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The Intellectual Properties of Learning

A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke

By: John Willinsky

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The Intellectual Properties of Learning

A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke

By: John Willinsky

Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into context, asking what it is about learning that helped to create the concept even as it gave the products of knowledge a different legal and economic standing than other sorts of property. Willinsky begins with Saint Jerome in the fifth century, then traces the evolution of reading, writing, and editing practices in monasteries, schools, universities, and among independent scholars through the medieval period and into the Renaissance. He delves into the influx of Islamic learning and the rediscovery of classical texts, the dissolution of the monasteries, and the founding of the Bodleian Library before finally arriving at John Locke, whose influential lobbying helped bring about the first copyright law, the Statute of Anne of 1710. Willinsky’s bravura tour through this history shows that learning gave rise to our idea of intellectual property while remaining distinct from, if not wholly uncompromised by, the commercial economy that this concept inspired, making it clear that today’s push for marketable intellectual property threatens the very nature of the quest for learning on which it rests.

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University of Chicago Press

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022648808X

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Paradox and Paraconsistency

Conflict Resolution in the Abstract Sciences

By: John Woods

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Paradox and Paraconsistency

Conflict Resolution in the Abstract Sciences

By: John Woods

In a world plagued by conflict one might expect that the exact sciences of logic and mathematics would provide a safe harbor. In fact these disciplines are rife with internal divisions between different, often incompatible systems. This original book explores apparently intractable disagreements in logic and the foundations of mathematics and sets out conflict resolution strategies that evade these stalemates. This book makes an important contribution to such areas of philosophy as logic, philosophy of language and argumentation theory. It will also be of interest to mathematicians and computer scientists.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521009340

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9780521009348

Vita

A Space Adventure

By: John M. Jurchak

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Vita

A Space Adventure

By: John M. Jurchak

Vita By: John M. Jurchak The year is 2525. The Jacksons, a small town family, become explorers with their friends in a quest to leave a troubled Earth and find a better place to live. What will they find as they explore the mysterious planet called Vita? This is a suspenseful adventure into the future. Take your imagination along this journey with Alexander and Autumn into the outer limits of space. As these teens face danger, they realize that they need to search for a Higher Power to help them. This story has been written for pre-teens and teenagers alike.

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Dorrance Publishing

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9798885275743

Sierra Grand Traverse

An Epic Route Across the Range of Light

By: John & Monica Chapman

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Sierra Grand Traverse

An Epic Route Across the Range of Light

By: John & Monica Chapman

2023 Banff Mountain Book Award finalist in Guidebooks Detailed topographic maps and elevation profiles depict the entire route Sections about planning, preparation, transportation, acclimatization, resupplying food, permits, maps, suggested itineraries, and safety Includes photographs, alternative routes, and side trips, plus history, geology, flora, and fauna Sierra Grand Traverse offers experienced hikers an epic route across one of the world’s greatest mountain ranges. Designed by experienced hikers and writers John and Monica Chapman, this 200-mile-long traverse begins in Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park and heads through the High Sierra south to Mount Whitney and then on to Horseshoe Meadows. The challenging, but approachable adventure winds through five wilderness areas spread across three national parks and two national forests. While some of the traverse follows well-defined trails, it starts at 8,580 feet and hikers spend most of their time between 9,000 and 12,000 feet--reveling in the open ridges and stunning vistas above treeline. With 56,000 feet of elevation change and crossing 41 mountain passes, this route requires solid navigation skills and careful planning and preparation--more than half of it is off-trail. But for determined hikers, the adventure of a lifetime awaits.

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Mountaineers Books

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1680516191

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Everything You Need to Know about Building the Custom Home

How to Be Your Own General Contractor

By: John Folds,Roy Hoopes

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Everything You Need to Know about Building the Custom Home

How to Be Your Own General Contractor

By: John Folds,Roy Hoopes

Complete with illustrations, checklists, sample contracts, forms, and survey maps, and a must-have homebuilding timetable, this guide gives you everything you need to know to build your dream home.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0878336532

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9780878336531

The Sevenpenny Gate

A Lifelong Love Affair with Celtic FC

By: John Cairney

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The Sevenpenny Gate

A Lifelong Love Affair with Celtic FC

By: John Cairney

Clutching in my hand my seven copper pennies, I ran down the two flights of stone stairs from our tenement flat and through the East End to Kinloch Street, where, puffing a bit, I joined the queue of other wee boys lining up to place their coins on the brass plate above the iron turnstile, push hard against it, then climb up onto the dirt terracing and into Paradise. The rest of the world called it Celtic Park.' This is a story seen through green-and-white spectacles. It begins when nine-year-old Glaswegian John Cairney walks through the boys' gate at Celtic Park and embarks on a series of adventures that, over the years, take him all over Scotland and beyond. The Sevenpenny Gate is about a search for heroes, Celtic heroes. It is also the tale of an East End club of humble Irish origins that has developed into a worldwide brand and continues to command the devotion of its fans, even with the Celtic diaspora now spread across the globe.

