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Education and Civilization: The Transmission of Culture
ISBN: 9789401080699 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It has been asserted that there is no one universal proposition with which all philosophers would agree, including this one. The pre dicament has rarely been recognized and almost never accepted, although neither has it been successfully challenged. If the claim holds true for philosophy taken by itself, how much more must it of religion, the hold for crossfield interests, such as the philosophy philosophy of science and many others. The philosophy of educa tion is a particular case in point. The topic of education itself is generally regarded as a dull af fair, a charge not entirely without...
It has been asserted that there is no one universal proposition with which all philosophers would agree, including this one. The pre dicament has rare...
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Philosophy of Prediction and Capitalism
ISBN: 9789401081276 / Angielski / Miękka / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is little more than a decade left before the bells allover the world will be ringing in the first hour of the twenty-first century, which will surely be an era of highly advanced technology. Looking back on the century that we live in, one can realize that generations of people who have already lived in it for the better parts of their lives have begun to ask the same question that also every individual person thinks about when he is faced with the first signs of the end of his life. It is the question: "Why did everything in my life happen the way it did?" Or, "It would have been so...
There is little more than a decade left before the bells allover the world will be ringing in the first hour of the twenty-first century, which will s...
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Roads to Commensurability
ISBN: 9789401081801 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again. If your heels are nimble dnd light, You may get there by candle-light. Any philosopher who takes more than a fleeting interest in the sciences and their development must at some stage confront the issue of incommensurability in one or other of its many manifes tations. For the philosopher of science concerned with problems of conceptual change and the growth of knowledge, matters of incommensurability are of paramount concern. After many years of skating over, skimming through and skirting...
How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again. If your heels are nimble dnd light, You may get ...
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Thinking about Society: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9789401088947 / Angielski / Miękka / 523 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I. C. Jarvie was trained as a social anthropologist in the center of British social anthropology - the London School of Economics, where Bronislaw Malinowski was the object of ancestor worship. Jarvie's doctorate was in philosophy, however, under the guidance of Karl Popper and John Watkins. He changed his department not as a defector but as a rebel, attempting to exorcize the ancestral spirit. He criticized the method of participant obser vation not as useless but as not comprehensive: it is neither necessary nor sufficient for the making of certain contributions to anthropology; rather, it...
I. C. Jarvie was trained as a social anthropologist in the center of British social anthropology - the London School of Economics, where Bronislaw Mal...
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Resilience and Success: The Professional Journeys of African American Women Scientists
ISBN: 9781433115110 / Angielski / Twarda / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Resilience and Success charts the education and career trajectories of African American women scientists and sheds light as to why young African American females drop off the science map in high school. It constructs a story about the map, which includes exits, entrances and turns. This phenomenon was influenced by cultural and socio-economic issues; class, race relations and racial biases; geography and most important, opportunities and serendipity. None of the roads were smooth as these African American women followed in the footsteps of those who had gone before them. It is critical...
Resilience and Success charts the education and career trajectories of African American women scientists and sheds light as to why young Africa...
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Digital Literacies in Education: Creative, Multimodal and Innovative Practices
ISBN: 9783034309288 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every educator will tell you about the importance of literacy. But what are the implications of digital literacy, participatory literacy and media literacy for teaching and learning? And can the use of technology be linked to social responsibility?
This volume, with a range of international contributors, offers stimulating reading about rethinking education in the light of new multimedia tools and platforms and the emergence of social media. It calls for twenty-first-century learners to develop digital, entrepreneurial, collaborative and group work competencies, along with creative and... Every educator will tell you about the importance of literacy. But what are the implications of digital literacy, participatory literacy and media lit...
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Dynamic Linguistics: Labov, Martinet, Jakobson and Other Precursors of the Dynamic Approach to Language Description
ISBN: 9783034317054 / Angielski / Miękka / 589 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analysis of language as a combination of both a structural and a lexical component overlooks a third all-encompassing aspect: dynamics. Dynamic Linguistics approaches the description of the complex phenomenon that is human language by focusing on this important but often neglected aspect.
