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Adult Development

Cognitive Aspects of Thriving Close Relationships

By: Jan D. Sinnott

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Adult Development

Cognitive Aspects of Thriving Close Relationships

By: Jan D. Sinnott

Adult Development applies the concept of complex postformal thought in order to explore how certain cognitive processes support individuals' close relationships such that those relationships grow stronger and richer over time.

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0199892814

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The Development of Logic in Adulthood

Postformal Thought and Its Applications

By: Jan D. Sinnott

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The Development of Logic in Adulthood

Postformal Thought and Its Applications

By: Jan D. Sinnott

In this book Jan D. Sinnott synthesizes her 20 years of research on lifespan cognitive development to describe the growth of complex (or `postformal') thought in adults. She shows specifically how adults improve mentally over a lifetime and learn to think in more complex and wiser ways. Applications of postformal thought are demonstrated in such diverse areas as - family relations - adult education - personal identity - and spirituality. Chapters examine relations between postformal thought and pertinent variables such as age, health, memory, and vocabulary. Other sections deal with issues in humanistic psychology such as - guided imagery - mind - body medicine - and creative intentionality.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475729111

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Beyond the Gene

Cytoplasmic Inheritance and the Struggle for Authority in Genetics

By: Jan Sapp

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Beyond the Gene

Cytoplasmic Inheritance and the Struggle for Authority in Genetics

By: Jan Sapp

A new perspective on the history of genetics is offered as the author explores the conflicts which have shaped theoretical thinking about heredity and evolution throughout the century.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195042069

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Citizens, Elites, and the Legitimacy of Global Governance

By: Lisa Dellmuth,Jan Aart Scholte,Jonas Tallberg,Soetkin Verhaegen

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Citizens, Elites, and the Legitimacy of Global Governance

By: Lisa Dellmuth,Jan Aart Scholte,Jonas Tallberg,Soetkin Verhaegen

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Citizens, Elites, and the Legitimacy of Global Governance offers the first full comparative study of citizen and elite legitimacy beliefs toward global governance. Empirically, it provides a comprehensive analysis of public and elite opinion toward global governance, building on two uniquely coordinated surveys covering multiple countries and international organizations. Theoretically, it develops an individual-level approach, exploring how a person's characteristics in respect of socioeconomic status, political values, geographical identification, and institutional trust shape legitimacy beliefs toward global governance. The book's central findings are three-fold. First, there is a notable and general elite-citizen gap in legitimacy beliefs toward global governance. While elites on average hold moderately high levels of legitimacy toward international organizations, the general public is decidedly more skeptical. Second, individual-level differences in interests, values, identities, and trust dispositions provide significant drivers of citizen and elite legitimacy beliefs toward global governance, as well as the gap between them. Most important on the whole are differences in the extent to which citizens and elites trust domestic political institutions, which systematically shape how they assess the legitimacy of international organizations. Third, both patterns and sources of citizen and elite legitimacy beliefs vary across organizations and countries. These variations suggest that institutional and societal contexts condition attitudes toward global governance. The book's findings shed important light on future opportunities and constraints in international cooperation, suggesting that current levels of legitimacy point neither to a general crisis of global governance nor to a general readiness for its expansion.

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Oxford University Press

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0192668951

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9780192668950

Semantics and Truth

By: Jan Woleński

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Semantics and Truth

By: Jan Woleński

The book provides a historical (with an outline of the history of the concept of truth from antiquity to our time) and systematic exposition of the semantic theory of truth formulated by Alfred Tarski in the 1930s. This theory became famous very soon and inspired logicians and philosophers. It has two different, but interconnected aspects: formal-logical and philosophical. The book deals with both, but it is intended mostly as a philosophical monograph. It explains Tarski’s motivation and presents discussions about his ideas (pro and contra) as well as points out various applications of the semantic theory of truth to philosophical problems (truth-criteria, realism and anti-realism, future contingents or the concept of correspondence between language and reality).

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Springer Nature

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3030245365

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9783030245368

European Politics

An Introduction

By: Jan-Erik Lane,Svante Ersson

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European Politics

An Introduction

By: Jan-Erik Lane,Svante Ersson

This comprehensive textbook is the first to go beyond a West European perspective and provide a clear overview of the whole of European politics. Jan-Erik Lane and Svante Ersson address the similarities of key political features among states in Western, Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Europe and look forward to political developments at the turn of the century. Traditionally, books have polarized Europe by focusing on points of divergence. European Politics provides a thoroughgoing analysis of several converging themes, including political culture, the nature of the state, party systems, and the formation of government and public policies. With this approach to economic, social and political aspects of politics in Europe this major text presents a Europe that, within the context of reform, transition and integration, has more in common in the early 1990s than ever before. With a clear thematic structure and helpful discussions of data drawn from some 30 countries European Politics offers both an accessible and genuinely comparative text which will be essential reading for student and researcher alike.