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Random House

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1780571607

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9781780571607

Strategy in Crisis

The Pacific War, 1937-1945

By: John T Kuehn

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Strategy in Crisis

The Pacific War, 1937-1945

By: John T Kuehn

The Pacific War (1937-1945) remains a crucial topic for strategic discussion, especially as Japan's push for a broader conflict in 1941 still fascinates historians. That regional push grew into a wider world war with all the major maritime powers, as well as the Soviet Union, in a conflict which challenged the allied response in Asia and beyond. John T. Kuehn examines the Pacific War from the vantage point of strategy and the execution of that strategy. The allies entered an ongoing Sino-Japanese War in China (1937-1945) which shaped the implementation of strategic decision making for the larger campaigns of The Pacific War. The Pacific War is often regarded as a conflict between the United States and Japan, but it involved a far greater cast of national characters, and the strategic calculations of these actors are addressed by the author in concise detail. The actions of the powers, such as the Dutch, British, Australians, New Zealanders, and the Soviet Union as well as the two primary nations, the U.S. and Empire of Japan, are considered through the strategic paradigm. The author, looking at the strategy of Imperial Japan as well as that of the U.S., concludes that the Axis failures in terms of coalition strategy continued throughout the war, even as the Allies strengthened coalition warfare along fronts.

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Naval Institute Press

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1682477665

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9781682477663

Mill (Arguments of the Philosophers)

By: Professor John M Skorupski

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Mill (Arguments of the Philosophers)

By: Professor John M Skorupski

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1136866892

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Stillness & Shadows

By: John Gardner

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Stillness & Shadows

By: John Gardner

Gardner’s relentlessly honest and moving portrayal of a broken marriage, and his ambitious unfinished masterpiece—a metafictional mystery centering around one man’s struggle to recover his lost identity—together in one accomplished volume Stillness:Martin and Joan Orrick—distant cousins who have known each other since early childhood—are in the final throes of a failing marriage. Martin is a compulsive drinker who obsesses about his writing, and Joan is struggling with a debilitating physical condition. Together they search for some type of collective identity, and identify where the dissolution of their love began. Inspired by therapy sessions Gardner experienced with his first wife, Stillness is an insightful portrait of one couple’s struggle for fulfillment in a tumultuous world. Private detective Gerald Craine is pursuing an unknown murderer. At the same time, he himself is the target of an unknown person’s pursuit. Stumbling through an alcohol-soaked haze, Craine desperately seeks meaning and understanding in a world fraught with fragmented narratives. Shadows:John Gardner’s friend Nicholas Delbanco has supplemented this unfinished novel with seven sections from Gardner’s original manuscript that provide critical insight into Gardner’s approach to developing the novel and its characters, giving a rare glimpse inside the creative process of one of the twentieth century’s most inventive writers. This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.

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Open Road Media

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1453203583

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Combat Operations: Stemming the Tide, May 1965 to October 1966 (Paperback)

By: John M. Carland

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Combat Operations: Stemming the Tide, May 1965 to October 1966 (Paperback)

By: John M. Carland

Combat Operations: Stemming the Tide describes a critical chapter in the Vietnam conflict, the first eighteen months of combat by the U.S. Army's ground forces. Relying on official American and enemy primary sources, John M. Carland focuses on initial deployments and early combat and takes care to present a well-balanced picture by discussing not only the successes but also the difficulties endemic to the entire effort. This fine work presents the war in all of its detail: the enemy's strategy and tactics, General William C. Westmoreland's search and destroy operations, the helicopters and airmobile warfare, the immense firepower American forces could call upon to counter Communist control of the battlefield, the out-of-country enemy sanctuaries, and the allied efforts to win the allegiance of the South Vietnamese people to the nation's anti-Communist government. Carland's volume demonstrates that U.S. forces succeeded in achieving their initial goals, but unexpected manpower shortages made Westmoreland realize that the transition from stemming the tide to taking the offensive would take longer. Bruising battles with the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in the Saigon area and in the Central Highlands had halted their drive to conquest in 1965 and, with major base development activities afoot, a series of high-tempo spoiling operations in 1966 kept them off balance until more U.S. fighting units arrived in the fall. Carland credits the improvements in communications and intelligence, the helicopter's capacity to extend the battlefield, and the availability of enormous firepower as the potent ingredients in Westmoreland's optimism for victory, yet realizes that the ultimate issue of how effective the U.S. Army would be and what it would accomplish during the next phase was very much a question mark.