This book charts the belated recognition of the importance of dynamic synchrony in twentieth-century linguistics and discusses two other key concepts in some detail: speech community and language structure. Because of their vital role in the development of a dynamic approach... Analysis of language as a combination of both a structural and a lexical component overlooks a third all-encompassing aspect: dynamics. Dynamic Lin...
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Reconstructing Memory: The Holocaust in Polish Public Debates
ISBN: 9783631623657 / Angielski / Twarda / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book aims to reconstruct and analyze the disputes over the Polish-Jewish past and memory in public debates in Poland between 1985 and 2012, from the discussions about Claude Lanzmann s Shoah, Jan Blonski s essay The Poor Poles Look at the Ghetto, Jan Tomasz Gross books Neighbours, Fear and Golden Harvest, to the controversies surrounding the premiere of Wladyslaw Pasikowski s The Aftermath. The analysis includes the course and dynamics of the debates and, most importantly, the panorama of opinions revealed in the process. It embraces the debates...
The book aims to reconstruct and analyze the disputes over the Polish-Jewish past and memory in public debates in Poland between 1985 and 2012, from t...
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Intertextualitaet in Der Lusophonen Literatur: Ein Blick Auf Fernando Pessoa Und Clarice Lispector
ISBN: 9783631627440 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der portugiesische Autor Fernando Pessoa und die brasilianische Autorin Clarice Lispector pragen die literarische Moderne. Die Untersuchung der von ihnen gewahlten Sujets lasst viele Parallelen erkennen. Pessoa wie Lispector erheben die Seelenvielfalt, den Ich-Zerfall und die Entpersonlichung zu den Themen ihrer Lyrik bzw. Prosa. Vor allem Lispectors Erstlingsroman, Nahe dem wilden Herzen, weist diese Charakteristika auf. Aus einer intertextuellen Analyse von Lispectors Roman und Pessoas drei wichtigsten Heteronymen, Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis und Alvaro de Campos, resultieren zwei...
Der portugiesische Autor Fernando Pessoa und die brasilianische Autorin Clarice Lispector pragen die literarische Moderne. Die Untersuchung der von ih...
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Mountain of Paradise; Reflections on the Emergence of Greater California as a World Civilization
ISBN: 9781433123221 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mountain of Paradise challenges conventional taxonomies of world civilizations by introducing a new and formidable candidate: the civilization of Greater California presently incubating as the evolution of California into a veritable -nation-state- or -world commonwealth- according to contemporary commentators and scholars. Through a series of reflective essays it clarifies the momentous implications of this claim by a thorough account of the genealogical origins of -California-, permutation into its speculative moment of self-identity thanks to prolonged creative interchange with European...
Mountain of Paradise challenges conventional taxonomies of world civilizations by introducing a new and formidable candidate: the civilization of Grea...
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Exploring Compatibility
ISBN: 9780992735708 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The theory of compatibility directs the progress of knowledge acquisition in science and many aspects of life and society. Vladimir A. Morozov defines the principles and criteria of compatibility and offers a concise exploration of human and organizational development in tandem with society as a whole. This book is aimed at specialists ranging from business people and politicians to economists and sociologists, as well as all those who ask the question: -How do things interact with each other?- Vladimir Alexandrovich Morozov is Professor and Doctor of Economic Science at the Lomonosov Moscow...
The theory of compatibility directs the progress of knowledge acquisition in science and many aspects of life and society. Vladimir A. Morozov defines...
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Relativity: The Special And General Theory
ISBN: 9781478396239 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CONTENTS Preface Part I: The Special Theory of Relativity 01. Physical Meaning of Geometrical Propositions 02. The System of Co-ordinates 03. Space and Time in Classical Mechanics 04. The Galileian System of Co-ordinates 05. The Principle of Relativity (in the Restricted Sense) 06. The Theorem of the Addition of Velocities employed in Classical Mechanics 07. The Apparent Incompatability of the Law of Propagation of Light with the Principle of Relativity 08. On the Idea of Time in Physics 09. The Relativity of Simultaneity 10. On the Relativity of the Conception of Distance 11. The Lorentz...
CONTENTS Preface Part I: The Special Theory of Relativity 01. Physical Meaning of Geometrical Propositions 02. The System of Co-ordinates 03. Space an...
