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How should we respond when some of our basic beliefs are put into question? What makes a human body distinctively human? Why is truth an important good? These are among the questions explored in this collection of essays by Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the most creative and influential philosophers working today. These classic essays will appeal to a wide range of readers across philosophy and especially in moral philosophy, political philosophy...

Challenging mainstream analytic philosophers to reconsider basic assumptions, Baz defends the much maligned ordinary language philosophy as a form of practice that might provide a viable alternative to current work on philosophical "intuitions, " knowledge, and other areas of philosophical difficulty. He both argues for OLP and practices it here.

V monografii priwedeny rezul'taty issledowaniq teplofizicheskih swojstw teploemkosti, temperaturoprowodnosti i wqzkosti prostyh äfirow (dimetil, diätil, diallil, dipropil, dibutil, diamil, digexil, digeptil, dioktil, diizopropil, diwinil, difenil, didecil) w interwale temperatur 293-710 K i dawlenij (0, 101 - 98, 1) MPa. Monografiq prednaznachena dlq nauchnyh rabotnikow, aspirantow, soiskatelej, a takzhe shirokogo kruga specialistow w oblasti ...

Bags of Classics for Violin is filled with favourite melodies from famous works of classical music, arranged for the grade 3-4 player who is developing position work and perhaps trying vibrato.

Optoelektronische Bauelemente auf der Basis von Galliumnitrid (GaN) und seinen Legierungen InGaN und AlGaN emittieren Licht vom sichtbaren bis in den ultravioletten Spektralbereich. Bei fast allen GaN-basierten Leuchtdioden (LEDs) und Laserdioden (LDs) sind die Kristalle entlang der polaren (0001)-Richtung orientiert, bei der sich eine stabile Wachstumsoberfläche ausbildet. Die resultierenden Polarisationseffekte haben allerdings negative Ausw...

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Doing English Language provides a concise, lively and accessible introduction to the field of English Language studies for readers who have little or no prior knowledge of the subject. This book is divided into three main sections covering definitions, models and applications and will address the fundamental questions about studying language.

This book examines the relevance of the concepts of space and place to the work of Jorge Luis Borges. The core of the book is a series of readings of key Borges texts viewed from the perspective of human spatiality. Issues that arise include the dichotomy between 'lived space' and abstract mapping, the relevance of a 'sense of place' to Borges's work, the impact of place on identity, the importance of context to our sense of who we are, the ro...

A conceptualization of the literary aesthetic for a concern for the Self.Bringing Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's constructivist thinking into a practical domain, Sabrina Achilles rethinks the ways in which literature is understood and taught.

Written by scholars from both inside and outside China, this wide-ranging collection of essays explores the complexity of the relationship between governance and civil society by combining theoretical exploration and empirical case studies based on the governance practice in China.

Invictus is the story of Humanity emerging from the wastes of Nuclear war and expanding out from Earth to colonize the Solar system. During this expansion the Colonists are wracked with internal strife from separatist terrorists and alien beings. Only whe

Nicolas Rathe is a pointsman, a dedicated watchman in the great city of Astreiant. During the annual trade fair, with a city filled with travelers and merchants, someone is stealing children. The populace is getting angry and frightened and convinced that a foreigner must be to blame. Rathe calls on the aid of both an out-of-work soldier, the handsome Philip Eslingen, and the necromancer Istre b'Estorr. The art of astrology is a very real powe...

A conceptualization of the literary aesthetic for a concern for the Self.Bringing Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's constructivist thinking into a practical domain, Sabrina Achilles rethinks the ways in which literature is understood and taught.

By mapping the contour of Thornton Wilder's major plays and novels, this book offers a fresh reading of his deceptively unfashionable art of allegorical narrative, and aims to reaffirm Malcolm Cowley's perspicacious judgment: «(Wilder is) one of the toughest and most complicated minds in contemporary America.» After a review of the history and scholarship of allegory, the author chronologically traces Wilder's extensive, complex and resilient ...

A comprehensive survey of Shakespeare's comedies examining why and how they are still relevant today.

On February 19, 1967, all but four of the 240 registered voters in the Coconut Creek residential development gathered at a local church to vote on a single issue: whether or not to incorporate the neighborhood as a new city. By a greater than two-to-one majority, those in favor of incorporation won out, and Coconut Creek became Broward County's 32nd municipality. It may not have been obvious at that moment, but the creation of Coconut Creek en...

How can application of a positive lens to understanding social change and organizations enrich and elaborate theory and practice? This is the core question that inspired this book. It is a question that brought together a diverse and talented group of researchers interested in change and organizations in different problem domains.

Disgraced dime novelist Kate Tenney fled the city that banned her latest book for a fresh start at a cattle ranch in the Arizona Territory. She hopes ranching turns out to be as romantic as she portrayed it in her novels.

Since 1936, Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky, has represented the gentility and excitement of Thoroughbred horse racing. To central Kentuckians, it is an enduring part of their culture and a fun place for all generations. For horsemen from all over the world, Keeneland is also an honest marketplace for the best Thoroughbred racing and breeding bloodstock to be found. Keeneland's world-class library is the repository of the largest ...

A moving coming of age story packed with tropical adventure." - Ros AsquithTeenage twins James and Jerome discover that treasure, buried during the days of slavery, is their rightful inheritance. As the boys de-code the clues that will lead to the treasure, they have some strange encounters: there's a helpful parrot, a ghostly figure from the past and a legless man who can walk, they escape from a falling tower and discover a boiling lake. And...