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  • CRIME, SCIENCE AND POLICING
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    CRIME, SCIENCE AND POLICING
    GLORIA LAYCOCK
    This book offers an introduction to crime science; it is specifically for police and security professionals. Written by one of the founders of crime science and an expert in crime reduction, it considers the unique characteristics of the approach, its applicability to the control of crime, disorder and terrorism, and the importance of experimentation and the testing of new idea...

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  • SUSTAINABILITY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
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    SUSTAINABILITY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
    JEFFRY L. RAMSEY
    This book demonstrates how the philosophy of science can enhance our understanding of sustainability and the practices we use to enact it. Examining assumptions about concepts, theories, evidence, and the moral ideals of sustainability can better orient us as we pursue this urgent and important goal. The book applies perspectives and tools from the philosophy of science – const...

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  • ICARUS OR THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE
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    ICARUS OR THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Mr. Haldane's Daedalus has set forth an attractive picture of the future as it may become through the use of scientific discoveries to promote human happiness. Much as I should like to agree with his forecast, a long experience of statesmen and governments has made me somewhat sceptical. I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups, r...

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  • A PHILOSOPHY FOR THE SCIENCE OF ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS
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    A PHILOSOPHY FOR THE SCIENCE OF ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS
    WALTER VEIT
    This book attempts to advance Donald Griffin's vision of the "final, crowning chapter of the Darwinian revolution" by developing a philosophy for the science of animal consciousness. It advocates a Darwinian bottom-up approach that treats consciousness as a complex, evolved, and multidimensional phenomenon in nature rather than a mysterious all-or-nothing property immune to the...

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  • THE AESTHETICS OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS
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    THE AESTHETICS OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS
    The relationship between aesthetics and science has begun to generate substantial interest. However, for the most part, the focus has been on the beauty of theories, and other aspects of scientific practice have been neglected. This book offers a novel perspective on aesthetics in experimentation via ten original essays from an interdisciplinary group comprised of philosophers,...

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  • SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING AND REPRESENTATION
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    SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING AND REPRESENTATION
    This volume assembles cutting-edge scholarship on scientific understanding, scientific representation, and their delicate interplay. Featuring several articles in an engaging ‘critical conversation’ format, the volume integrates discussions about understanding and representation with perennial issues in the philosophy of science, including the nature of scientific knowledge, id...

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  • NEW PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS
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    NEW PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS
    YAFENG SHAN
    This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of scientific progress, which has been a central topic in recent debates in philosophy of science. Traditionally, debates over scientific progress have focused on different methodological approaches, notably the epistemic and semantic approaches. The chapters in Part I of the book examine these two traditiona...

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  • THE INTERNET AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
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    THE INTERNET AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
    EDITED BY WENCESLAO J. GONZALEZ
    From the perspective of the philosophy of science, this book analyzes the Internet conceived in a broad sense. It includes three layers that require philosophical attention: (1) the technological infrastructure, (2) the Web, and (3) cloud computing, along with apps and mobile Internet. The study focuses on the network of networks from the viewpoint of complexity, both structura...

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  • RECONSIDERATION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY I
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    RECONSIDERATION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY I
    LIU DACHUN / WANG BOLU / DING JUNQIANG / LIU YONGMOU
    This volume analyzes Karl Marx’s understanding of science and technology and how it is associated with his focus on the perspective of history and human practice, seeking to illuminate a renewed understanding of science and technology from a Marxist angle. As the first volume of a three-volume set that proposes to reconsider science and technology and explores how the philosoph...

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  • THE FOUNDATIONS OF SPACETIME PHYSICS
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    THE FOUNDATIONS OF SPACETIME PHYSICS
    ANTONIO VASSALLO
    This book provides an up-to-date overview of the foundations of spacetime physics. It features original essays written by world-class experts in the physics and philosophy of spacetime. The foundational questions regarding the origin and nature of spacetime are branching into new and exciting directions. These questions are not restricted to the quantum gravity program but also...

