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Hard Choices

Decision Making Under Unresolved Conflict

By: Isaac Levi

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Hard Choices

Decision Making Under Unresolved Conflict

By: Isaac Levi

This book explores the consequences of denying the assumption and develops a general approach to decision-making under unresolved conflict.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521386306

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9780521386302

The Covenant of Reason

Rationality and the Commitments of Thought

By: Isaac Levi

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The Covenant of Reason

Rationality and the Commitments of Thought

By: Isaac Levi

Isaac Levi is one of the preeminent philosophers in the areas of pragmatic rationality and epistemology. This collection of essays constitutes an important presentation of his original and influential ideas about rational choice and belief. A wide range of topics is covered, including consequentialism and sequential choice, consensus, voluntarism of belief, and the tolerance of the opinions of others. The essays elaborate on the idea that principles of rationality are norms that regulate the coherence of our beliefs and values with our rational choices. The norms impose minimal constraints on deliberation and inquiry, but they also impose demands well beyond the capacities of deliberating agents. This major collection will be eagerly sought out by a wide range of philosophers in epistemology, logic, and philosophy of science, as well as economists, decision theorists, and statisticians.

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280

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Cambridge University Press

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0521576016

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9780521576017

Through The Valley of the Shadow of Death

By: Levi C. Williams

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Through The Valley of the Shadow of Death

By: Levi C. Williams

Story of the brutal civil war in the West African Republic of Liberia and how the Church in Liberia became involved in the peace process at a tremendous cost.

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Xulon Press

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1597814083

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9781597814089

The Baptist Library : A Republication of Standard Baptist Works

Vol. 1

By: William R. Williams,Charles G. Sommers,Levi L. Hill

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The Baptist Library : A Republication of Standard Baptist Works

Vol. 1

By: William R. Williams,Charles G. Sommers,Levi L. Hill

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

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510

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368726234

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9783368726232

Michigan Manual of Plastic Surgery

By: David L. Brown,Gregory H. Borschel,Benjamin Levi

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Michigan Manual of Plastic Surgery

By: David L. Brown,Gregory H. Borschel,Benjamin Levi

The first and only pocket-sized, practical manual on plastic surgery, The Michigan Manual of Plastic Surgery is written by residents in the University of Michigan’s renowned plastic surgery training program. This multidisciplinary review features contributions from senior residents in related fields including general surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, otolaryngology, orthopaedics, neurosurgery, and urology. Features: Easy-to-follow outline format covers the full range of clinical problems commonly encountered by plastic surgeons. Core content addresses fundamental principles and techniques, skin and soft tissue lesions, head and neck, facial reconstruction, craniofacial, aesthetic surgery, breast, hand and upper extremities, trunk, lower extremities, genitalia, and burns. Interdisciplinary versatility makes the handbook ideal for medical students and surgical residents seeking clinical consultations and pre-, intra-, and postoperative care. Additionally, the review provides a quick consult for practitioners whose work interacts with plastic and reconstructive surgery, as well as for those preparing for the in-service and written board examinations. NEW to the Second Edition... New full-color illustrations improve visual learning and enhance retention of key concepts. Carefully selected topics correspond to topics on plastic surgery in-service and specialty Board examinations. Helpful icons highlight material covered on the In-Service Board Exam.

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966

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469831228

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9781469831220

Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad

By: Levi Coffin

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Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad

By: Levi Coffin

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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338551410X

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9783385514102

The Afghan-Central Asia Borderland

The State and Local Leaders

By: Suzanne Levi-Sanchez

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The Afghan-Central Asia Borderland

The State and Local Leaders

By: Suzanne Levi-Sanchez

Based on extensive, long-term fieldwork in the borderlands of Afghan and Tajik Badakhshan, this book explores the importance of local leaders and local identity groups for the stability of a state’s borders, and ultimately for the stability of the state itself. It shows how the implantation of formal institutional structures at the border, a process supported by United Nations and other international bodies, can be counterproductive in that it may marginalise local leaders and alienate the local population, thereby increasing overall instability. The study considers how, in this particular borderland where trafficking of illegal drugs, weapons and people is rampant, corrupt customs and border personnel, and imperfect new institutional arrangements, contributed to a complex mix of oppression, hidden protest and subtle resistance, which benefitted illicit traders and hindered much needed humanitarian work. The book relates developments in this region to borderlands elsewhere, especially new borders in the former Soviet bloc, and argues that local leaders and organisations should be given semi-autonomy in co-ordination with state border forces in order to increase stability and the acceptance of the state.

