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  • Explaining Understanding

    New Perspectives from Epistemology and Philosophy of Science

    What does it mean to understand something? What types of understanding can be distinguished? Is understanding always provided by explanations? And how is it related to knowledge? Such questions have attracted considerable interest in epistemology recently. These discussions, however, have not yet engaged insights about explanations and theories developed in philosophy of science. Conversely, ... Read more

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  • TechnoScienceSociety

    Technological Reconfigurations of Science and Society

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book introduces the term of TechnoScienceSociety to focus on the ongoing technological reconfigurations of science and society. It aspires to use the breadth of Science and Technology Studies to perform a critical diagnosis of our contemporary culture. Instead of constructing technology as society’s “other”, the book sets out to highlight the both complex and ambivalent entanglements of ... Read more

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  • Studies on Language Norms in Context

    Series Book 117 - DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
    This book deepens the insight into the setting and monitoring of language norms in different contexts. One focus lies on institutional contexts, in which the authors examine standardization, language policy and the implementation of usage norms. In the context of language learning, the authors investigate cognitive strategies of L2 norm construction by initial learners, L2 norms in grammars as ... Read more

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  • Governing Future Technologies

    Nanotechnology and the Rise of an Assessment Regime

    Series series History (R0)
    Nanotechnology has been the subject of extensive ‘assessment hype,’ unlike any previous field of research and development. A multiplicity of stakeholders have started to analyze the implications of nanotechnology: Technology assessment institutions around the world, non-governmental organizations, think tanks, re-insurance companies, and academics from science and technology studies and applied ... Read more

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  • Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 1

    Short Philosophical Essays

    Series series The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer
    With the publication of the Parerga and Paralipomena in 1851, there finally came some measure of the fame that Schopenhauer thought was his due. Described by Schopenhauer himself as 'incomparably more popular than everything up till now', the Parerga is a miscellany of essays addressing themes that complement his work The World as Will and Representation, along with more divergent, speculative ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Interventions for Reading Problems

    Designing and Evaluating Effective Strategies

    Series series The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series
    This user-friendly guide has been thoroughly revised to reflect significant changes in the way schools deliver reading instruction and intervention, especially for students at risk for reading failure. Step-by-step strategies target key areas of literacy development: phonological awareness, fluency, and comprehension. Particular emphasis is placed on scientifically based practices that do not ... Read more

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  • The Founders Unmasked

    Series series True History
    **"Its power to spark important conversations should not be underestimated." —Booklist"A powerful series that fills in the cracks and illuminates the shadows of the past." —Sherri L. Smith, award-winning author of Flygirl"[Jennifer Sabin] does a concise, coherent job of breaking down complicated material … an important title for students and an immensely useful resource for educators." —School ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • A New History of Immigration

    Series series True History
    **"An accessible and frank primer on immigration in the United States. [A] much-needed exploration of the truths behind U.S. immigration history." -- STARRED REVIEW, School Library JournalIntroducing a new nonfiction series that uncovers hidden histories of the United States.**The true story of a nation of immigrants and its dreamers.The United States has long been touted as a place where anyone ... Read more

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  • Death as Metamorphosis of Life

    Including “What Does the Angel Do in Our Astral Body?” & “How Do I Find Christ?” (CW 182)

    Translated by Sabine Seiler ...
    Series Book 182 - The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner series will eventually collect all of Rudolf Steiner's works translated into English—many for the first time—into an attractive and uniform set of his written and spoken words.
    7 Lectures, various cities, Nov. 29, 1917-Oct. 16, 1918 (CW 182)"Death as Metamorphosis of Life is a brilliant, exceptional collection. The lectures are intimate, existential, profound, and transformative: they address us in our soul lives--where we live, and where we strive for spiritual experience.... They make clear the necessary and living bond that must unite the inner work of ... Read more

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  • Alexandre Lamfalussy

    The Wise Man of the Euro

    Het verhaal van de euro, verteld door een van de grondleggers In 1949 komt een jonge Hongaarse immigrant in België aan met enkele dollars op zak. Op de vlucht voor het communisme, studeert Alexandre Lamfalussy economie in Leuven. Hij slaagt erin zich op te werken tot voorzitter van het Directiecomité van de Bank van Brussel, wordt een van de vaders van de euro en een internationaal gewaardeerd ... Read more

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  • Electrical Energy Storage for Buildings in Smart Grids

    Current developments in the renewable energy field, and the trend toward self-production and self-consumption of energy, has led to increased interest in the means of storing electrical energy; a key element of sustainable development.This book provides an in-depth view of the environmentally responsible energy solutions currently available for use in the building sector. It highlights the ... Read more

    $174.99 CAD

  • The Logos-Structure of the World

    Language as Model of Reality

    "The aim of this book is to show that the world, including human beings and their consciousness, is not originally a world of thing but a world of words; that fundamentally the world has the structure of a text; and that it is therefore possible to read it like a test." -- Georg KühlewindTo realize this goal, one must bear in mind three different approaches, or disciplines: epistemology, ... Read more

    $11.26 CAD