Mario: 2118 books
South American Free Trade Area or Free Trade Area of the Americas?: Open Regionalism and the Future of Regional Economic Integration in South America
Open Regionalism and the Future of Regional Economic Integration in South America
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This title was first published in 2000: This work examines the hemispheric diplomacy after the Summits of the America in Miami (December 1994) and Santiago (April 1998), focusing on the strengthening of the South American position in the FTAA negotiations and the Brazilian proposal for a South American...
Democratic Anxieties
Same-Sex Marriage, Death, and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Democratic Anxieties: Same-Sex Marriage, Death, and Citizenship proceeds from the surprising parallels between straight and gay opponents of same-sex marriage. With their apocalyptic rhetoric they inadvertently point to a frequently neglected, existential dimension of democratic citizenship. Democratic...
Pourquoi j'ai fondé Le Devoir
Henri Bourassa et son temps
Language: French
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Le 18 novembre 1910, Henri Bourassa se déchaîne dans Le Devoir, qu’il vient de fonder. Il réagit à une lettre que sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier ministre du Canada, a publiée la veille dans La Presse pour défendre un projet de loi. Bourassa accuse Laurier d’être un « collaborateur du journal...
Epistemology of Decision
Rational Choice, Neuroscience and Biological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This book carries out an epistemological analysis of the decision, including a critical analysis through the continuous reference to an interdisciplinary approach including a synthesis of philosophical approaches, biology and neuroscience. Besides this it represents the analysis of causality here seen not from the formal point of view, but from the "embodied" point of view.
Pointing at the Moon
Buddhism, Logic, Analytic Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
This volume collects essays by philosophers and scholars working at the interface of Western philosophy and Buddhist Studies. Many have distinguished scholarly records in Western philosophy, with expertise in analytic philosophy and logic, as well as deep interest in Buddhist philosophy. Others have...
Tito spiato dagli inglesi
I rapporti segreti sulla Jugoslavia 1968-1980
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Marxista duro e puro o grande amico dell’Occidente? Leader carismatico su scala mondiale o dittatore di un paese cardine per gli equilibri tra Est e Ovest? E soprattutto: riuscirà l’ottantenne Josip Broz Tito a mantenere il potere ancora a lungo?
In piena Guerra fredda, tra l’invasione sovietica...
The Nostradamus Prophecies
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
An ancient secret...A deadly conspiracy.
For reader's of Raymond Khoury's The Last Templar, or the works of Dan Brown, this high-octane commercial thriller tells of a hunt for the lost prophecies of Nostradamus and the two men who will do anything to discover their secrets. Nostradamus wrote...
Metal Clusters and Nanoalloys
From Modeling to Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Metallic nanoparticles hold promise for their potential applications in a wide array of disciplines ranging from materials science to medicine. This book brings the power of theoretical methods to an audience of experimentalists, and explicates the simulation of metallic clusters and nanoparticles....
by Mario Waser
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
This book provides the reader with an illustrative overview concerning successful and widely used applications of organocatalysis in the field of natural product synthesis. The main focus will be on organocatalytic key-steps for each (multi-step) synthesis described, whereas other often particularly...
by Mario Alinei
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 3, 2015
In questo libro l’Autore si oppone alla visione tradizionale di un Dante che sarebbe caduto – chissà perché, proprio alla fine dell’apocalittico 1300 (mentre le strade di Firenze si insanguinavano per l’inizio della guerra civile, che proprio lui, ministro del governo in quel momento, cercherà...
by Mario Bunge
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
This is not an introduction to physics but an analysis of its founda tions. Indeed, the aims of this book are: (1) to analyze the form and content of some of the key ideas of physics; (2) to formulate several basic physical theories in an explicit and orderly (i. e. , axiomatic) fashion; (3) to...
by Mario Bunge, Ruben Ardila
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is about some topical philosophical and methodological prob lems that arise in the study of behavior and mind, as well as in the treatment of behavioral and mental disorders. It deals with such questions as 'What is behavior a manifestation of?', 'What is mind, and how is it related to...
Austrian Economics Re-examined
The Economics of Time and Ignorance
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Austrian Economics Re-examined: The Economics of Time and Ignorance is an expanded version of the 1996 edition of The Economics of Time and Ignorance. This work is a classic statement of the role of subjectivism, radical uncertainty and change through real time in Austrian economics specifically,...
The Fragmentation of Aid
Concepts, Measurements and Implications for Development Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This edited volume provides an assessment of an increasingly fragmented aid system. Development cooperation is fundamentally changing its character in the wake of global economic and political transformations and an ongoing debate about what constitutes, and how best to achieve, global development....