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  • US FOR THEM
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    US FOR THEM
    AUSTIN FISCHER
    Us versus them--it's one of the oldest stories ever told, and we keep finding new ways to tell it.The conservative versus progressive cultural holy war over social justice, reconciliation, unity, and politics is the most recent version of the story, and our lives are increasingly defined by it. Which side are you on? Do you want justice or friendship? Diversity or unity? Victor...

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  • WHAT DO WE OWE OTHER ANIMALS?
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    WHAT DO WE OWE OTHER ANIMALS?
    BOB FISCHER / ANJA JAUERNIG
    Philosophers Bob Fischer and Anja Jauernig agree that human society often treats animals in indefensible ways and that all animals morally matter; they disagree on whether humans and animals morally matter equally. In What Do We Owe Other Animals?: A Debate, Fischer and Jauernig square off over this central question in animal ethics. Jauernig defends the view that all living be...

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  • FORWARD IN THE FOG
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    FORWARD IN THE FOG
    LORI D. FISCHER
    When Lori's musician son Joe first mentioned numbness in two of his fingers, she didn't think much of it. But as days passed and he was hit with a crippling migraine and relentless nausea, her concern deepened. Then came a doctor's devastating diagnosis: "Brain cancer . . . aggressive . . . inoperable . . . twelve-to-fifteen months." Join Lori on an emotional journey through lo...

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  • SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO LIVE FOREVER?
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    SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO LIVE FOREVER?
    STEPHEN CAVE / JOHN MARTIN FISCHER
    In this book, Stephen Cave and John Martin Fischer debate whether or not we should choose to live forever. This ancient question is as topical as ever: while billions of people believe they will live forever in an otherworldly realm, billions of dollars are currently being poured into anti-ageing research in the hope that we will be able to radically extend our lives on earth. ...

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  • INTERNATIONAL TRADE, LABOR RELATIONS, AND BARGAINING POWER
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    INTERNATIONAL TRADE, LABOR RELATIONS, AND BARGAINING POWER
    MATTHEW M. FISCHER-DALY
    International Trade, Labor Relations, and Bargaining Power: International Strawberry Commodity Networks examines power in the commercial food system through the history of always available strawberries. Applying an interdisciplinary approach to case studies on strawberry production and sales in Mexico, Spain, and the United States, the author untangles the symbiotic relationshi...

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  • VEGETARIANISM, MEAT AND MODERNITY IN INDIA
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    VEGETARIANISM, MEAT AND MODERNITY IN INDIA
    JOHAN FISCHER
    Never before in human history have vegetarianism and a plant-based economy been so closely associated with sustainability and the promise of tackling climate change. Nowhere is this phenomenon more visible than in India, which is home to the largest number of vegetarians globally and where vegetarianism is intrinsic to Hinduism. India is often considered a global model for vege...

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  • NARRATING SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH STORYTELLING
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    NARRATING SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH STORYTELLING
    DANIEL FISCHER
    Stories and narratives are powerful tools for explaining the world around us. This book explores storytelling as a way of engaging audiences with sustainable development issues and reflects on the opportunities and limitations of storytelling for sustainability as an innovative approach to sustainability communication. Bringing together voices and perspectives from research and...

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  • EMOTION PICTURES
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    EMOTION PICTURES
    LUCY FISCHER
    This book investigates a group of exceptional films that single-mindedly consider one particular emotion – be it pity, lust, grief, or anxiety – to examine cinematic emotion in depth. Drawing on philosophical and psychological approaches, Fischer’s unique analysis offers unparalleled case studies for comprehending emotion in the movies. The book provides the reader with an oppo...

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  • INTRODUCING THE NEW SEXUALITY STUDIES
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    INTRODUCING THE NEW SEXUALITY STUDIES
    NANCY L. FISCHER
    Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays is an innovative, reader-friendly collection of essays that introduces the field of sexuality studies to undergraduate students. Examining the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of sexuality, this collection is designed to serve as a comprehensive yet accessible textbook for sexuality courses at the undergraduate l...

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  • COMPUTATIONAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE
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    COMPUTATIONAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE
    CHARLOTTE FROESE-FISCHER / TOMAS BRAGE / PER JONSSON
    Computational Atomic Structure: An MCHF Approach deals with the field of computational atomic structure, specifically with the multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock (MCHF) approach and the manner in which this approach is used in modern physics. Beginning with an introduction to computational algorithms and procedures for atomic physics, the book describes the theory underlying nonre...