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Routledge

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1317430948

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9781317430940

A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry With an Appendix, Containing the Constitution of the United States and other Documents

By: Levi Carroll Judson

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A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry With an Appendix, Containing the Constitution of the United States and other Documents

By: Levi Carroll Judson

“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. “We hold these truths to be self-evident:—that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that amongst these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. “The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

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746

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Library of Alexandria

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1465614818

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9781465614810

Sympton Relief in Palliative Care

By: Michael Levi

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Sympton Relief in Palliative Care

By: Michael Levi

This is an updated guide to the range of drugs commonly unused in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. There have been many significant changes in drug treatment over the last few years, and "Basic Notes in Psychopharmacology" provides an overview of both new and old drugs, their mode of action, indications and adverse effects. The four sections of the book deal with hypnotic and anxiolytic drugs, antipsychotic drugs, antidepressant drugs and mood stabilizers. The book should be a useful guide for all those involved in the use of drugs in psychiatry. In particular, junior doctors, general practitioners and medical students should find it valuable as an introduction to this complex and rapidly changing area as well as a useful revision aid for examinations. However, psychiatric nurses, psychiatric social workers and psychiatric occupational therapists and clinical psychologists should also find the book an asset.

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CRC Press

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1315345420

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9781315345420

Mirror Mirrored

A Contemporary Artists' Edition of 25 Grimms' Tales

By: Corwin Levi,Michelle Aldredge,Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm

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Mirror Mirrored

A Contemporary Artists' Edition of 25 Grimms' Tales

By: Corwin Levi,Michelle Aldredge,Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm

Grimms’ fairy tales, originally collected in 1812, are a timeless chronicle of the possibilities our lives all have, and the full range of human nature. The stories remain just as relevant today as when they were first published over 200 years ago. To introduce these tales to a new generation, Uzzlepye Press presents Mirror Mirrored: An Artists' Edition of 25 Grimms' Tales, a special visual edition of 25 of the stories. It includes not only almost 2,000 vintage Grimms' illustrations remixed into the book alongside the story texts, but also work from 28 contemporary artists visually reimagining these stories.

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Uzzlepye Press

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0982517610

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9780982517611

The Explanation of Social Action

By: John Levi Martin

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The Explanation of Social Action

By: John Levi Martin

The Explanation of Social Action is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something in the social sciences. It makes the strong argument that the traditional understanding involves asking questions that have no clear foundation and provoke an unnecessary tension between lay and expert vocabularies. Drawing on the history and philosophy of the social sciences, John Levi Martin exposes the root of the problem as an attempt to counterpose two radically different types of answers to the question of why someone did a certain thing: first person and third person responses. The tendency is epitomized by attempts to explain human action in "causal" terms. This "causality" has little to do with reality and instead involves the creation and validation of abstract statements that almost no social scientist would defend literally. This substitution of analysts' imaginations over actors' realities results from an intellectual history wherein social scientists began to distrust the self-understanding of actors in favor of fundamentally anti-democratic epistemologies. These were rooted most defensibly in a general understanding of an epistemic hiatus in social knowledge and least defensibly in the importation of practices of truth production from the hierarchical setting of institutions for the insane. Martin, instead of assuming that there is something fundamentally arbitrary about the cognitive schemes of actors, focuses on the nature of judgment. This implies the need for a social aesthetics, an understanding of the process whereby actors intuit intersubjectively valid qualities of complex social objects. In this thought-provoking and ambitious book, John Levi Martin argues that the most promising way forward to such a science of social aesthetics will involve a rigorous field theory.

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Oxford University Press

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0199773440

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9780199773442

Derelicts, Bummers, Scoundrels and Doves

By: Steven C. Levi

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Derelicts, Bummers, Scoundrels and Doves

By: Steven C. Levi

The Alaska Gold Rush started in 1880 and lasted until World War II. What made it so unusual was that many of the sourdoughs never left. They stayed on, year after year, sloshing through the freezing waters of thousands of streams, looking for the elusive yellow metal. Some became wealthy, and most of those spent their lifetime’s-worth of gold in a few months of wild living. Most just made enough to feed themselves. They lived in squalid cabins and survived on beans, caribou and wild onions. These are tales of the men and women who preferred to stay in Alaska rather than return to the cities—and the families—left behind. Many of them had very good reason to not want to return. Besides, Alaska was a wild and wooly place where there were no rules—except for the ones you made up as you went along.

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Zumaya Yesterdays

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1612711162

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9781612711164

Atlas of Ceramic Fabrics 2

Italy: Southern Tyrrhenian. Neolithic – Bronze Age

By: Sara T. Levi,Valentina Cannavo,Daniele Brunelli

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Atlas of Ceramic Fabrics 2

Italy: Southern Tyrrhenian. Neolithic – Bronze Age

By: Sara T. Levi,Valentina Cannavo,Daniele Brunelli

‘Atlas of Ceramic Fabrics 2. Italy: Southern Tyrrhenian. Neolithic – Bronze Age’, the second in a series of atlases organized according to geographical areas, chronology and types of wares, presents and interprets the petrographic composition of pre and protohistoric pottery (6th-1st mill. BCE) found in the southwestern part of Italy.

