Assumption – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

Hadar Aviram
Behind Ancient Bars

In Behind Ancient Bars, law professor and rabbinical student Hadar Aviram challenges the conventional assumption that incarceration is an artifact of modernity by looking back to depictions of detention a…

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Robert C Bishop
Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Understanding the deepest issues in the philosophy of social science means understanding the personal and cultural biases social scientists cannot help but bring to their research.This introduction is ess…

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Benjamin Straumann
The Just State

Why should we engage with ideas about politics from hundreds or thousands of years ago? Why not just focus on what historical figures actually did, rather than on what they thought? How can Greek and Roma…

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Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
Medieval Finitism

Discussing various versions of two medieval arguments for the impossibility of infinity, this Element sheds light on early stages of the evolution of the notion of INFINITIES OF DIFFERENT SIZES. The first…

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2G Essays / Fernanda Canales. My House, Your City. Privacy in a Shared World

The award-winning Mexican architect analyses two centuries of evolution of the built element with the greatest impact on the planet: the house. Including 110 coloured illustrations.In this study, Fernanda…

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Leo R Chavez
The Latino Threat

"News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, both U.S.-born and immigrants, are an invading force bent on destroying the American way of life. Leo R. Chavez challenges t…

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Conversations on Humanity and Creativity

How does hip hop relate to religion, what does it tell us about the human desire for meaning? What do the visual arts tell us about our quest for place, human connection, and for a sense of meaning that i…

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Donna Crowe-Urbaniak
Autonomy and Agency in Family Justice

This book investigates the privately negotiated financial arrangements made by divorcing couples where no legal advice or financial orders were sought .It calls for a re-evaluation of the assumptions of a…

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Justin Smith-Ruiu
On Drugs

In the wake of a personal loss and the upheaval of the pandemic, Justin Smith-Ruiu found himself at a California cannabis dispensary, pondering a profound question: Who am I and how did I get here?On Drug…

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Madeleine Albright
Fascism

The twentieth century was defined by the clash between democracy and Fascism, a struggle that created uncertainty about the survival of human freedom and left millions dead. Given these horrors, one might…

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Cressida Auckland
Values and Disorder in Mental Capacity Law

This book draws on the disciplines of law, philosophy, and psychiatry to interrogate whether the Mental Capacity Act 2005 meets the challenges posed by mental disorder to decision-making. It is often assu…

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Ugo Pagallo
A Theory of Legal Monsters: Repression, Resistance, Rebellion

Philosophical Studies Series - Band 161

The monograph provides coverage of an extensive history of Western thought by distinguishing two kinds of 'legal monsters': those as objects of legal regulations, as well as those as a source of criticism…

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Chris Walton
Music and Desire among the Austro-German Romantics

Investigates the composition and reception of works by key Romantics such as Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Wagner and the Schumanns with attention to the role of sexual desire in the composers' lives and m…

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Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
Medieval Finitism

Discussing various versions of two medieval arguments for the impossibility of infinity, this Element sheds light on early stages of the evolution of the notion of INFINITIES OF DIFFERENT SIZES. The first…

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A Revolution in Colour

This major volume aims to re-colour the European world of dress, c.1300-1800. New dyes created one of the most important visual experiences of the period, yet their story has been side-lined by a focus on…

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Jessica Barr
Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about union with God and as the end of life on earth.For medieval Christians, only death could…

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Stephan Schleim
Science and Free Will

Free will is one of the most discussed topics in neuroscience, psychology and philosophy. Many even assume that our view of human nature and our social order are at stake. This book shows that the academi…

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Peter Dear
The World as We Know It

From the award-winning author of Revolutionizing the Sciences, a monumental historical account of how we came to see the world through the lens of scienceScience is the basis of our assumptions about ours…

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Andrew Brandel, Perig Pitrou, Sandra Laugier, Veena Das
A Matter of Detail

A Matter of Detail inspires new ways of thinking about detail by bringing anthropology, philosophy, art history, and aesthetics into direct conversation. Co-editors Brandel, Das, Laugier, and Pitrou chall…

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Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh
Wilhelm I as German Emperor

This book offers the first-ever scholarly study of Wilhelm I as Germany's first Kaiser. For decades, Wilhelm has been dismissed by historians as a political nullity and an unwilling imperial figurehead, w…

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