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SAGE

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1849208190

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9781849208192

Managing Food Safety Risks in the Agri-Food Industries

By: Jan Mei Soon,Richard Baines

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Managing Food Safety Risks in the Agri-Food Industries

By: Jan Mei Soon,Richard Baines

Modern farming practices involve more stakeholders in the supply chain, presenting issues of storage, transportation, and distribution prior to reaching the consumer. This increasing complexity in food production chains creates more points for introducing microorganism contamination of crops, livestock, and aquatic organisms. Managing Food Safety R

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CRC Press

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1466509511

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Third-Party Certifiers

By: Jan De Bruyne

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Third-Party Certifiers

By: Jan De Bruyne

Third-Party Certifiers Jan De Bruyne Third-party certifiers are organisations that are independent a requesting entity. They attest that a product, service, information or person possesses certain qualifications or meets safety, quality or technical standards. This important book presents an in-depth analysis of the liability and obligations of certifiers, evaluates existing certification processes in selected fields and proposes new mechanisms which could increase the accuracy and reliability of certifiers’ ratings, marks or reports. Highlighting the risks of errors in this activity – inaccurate certification was a major factor in the global financial crisis of 2008 – the author takes a comparative approach, looking at the certification process in several European countries, Australia and the United States. Such aspects of the process as the following are thoroughly described: obligations and liability of certifiers during the certification process; risk of ‘information asymmetry’ between the requesting entity and the end user; and relationship between the civil liability of certifiers and public law aspects. The analysis includes detailed research on key industries and jurisdictions and a specific proposed framework for more accurate and reliable certification. Because the efficient and effective functioning of third-party certifiers is extremely important in today’s world – especially in such areas as health, the environment, safety or economic values – this deeply researched contribution to an important area of commercial law, combining analysis of current issues with proposed reforms, will be welcomed by practitioners when confronted with legal issues with regard to the certification process. The book’s conceptual framework will also prove highly useful for policymakers charged with developing reliable certification mechanisms.

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9403510927

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9789403510927

Maryland Biographical Dictionary

By: Jan Onofrio

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Maryland Biographical Dictionary

By: Jan Onofrio

Maryland Biographical Dictionary contains biographies on hundreds of persons from diverse vocations that were either born, achieved notoriety and/or died in the state of Maryland. Prominent persons, in addition to the less eminent, that have played noteworthy roles are included in this resource. When people are recognized from your state or locale it brings a sense of pride to the residents of the entire state.

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Somerset Publishers, Inc.

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0403098238

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9780403098231

Proverbs 1-9 as an Introduction to the Book of Proverbs

By: Arthur Jan Keefer

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Proverbs 1-9 as an Introduction to the Book of Proverbs

By: Arthur Jan Keefer

Proverbs 1-9 has long been called a 'prologue' and 'introduction' to the book of Proverbs, a label that this book clarifies by answering the question: how does Proverbs 1-9 function with respect to the interpretation of Proverbs 10-31? Arthur Keefer argues that, in the detail and holistic context of Proverbs, Proverbs 1-9 functions didactically by supplying interpretive frameworks in literary, rhetorical and theological contexts for representative portions of Proverbs 10-31. Keefer suggests that Proverbs 1-9 functions didactically by teaching interpretive skills, and allows interpretation of Proverbs 10-31 by instilling the competence required to explicate this material. As a result, Proverbs 1-9 provides a didactic introduction for the remainder of the book, particularly with respect to its character types, educational goals, and theology. This volume demonstrates the function of Proverbs 1-9 for Proverbs 10-31 in some of the most prominent interpretive contexts of the book, and in doing so advances current key interpretive debates within Proverbs scholarship.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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056769335X

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Domain Walls

From Fundamental Properties to Nanotechnology Concepts

By: Dennis Meier,Jan Seidel,Marty Gregg,Ramamoorthy Ramesh

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Domain Walls

From Fundamental Properties to Nanotechnology Concepts

By: Dennis Meier,Jan Seidel,Marty Gregg,Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Technological evolution and revolution are both driven by the discovery of new functionalities, new materials and the design of yet smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient components. Progress is being made at a breathtaking pace, stimulated by the rapidly growing demand for more powerful and readily available information technology. High-speed internet and data-streaming, home automation, tablets and smartphones are now "necessities" for our everyday lives. Consumer expectations for progressively more data storage and exchange appear to be insatiable. Oxide electronics is a promising and relatively new field that has the potential to trigger major advances in information technology. Oxide interfaces are particularly intriguing. Here, low local symmetry combined with an increased susceptibility to external fields leads to unusual physical properties distinct from those of the homogeneous bulk. In this context, ferroic domain walls have attracted recent attention as a completely new type of oxide interface. In addition to their functional properties, such walls are spatially mobile and can be created, moved, and erased on demand. This unique degree of flexibility enables domain walls to take an active role in future devices and hold a great potential as multifunctional 2D systems for nanoelectronics. With domain walls as reconfigurable electronic 2D components, a new generation of adaptive nano-technology and flexible circuitry becomes possible, that can be altered and upgraded throughout the lifetime of the device. Thus, what started out as fundamental research, at the limit of accessibility, is finally maturing into a promising concept for next-generation technology.

