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The Council of Europe

This study examines in depth the Council of Europe’s legal bases, organisation and duties in this regard, basing the work ...

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The Death of Metaphysics; The Death of Culture

This volume critically explores the nature and depth of our contemporary cultural crisis: its lack of traditional orientation ...

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978-1-4020-6036-6
The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth

"Since the 18th century, one phenomenon, the proportion of the sexes at birth among human beings, has contributed to various ...

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The Didactical Challenge of Symbolic Calculators

This text offers the first English-language exposition of how an innovative synthesis of the theories of instrumentation ...

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The Discovery of Historicity in German Idealism and Historism

German Idealism develops its philosophy of history as the theory of becoming absolute and as absolute knowledge. Historism ...

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The Dynamics of Thought

This volume is a collection of some of the most important philosophical papers by Peter Gärdenfors. Spanning a period of ...

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The Edge of Life

Accessible to both scholars and students, The Edge of Life focuses particularly on the controversial issues surrounding the ...

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978-1-4020-4874-6
The Education Systems of Europe

This book is the first to present an analytical description of the education systems of all European countries, following ...

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978-1-4020-8204-7
The Education of Diverse Student Populations : A Global Perspective

This book takes up the challenge of examining the thorniest educational issue from a global perspective. It contributes to ...

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The Emergence of Culture

human society creates the culture that governs individual behavior, it can control individual members in a way that other ...

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The English Galileo : Thomas Harriot’s Work on Motion as an Example of Preclassical Mechanics

The English Galileo, the first book in series, investigates the shared knowledge of preclassical mechanics by relating the ...

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978-1-4020-3576-0
The Enigma of Good and Evil: The Moral Sentiment in Literature

At the roots of these questions lies human experience which ought to be appropriately clarified before entering into speculative ...

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The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition

This volume brings together leading philosophers and theologians to engage Catholic debates about embryo adoption in an interactive ...

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The Ethics of Intensification : Agricultural Development and Cultural Change

This volume was written in response to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Series of Ethics Papers that broached ...

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The European Mayor

With this book we aim at describing and analysing the selection, daily life, networks and values of local top political leaders ...

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The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia

Archaeologists, biological anthropologists, geneticists and linguists are brought together in order to provide a comprehensive ...

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The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in South East Europe

It is notorious that the evolution of civil-military relations and the security sector reform in South East Europe has to ...

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The Family, Medical Decision-Making, and Biotechnology

Opens with an exploration of the Confucian recognition of the family as an entity existing in its own right and which is ...

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The First Men on the Moon

Tells the story of Apollo 11, starting with crew selection and training, the choice of the landing site, and the assembly ...

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The Foundations of Europe

Thomas Hörber analyses the building process of European integration. He shows the parliamentary discourses of France, Germany ...

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