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Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", which equates the ultimate end of human life with happiness, is thought by many readers to argue that this highest goal consists in the... Læs mere
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The description for this book, A View of the Sea: A Discussion between a Chief Engineer and an Oceanographer about the Machinery of the Ocean Circulation, will be forthcoming.
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Addressing general readers and biologists, this title shows how the physics of fluids (in this case, air and water) influences the often fantastic ways in which life forms adapt themselves to their terrestrial or aquatic 'media'.
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Peter Albin is known for his seminal work in applying the concepts of adaptive dynamical systems,... Læs mere
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Examines political culture and activism in an African-American neighborhood in New York City. This book challenges the view that black... Læs mere
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In the years following its near-bankruptcy in 1976 until the end of the 1980s, New York City came to epitomize the... Læs mere
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A leading disciple and confidant of Freud, Otto Rank revolutionized the field of psychoanalytic theory in "The Trauma of Birth" (1924). This collection of... Læs mere
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Drawing on popular media and medical works as well as archival records and oral histories, this book examines how notions of... Læs mere
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Argues for participatory democracy without dependence on abstract metaphysical foundations, and stresses the relationship among democracy and civil society, civic... Læs mere
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Comparing eighteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhist monastic education to medieval Christian and other contexts, this... Læs mere
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A collection of essays, which address Beethoven's musical works and their cultural contexts. It explains how the young Beethoven chose his pianos, and William Kinderman shows Beethoven in the process of sketching and revising his compositions.
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The central theme of this study is Artin's braid group and the many ways that the notion of a braid has proved to be important in low-dimensional... Læs mere