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  • THE TOOLS OF NEUROSCIENCE EXPERIMENT
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    THE TOOLS OF NEUROSCIENCE EXPERIMENT
    This volume establishes the conceptual foundation for sustained investigation into tool development in neuroscience. Neuroscience relies on diverse and sophisticated experimental tools, and its ultimate explanatory target—our brains and hence the organ driving our behaviors—catapults the investigation of these research tools into a philosophical spotlight. The chapters in this ...

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  • INFORMATION AND THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
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    INFORMATION AND THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
    In recent years the philosophy of information has emerged as an important area of research in philosophy. However, until now information’s philosophical history has been largely overlooked. Information and the History of Philosophy is the first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical questions around information, including work from before the Common Era to ...

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  • INFORMATION AND THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
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    INFORMATION AND THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
    AUTHOR
    In recent years the philosophy of information has emerged as an important area of research in philosophy. However, until now information’s philosophical history has been largely overlooked. Information and the History of Philosophy is the first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical questions around information, including work from before the Common Era to ...

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  • LIVING TECHNOLOGY
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    LIVING TECHNOLOGY
    ARMIN GRUNWALD
    The boundaries between inanimate technology and the realm of the living become increasingly blurred. Deeper and deeper technological interventions into living organisms are possible, covering the entire spectrum of life from bacteria to humans. Simultaneously, digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) enable increasingly autonomous technologies. Inanimate technologies suc...

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  • SCIENCE, FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY
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    SCIENCE, FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY
    AUTHOR
    This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research. The chapters explore how these values mutually reinforce or conflict with one another, in both historical and contemporary contexts. The contributors utilize various approaches to address this timely subject, including historical studies, phil...

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  • SUSTAINABILITY: THE BASICS
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    SUSTAINABILITY: THE BASICS
    PETER JACQUES
    Sustainability is a pressing concern for people and governments around the world, but it is also an essentially contested concept that requires an understanding of the stakes, trade-offs, and complex politics at play. Sustainability: The Basics offers an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to the concept, and discusses key questions such as: What are the core principl...

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  • PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
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    PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
    WANG WEI
    The book is a translation of the second edition of a much-used and research-based Chinese textbook. As a succinct and issue-based introduction to the Western philosophy of science, the book brings eight focal issues in the field to the fore and augments each topic by incorporating Chinese perspectives. Followed by an overview of the historical framework and logical underpinning...

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  • MYTH, CHAOS, AND CERTAINTY
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    MYTH, CHAOS, AND CERTAINTY
    ROSOLINO BUCCHERI
    This book offers a study of the three evolutions in a circle (cosmos, life, and knowledge) with the aim of discussing human social behavior, a metaphor of the general behavior of nature (from which man derives) within the fluctuating equilibrium between the opposite tendencies to cohesion and shredding; a circularity revealing an indefinite and probably never conclusive run-up ...

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  • WEATHER: SPACES, MOBILITIES AND AFFECTS
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    WEATHER: SPACES, MOBILITIES AND AFFECTS
    KAYA BARRY / MARIA BOROVNIK / TIM EDENSOR
    This book delves into the everyday spaces, diverse mobilities and affective potency of weather. It presents cutting-edge research into the multiplicity of weather phenomena and analyses the lived experiences of humans in conjunction with contemporary issues, notably climate change. The book considers how everyday experiences of weather in the mundane lives of people are linked ...

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  • NON-REPRESENTATIONAL THEORY
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    NON-REPRESENTATIONAL THEORY
    PAUL SIMPSON
    Non-representational Theory explores a range of ideas which have recently engaged geographers and have led to the development of an alternative approach to the conception, practice, and production of geographic knowledge. Non-representational Theory refers to a key body of work that has emerged in geography over the past two and a half decades that emphasizes the importance of ...

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  • MANAGING INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
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    MANAGING INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
    W. GERARD RYAN
    This book provides a comprehensive overview and examination of the international aspect of Events Management and the many challenges and complications that arise in the planning and delivery specifically of cross-border and cross-cultural events. Authored by a current academic and ex-practitioner in the field, this book boasts an excellent balance of theory with practical advic...

