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Attachment in Adulthood, Second Edition

Structure, Dynamics, and Change

By: Mario Mikulincer,Phillip R. Shaver

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Attachment in Adulthood, Second Edition

Structure, Dynamics, and Change

By: Mario Mikulincer,Phillip R. Shaver

This volume shows how attachment theory, which initially focused on child development, is now being used to elucidate social functioning across the lifespan.

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1462533817

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Origins of European Peoples

Part One: Ancient History

By: Mario Mosetto

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Origins of European Peoples

Part One: Ancient History

By: Mario Mosetto

This series explores the history of European peoples, with the first book focusing on ancient history. To understand the evolution of Europeans, we must go back to the end of the Paleolithic Age. In all probability, from 40,000 BC onward, there was a slow migration from the South across the Middle East, which continued during the Paleolithic Age, and all human languages stem from three principal branches: African, Indo-European, and Chinese. The author shares a detailed account on the origins of Europeans and shares interesting facts that anyone who enjoys history will find valuable. He also examines the twelve tribes of Israel from the very beginning of their history, the causes of various migrations, the affect sailing technology had on the world, and the role that religion played in the development of leagues, tribes, and cities. Delve into the fascinating history of the origins of the European peoples and explore the development of various nations, including their linguistic and physical characteristics, with this well-researched book.

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1546284257

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Nostradamus

The Good News

By: Mario Reading

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Nostradamus

The Good News

By: Mario Reading

Isolates those prophecies in which Nostradamus suggested the possibility of positive change.

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Sterling Publishing Company

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1905857292

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Bruno Maderna

His Life and Music

By: Rossana Dalmonte,Mario Baroni

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Bruno Maderna

His Life and Music

By: Rossana Dalmonte,Mario Baroni

Bruno Maderna was one of the most influential composers in the twentieth century. He was the eldest of the group of Italian composers born in the 1920s (along with Berio, Nono, Donatoni, and others) who began their career shortly before the second World War and were able to exploit the opportunities offered by the new world that emerged in the post-war years. Maderna’s story is quite unique. He rose to fame early in life as a child prodigy and his exceptional talent was soon noticed by Gian Francesco Malipiero, who stimulated his interest in ancient music, a passion that remained constant even when the European avant-garde insisted that new music should start from year zero. After first approaching “classic” dodecaphony, his musical style then tended toward total serialism and “open form.” In his last years he developed a particular interest for the theater. Satyricon was born in Tanglewood in a short version and later achieved notable success worldwide. His work as a conductor made him particularly sensitive to the reaction of the public, leading him to carefully calibrate his approach to composition without being swayed by fashionable ideals or philosophies. Despite his warm and outgoing nature, Maderna rarely expressed his personal views in writing or in interviews. Many of the biographical details given here are taken from his correspondence and from reports of his travels and engagements across the world, which took him as far as the United States, Iran South America, and Japan.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538172305

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Attachment in Adulthood, First Edition

Structure, Dynamics, and Change

By: Mario Mikulincer,Phillip R. Shaver

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Attachment in Adulthood, First Edition

Structure, Dynamics, and Change

By: Mario Mikulincer,Phillip R. Shaver

The concluding chapter reflects on the key issues addressed, considers the deeper philosophical implications of current work in the field, and identifies pivotal directions for future investigation."--BOOK JACKET.

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Guilford Publications

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1606236105

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Literature and Political Change: Budapest, 1908-1918

Transactions, APS

By: Mario Fenyo

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Literature and Political Change: Budapest, 1908-1918

Transactions, APS

By: Mario Fenyo

A study of the Nyugat movement in the late Austro-Hungarian Empire, one of the organizers of which was the father of author Mario D. Fenyo. The objective purpose of this study is twofold. First, it is an attempt to formulate a methodology, a theory of the political function of literature. Second, it is a case study. Contents: The Historical Context; The Literary Context; The Financial Context; The Political Attitudes of the Nyugat Writers; Numbers & Literature; The Nyugat & the Intellectuals; The Nyugat & the Working Class; The Nyugat versus the Establishment; & The Mirror or the Hammer. Illustrations.

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American Philosophical Society

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1422374432

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From a Scientific Point of View

Reasoning and Evidence Beat Improvisation across Fields

By: Mario Bunge

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From a Scientific Point of View

Reasoning and Evidence Beat Improvisation across Fields

By: Mario Bunge

This book deals with the scientific viewpoint, which is illustrated here through a number of topical cases in modern science, from gravitational waves to mental disorders to social policies. The scientific perspective involves rationality, realism, and reism – the thesis that the universe is composed of concrete things like atoms, force fields, people, and social organizations. The book shows that the scientific worldview underlies all current scientific and technological research projects. It also claims that any subject involving knowledge can be approached scientifically, and contends that the scientific viewpoint can trump both dogma and improvisation – the standbys of amateurs and demagogues.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527514633

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Individuation and Narcissism

The psychology of self in Jung and Kohut

By: Mario Jacoby

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Individuation and Narcissism

The psychology of self in Jung and Kohut

By: Mario Jacoby

Developments in Freudian psychoanalysis, particularly the work of Kohut and Winnicott, have led to a convergence with the Jungian position. In Individuation and Narcissism Mario Jacoby attempted to overcome the doctrinal differences between the different schools of depth psychology, while taking into account the characteristic approaches of each. Through a close examination of the actual experience of self, the process of individuation, narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder, Jacoby deftly demonstrated the benefits of a cross-fertilization of ideas and techniques for the professional analyst. This Classic Edition includes a new foreword by Kathrin Asper.

