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  • A Philosophical History of the Concept

    Edited by Stephan Schmid, Hamid Taieb ...
    The concept of concept plays a central role in philosophy, serving both as a subject of study in disciplines such as logic, epistemology, and philosophy of mind, and as a methodologically central notion for those who think that philosophy is essentially concerned with analysing, deconstructing, developing, or ameliorating concepts. But what exactly are concepts, and why have they become so ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Grounding in Medieval Philosophy

    Edited by Calvin G. Normore, Stephan Schmid ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a selection of 13 case studies on how the notion of grounding helps illuminate philosophical discussions of our past with a special focus on debates of the Middle Ages. It thereby makes not only the case that the notion of grounding, which has become so widely debated in analytic metaphysics, has a long and venerable tradition, but also shows that this tradition has a lot to teach ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Small Electric Vehicles

    An International View on Light Three- and Four-Wheelers

    Edited by Amelie Ewert, Stephan Schmid, Mascha Brost, Huw Davies, Luc Vinckx ...
    This edited open access book gives a comprehensive overview of small and lightweight electric three- and four-wheel vehicles with an international scope. The present status of small electric vehicle (SEV) technologies, the market situation and main hindering factors for market success as well as options to attain a higher market share including new mobility concepts are highlighted. An increased ... Read more

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  • Trends in Phonetics and Phonology

    Studies from German-speaking Europe

    Edited by Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, Stephan Schmid, Volker Dellwo ...
    This volume was inspired by the 9th edition of the Phonetik & Phonologie conference, held in Zurich in October 2013. It includes state of the art research on phonetics and phonology in various languages and from interdisciplinary contributors. The volume is structured into the following eight sections: segmentals, suprasegmentals, articulation in spoken and sign language, perception, phonology, ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Death Does Not Exist

    What Science and Spirituality Can Teach Us About the Afterlife

    by Stéphane Allix ...
    Translated by Gretchen Schmid ...
    This provocative international bestseller follows the trail blazed by Raymond Moody's Life After Life, revealing what happens after we die, weaving first-hand experience with emerging scientific discoveries.Death does not exist.When we die, we don’t stop living. We change worlds.What happens when we die? What happens to our consciousness? Does it outlive brain death? Those pressing and eternal ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Reframing Global Social Policy

    Social Investment for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

    by Tim Jackson, Jane Jenson, James Midgley, Robin Webster, Anton Hemerijck, Laia Maynou Pujorlas, Guillem López-Casasnovas, Jon Kvist, Marius R. Busemeyer, Giuliano Bonoli, Gunther Schmid, Stephan Klasen, Huck-ju Kwon, Cook Cook ...
    Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth together with internationally renowned contributors propose that the merging of the ‘social investment’ and ‘inclusive growth and development’ agendas is forging an unprecedented global social policy framework. The book shows how these key ideas together with the environmental imperative of ‘sustainability’ are shaping a new global development agenda.This ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

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  • Logic

    The Question of Truth

    by Martin Heidegger ...
    Translated by Thomas Sheehan ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    Heidegger's radical thinking on the meaning of truth in a "clear and comprehensive critical edition" ( Philosophy in Review).Martin Heidegger's 1925–26 lectures on truth and time provided much of the basis for his momentous work, Being and Time. Not published until 1976—three months before Heidegger's death—as volume 21 of his Complete Works, it is nonetheless central to Heidegger's overall ... Read more

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  • AM Envelope

    The potential of Additive Manufacturing for facade constructions

    by Holger Strauss ...
    This book shows the potential of Additive Manufacturing (AM) for the development of building envelopes: AM will change the way of designing facades, how we engineer and produce them. To achieve today’s demands from those future envelopes, we have to find new solutions.The term ‘AM Envelope’ (Additive Manufacturing Envelope) describes the transfer of this technology to the building envelope. ... Read more

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  • The Geometry of Meaning

    Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces

    by Peter Gardenfors ...
    A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be described in terms of geometric structures.In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter Gärdenfors proposes a theory of semantics that bridges cognitive science and linguistics and shows how theories of cognitive processes, in particular concept formation, can be exploited in a general semantic model. He argues that our ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Life After Life

    The Bestselling Original Investigation That Revealed "Near-Death Experiences"

    by Raymond Moody ...
    “It is research like Dr. Moody presents in his book that will enlighten many and confirm what we have been taught for two thousand years—that there is life after death.”– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., author of On Death and DyingThe groundbreaking classic that revolutionized our understanding of Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) and the mysteries of what lies beyond—AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WITH ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Inequality

    A New Zealand Crisis

    Edited by Max Rashbrooke ...
    The divide between New Zealand’s poorest and wealthiest inhabitants has widened alarmingly over recent decades. Differences in income have grown faster than in most other developed countries.New Zealand society is being reshaped, stretching to accommodate new distance between those who ‘have’ and those who ‘have not’. Income inequality is a crisis that affects us all.A diverse gathering of New ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Reinventing the Automobile

    Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century

    by William J. Mitchell, Chris E. Borroni-Bird, Lawrence D. Burns ...
    How to leave behind our unwieldy, gas-guzzling, carbon dioxide–emitting vehicles for cars that are green, smart, connected, and fun.This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still ... Read more

    $18.99 USD