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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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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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 Cycle of Deviant Behavior
To conduct this study on criminal and antisocial behavior, the authors devoted years to collecting data from a large community ...
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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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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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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 ...
Lire la suiteThe Dynamics of Opportunity in America : Evidence and Perspectives
The goal of Educational Testing Service’s Opportunity in America initiative is to explore these powerful dynamics and to ...
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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 ...
Lire la suiteThe Early Years : Child Well-Being and the Role of Public Policy
The Early Years analyzes the development of Latin American and Caribbean children and makes a compelling case for government ...
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The Economics of Casino Gambling
The Economics of Casino Gambling is a comprehensive discussion of the social and economic costs and benefits of legalized ...
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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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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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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 Emigrant Communities of Latvia
This volume examines experiences of contemporary Latvian migrants, thereby focusing on reasons for emigration, processes ...
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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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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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