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  • Building a Modern Japan Building a Modern Japan
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    Building a Modern Japan

    In the late Nineteenth-century, the Japanese embarked on a program of westernization in the hope of building a strong and modern nation. Science, technology and medicine played an important part, showing European nations that Japan was a world power...
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  • Science and the Building of a New Japan Science and the Building of a New Japan
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    Science and the Building of a New Japan

    This book highlights the importance of individuals in the shaping of postwar Japan by providing an historical account of how physicists constituted an influential elite. An history of science perspective provides insight into their role, helping us to...
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  • The Work of the Sun The Work of the Sun
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    The Work of the Sun

    At the end of the Eighteenth century, British writers began to celebrate work in a strangely indirect way. Instead of describing diligence as an attribute of character, poets and novelists increasingly identified work with impersonal 'energies' akin to...
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  • On the Metaphysics of Experimental Physics On the Metaphysics of Experimental Physics
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    On the Metaphysics of Experimental Physics

    This provocative and critical work addresses the question of why scientific realists and positivists consider experimental physics to be a natural and empirical science. Taking insights from contemporary science studies, continental philosophy, and the...
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  • Negotiating Gendered Identities at Work Negotiating Gendered Identities at Work
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    Negotiating Gendered Identities at Work

    How does gendered organizational life impact on individuals' identities in their everyday working lives? This question is explored with theoretical insights from disciplines including Sociology, Geography, History and Gender Studies interwoven with a...
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  • Linde Linde
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    Linde

    In 1877, university Professor Carl von Linde obtained a patent for his refrigerator from the Imperial Patent Office - a patent for something that was not merely an invention, but the result of serious research in the basic laws of physics. Linde went on...
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  • Is God a Scientist? Is God a Scientist?
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    Is God a Scientist?

    The scriptures of the Faiths use models to depict what God is like; namely Father, Mother, Husband, Judge, Lover, Friend, shepherd and so on. Science also uses models to advance its knowledge, and in a scientific age a model of God as the Cosmic...
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  • Kant's Theory of Emotion Kant's Theory of Emotion
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    Kant's Theory of Emotion

    Williamson explains, defends, and applies Kant's theory of emotion. Looking primarily to the Anthropology and the Metaphysics of Morals, she situates Kant's theory of affect within his theory of feeling and focuses on the importance of moral feelings and...
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  • Transforming Science in South Africa Transforming Science in South Africa
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    Transforming Science in South Africa

    This book is essential for anyone interested in knowing how science works nationally and internationally in the contemporary world. It offers a comprehensive analysis of scientific collaboration and its relation to development and the productivity of...
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  • Naturalizing Badiou Naturalizing Badiou
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    Naturalizing Badiou

    Crossing the boundaries between 'continental' and 'analytic' philosophical approaches, this book proposes a naturalistic revision of the mathematical ontology of Alain Badiou, establishing links with structuralist projects in the philosophy of science...
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  • Leibniz, Husserl and the Brain Leibniz, Husserl and the Brain
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    Leibniz, Husserl and the Brain

    This book is about structural relations between phenomenological and neurophysiological aspects of consciousness and time. Focusing on auditory perception and making new and updated use of Leibniz and Husserl, it investigates the transition from...
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  • From Aristotle's Teleology to Darwin's Genealogy From Aristotle's Teleology to Darwin's Genealogy
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    From Aristotle's Teleology to Darwin's Genealogy

    From Aristotle to Darwin, from ancient teleology to contemporary genealogies, this book offers an overview of the birth and then persistence of Aristotle's framework into modernity, until its radical overthrow by the evolutionary revolution.
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  • Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination
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    Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination

    Since the 18th century, Greenland's geometric center, Eismitte, has been one of the most forbidding but scientifically rich locations in the Arctic. Tracing its history from European contact through the Cold War, this study shows how Eismitte was the...
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  • Epistemic Relativism Epistemic Relativism
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    Epistemic Relativism

    Markus Seidel provides a detailed critique of epistemic relativism in the sociology of scientific knowledge. In addition to scrutinizing the main arguments for epistemic relativism he provides an absolutist account that nevertheless aims at...
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  • Communication Rights and Social Justice Communication Rights and Social Justice
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    Communication Rights and Social Justice

    Placing struggles for communication rights within the broader context of human rights struggles in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this broad-based collection offers a rich range of illustrations of national, regional and global struggles to...
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  • Your Digital Afterlives Your Digital Afterlives
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    Your Digital Afterlives

    Digitalism is a philosophical strategy that uses new computational ways of thinking to develop naturalistic but meaningful ways of thinking about bodies, souls, universes, gods, and life after death. Your Digital Afterlives examines four recently...
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  • The Tin Deposits of the York Region, Alaska The Tin Deposits of the York Region, Alaska
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    The Tin Deposits of the York Region, Alaska

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Sickness Insurance Or Sickness Prevention? Sickness Insurance Or Sickness Prevention?
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    Sickness Insurance Or Sickness Prevention?

