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Finding the Voice of the River: Beyond Restoration and Management
Finding the Voice of the River: Beyond Restoration and Management

This book addresses societal relationships to river systems, highlighting many unexplored possibilities in how we know and manage our rivers. 

Brierley contends that although we have good scientific understanding of rivers, with remarkable prospect for profound improvements to river condition, management...

Nomic Truth Approximation Revisited (Synthese Library)
Nomic Truth Approximation Revisited (Synthese Library)

This monograph presents new ideas in nomic truth approximation. It features original and revised papers from a (formal) philosopher of science who has studied the concept for more than 35 years.

Over the course of time, the author's initial ideas evolved. He discovered a way to generalize his first theory of nomic...

Lightly: How to Live a Simple, Serene, and Stress-free Life
Lightly: How to Live a Simple, Serene, and Stress-free Life
Do you ever feel like life is weighing you down? Like the stuff in your home, the to-dos in your schedule, the worries in your heart are too much? Make "lightly" your mantra, one lovely little word to live by, and transform your life.

There's no shortage of decluttering books on the market, but Lightly
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The Discourse of Security: Language, Illiberalism and Governmentality (Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse)
The Discourse of Security: Language, Illiberalism and Governmentality (Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse)

This book explores how language constructs the meaning and praxis of security in the 21st century. Combining the latest critical theories in poststructuralist and political philosophy with discourse analysis techniques, it uses corpus tools to investigate four collections of documents harvested from national and...

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

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...

Liberalism, Diversity and Domination: Kant, Mill and the Government of Difference
Liberalism, Diversity and Domination: Kant, Mill and the Government of Difference
This study addresses the complex and often fractious relationship between liberal political theory and difference by examining how distinctive liberalisms respond to human diversity. Drawing on published and unpublished writings, private correspondence and lecture notes, the study offers comprehensive reconstructions of Immanuel Kant's and...
Mind and the Cosmic Order: How the Mind Creates the Features & Structure of All Things, and Why this Insight Transforms Physics
Mind and the Cosmic Order: How the Mind Creates the Features & Structure of All Things, and Why this Insight Transforms Physics
The topic of this book is the relationship between mind and the physical world. From once being an esoteric question of philosophy, this subject has become a central topic in the foundations of quantum physics. The book traces this story back to Descartes, through Kant, to the beginnings of 20th Century physics, where it becomes clear...
Paths: Why is life ?lled with so many detours?
Paths: Why is life ?lled with so many detours?

This open access book explores the amazing similarity between paths taken by people and many other things in life, and its impact on the way we live, teach and learn.

Offering insights into the new scientific field of paths as part of the science of networks, it entertainingly describes the universal nature of paths in...

Empiricism and Philosophy of Physics (Synthese Library, 434)
Empiricism and Philosophy of Physics (Synthese Library, 434)

This book presents a thoroughly empiricist account of physics. By providing an overview of the development of empiricism from Ockham to van Fraassen the book lays the foundation for its own version of empiricism. Empiricism for the author consists of three ideas: nominalism, i.e. dismissing second order quantification as unnecessary,...

God, Suffering, and the Value of Free Will
God, Suffering, and the Value of Free Will
For many of us, the question of whether or not God exists is one of the most perplexing and profound questions of our lives, and numerous philosophers and theologians have debated it for centuries. Laura Ekstrom here takes a new look at the issue of God's existence by examining it against the
reality of human suffering, bringing
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Borges, Buddhism and World Literature: A Morphology of Renunciation Tales (Literatures of the Americas)
Borges, Buddhism and World Literature: A Morphology of Renunciation Tales (Literatures of the Americas)
This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The renunciation story at the heart of Buddhism, that of a king who leaves his palace to become an ascetic, fascinated Borges because of its...
Plato's Republic: A Ladybird Expert Book (The Ladybird Expert Series)
Plato's Republic: A Ladybird Expert Book (The Ladybird Expert Series)

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES

- Why do humans form societies and what is needed for them to thrive?
- How can women's potential be actualized?
- How can we protect ourselves from demagogues and tyrants?

IMMERSE yourself in the strikingly relevant questions of...

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