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Oxford University Press

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0192607413

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Persons Handicapped by Rubella

By: Jan van Dijk

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Persons Handicapped by Rubella

By: Jan van Dijk

In 1976, a study was made of the learning potential of 81 Australian children with hearing and sight disabilities caused by rubella. The follow-up study reported here validates the predictive values of the model used by showing that a small subsample of the group has overcome their early problems. O

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CRC Press

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9026511280

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9789026511288

Aging and the Art of Living

By: Jan Baars

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Aging and the Art of Living

By: Jan Baars

In this deeply considered meditation on aging in Western culture, Jan Baars argues that, in today’s world, living longer does not necessarily mean living better. He contends that there has been an overall loss of respect for aging, to the point that understanding and "dealing with" aging people has become a process focused on the decline of potential and the advance of disease rather than on the accumulation of wisdom and the creation of new skills. To make his case, Baars compares and contrasts the works of such modern-era thinkers as Foucault, Heidegger, and Husserl with the thought of Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Cicero, and other Ancient and Stoic philosophers. He shows how people in the classical period—less able to control health hazards—had a far better sense of the provisional nature of living, which led to a philosophical and religious emphasis on cultivating the art of living and the idea of wisdom. This is not to say that modern society’s assessments of aging are insignificant, but they do need to balance an emphasis on the measuring of age with the concept of "living in time." Gerontologists, philosophers, and students will find Baars' discussion to be a powerful, perceptive conversation starter. -- W. Andrew Achenbaum, author of Older Americans, Vital Communities

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JHU Press

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1421406462

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9781421406466

Oregon Biographical Dictionary

By: Jan Onofrio

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Oregon Biographical Dictionary

By: Jan Onofrio

Describes the lives and accomplishments of over 120 important men and women in the history of Oregon, from business leaders and politicians to authors and actors.

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Somerset Publishers, Inc.

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0403098416

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9780403098415

Genes, Germs And Medicine: The Life Of Joshua Lederberg

By: Jan Sapp

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Genes, Germs And Medicine: The Life Of Joshua Lederberg

By: Jan Sapp

Genes, Germs and Medicine explores the development of modern biomedical science in the United States through the life of one of the Twentieth Century's most influential scientists.Joshua Lederberg was a scientific renaissance man. He and his collaborators founded the field of bacterial genetics, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize at the age of 33 (the second youngest in history). He helped to lay the foundations for genetic engineering, made fundamental revisions to immunological and evolutionary theory, and developed medical genetics. He initiated the search for extraterrestrial microbial life, developed artificial intelligence, and was a visionary of the Digital Age. Lederberg coined some of the central terms of modern biology: plasmid, transduction, exobiology, euphenics and microbiome.A complex humanist who spoke out for social justice, Lederberg confronted racism, and denied a gene-centered view of humans. Pondering our social evolution outside of nature, he forewarned of the complex ethical issues arising from bioengineering. He sounded the alarm about coming pandemics at a time when few would listen, and warned of the peril of biowarfare and strove to prevent it. Lederberg was a man with a deep sense of social and intellectual responsibility, a trusted advisor to eight presidential administrations.

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World Scientific

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9811225494

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9789811225499

Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest

A Red-Light History of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska

By: Jan MacKell Collins

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Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest

A Red-Light History of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska

By: Jan MacKell Collins

Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, and pregnancy. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493038109

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9781493038107

Rethinking Rational Choice Theory

A Companion on Rational and Moral Action

By: Jan de Jonge

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Rethinking Rational Choice Theory

A Companion on Rational and Moral Action

By: Jan de Jonge

The marriage of neuroscience and the science of choice behaviour gave birth to neuroeconomics. Jan de Jong explores this new discipline, investigating the relationship between choice behaviour and brain activity, and the light that this sheds on our systems of reasoning.

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Springer

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0230355544

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9780230355545

The Development of Logic in Adulthood

Postformal Thought and Its Applications

By: Jan D. Sinnott

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The Development of Logic in Adulthood

Postformal Thought and Its Applications

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1475729111

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Great Western RV Trips

By: Jan Bannan

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Great Western RV Trips

By: Jan Bannan

RV owners who aren't content with staying on the beaten path will be inspired with these 16 "best in the West" vacations. Bannan also reveals where to travel during the best times of the year. 66 illustrations.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0070067228

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9780070067226

Adult Development

Cognitive Aspects of Thriving Close Relationships

By: Jan D. Sinnott

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Cognitive Aspects of Thriving Close Relationships

By: Jan D. Sinnott

Adult Development' applies the concept of complex postformal thought in order to explore how certain cognitive processes support individuals' close relationships such that those relationships grow stronger and richer over time.

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