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  • SISTEMAS DE INFORMACIÓN DE MERCADOTECNIA
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    SISTEMAS DE INFORMACIÓN DE MERCADOTECNIA
    LAURA ESTELA, FISCHER DE LA VEGA / JORGE ÁNGEL, ESPEJO CALLADO
    Sistemas de información de mercadotecnia de Laura Fischer y Jorge Espejo explica las bases teóricas para comprender y aplicar los métodos cualitativos y cuantitativos de la investigación de mercados, lo que permite obtener información clave para la toma de decisiones. Características de la obra: • Lenguaje claro y sencillo que facilita la comprensión de cada tema. • Aborda te...

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  • ANIMAL ETHICS
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    ANIMAL ETHICS
    BOB FISCHER
    There are many introductions to the animal ethics literature. There aren’t many introductions to the practice of doing animal ethics. Bob Fischer’s Animal Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction fills that gap, offering an accessible model of how animal ethics can be done today. The book takes up classic issues, such as the ethics of eating meat and experimenting on animals, but ta...

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  • THE POWER OF RESPONSIVE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
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    THE POWER OF RESPONSIVE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
    GRZEGORZ MAZURKIEWICZ / JOHN M. FISCHER
    The Power of Responsive Educational Leadership examines how educational leaders might respond to global challenges such as the environment, technology, inequity, the health crisis, and the stability of democracy. It draws on models of educational leadership and development projects from around the world to explore how leaders might use the curriculum and teaching to help move t...

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  • CHAOS, FRACTALS, AND DYNAMICS
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    CHAOS, FRACTALS, AND DYNAMICS
    P. FISCHER
    This book contains eighteen papers, all more-or-less linked to the theory of dynamical systems together with related studies of chaos and fractals. It shows many fractal configurations that were generated by computer calculations of underlying two-dimensional maps. ...

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  • THE CASE FOR YOUTH POLICE INITIATIVE
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    THE CASE FOR YOUTH POLICE INITIATIVE
    NINA ROSE FISCHER
    This book investigates the Youth Police Initiative (YPI) intervention with a comprehensive look at its effects in Boston as well as Brownsville, Brooklyn, a neighborhood that has both rich community networks as well as the highest crime rate in New York City. Based on a phenomenological approach, The Case for Youth Police Initiative: Interdependent Fates and the Power of Peace ...

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  • ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF HETEROSEXUALITIES STUDIES
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    ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF HETEROSEXUALITIES STUDIES
    JAMES JOSEPH DEAN / NANCY L. FISCHER
    While a majority of people identify as "heterosexual" if asked about their sexual identity, what does that really mean? How did identifying as "straight" arise, particularly in relation to identifying as "queer," "lesbian," and "gay"? How are individuals socialized to view themselves and others as straight, even when many people are sexually fluid? How do institutions like gove...

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF ANIMAL ETHICS
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    THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF ANIMAL ETHICS
    BOB FISCHER
    There isn’t one conversation about animal ethics. Instead, there are several important ones that are scattered across many disciplines.This volume both surveys the field of animal ethics and draws professional philosophers, graduate students, and undergraduates more deeply into the discussions that are happening outside of philosophy departments. To that end, the volume contain...

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  • THE ETHICS OF EATING ANIMALS
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    THE ETHICS OF EATING ANIMALS
    BOB FISCHER
    Intensive animal agriculture wrongs many, many animals. Philosophers have argued, on this basis, that most people in wealthy Western contexts are morally obligated to avoid animal products. This book explains why the author thinks that’s mistaken. He reaches this negative conclusion by contending that the major arguments for veganism fail: they don’t establish the right sort of...

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  • COMPUTATIONAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE
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    COMPUTATIONAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE
    CHARLOTTE FROESE-FISCHER
    Computational Atomic Structure: An MCHF Approach deals with the field of computational atomic structure, specifically with the multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock (MCHF) approach and the manner in which this approach is used in modern physics. Beginning with an introduction to computational algorithms and procedures for atomic physics, the book describes the theory underlying nonre...

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  • FROM KAISERREICH TO THIRD REICH
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    FROM KAISERREICH TO THIRD REICH
    FRITZ FISCHER
    Originally published in English in 1986, this book offers a concise summary of the contribution Fritz Fischer and his school made to German historiography in the 20th century and in particular draws attention to continuity in the development and power structures of the German Reich between 1871 and 1945. After 1866 the traditional elites wanted to avoid fundamental changes in s...

