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A Space of Their Own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South Australia and Tasmania

The history of lunatic asylums – what do we really know about them? Films and television programs have portrayed them as ...

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978-3-540-68376-6
Algebraic Combinatorics

This book is based on two series of lectures given at a summer school on algebraic combinatorics at the Sophus Lie Centre ...

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978-1-4020-8596-3
Ancient Philosophy of the Self

This volume explores the various ways in which selfhood was approached and conceptualised in antiquity. They also describe ...

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978-88-470-0587-7
Anestetici locali in analgesia ostetrica : Il modello MLAC: dalla teoria alla pratica clinica = Local anesthetics in obstetric analgesia: The MLAC model: from theory to clinical practice

This monograph contains a detailed description of the MLAC method and its applications and an extensive and updated review ...

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978-1-4020-4938-5
Arguing on the Toulmin Model

In The Uses of Argument Stephen Toulmin proposed a new model for the layout of arguments, with six components: claim, data, ...

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978-1-4020-4119-8
Body and Practice in Kant

This book argues that this standard image of the great German philosopher is radically wrong. Not only does Kant reflect ...

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978-0-387-78835-7
Buildings : Theory and Applications

This book treats Jacques Tits's beautiful theory of buildings, making that theory accessible to readers with minimal background. ...

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978-1-4020-3509-8
Creativity, Psychology and the History of Science

The present book includes papers from a wide range of topics. In the contributions to creativity research, Gruber proposes ...

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978-3-7643-8535-4
Determinantal Ideals

Determinantal ideals are ideals generated by minors of a homogeneous polynomial matrix. Some classical ideals that can be ...

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978-1-4020-5652-9
Diagrammatology

Diagrammatology investigates the role of diagrams for thought and knowledge. Based on the general doctrine of diagrams in ...

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978-1-4020-5839-4
Dynamic Epistemic Logic

Dynamic Epistemic Logic is the logic of knowledge change. This is not about one logical system, but about a whole family ...

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978-1-4020-3395-7
Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture

Today we know that natural selection and evolution are far from synonymous and that they do not explain isomorphic phenomena ...

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978-1-4020-3397-1
From the Act of Judging to the Sentence

This book offers a detailed study of the truth-bearers problem, that is, the question of which category of items the predicates ...

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978-0-8176-4473-4
Geometric Problems on Maxima and Minima

Questions of maxima and minima have great practical significance, with applications to physics, engineering, and economics; ...

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978-0-8176-4473-4
Geometric Problems on Maxima and Minima

Questions of maxima and minima have great practical significance, with applications to physics, engineering, and economics; ...

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978-3-540-31522-3
Geometric and Topological Methods for Quantum Field Theory

This volume offers an introduction, in the form of four extensive lectures, to some recent developments in several active ...

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978-1-4020-4047-4
Hermann Cohens Critical Idealism

Publications on Cohen in the English language are small in number and this volume aims to fill the gap. It offers an analysis ...

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978-3-7643-7518-8
Introduction to Classical Geometries

This book follows Felix Klein’s proposal of studying geometry by looking at the symmetries (or rigid motions) of the space ...

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978-3-540-33223-7
Inventive Thinking through TRIZ

This is the second edition of the Michael Orloff's successful practical introduction to TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem ...

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978-1-4020-3680-4
Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos. Book One

During its century-long unfolding, spreading in numerous directions, Husserlian phenomenology while loosening inner articulations, ...

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