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Pietro Bembo on Etna
The Ascent of a Venetian Humanist
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
This book is centered on the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), on his two-year stay in Sicily in 1492-4 to study the ancient Greek language under one of its most distinguished contemporary teachers, the Byzantine émigré Constantine Lascaris, and above all on his ascent of Mount Etna in...
Seeing Dark Things
The Philosophy of Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
If a spinning disk casts a round shadow does this shadow also spin? When you experience the total blackness of a cave, are you seeing in the dark? Or are you merely failing to see anything (just like your blind companion)? Seeing Dark Things uses visual riddles to explore our ability to see things...
The Garden of Leaders
Revolutionizing Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
The Garden of Leaders explores two related questions: What is leadership? And what sort of education could prepare young people to be leaders? Paul Woodruff argues that higher education--particularly but not exclusively in the liberal arts--should set its main focus on cultivating leadership in students....
Reason, Metaphysics, and Mind
New Essays on the Philosophy of Alvin Plantinga
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
In May 2010, philosophers, family and friends gathered at the University of Notre Dame to celebrate the career and retirement of Alvin Plantinga, widely recognized as one of the world's leading figures in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion. Plantinga has earned particular respect...
The Geography of Insight
The Sciences, the Humanities, How they Differ, Why They Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
The humanities and the sciences face challenging times, each in their own way. The humanities suffer shrinking enrollments and budgets, and are perceived by some as irrelevant in a changing economy. The sciences face a political climate that disrespects academic expertise and challenges settled debates....
Poets and Prophets of the Resistance
Intellectuals and the Origins of El Salvador's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Poets and Prophets of the Resistance offers a ground-up history and fresh interpretation of the polarization and mobilization that brought El Salvador to the eve of civil war in 1980. Challenging the dominant narrative that university students and political dissidents primarily formed the Salvadoran...
Humans in Nature
The World As We Find It and the World As We Create It
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Contemporary debates over issues as wide-ranging as the protection of wildernesses and endangered species, the spread of genetically modified organisms, the emergence of synthetic biology, and the advance of human enhancement, all of which seem to spin into deeper and more baffling questions with...
After Prostate Cancer
A What-Comes-Next Guide to a Safe and Informed Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Men who have completed prostate cancer treatment often find themselves facing new challenges and setbacks that do not necessarily recede along with the cancer. Many books endeavor to explain the different types of prostate cancer treatments, but most conclude once a treatment choice has been made,...
Accidental Intolerance
How We Stigmatize ADHD and How We Can Stop
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
In Accidental Intolerance, Susan Hawthorne argues that in the past few decades, our medical, scientific, and social approaches to ADHD have jointly -- but unintentionally-reinforced intolerance of ADHD-- diagnosed people. We have packed social values, such as interests in efficiency and productivity,...
Learning While Caring
Reflections on a Half-Century of Cancer Practice, Research, Education, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
In the last half century, a revolution in biology and medicine has taken place, bringing about emerging practical, philosophical, and societal issues with which academia in general, and medicine and oncology in particular, must grapple. One witness to this revolution is Samuel B. Hellman, a radiation...
by Margaret P Battin, Leslie P Francis, Jay A Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Bioethics emerged at a time when infectious diseases were not a major concern. Thus bioethics never had to develop a normative framework sensitive to situations of disease transmission. The Patient as Victim and Vector explores how traditional and new issues in clinical medicine, research, public...
Free Trade and Prosperity
How Openness Helps the Developing Countries Grow Richer and Combat Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Arguments for protection and against free trade have seen a revival in developed countries such as the United States and Great Britain as well as developing countries such as India. Given the clear benefits trade openness has brought everywhere, this is a surprising development. The benefits of...
by Mary A. M. Rogers, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
The last decade has seen sweeping changes in US health care policy. With more changes on the way, the emerging field of comparative effectiveness research-the science of determining how different treatments work best for different conditions-is critical for patients and clinicians who wish to make...
Restructuring and Functional Heads
The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2006
This volume collects the recent published articles of Guglielmo Cinque of the University of Venice, one of the world's top linguists. The book is divided into two sections, the first on restructuring, a central topic in Romance syntax and with connections to other language groups as well. The second...