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  • Methods of Metaphysics
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    Methods of Metaphysics

    Originally published in 1987. This book comprises a critical exposition of the thoughts on metaphysics of the major philosophers of the tradition. It introduces the ideas of these philosophers to...
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  • Milestones in Systematics
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    Milestones in Systematics

    "Presenting a historical analysis of the evolution of systematics during the last one hundred years, Milestones in Systematics reviews many of the major issues in systematic theory and practice that...
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  • Critical Realism for Psychologists
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    Critical Realism for Psychologists

    This is the first dedicated text to explain and explore the utility of critical realism for psychologists, offering it as a helpful middle ground between positivism and postmodernism.By introducing...
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  • Metaphysics
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    Metaphysics

    Originally published in 1963. An outline of the metaphysical positions held by such major philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hegel, Kant, Hume, Moore, Bradley, Wittgenstein. The author...
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  • Approach to Metaphysics
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    Approach to Metaphysics

    Originally published in 1947. This book looks at contemporary conundrums in philosophical tendencies, bringing the reader a first-principles review of the purpose of such enquiries in relation to...
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  • Metaphysics
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    Metaphysics

    Originally published in 1963. An outline of the metaphysical positions held by such major philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hegel, Kant, Hume, Moore, Bradley, Wittgenstein. The author...
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  • Biocracy
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    Biocracy

    This book shows how biology is affecting popular beliefs and behaviors and is therefore becoming a force in public policy. It helps the reader see the presence of this force in today's world and...
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  • Post-Truth Imaginations
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    Post-Truth Imaginations

    This book engages with post-truth as a problem of societal order and for scholarly analysis. It claims that post-truth discourse is more deeply entangled with main Western imaginations of knowledge...
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  • Guide to Kant’s Psychologism
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    Guide to Kant’s Psychologism

    This book presents an interpretation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason as a priori psychologism. It groups Kant’s philosophy together with those of the British empiricists—Locke, Berkeley, and...
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  • Computers In The Information Society
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    Computers In The Information Society

    This book examines the unfolding cultural and organizational impact of computers on human society. Through this analysis, it discusses the role of information technology in people's lives,...
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  • Birth of the Clinic
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    Birth of the Clinic

    In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance...
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  • Bede and the Cosmos
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    Bede and the Cosmos

    Bede and the Cosmos examines Bede’s cosmology—his understanding of the universe and its laws. It explores his ideas regarding both the structure and mechanics of the created world and the...
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  • Body A-Z
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    Body A-Z

    Did you know that liquorice was used to stave off dehydration by desert-dwelling nomadic tribes? Have you ever considered what happens to someone's body when they don't eat for 382 days? YouTube...
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  • Big Ideas From Science
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    Big Ideas From Science

    Science is all around us, helping to explain the ideas that matter in our life. By asking questions about how things work, we can gain a deeper understanding of the world and our place in it. Big...
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  • Bruno Latour
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    Bruno Latour

    The first extended study of Bruno Latour’s legal theory, this book presents a critical reconstruction of the whole of Latour’s oeuvre to date, from Laboratory Life to An Inquiry into the Modes of...
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  • Soft Robotics in Biomedical Sciences
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    Soft Robotics in Biomedical Sciences

    This new book explores the dynamic integration of soft robotics and biomedical sciences, emphasizing a human-centered approach on how soft robotic technologies may fundamentally alter the healthcare...
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  • Cultural Technologies
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    Cultural Technologies

    The essays in this volume discuss both the culture of technology that we live in today, and culture as technology. Within the chapters of the book cultures of technology and cultural technologies are...
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  • Evolution by Natural Selection
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    Evolution by Natural Selection

    A persistent argument among evolutionary biologists and philosophers revolves around the nature of natural selection. Evolution by Natural Selection: Confidence, Evidence and the Gap explores this...
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  • Mushrooms and Eighteenth-Century Britain
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    Mushrooms and Eighteenth-Century Britain

    This book explores British scientific engagement with fungi during the eighteenth century. Bridging the history of science, technology, medicine, and material culture, it sheds light on how the Age...
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  • Information in a Physical World
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    Information in a Physical World

    To construct a comprehensive theory of information, meaning and intentionality, the book develops a naturalistic perspective based on Peircean biosemiotics. It re-examines key issues such as...
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  • West Southwest
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    West Southwest