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A Young Girl's Diary
ISBN: 9781479179848 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Flight Beyond the Stars: Stories of Traveling Life's Distances Toward Wholeness and Creativity
ISBN: 9781481753265 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Flight Beyond the Stars: Stories of Traveling Life's Distances Toward Wholeness and Creativity
ISBN: 9781481753272 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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My Life in Metaphor
ISBN: 9781491820544 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dear Reader: Welcome to My Life in Metaphor, one man's life experiences and views of life, death, and everything in between. My writing reflects growing up a part of two distinct, rich cultures; training as a scientist and public health professional; work and residence in three foreign countries - Brazil, Jordan and Ecuador; a love of nature; and, great respect for our country, but concern about a decline in our nation's values - the growing hostility and intolerance, technology as a substitute for direct human contact, and excessive violence. I hope you will enjoy my poetry, find it...
Dear Reader: Welcome to My Life in Metaphor, one man's life experiences and views of life, death, and everything in between. My writing reflects growi...
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My Life in Metaphor
ISBN: 9781491820551 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dear Reader: Welcome to My Life in Metaphor, one man's life experiences and views of life, death, and everything in between. My writing reflects growing up a part of two distinct, rich cultures; training as a scientist and public health professional; work and residence in three foreign countries - Brazil, Jordan and Ecuador; a love of nature; and, great respect for our country, but concern about a decline in our nation's values - the growing hostility and intolerance, technology as a substitute for direct human contact, and excessive violence. I hope you will enjoy my poetry, find it...
Dear Reader: Welcome to My Life in Metaphor, one man's life experiences and views of life, death, and everything in between. My writing reflects growi...
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Thring Of Uppingham: Victorian Educator
ISBN: 9781908684059 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edward Thring features prominently in all the educational histories of his period, and is seen as the foremost figure in independent schools in the generation after the famous Dr. Thomas Arnold of Rugby. This book draws on new material and letters discovered in an archive. And archive it was assumed had perished in a fire; it shows just how ground-breaking his reforms really were; how sound or otherwise his methods of financing Uppingham were, and why he polarized people between passionate supporters and strong opponents. This biography also includes the bitter battle over who should be his...
Edward Thring features prominently in all the educational histories of his period, and is seen as the foremost figure in independent schools in the ge...
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Objektive Möglichkeit: Beiträge Zu Georg Lukács' "Zur Ontologie Des Gesellschaftlichen Seins"
ISBN: 9783531127910 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dieser Band umfat Kommentare und Materialien zu Georg Lukacs' Spatwerk "Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins." Neben wenig bekannten bzw. erstmals publizierten Texten Lukacs' aus dem Umfeld seiner marxistischen Ontologie enthalt er eine umfangreiche Korrespondenz mit dem deutschen Lektor Frank Benseler sowie eine Reihe von Einzeluntersuchungen renommierter Forscher, die die Perspektivenvielfalt des Lukacsschen Oeuvres und seine - selten gewurdigte - Aktualitat bis heute aufzeigen.
Dieser Band umfat Kommentare und Materialien zu Georg Lukacs' Spatwerk "Zur Ontologie des gesellschaftlichen Seins." Neben wenig bekannten bzw. erstma...
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Vorlesungen zur philosophischen Psychologie von Kunst. Band 5: Zur Physiognomik des Psychischen: Mimesis und Interpersonalität
ISBN: 9783732279883 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Das vorliegende Buch dokumentiert einer Vorlesungsreihe aus dem Gebiet der philosophischen Psychologie, die an der Universitat Witten-Herdecke von Hinderk M. Emrich in den Jahren 1997 bis 1999 abgehalten wurden. Die Zentralthemen Physiognomik des Psychischen, Mimesis und Interpersonalitat" werden abgehandelt anhand philosophisch-psychologischer Konzepte, wie sie von Soren Kierkegaard, C.G. Jung und Rene Girard entwickelt wurden, wobei diese z.T. mit kunstlerischen, z.T. mit tiefenpsychologischen Phanomenen in Verbindung gebracht werden.
Das vorliegende Buch dokumentiert einer Vorlesungsreihe aus dem Gebiet der philosophischen Psychologie, die an der Universitat Witten-Herdecke von Hin...
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