In clear, accessible and engaging style Thought: The Basics gets to grips with the nature of human thought with just the right balance of theory and examples from philosophy, psychology and neuroscience. Ideal for anyone coming to this fascinating but deceptively difficult topic for the first time.
This book explores the potential for conflict between international trade and international environmental treaties by assessing the relationship between WTO Agreements and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. It will be useful to scholars of international economic law, international environmental law and public international law.
This book deals with a careful presentation of the principles on which the physical problems are based and the mathematical treatment of the problems. The fundamental solution is used as in classical potential theory to construct solutions to initial and certain boundary value problems for the linear Stokes equations.
This handbook presents a thorugh introduction to current topics of mathematical research in combinatorial algebraic geometry. Aimed at graduate students researching algebraic combinatorics and Lie theory, and experts in the field and Mathematicians looking for a centralized reference on the geometry and combinatorics of flag varieties.
Through a concise and accessible overview, Economic Geography: The Basics examines how geographical concepts – place, space, territory, networks, and scale – enable the study of economic phenomena from a spatial perspective.
This timely book explores the concept of truth in the discipline of history and argues that history education must evolve to combat the post-truth crisis. This book is essential reading for history educators, historians and those interested in history and concerned about the slide into a post-truth world.
This volume is concerned with Lock Hospitals and Magdalen Asylums in England in the nineteenth century. The volume is organised around five sections: Lock Hospitals, Magdalen Asylums, medical and reform texts, Acts and legal texts, and newspapers and journal articles.
In its third edition, this book is the founding title of the Grammenos Library. The diversity of the subjects covered in this book remains unique and is the result of research developed over many years. The chapters are not only comprehensive in their coverage, but also have important implications on real life issues in maritime business.
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics in Europe is an outstanding reference source to this engaging subject area. The relationships between religion and politics are recognised as central to
This book fills a lacuna in the English-language literature dealing with Norway and the Holocaust by focusing on how Norwegian Jews and those who facilitated their rescue remembered the experience of
This volume offers a multidisciplinary reassessment of women’s intellectual, spiritual, and artistic contributions during the Enlightenment, challenging their place in dominant historical, theological
This volume explores the connections between the phenomenology of self-awareness and the metaphysical nature of subjects of experience, bringing together two important research areas in contemporary p
This book is designed to provide arts and cultural administrators with an overview of the most pressing elements of human resource management for arts and cultural institutions.
Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare provides critical analysis of the most important moments of hospitality or its denial in Shakespeare’s plays, situating them historically in order to fully explor
The Acquisition of French as a Second Language: A Research Overview is the first text to present, in one place, a comprehensive, systematic overview of research on the acquisition of French as a secon
Examining the role of vision, imagination, love, goodness and transcendence in Murdoch's work The Moral Philosophy of Iris Murdoch presents a compelling and original argument that she is one of the ma
The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Immigration is an outstanding reference source to this vitally important topic and will be of great interest to those studying philosophy, politics and related