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Man's Place In Nature And Other Essays Man's Place In Nature And Other Essays
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    Man's Place In Nature And Other Essays

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. ...
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  • LO QUE OLVIDAMOS LOS ENFERMEROS II LO QUE OLVIDAMOS LOS ENFERMEROS II
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    LO QUE OLVIDAMOS LOS ENFERMEROS II

    El propósito del presente libro es expresar desde la experiencia como trabajador de salud en el área clínica de pacientes en estado crítico y como profesor de profesionales de enfermería en etapa de formación y la relación teórico - práctica de la...
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  • Физическая физика. Часть 2. Преоника. Физическая физика. Часть 2. Преоника.
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    Физическая физика. Часть 2. Преоника.

    Книга предназначена для тех, кто прошёл и школу, и ВУЗы, так и не поняв физику - из-за отсутствия нормальных объяснений. Однако она может быть полезна и академикам. Физическая физика - это вовсе не масляное масло. Она получила свое название в противовес...
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  • The Worcester Tornado The Worcester Tornado
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    The Worcester Tornado

    This book re-examines the work of the Committee on Disaster Studies, Study #3, "Tornado in Worcester, Massachusetts: An Exploratory Study of Individual and Community Behaviors in an Extreme Situation" originally edited by Anthony F. C. Wallace, PhD.The...
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  • On the Origin of Mountains On the Origin of Mountains
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    On the Origin of Mountains

    Unorthodox in his approach, John W. De Lano presents an exciting and provocative account that leads us to a common sense understanding of how the Earth developed the mountain systems we see today. This book provides an alternative unified hypothesis...
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  • Dio non gioca a dadi Dio non gioca a dadi
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    Dio non gioca a dadi

    Un breve viaggio attraverso i misteri dell'universo. Che forma ha l'universo? E' infinito come lo si pensa? Come sono fatti i buchi neri? Come funziona la gravità? Chi era veramente Einstein?
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  • I processi di modellamento del paesaggio terrestre I processi di modellamento del paesaggio terrestre
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    I processi di modellamento del paesaggio terrestre

    La comprensione dei processi che agiscono sulla superficie terrestre è essenziale per comprendere il paesaggio e la sua evoluzione.Questo libro spiega i principali processi naturali che modellano le forme dei paesaggi del nostro pianeta, da quelli più...
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  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - The Cause and Cure Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - The Cause and Cure
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    Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - The Cause and Cure

    The methodology taught in this book is "cutting edge" therapy for those suffering from the aftermath of psychologically traumatic event(s) in their life. Combat traumas, auto wrecks, death of loved ones; the list goes on and on. The root cause must be...
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  • HYPNOSIS 101 - Basic Hypnotic Techniques HYPNOSIS 101 - Basic Hypnotic Techniques
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    HYPNOSIS 101 - Basic Hypnotic Techniques

    This course is intended for the serious student of hypnosis. It offers the fundamentals of the art which are outlined in a concise and clear presentation. It is intended to be usable for the student and teacher as well for basic training in hypnosis
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  • Historia y estado actual de la ciencia criminológica Historia y estado actual de la ciencia criminológica
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    Historia y estado actual de la ciencia criminológica

    Estudio y análisis de la criminología, desde su inicio hastanuestros días, tomando en cuenta las diversas facetas y escuelas que han intervenido en el progreso de dicha ciencia (psicología, sociología, psiquiatría, análisis de las sociedades, ciencias...
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  • Female Sexuality Female Sexuality
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    Female Sexuality

    Primal instinct or the art of love!?Let youknow more about harmony of sexual relations!This book about normal female sexuality, erogenous sensitivity; arousal, orgasmic disorders, and Sex-therapy methods, some aspects of psychoanalysis.16+
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  • ESTADOS DE CONCIENCIA CUANDO DORMIMOS Y SOÑAMOS ESTADOS DE CONCIENCIA CUANDO DORMIMOS Y SOÑAMOS
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    ESTADOS DE CONCIENCIA CUANDO DORMIMOS Y SOÑAMOS

