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Total Books: 1001 - 1020 /1220
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The Construction of New Mathematical Knowledge in Classroom Interaction

The general research question of this book is: How can everyday mathematics teaching be described, understood and developed ...

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978-1-4020-4713-8
The Context of Constitution

This study brings together ideas developed over many years in various lectures in an endeavour to clarify the concept of ...

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978-1-4020-6764-8
The Contingent Nature of Life : Bioethics and Limits of Human Existence

This volume explores the different ways in which the contingency of life, and especially human life, is relevant for ethical ...

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978-3-211-33506-2
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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978-3-030-32086-7
The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan

This book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States. Alongside the US, Japan ...

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978-1-4020-4621-6
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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978-3-030-49920-4
The Demography of Disasters Impacts for Population and Place

This book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in ...

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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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978-0-387-23435-9
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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978-3-540-27352-3
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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978-3-030-32843-6
The Dual Nature of Legitimacy in the Prison Environment

explores the dual nature of legitimacy in prison. It examines the inter-connectivity between audience perception of legitimacy ...

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978-1-4020-3399-5
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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978-1-4020-3156-4
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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978-0-387-30674-2
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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978-1-4020-5499-0
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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978-1-4020-6812-6
The Environmental Movement in Ireland

Collective responses to Ireland’s dramatic transformation from a primarily agrarian and rural society to an industrialised ...

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978-3-030-10582-2
The Ethical Spirit of EU Law

This open access book seeks to identify the ethical spirit of European Union (EU) law, a context in which we can observe ...

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