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  • OPIUM POPPY
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    OPIUM POPPY
    L. KAPOOR
    Here is an in-depth examination of the opium poppy--the first medicinal plant known to mankind. In Opium Poppy: Botany, Chemistry, and Pharmacology, author L. D. Kapoor provides readers with a comprehensive resource on poppy production from seed to alkaloid. He explores the opium poppy?s origin, distribution, chemistry, and uses and abuses from ancient civilizations through the...

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  • GENE THERAPY
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    GENE THERAPY
    DAVID N. COOPER / ‎N. R. LEMOINE
    Gene Therapy describes the delivery systems now available to target a given tissue with specific gene or oligonucleotide sequences, and explores the utility of animal modules as test systems. In the context of selected disease states, it summarises in vitro and in vivo studies and clinical trials performed to date. ...

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  • IMMIGRANT FACULTY IN THE ACADEMY
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    IMMIGRANT FACULTY IN THE ACADEMY
    MARIELA A. RODRÍGUEZ / MAYSAA BARAKAT
    This edited volume shares the diverse experiences of immigrant professors in the United States. Chapters provide insight for educators in academia seeking deeper understanding of issues of identity and intersectionality, assimilation and integration, culture and its different manifestations, accent and the politics of language, and hegemonic systems and structures. Blending aut...

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  • PHILOSOPHY'S NATURE: HUSSERL'S PHENOMENOLOGY, NATURAL SCIENCE, AND METAPHYSICS
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    PHILOSOPHY'S NATURE: HUSSERL'S PHENOMENOLOGY, NATURAL SCIENCE, AND METAPHYSICS
    EMILIANO TRIZIO
    This book offers a systematic interpretation of the relation between natural science and metaphysics in Husserl’s phenomenology. It shows that Husserl’s account of scientific knowledge is a radical alternative to established methods and frameworks in contemporary philosophy of science. The author’s interpretation of Husserl’s philosophy offers a critical reconstruction of the h...

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  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF TOURISM CITIES
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    ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF TOURISM CITIES
    ALASTAIR M. MORRISON / ‎J. ANDRES COCASTEFANIAK
    The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities presents an up-to-date, critical and comprehensive overview of established and emerging themes in urban tourism and tourist cities. Offering socio-cultural perspectives and multidisciplinary insights from leading scholars, the book explores contemporary issues, challenges and trends. Organised into four parts, the handbook begins with an...

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  • MODELS AND MODELING IN THE SCIENCES
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    MODELS AND MODELING IN THE SCIENCES
    STEPHEN M. DOWNES
    Biologists, climate scientists, and economists all rely on models to move their work forward. In this book, Stephen M. Downes explores the use of models in these and other fields to introduce readers to the various philosophical issues that arise in scientific modeling. Readers learn that paying attention to models plays a crucial role in appraising scientific work. This book f...

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  • THE AFRICAN OTHER
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    THE AFRICAN OTHER
    ABRAHAM OLIVIER
    This book provides a much-needed philosophical response to the recurrent postcolonial call to uproot the prevalent workings of the colonial regime, with a close focus on the African context. The work addresses a range of questions concerning the othering of Africans in the postcolonial context, specifically by focusing on the philosophical analysis of problems of justice, the e...

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  • AFFECTEDNESS AND PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
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    AFFECTEDNESS AND PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
    JAN SÄNDIG / ‎JOCHEN VON BERNSTORFF / ‎ANDREAS HASENCLEVER
    Affectedness and Participation in International Institutions looks at the growing involvement of affected persons in global politics, such as young climate activists, indigenous movements, and persons affected by HIV/AIDS. Since the early 2000s, international organisations within various policy areas have increasingly recognised and involved affected persons’ organisations. Thi...

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  • SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES TO COMMON SENSE PHILOSOPHY
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    SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES TO COMMON SENSE PHILOSOPHY
    RIK PEELS
    Common sense philosophy holds that widely and deeply held beliefs are justified in the absence of defeaters. While this tradition has always had its philosophical detractors who have defended various forms of skepticism or have sought to develop rival epistemological views, recent advances in several scientific disciplines claim to have debunked the reliability of the faculties...

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