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Government Printing Office

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016087310X

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9780160873102

The Purgatory Press / After the End

By: John Culbert

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The Purgatory Press / After the End

By: John Culbert

Vanished poets, overlooked artists, hapless visionaries: The Purgatory Press opens a tantalizing window on a publisher’s catalogue of improbable books. Dark, comical, and startlingly inventive, After the End is a dazzling display of postmodern storytelling. These short fictions showcase the many talents of an emerging author. ,

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Perfect Edge

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1782790608

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Harkaway's Sixth Column

By: John Harris

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Harkaway's Sixth Column

By: John Harris

An explosive action-packed war drama: four British soldiers are cut off behind enemy lines in British Somaliland and when they decide to utilise a secret arms dump and fight a rearguard action, an unlikely alliance is sought between two local warring tribes. What follows is an amazing mission.

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House of Stratus

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0755127722

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9780755127726

Oliver St. John Gogarty

By: John Benignus Lyons

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Oliver St. John Gogarty

By: John Benignus Lyons

Explores the Irish-born American writer's early success as a classical poet a his development as dramatist and novelist.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838713599

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One on One

Behind the Scenes with the Greats in the Game

By: John Feinstein

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One on One

Behind the Scenes with the Greats in the Game

By: John Feinstein

John Feinstein's illuminating recollections from two decades of interviews with sports legends. John Feinstein's career is a sports fan's dream-a lifetime of encounters with the great figures in sports, not just on the field, but in the locker room and behind the scenes with legends like Bob Knight, Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and John McEnroe. Since his days as a young Washington Post journalist, Feinstein has written twenty-eight books and countless magazine articles and newspaper columns, covering college basketball, golf, tennis, baseball, and very nearly every sport in between. He has told us of victory and defeat, of athletes and coaches we love -- and love to hate. But some of his best stories have been left untold, until now. One on One is an incredible portal into the sports we love-from the box scores and the pageantry of game night and into the hard work and intensity that turn players and coaches into legends.

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Little, Brown

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0316192198

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9780316192194

The Lockean Theory of Rights

By: A. John Simmons

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The Lockean Theory of Rights

By: A. John Simmons

John Locke's political theory has been the subject of many detailed treatments by philosophers and political scientists. But The Lockean Theory of Rights is the first systematic, full-length study of Locke's theory of rights and of its potential for making genuine contributions to contemporary debates about rights and their place in political philosophy. Given that the rights of persons are the central moral concept at work in Locke's and Lockean political philosophy, such a study is long overdue.

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Princeton University Press

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0691221316

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9780691221311

Peacebuilding, Constitutionalism and the Global South

The Case for Cognitive Justice Plurinationalism

By: Kajit Bagu (John Paul)

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Peacebuilding, Constitutionalism and the Global South

The Case for Cognitive Justice Plurinationalism

By: Kajit Bagu (John Paul)

This book presents the case that liberal constitutionalism in the global South is a legacy of colonialism and is inappropriate as a means of securing effective peace in regions that have been subject to recurrent conflict. The work demonstrates the failure of liberal constitutionalism in guaranteeing peace in the postcolonial global South. It develops an alternative, more compelling constitutionalism for peacebuilding in conflicted regions. This is based on constitutionalism that recognises plurality as a major feature in the global South. Drawing on events in Nigeria, it develops a constitutional model, based on Cognitive Justice, which could deliver peace by addressing historic, conceptual, legal, institutional and structural issues that have created social inequality and injustice. The study also incorporates insights from the development of plurinational constitutions in South America. The book will be an invaluable resource for researchers, academics and policy-makers with an interest in constitutional legal theory, peacebuilding and postcolonial studies

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Routledge

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0429536097

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9780429536090

John Locke

Resistance, Religion and Responsibility

By: John Marshall

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John Locke

Resistance, Religion and Responsibility

By: John Marshall

This book provides a contextual account of the development of John Locke's political, religious, social and moral thought. It analyses many of Locke's unpublished manuscripts and relatively neglected works as well as the Two Treatises, the Letter Concerning Toleration and the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Professor Marshall studies the development of Locke's political thought from absolutism to resistance, and provides significant revisions to current explanations of the immediate contexts and purposes of composition of the Two Treatises. He also sets out major accounts of Locke's moral, social and religious thought both as extremely important subjects in their own right and in order to challenge many scholars' interpretations of their influences on Locke's political thought.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521466873

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9780521466875

The Problem of the Essential Indexical

and Other Essays

By: John Perry

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The Problem of the Essential Indexical

and Other Essays

By: John Perry

A collection of twelve essays by John Perry and two essays he co-authored, this book deals with various problems related to "self-locating beliefs": the sorts of beliefs one expresses with indexicals and demonstratives, like "I" and "this." Postscripts have been added to a number of the essays discussing criticisms by authors such as Gareth Evans and Robert Stalnaker. Included with such well-known essays as "Frege on Demonstratives," "The Problem of the Essential Indexical," "From Worlds to Situations," and "The Prince and the Phone Booth" are a number of important essays that have been less accessible and that discuss important aspects of Perry's views, referred to as "Critical Referentialism," on the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind.

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Oxford University Press

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0195364155

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