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  • WAVES, PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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    WAVES, PARTICLES AND FIELDS
    ANTHONY C. FISCHER-CRIPPS
    Choice Outstanding Title, September 2020 This book fills a gap in the middle ground between quantum mechanics of a single electron to the concept of a quantum field. In doing so, the book is divided into two parts; the first provides the necessary background to quantum theory extending from Planck’s formulation of black body radiation to Schrodinger’s equation; and the second p...

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  • POLITICS, VALUES, AND PUBLIC POLICY
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    POLITICS, VALUES, AND PUBLIC POLICY
    FRANK FISCHER
    Addressed to the growing concerns about norms and values in policy assessment, this study develops a methodology for the political evaluation of public policy. It is designed to move policy evaluation beyond its current emphasis on efficient achievement of goals, focusing instead on the assessment of the acceptability of the goals themselves, emplo ...

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  • SHI'ISM, RESISTANCE, AND REVOLUTION
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    SHI'ISM, RESISTANCE, AND REVOLUTION
    MARTIN KRAMER / SHAUL BAKHASH / CLINTON BAILEY / MICHAEL M J FISCHER
    The recent revival of interest in the Muslim world has generated numerous studies of modern Islam, most of them focusing on the Sunni majority. Shi'ism, an often stigmatized minority branch of Islam, has been discussed mainly in connection with Iran. Yet Shi'i movements have been extraordinarily effective in creating political strategies that have ...

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  • EASTERN EUROPE IN THE 1980S
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    EASTERN EUROPE IN THE 1980S
    STEPHEN FISCHER-GALATI
    This book believes that the Soviet Union will not relax its stranglehold and will continue to dominate Eastern Europe's cultural, social, and economic policies. It assesses the contemporary state of affairs in Eastern Europe from an historical perspective. ...

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  • CAPITAL-INTENSIVE INDUSTRIES IN NEWLY INDUSTRIALIZING COUNTRIES
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    CAPITAL-INTENSIVE INDUSTRIES IN NEWLY INDUSTRIALIZING COUNTRIES
    BERNHARD FISCHER
    This study focuses on the problems and prospects of the automobile and the steel industries contributing to Brazilian economy in the international division of labour. It gives insights on importance of the competing hypotheses on the manufactured export performance of these industries. ...

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  • SPATIAL ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GIS
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    SPATIAL ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GIS
    MANFRED FISCHER, HENK J. SCHOLTEN AND DAVID UNWIN
    The ability to manipulate spatial data in different forms and to extract additional meaning from them is at the heart of GIS, yet genuine spatial analysis tools are rarely incorporated into commercial software, thus seriously limiting their usefulness. The future of GIS technology wil depend largely on the incorporation of more powerful analytical and modelling functions - and ...

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  • TECPAN GUATEMALA
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    TECPAN GUATEMALA
    EDWARD F FISCHER / CAROL HENDRICKSON
    This book discusses the indigenous people of Tecpan Guatemala, a predominantly Kaqchikel Maya town in the Guatemalan highlands. It seeks to build on the traditional strengths of ethnography while rejecting overly romantic and isolationist tendencies in the genre. ...

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  • INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF THE LEARNING SCIENCES
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    INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF THE LEARNING SCIENCES
    FRANK FISCHER
    The International Handbook of the Learning Sciences is a comprehensive collection of international perspectives on this interdisciplinary field. In more than 50 chapters, leading experts synthesize past, current, and emerging theoretical and empirical directions for learning sciences research. The three sections of the handbook capture, respectively: foundational contributions ...

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  • THE TRADITION OF THE ACTOR-AUTHOR IN ITALIAN THEATRE
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    THE TRADITION OF THE ACTOR-AUTHOR IN ITALIAN THEATRE
    DONATELLA FISCHER
    "The central importance of the actor-author is a distinctive feature of Italian theatrical life, in all its eclectic range of regional cultures and artistic traditions. The fascination of the figure is that he or she stands on both sides of one of theatre's most important power relationships: between the exhilarating freedom of performance and the austere restriction of authors...

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  • IL TEATRO DI EDUARDO DE FILIPPO
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    IL TEATRO DI EDUARDO DE FILIPPO
    DONATELLA FISCHER
    "Eduardo De Filippo (1900-1984) e uno dei maggiori drammaturghi del novecento. Nel suo teatro, la famiglia rappresenta il punto nevralgico della societa. Attraverso quest'unita archetipica, le opere qui considerate si propongono come un lungo esame dei rapporti familiari e sono, al contempo, il barometro dei mutamenti sociali e culturali delle diverse epoche in cui si svolge l'...

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