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Human beings live together in societies which, by their very nature, give rise to institutions governing the behaviour and freedom of individuals... Lees meer
What can we do to live life wisely? You might think that the answer would be to think and reflect more... Lees meer
The Flexible Phenotype attempts a true synthesis of physiology, behaviour, and ecology by developing an empirical argument that describes the intimate connections between phenotypes and their environments... Lees meer
The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold war international society is the subject of this book... Lees meer
Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi, one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy, argues that the explosive developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is changing the answer to these fundamental human questions... Lees meer
This comprehensive and systematic text approaches the Bible from a literary/historical perspective and studies it as a body of writing produced by real people who intended to convey messages to real audiences... Lees meer
What is art history? Why, how, and where did it originate, and how have its methods changed over time? The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity... Lees meer
Psychopaths have emotional and rational impairments that can be expressed in persistent criminal behaviour... Lees meer
One of the key scientific challenges is the puzzle of human cooperation. Why do people cooperate? Why do people help strangers, even sometimes at a major cost to themselves? Why do people want to punish people who violate norms and undermine collective interests? This book is inspired by the fact that social dilemmas, defined in terms of conflicts between (often short-term) self-interest and (often longer-term) collective interest, are omnipresent... Lees meer
Early Modern Italian history has traditionally been presented in the context of the absence of a unified Italian state, foreign domination and of relative decline to former wealth and power... Lees meer
It is hard to avoid seeing ethnicity, race, or nationality wherever one looks. Differences in education, income, and health are often patterned along ethnic or racial lines... Lees meer
The Institutions of the European Union is the key text for anyone wishing to understand the functions, powers, and composition of the EU's institutions... Lees meer
There is no up-to-date book on estuarine biology, and nothing at all that deals with marine soft shores as well as estuarine ones... Lees meer
Not everything is black and white. Our daily lives are full of vagueness or fuzziness. Language is the most obvious example - for instance, when we describe someone as tall, it is as though there is a particular height beyond which a person can be considered 'tall'... Lees meer
Sample materials available from the English File website. Lees meer
This edited text provides an international perspective on leadership and management roles and their relationship to improvement within educational institutions... Lees meer
The East-West struggle for supremacy from 1945 to 1989 shaped the lives of hundreds of millions and brought the world to the brink of disaster on several occasions... Lees meer
Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes. Government agents shot the president... Lees meer
Bas C. van Fraassen presents an original exploration of how we represent the world. Science represents natural phenomena by means of theories, as well as in many concrete ways by such means as pictures, graphs, table-top models, and computer simulations... Lees meer