    West Southwest: Vertebrate Life in Southern California celebrates an amazingly diverse fauna with description, evolutionary background, geographic insight, and ecological detail. Southern California...
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  • Freedom of Necessity
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    Freedom of Necessity

    First published in 1949, The Freedom of Necessity explores various aspects of the transformation of human society in the mid-20th century. It deals with themes like man and the world; relevance of...
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  • Wisdom, Information and Wonder
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    Wisdom, Information and Wonder

    In this book one of Britain's leading philosophers tackles a question at the root of our civilisation: What is knowledge for? Midgley rejects the fragmentary and specialized way in which information...
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  • Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt
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    Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt

    The discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood was a ground-breaking discovery in the history of the life sciences, and a prerequisite for William Harvey’s fully developed theory of blood...
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  • Legal Regulation of Academic Freedom
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    Legal Regulation of Academic Freedom

    This book compares and examines the ways in which law addresses and resolves conflicts between academic freedom and responsibility. Academic freedom is an important value in the modern scientific and...
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  • Life in Deep Time
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    Life in Deep Time

    When Darwin wrote his Origin of Species, one of his main concerns was with the perceived shortness of the fossil record of life. Until the work of J. William Schopf and his colleagues, much of this...
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  • Integrated Networking, Caching, and Computing
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    Integrated Networking, Caching, and Computing

    This book features the major research advances on integrated networking, caching, and computing. Information-centric networking-based caching is one of the promising techniques for future networks...
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  • Sociology, Cognition, and Linguistics
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    Sociology, Cognition, and Linguistics

    This book explores how social and political life are decisively shaped by unconscious linguistic operations and practical bodily experiences, rather than exclusively by rationality and consciously...
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  • Doing Policy Analysis
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    Doing Policy Analysis

    Doing Policy Analysis is a definitive introduction to the methodologies, principles, and practices of this important field, equipping readers with the tools needed to address complex policy...
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  • Cultural Evolution and Social Ontology
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    Cultural Evolution and Social Ontology

    This volume explores connections between two growing and complementary fields of research: cultural evolutionary theory and social ontology. It sheds light on the ontological aspects of cultural...
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  • Mind at Work and Play
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    Mind at Work and Play

    First published in 1951, The Mind at Work and Play consists of the 119th series of Christmas lectures given at The Royal Institution in 1948-49. The book raises some important questions like- how can...
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  • Influence of Railways on Economic Change
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    Influence of Railways on Economic Change

    This book approaches the history of railway building and its impact on economic change in a new way. Using a more granular approach than has been used in the past, based on detailed case studies,...
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  • Question of Emergence
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    Question of Emergence

    This book takes the relationship between physics and sociology as its subject, focusing on the philosophical dispute between emergentism and reductionism. It argues that the mystery behind emergence...
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  • Nature of the Sexes
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    Nature of the Sexes

    How complex is sex? According to this book, not nearly as complex as we’re often told these days.Author Tomás Bogardus first critically evaluates varieties of a complex view of sex—supported by Anne...
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  • Construction Toys and Modern European Culture
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    Construction Toys and Modern European Culture

    This innovative take on construction toys explores the development and use of building-inspired playthings between 1830 and 1940 as they became the educational toys par excellence for industrialised...
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  • Language, Pharmacy and Society
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    Language, Pharmacy and Society

    This book explores the vital role language plays in shaping how we understand and discuss medicines, making for a more detailed study of pharmaceutical and pharmacological language to more clearly...
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  • Hybrid Nanofluids
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    Hybrid Nanofluids

    This book provides a comprehensive understanding of advanced hybrid nanofluid applications in various fields while also explaining the real-time industrial applications of nanofluids. It explains...
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  • Food in Nineteenth-Century British History
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    Food in Nineteenth-Century British History

    In the long nineteenth century, significant developments occurred in science, technology and medicine which transformed food production and consumption. Coupled with this was the impact of the...
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  • Making of a Sociologist
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    Making of a Sociologist

    This book offers a journey through the problems and the progress of the discipline of sociology in the UK and Europe throughout the second half of the twentieth century via an exploration of seven...
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  • Food in Nineteenth-Century British History
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    Food in Nineteenth-Century British History

    Volume 4 examines the British diet from its colonial and global perspectives. Colonialism, combined with rapidly improving global transport networks, introduced the British introduced to a plethora...
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