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The Moral Media: How Journalists Reason About Ethics (Lea's Communication Series)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

The Moral Media provides readers with preliminary answers to questions about ethical thinking in a professional environment. Representing one of the first publications of journalists' and advertising practitioners' response to the Defining Issues Test (DIT), this book compares thinking about ethics by these two groups with the...

Descartes on Forms and Mechanisms

Cambridge University Press, 2009

The modern view of causation can be traced back to the mechanistic science of Descartes, whose rejection of Aristotelian physics, with its concept of substantial forms, in favor of mechanical explanations was a turning-point in the history of philosophy. However the reasoning which led Descartes and other early moderns in this direction is not well...

Holy Sci-Fi!: Where Science Fiction and Religion Intersect (Science and Fiction)

Springer, 2014

Can a computer have a soul? Are religion and science mutually exclusive? Is there really such a thing as free will? If you could time travel to visit Jesus, would you (and should you)? For hundreds of years, philosophers, scientists and science fiction writers have pondered these questions and many more.

In Holy Sci-Fi!,...

Foundations of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2005

While the notion of knowledge is important in many academic disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, economics, and artificial intelligence, the storage and retrieval of data is the main concern of information science. In modern experimental science, knowledge is usually acquired by observing such data, and the cause-effect or association...

Biomechanics: Principles and Applications, Second Edition

CRC Press, 2007

Engineering is the integration of art and science and involves the use of systematic knowledge based on the principles of mathematics and the physical sciences to design and develop systems that have direct practical applicability for the benefit of mankind and society.With this philosophy in mind, the importance of the engineering...

Practical Shader Development: Vertex and Fragment Shaders for Game Developers

Apress, 2019

Welcome to Practical Shader Development. This book is intended to be the gentlest introduction possible to the theory and practice of writing shaders for video games. Shader writing is a very large topic, and I can remember feeling very lost when I was starting out. My hope is that this book will help you avoid that same feeling and allow you...

The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics

Oxford University Press, 2019

Economics and ethics are both valuable tools for analyzing the behavior and actions of human beings and institutions. Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, considered them two sides of the same coin, but since economics was formalized and mathematicised in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the fields have largely followed separate...

The Marxian Legacy: The Search for the New Left (Political Philosophy and Public Purpose)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

The Marxian Legacy, first published in 1977 and released in a second edition in 1988, was and remains distinct in its view of Marxian theory as 'critique, ' aware of its own origins and limitations and self-conscious about its own historical rootedness in changing social and political conditions. This new and...

Mechanistic Images in Geometric Form: Heinrich Hertz's Principles of Mechanics

Oxford University Press, 2005

This book gives an analysis of Hertz's posthumously published Principles of Mechanics in its philosophical, physical and mathematical context. In a period of heated debates about the true foundation of physical sciences, Hertz's book was conceived and highly regarded as an original and rigorous foundation for a mechanistic research program....

Rails for .NET Developers (Facets of Ruby)

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

Learning a new language and a new framework can be daunting. What you need is a guide to help leverage your existing knowledge and skills, and show you just what you need to know to get up and running with a new system quickly.

You're already a .NET developer; we'll help you get up and running as a Ruby on Rails developer on any...

Leading in a VUCA World: Integrating Leadership, Discernment and Spirituality (Contributions to Management Science)

Springer, 2018

This open access book brings together works by specialists from different disciplines and continents to reflect on the nexus between leadership, spirituality and discernment, particularly with regard to a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). The book spells out, first of all, what our VUCA...

Eureka!: Physics of Particles, Matter and the Universe

Institute of Physics Publishing, 1997

"... a concise, authoritative, well written review of physics, in all of its branches from Newton to Hawking ... has a truly excellent glossary ..." -- Australian & New Zealand Physicist

"... sets out the basic ideas of physics in a readable style which will commend itself to the general reader, high-school...

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