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This Handbook offers a broad yet unified treatment of many philosophical issues connected with climate change, ranging from foundational puzzles to detailed applications. It extends to many branches of philosophy that are relevant to the understanding of the premises and implications of the impacts of climate change on human and nonhuman life on Earth. More specifically, the handbook examines the scientific accounts of climate change as well as its causes. It explores the tools offered by social sciences and humanities to study the societal premises and impacts of climate change as well as...

What is virtual reality and how do we conceptualize, create, use, and inquire into learning settings that capture the possibilities of virtual life? The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments was developed to explore Virtual Learning Environments (VLE s), and their relationships with digital, in real life and virtual worlds.

Three issues are explored and used as organizers for The Handbook. First, a distinction is made between virtual learning and learning virtually. Second, since the focus is on learning, an educational framework is developed as a means of...

The thirteen titles in this mini-set include works by some of the most well-known scientists and medical professionals of the twentieth century: Daedalus by J B S Haldane, Eos, or the Wider Aspects of Cosmogony by J H Jeans, Archimedes, or the Future of Physics by L L Whyte and the The Conquest of Cancer by H W S Wright to name but a few. Ground breaking in their day, some of the works remain controversial nearly 100 years after their original publication.

Der Band versammelt Forschungsmanuskripte Edmund Husserls aus zwei Jahrzehnten, in denen er das bis heute auf die Sozialwissenschaften wirkende Konzept der Lebenswelt detailliert entwickelt. In den deskriptiven Analysen zu den Dimensionen und Strukturen der Lebenswelt geht er weit uber die programmatischen Auerungen in seiner "Krisis"-Abhandlung hinaus. Die Texte bieten wichtige Struktureinsichten in die allgemeinste Verfassung der Welt und sind daher fur alle Disziplinen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften von Nutzen.