspects of science from an economic point of view. The author begins with economic models of misconduct in science, moving on to discuss other important issues, including market failure and the market place of ideas.

This text discusses mankind's enduring obsession with bulls. It offers an examination of evidence from earliest prehistory onwards and considers the bull as a symbol of political authority, sexual potency, economic wealth and vast subterranean powers.

In this study of the works of Søren Kierkegaard, Murray Rae focuses on his understanding of the Christian faith and the nature of Christian conversion. The transformation of an individual under the impact of revelation is explored both in terms of the New Testament concept of metanoia and in comparison with claims to cognitive progress in other fields.

Wave after wave of educational reform has flooded the educational landscape with pronouncements for change in education, however, none with the impact of Total Quality Management.

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An authoritative and accessible account of a problem central to contemporary philosophy of mind. Writing in a clear, direct, and lively style, William Lyons first gives a critical survey of the current debate about the nature of intentionality, then moves on to offer an original new theory.

In How Nations Grow Rich, Krauss argues there is no inherent reason why the growth of the welfare state in the Western industrial countries should conflict with free trade-that is, there is no inherent reason for the welfare state to be protectionist.

Here is an eye-opening history of U.S.-Japan relations from the end of World War II to the present, revealing startling complexities. Acclaimed political history writer Michael Schaller reveals that most of what we criticize today in Japan's behavior stems directly from U.S. occupation policy of the 1950s.

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In this important new book, David O'Connor discusses both logical and empirical forms of the problem of inscrutable evil, perennially the most difficult philosophical problem confronting theism. Arguing that both a version of theism ('friendly theism') and a version of atheism ('friendly atheism') are justified on the evidence in the debate over God and evil, O'Connor concludes that a warranted outcome is a philosophical d_tente between those ...

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.