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Télécharger le livre :  Kierkegaard, Socrates, and the Meaning of Life
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Kierkegaard, Socrates, and the Meaning of Life


Rick Anthony Furtak


Kierkegaard's lifelong fascination with the figure of Socrates has many aspects, but prominent among them is his admiration for the way Socrates was devoted to his divinely ordained mission as a philosopher. To have such a destiny, revealed through what one loves and is...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Metaphysics of Color
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The Metaphysics of Color


Elay Shech , Michael Watkins


This Element offers an opinionated and selective introduction to philosophical issues concerning the metaphysics of color. The opinion defended is that colors are objective features of our world; objects are colored, and they have those colors independent of how they...

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21,03
Télécharger le livre :  Heidegger on Ethics
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Heidegger on Ethics


Mahon O'brien


Heidegger is often understood to have forsaken the very possibility of ethics – we find numerous variations of this view in the secondary literature. And yet, in Letter on Humanism,Heidegger stresses the importance of ethics (thought anew as originary ethics) in the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia
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Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia


Diana S. Kim


This Element explores the significance of the Japanese wartime empire's occupation of Southeast Asia during World War Two for understanding the region's colonial legacies. It conceptualizes the occupation as a critical juncture that mediated the survival of American and...

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21,03
Télécharger le livre :  Everything You Need to Know About Hoarding
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Everything You Need to Know About Hoarding


Lynne M. Drummond , Laura J. Edwards


Are you or someone you know struggling with hoarding disorder, feeling ashamed or guilty about your belongings, and afraid to let them go? It's more common than you might think, affecting up to 6% of the general population. But despite its prevalence, seeking help can...

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Télécharger le livre :  Making Places Sacred
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Making Places Sacred


Matt Tomlinson , Yujie Zhu


Although claims to sacredness are often linked to the power of a distant past, the work of making places sacred is creative, novel, renewable, and reversible. This Element highlights how sacred space is newly made. It is often associated with blood, death, and...

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21,03
Télécharger le livre :  Processability Theory
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Processability Theory


Anke Lenzing , Manfred Pienemann


Processability Theory (PT) is a psycholinguistic theory of second language acquisition. The theory builds on the fundamental assumption that learners can acquire only those linguistic forms and functions which they can process. Therefore, PT is based on the architecture...

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Télécharger le livre :  Financing for Development
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Financing for Development


José Antonio Ocampo


The reform of the international financial and tax systems has been at the center of global debates in recent years –in the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the OECD and the G20.The fourth United Nations Conference on Financing for...

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21,03
Télécharger le livre :  Family Matters
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Family Matters


Olle Folke , Moa Frödin Gruneau , Johanna Rickne


This Element studies how career support from romantic partners affects career patterns and costs in politics. It argues that a lower level of career support from romantic partners leads to a lower likelihood for political promotion among women politicians (the partner...

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Télécharger le livre :  Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys
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Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys


Michael Brocken , Laura Hamer


The city of Liverpool is renowned for its popular music, although the formidable hagiography which has developed around the Beatles tends to dominate historical considerations to the virtual exclusion of the many other varied genres which have flourished in the city...

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21,03
Télécharger le livre :  Logic and Science
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Logic and Science


Massimiliano Carrara , Filippo Ferrari


This Element delves into the relationship between logic and the sciences, a topic brought to prominence by Quine, who regarded logic as methodologically and epistemologically akin to the sciences. For this reason, Quine is seen as the forefather of anti-exceptionalism...

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21,03
Télécharger le livre :  Against Moab
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Against Moab


Benjamin W. Porter


Known as a place, a people, and a kingdom at various points in the second and first millennia BCE, Moab has long sustained the attention of archaeologists, philologists, and historians, in part because of its adjacent location to ancient Israel. The past 150 years of...

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21,03
Télécharger le livre :  Kant on Marriage
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Kant on Marriage


Charlotte Sabourin


This Element proposes a new understanding of Kant's account of marriage by examining the context and background conversations that shaped its development and by discussing the conception of equality at its core. Marriage as Kant understands it relies on a certain form...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Emergence of Aegean Prehistory
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The Emergence of Aegean Prehistory


Andrew Shapland


This Element focusses on the emergence of Aegean Prehistory as a discipline, starting with the first recorded encounters with prehistoric monuments and artefacts and ending with the decipherment of Linear B in 1952. It broadens the history of Aegean Bronze Age...

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Télécharger le livre :  Archaeological Wood and Woodworking
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Archaeological Wood and Woodworking


Caroline Arbuckle Macleod


Wood is, and always has been, one of the most common and versatile materials for creating structures and art. It is therefore also a ubiquitous element of the archaeological record. This discussion of the study of archaeological wood introduces a number of approaches to...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Shang Economy
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The Shang Economy


Roderick Campbell


This Element constitutes a systematic attempt to preliminarily reconstruct the Shang economy based on contemporary archaeological and textual evidence. At the same time, the rapid pace of Chinese archaeological discovery and the increasing deployment of archaeological...

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Télécharger le livre :  Origins of Colonialism
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Origins of Colonialism


Tirthankar Roy


Historians explain the eighteenth-century origin of European colonialism in Asia either with the profile of the merchants or an argument about uneven power. This Element suggests that the environment was an important factor, too. With India (1600-1800) as the primary...

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21,03
Télécharger le livre :  Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch


Bridget Clarke


Iris Murdoch is well-known for her moral philosophy, especially for the light it sheds on the inner life. This Element focuses on the political significance and contours of Murdoch's ethics. Its chief aim is to illuminate the affinities between Murdoch's concept of the...

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21,03
Télécharger le livre :  The Orchestra of the Cappella Reale, Naples, 1750–1800
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The Orchestra of the Cappella Reale, Naples, 1750–1800


Anthony R. Deldonna


The most prestigious musical ensemble of early-modern Naples remained the Royal Chapel or Cappella Reale di Palazzo. Conceived to serve directly the ruling authority of the capital city – whether the viceroy (Spanish or Austrian) or monarchs (Carlo di Borbone then...

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Télécharger le livre :  Staging Class Conflict in the UK
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Staging Class Conflict in the UK


Liz Tomlin


This Element focuses on the frequent staging of the most precarious fraction of the working class in the context of a theatre industry, academy and audiences that are dominated by the cultural fraction of the middle class. It interrogates the staging of an abjectified...

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21,03
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