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Nuel Belnap on Indeterminism and Free Action

This volume seeks to further the use of formal methods in clarifying one of the central problems of philosophy: that of our ...

Number Story : From Counting to Cryptography

Numbers have fascinated people for centuries. They are familiar to everyone, forming a central pillar of our understanding ...

Observing the Sun with Coronado™ Telescopes

At around the turn of the millennium, the introduction of the Coronado range of solar telescopes and filters heralded the ...

Official Statistics 4.0

Explores official statistics and their social function in modern societies. Digitisation and globalisation are creating completely ...

Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting

This book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously ...

On Communication. An Interdisciplinary and Mathematical Approach

This book offers a radical new approach for the understanding of communication. By using the theoretical framework of complex ...

On Law and Reason

This is an outline of a coherence theory of law. Its basic ideas are: reasonable support and weighing of reasons. All the ...

On The Interpretation of Treaties : The Modern International Law as Expressed in the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

This book investigates the contents and structure of this system. By importing knowledge from linguistics, and pragmatics ...

On the Moon: The Apollo Journals

This book explains how the Apollo crews learned to work on the lunar surface. Its lively and informative text draws heavily ...

One Hundred Years of Intuitionism (1907-2007) : The Cerisy Conference

With logicism and formalism, intuitionism is one of the main foundations for mathematics proposed in the twentieth century; ...

Opening the Research Text : Critical Insights and In(ter)ventions into Mathematics Education

This innovative research-oriented volume challenges traditional theories and "comforting narratives" of pedagogy through ...

Organized Crime : Culture, Markets and Policies

Complex interactions of economic, technological, political, and cultural factors have fed the rise of criminal networks worldwide. ...

Organizing Schools for Productive Learning

This book offers an alternative approach to secondary school organization. In line with the definition formulated by John ...

Origins : How the Planets, Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe Began

The biggest questions in astronomy are those of how the planets, stars, galaxies, and the Universe were formed. ORIGINS describes ...

Ornithology, Evolution, and Philosophy

This book is the first detailed biography of Ernst Mayr. He was an ‘architect’ of the Synthetic Theory of Evolution, ...

Otto Neurath Economic Writings Selections 1904–1945

This book makes available for the first time in English a substantial part of Otto Neurath's economic writings. The essays ...

Out of the Blue : Public Interpretation of Maritime Cultural Resources

The editors have brought together state of the art ideas, research and scholarship associated with maritime public education ...

Outsourcing to India - A Legal Handbook

For the benefits offered by outsourcing and offshoring, organisations outsourcing to India must however recognise that there ...

Parks and People in Postcolonial Societies

This volume analyses the dynamic relations between people and national parks and assesses these in southern Africa against ...

Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas : The IMO's Role in Protecting Vulnerable Marine Areas

Designations of large Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas (PSSAs) triggered a controversial debate within the International ...

Total Books: 621 - 640 /1078