    Los estados de conciencia cambian a lo largo de las 24 horas de nuestra existencia. Al estar despiertos oscilamos entre la atención, somnolencia, distracción y otros más. Al dormir, el cerebro sigue procesando información, que por estar desconectada del...
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  • Medical Hypnotherapy Medical Hypnotherapy
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    Medical Hypnotherapy

    Professional hypnosis is a first line intervention for many medical conditions and the research shows medical patients respond to hypnotic suggestion with health, healing and hope.This book is your guide to specific applications of hypnosis with a...
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  • Barefoot Doctoring Barefoot Doctoring
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    Barefoot Doctoring

    This book is an indispensible guide and will prove more valuable than gold should a time arise in society where survival is the agenda of the day, should all conversions fail and we find ourselves face-to-face with any apocalyptic scenario, be it local,...
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  • Fishes of the Fitzcarrald, Peruvian Amazon Fishes of the Fitzcarrald, Peruvian Amazon
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    Fishes of the Fitzcarrald, Peruvian Amazon

    The Peruvian Amazon has one of the highest concentrations of aquatic biodiversity in the world, with almost 1,000 fish species currently known, and more described every year. This book shows 502 images representing 274 fish species from the Alto Purús...
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  • Magic Waters Magic Waters
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    Magic Waters

    Magic Water : The Secrets of Alkaline Water and a Long Healthy Life.Why is it the most important discoveries seem to be the simple ones, discoveries that someone has just tripped over? Isaac Newton discovered the Law of Gravity when an apple fell on...
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  • Coals of the State of Washington Coals of the State of Washington
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    Coals of the State of Washington

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Ultrasound - cancer cure Ultrasound - cancer cure
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    Ultrasound - cancer cure

    High Intensity UltraSound 150 W 40 kHz or 8W 1MHz applied externally for 1 minute, from a massage device, just once will cure all the diseases of age!
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  • NEUROBIOLOGIA DEL INTELECTO NEUROBIOLOGIA DEL INTELECTO
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    NEUROBIOLOGIA DEL INTELECTO

    Es el primer libro de la serie "Neurobiología del Intelecto". "Qué es la Neurobiología" es una aproximación al estudio de la función cerebral describiendo los diversos aspectos de las neurociencias, aplicados a la evolución del pensamiento, sus...
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  • Homeopathy in Perspective Homeopathy in Perspective
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    Homeopathy in Perspective

    This is a book about homeopathy: what it is, how it arose and developed, where it is today. It is a critical book but it presents its criticism from the standpoint of knowledge. Anthony Campbell was consultant physician at The Royal London Homeopathic...
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  • PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE AS TIME IN THE AGE OF SCIENCE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE AS TIME IN THE AGE OF SCIENCE
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    PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE AS TIME IN THE AGE OF SCIENCE

    It is well known that Einstein said the past, present and future syndrome is an illusion, and it seems many philosophers and scientists agree with him and his theory of secular time. The Ghanaian philosopher, Samuel K. K. Blankson, provides his answers...
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  • Standing Tall with Turner Syndrome Standing Tall with Turner Syndrome
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    Standing Tall with Turner Syndrome

    A compilation of 18 essays - edited by Claudette Beit Aharon - by women of various ages who have Turner syndrome, and their life experiences living with this condition. There is a foreword by Lynne Levitsky MD, chief of pediatric endocrinology,...
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  • 110 domande avanzate di Fisiologia Vegetale - Parte prima 110 domande avanzate di Fisiologia Vegetale - Parte prima
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    110 domande avanzate di Fisiologia Vegetale - Parte prima

    Dalla decennale esperienza del portale Scientifico LaCellula.net nasce un nuovo strumento, pensato ed adattato per tutti gli studenti dei corsi di Laurea Magistrale che prevedono, all'interno del piano di Studi, il superamento della prova di Fisiologia...
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  • Short Reports from the International Science Meeting Short Reports from the International Science Meeting
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    Short Reports from the International Science Meeting

    In the context of the Come2Graz International Week on the 16th of May 2013, a Scientific Meeting was held at the University College of Teacher Education Styria. Guests from different European Educational Institutes and eight research teams of our...
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  • Presente y futuro de la presbiacusia Presente y futuro de la presbiacusia
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    Presente y futuro de la presbiacusia

    La presbiacusia limita en gran medida a las personas que la padecen, disminuyendo sus posibilidades de comunicación y de relación con su entorno, llevando al paciente al aislamiento. Este aislamiento puede ser tan perjudicial o más que cualquier...
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