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184

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1789691184

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9781789691184

The Matter of the Bandersnatch Burglar

Heinz Noonan Impossible Crime Short Stories

By: Steve Levi

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The Matter of the Bandersnatch Burglar

Heinz Noonan Impossible Crime Short Stories

By: Steve Levi

How can a man drown in a hot air balloon? Can a boxcar disappear off a moving train, and is it possible for flying horses on a merry-go-round to fly away? These are just some of the impossible crimes Detective Heinz Noonan, the Bearded Holmes, is called upon to solve. Every story has all the clues necessary to see if you can solve the impossible crime as fast as the detective! (And if you can't, you'll have to read to the end of the story!) Want more! Then there's the mystery of why anyone would steal water from a water truck night after night. And why would someone steal 40 pairs of shoes from a thrift store? How could 16 bars of gold vanish from a vault, and how is a vegetarian anaconda part of a robbery scheme? Here are 15 short stories of impossible crimes to give you the chance to prove you are brighter than the detective!

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113

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Publication Consultants

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1637471017

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9781637471012

Poor Technology

Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty

By: Levi Checketts

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Poor Technology

Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty

By: Levi Checketts

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has moved in popular discourse from the purview of science-fiction imaginings to the key financial sector of the twenty-first century. As world powers, trillion-dollar companies, and public intellectuals emphasize the importance of AI, the general concerns people raise relate to economic movement, control, bias, and safety.?? This book adds a further concern, namely the way our approach to AI reinforces assumptions about dignity and personhood tied to the sort of thinking that is characteristic of bourgeois capitalists. The experience of poverty reveals that people who are poor do not think the same way as the upper classes--their experience of the world must be understood through the reality of survival within resource-scarce settings and the attendant domination and discrimination that come with being poor. These experiences do not fit well with the "ideal choice" selection model that underlies AI modeling, and numerous failures of AI to help the poor demonstrate that those who benefit primarily from AI are those who already live well.?? As a result, the fervor surrounding AI often serves to dehumanize the poor by eliminating employment opportunities, automating social work, reinforcing biases, and prioritizing profit over stability. Worst of all, however, AI functions to satisfy a psychological need for us to have "others" against whom we can distinguish ourselves without having to feel guilty about the reality of the struggle of the poor. Taking seriously the theological perspective of the "preferential option for the poor," this work contends that to avoid relegating poor people to nonhuman status, we must be willing to put aside the fantasy that AI is "intelligent" and focus rather on the all-too-human embodied reality of the poor.

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443

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Fortress Press

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1506482325

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9781506482323

Atlas of Ceramic Fabrics 1

Italy: North-East, Adriatic, Ionian. Bronze Age: Impasto

By: Valentina Cannavò,Sara Tiziana Levi

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Atlas of Ceramic Fabrics 1

Italy: North-East, Adriatic, Ionian. Bronze Age: Impasto

By: Valentina Cannavò,Sara Tiziana Levi

This book presents and interprets the petrographic composition of Bronze Age Impasto pottery (23rd-10th centuries BCE) found in the eastern part of Italy. This is the first of a series of Atlases organised according to geographical areas, chronology and types of wares. This volume contains 935 samples from 63 sites.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1784918601

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9781784918606

Old or new waves in Capo Graziano decorative styles?

Published in Origini n. XXXVI/2014. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations

By: John Ll. Williams,Sara T. Levi,Maria Clara Martinelli,Paola Vertuani

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Old or new waves in Capo Graziano decorative styles?

By: John Ll. Williams,Sara T. Levi,Maria Clara Martinelli,Paola Vertuani

Six main decorative styles have been tentatively distinguished in the Early-Middle Bronze age Capo Graziano incised pottery of the Aeolian Islands. This experimental study focuses on the analysis of 68 bowls from the islands of Lipari, Filicudi, Salina and Stromboli and from Milazzo in Sicily. The classification is based on motifs and styles, and integrates typology, technology, composition and decoration in their identification. The styles are linked to production centres showing different spatial and temporal variations and appear to reflect different dynamics: the expert “individual” craftsman, the design in fashion, the symbolic code or the fulfilment of specific functions. The evaluation of skill in application and variability in the concept are measured in order to assess the social implications in the production of the pottery. This interim investigation will continue to refine the chronology and to establish the decorative styles in other Aeolian Islands. It is possible that schematic elements in the decorative styles, such as undulating lines and metopes, reflect the maritime and insular environment of the Aeolian Islands.

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Gangemi Editore spa

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8849294697

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9788849294699

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