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Télécharger le livre :  Feminist Philosophy of Science
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Feminist Philosophy of Science


Anke Bueter


Feminist scholars have identified pervasive gender discrimination in science as an institution, as well as gender bias in the very content of many scientific theories. An ameliorative project at heart, feminist philosophy of science has inquired into the social and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Collaborative Ethnography of Global Environmental Governance
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Collaborative Ethnography of Global Environmental Governance


Stefan C. Aykut , Max Braun , Simone Rödder


Environmental mega conferences have become the format of choice in environmental governance. Conferences of the Parties (COPs) under the climate change and biodiversity conventions in particular attract global media attention and an ever-growing number of increasingly...

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Télécharger le livre :  Strategizing With Institutional Theory
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Strategizing With Institutional Theory


Harry Sminia


This text consults seven variants of institutional theory to explore how these can be applied to strategic management. These variants are New Institutional Economics, Old Institutionalism, New Institutionalism, institutional entrepreneurship and change, intra...

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Télécharger le livre :  Religious Humanitarianism during the World Wars, 1914–1945
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Religious Humanitarianism during the World Wars, 1914–1945


Patrick J. Houlihan


The history of modern war has focused on destruction; however, practices of saving lives and rebuilding societies have received far less scrutiny.The world wars reconfigured geopolitics on a sacred-secular spectrum dominated by the USA and the USSR. In these events, the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Logic and Information
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Logic and Information


Edwin Mares


This Element looks at two projects that relate logic and information: the project of using logic to integrate, manipulate and interpret information and the proect of using the notion of information to provide interpretations of logical systems. The Element defines...

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Télécharger le livre :  Teaching English as a Second Language with Shakespeare
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Teaching English as a Second Language with Shakespeare


Fabio Ciambella


Teaching pragmatics, that is, language in use, is one of the most difficult and consequently neglected tasks in many English as a Second Language classrooms. This Element aims to address a gap in the scholarly debate about Shakespeare and pedagogy, combining pragmatic...

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Télécharger le livre :  Anticultism in France
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Anticultism in France


Donald A. Westbrook


This Element introduces readers to the problem of anticultism and antireligious movements in France. The first section offers an overview of anticultism in France, including the paradoxical place of modern French secularism (laïcité) that has shaped a culture prejudiced...

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Télécharger le livre :  Iterative Conceptions of Set
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Iterative Conceptions of Set


Neil Barton


Many philosophers are aware of the paradoxes of set theory (e.g. Russell's paradox). For many people, these were solved by the iterative conception of set which holds that sets are formed in stages by collecting sets available at previous stages. This Element will...

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Télécharger le livre :  Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories
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Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories


Jens Soentgen


This Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanitie's perspective. It then takes up rubber as an example and its many stories. It is shown that the common notions of rubber history, which assume that rubber...

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Télécharger le livre :  Effectuation
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Effectuation


Saras Sarasvathy


Effectuation has become the basis for educating entrepreneurs and managers. Derived from cognitive and behavioral economic studies of expert entrepreneurs, effectuation shows how to cocreate value in highly uncertain situations. The framework of effectuation consists in...

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Télécharger le livre :  Standing Up for Nonprofits
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Standing Up for Nonprofits


Alan J. Abramson , Benjamin Soskis


This Element examines the recent history of nonprofit sector-wide advocacy at the federal level, focusing on work done by national nonprofit infrastructure organizations and national charities, to advocate on issues, such as tax incentives for charitable giving, that...

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Télécharger le livre :  Euthanasia as Privileged Compassion
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Euthanasia as Privileged Compassion


Martin Buijsen


This Element overviews developments and issues in Dutch euthanasia practice. Following an outline of the history of the Dutch Euthanasia Act and a survey of the most critical trends and figures, some current issues are explored in depth: euthanasia and incompetency,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran
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Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran


Sajjad Adeliyan Tous , James T. Richardson


This Element offers a theoretically informed examination of the manner in which religion, especially alternative and emergent religious and spiritual movements, is managed by law and legal mechanisms in the authoritarian theocracy of Iran. It highlights how these...

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Télécharger le livre :  Can Governance be Intelligent?
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Can Governance be Intelligent?


Eran Vigoda-Gadot


Intelligence is a concept that occurs in multiple contexts and has various meanings. It refers to the ability of human beings and other entities to think and understand the world around us. It represents a set of skills directed at problem-solving and targeted at...

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Télécharger le livre :  Our Urban Planet in Theory and History
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Our Urban Planet in Theory and History


Carl Nightingale


This Element offers seven propositions toward a theory of 'Our Urban Planet' that is useful to global urban historians. I argue that historians have much to offer to theorists particularly those involved in debates over planetary urbanization theory and the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Extended Reality Shakespeare
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Extended Reality Shakespeare


Aneta Mancewicz


This Element argues for the importance of extended reality as an innovative force that changes the understanding of theatre and Shakespeare. It shows how the inclusion of augmented and virtual realities in performance can reconfigure the senses of the experiencers,...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Mereology of Classes
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The Mereology of Classes


Gabriel Uzquiano


This Element is a systematic study of the question of whether classes are composed of further parts. Mereology is the theory of the relation of part to whole, and we will ask how that relation applies to classes. One reason the issue has received attention in the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Cultural Burning
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Cultural Burning


Collectif


This Element addresses a burning question – how can archaeologists best identify and interpret cultural burning, the controlled use of fire by people to shape and curate their physical and social landscapes?This Element describes what cultural burning is and presents...

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Télécharger le livre :  Evolutionary Games and the Replicator Dynamics
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Evolutionary Games and the Replicator Dynamics


Onésimo Hernández-Lerma , Saul Mendoza-Palacios


This Element introduces the replicator dynamics for symmetric and asymmetric games where the strategy sets are metric spaces. Under this hypothesis the replicator dynamics evolves in a Banach space of finite signed measures. The authors provide a general framework to...

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Télécharger le livre :  Theatricality, Playtexts and Society
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Theatricality, Playtexts and Society


David Barnett


This Element proposes a novel way of defining, understanding and approaching theatricality, a term that exists both in the theatre and, more broadly, in everyday life. It argues that four foundational, material processes of theatre-making manifest themselves in all...

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