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The literature on the work of Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) abounds in specialized studies of various aspects of his philosophy - that is, transcendental phenomenology. Yet there have been few attempts t
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Making American Government Work argues that divided responsibility and fragmented power in American government have made it unworkable. The author claims the only solution to this problem is to reinvi
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Gombert's (psychology, U. of Bourgogne, France) review and analysis of what is known about metacognitive processes in relation to language is here translated from the French edition of 1990 (Presses U
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Sally, now 25, is comfortably settled with her child, Harriet, her work, and her London friends. But when a complete stranger claims to be both her husband and Harriet's father, Sally's whole world co
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The Japanese constitution as revised by General MacArthur in 1946, while generally regarded to be an outstanding basis for a liberal democracy, is at the same time widely considered to be—in its Japan
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The purpose of this book is to take a fresh look at play structure from the Greeks to the present. The author approaches this task by comparing theories with plays instead of merely studying plays in
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Contributors from around the world offer wide-ranging (and sometimes controversial) discussions of the state of research in photocatalysis. Emphasis is on the surface science of catalysis, especially
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For over half a century Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), one of the original masters of the Bauhaus, did pioneering work in all of the fine and applied arts. This is the first book to present a comprehensiv
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Challenging the sentimentalized and moralized view of comedy that prevails in modern criticism, Christopher Herbert outlines a theory of comedy as a mode whose dominant motive and function is the glor
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Compiled and edited by a board of distinguished educators, this single-volume encyclopedia contains vital information on the world's greatest literary masterpieces-and is an essential reference source
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