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Routledge

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1317288602

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Longing for Paradise

Psychological Perspectives on an Archetype

By: Mario Jacoby

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Longing for Paradise

Psychological Perspectives on an Archetype

By: Mario Jacoby

The longing for freedom from conflict, suffering and deprivation is an eternal human dream of great emotional power. It is the dream of total happiness, embodied in almost all cultures as the myth of Paradise. The author, a Jungian analyst, begins with a discussion of the psychological connection between the idea of Paradise and the crucially decisive quality of the Mother-infant relationship in determining a child's development.

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Inner City Books

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1894574176

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Attachment Theory Applied

Fostering Personal Growth through Healthy Relationships

By: Mario Mikulincer,Phillip R. Shaver

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Attachment Theory Applied

Fostering Personal Growth through Healthy Relationships

By: Mario Mikulincer,Phillip R. Shaver

In this compelling book, prominent investigators Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver review the state of the science of attachment-based interventions in psychotherapy and beyond. They critically evaluate a range of programs that aim to strengthen parent–child, couple, and therapist–client relationships. The theoretical and empirical underpinnings of each intervention are examined, as are specific techniques used to enhance felt security and foster personal growth. The book also looks at evidence-based interventions outside the mental health domain, including programs that target teacher–student relationships and academic performance. Looking to the future, the authors discuss emerging applications of attachment theory in medicine and health care, management and organizational behavior, and group and intergroup processes. See also the related work from Mikulincer and Shaver, Attachment Theory Expanded: Security Dynamics in Individuals, Dyads, Groups, and Societies.

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Guilford Publications

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1462552358

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Doing Science: In The Light Of Philosophy

By: Mario Augusto Bunge

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Doing Science: In The Light Of Philosophy

By: Mario Augusto Bunge

The originality of this book is that it reverses the tables on all current schools of philosophy, where philosophy and metaphysics are separated and isolated from the sciences. The punch line for Bunge is that practitioners in all intellectual fields need to adopt the appropriate form of metaphysics. Only then will they be enabled to create scientistic research projects.'Marx & Philosophy Review of BooksNearly all philosophers have dealt with the outcomes of scientific research, and have overlooked its philosophical presuppositions, such as those of rationality and realism. Although these presuppositions are mostly tacit and thus easily overlooked, actually they are supremely important, since some of them favor research whereas others hamper it. For instance, whereas subjectivism leads to navel gazing and uncontrolled fantasy, realism encourages us to explore the world and check our conjectures.This book examines science in the making, a process it illustrates with many examples from the natural, social, and biosocial sciences. Therefore it centers on the research process and its philosophical presuppositions. It claims that the latter constitutes a sort of matrix for conceiving and nurturing scientific projects.

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World Scientific

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9813202793

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A Political Biography of Arkadij Maslow, 1891-1941

Dissident Against His Will

By: Mario Kessler

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A Political Biography of Arkadij Maslow, 1891-1941

Dissident Against His Will

By: Mario Kessler

This book is a political biography of Arkadij Maksimovich Maslow (1891-1941), a German Communist politician and later a dissident and opponent to Stalin. Together with his political and common-law marriage partner, Ruth Fischer, Maslow briefly led the Communist Party of Germany, the KPD, and brought about its submission to Moscow. Afterwards Fischer and Maslow were removed from the KPD leadership in the fall of 1925 and expelled from the party a year later. Henceforth they both lived as communist outsiders—persecuted by both Hitler and Stalin. Maslow escaped to Cuba via France and Portugal and was murdered under dubious circumstances in Havana in November 1941. He died as a communist dissident committed to the cause of a radical-socialist labor movement that lay in ruins. Kessler considers Maslow's role in pivotal events such as the Bolshevik Revolution, in Soviet revolutionary parties and organizations, through to the rise of Stalinism and Cold War anti-communism. What results is a deep dive into the life of a key yet understudied figure in dissident communism.

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Springer Nature

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3030432572

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Mnemosyne

The Parallel Between Literature and the Visual Arts

By: Mario Praz

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Mnemosyne

The Parallel Between Literature and the Visual Arts

By: Mario Praz

The classic study of the timeless relationship between literature and the visual arts In his search for a common link between literature and the visual arts, Mario Praz draws on the abundant evidence of mutual understanding and correspondence they have long shared. Praz explains that within literature, each epoch has “its peculiar handwriting or handwritings, which, if one could interpret them, would reveal a character, even a physical appearance,” and while these characteristics belong to the general style of a given period, the personality of the writer does not fail to pierce through. Praz contends that something similar occurs in art. He shows how the likeness between the arts within various periods of history can ultimately be traced to structural similarities that arise out of the characteristic way in which the people of a certain epoch see and memorize facts aesthetically. Mnemosyne, at once the goddess of memory and the mother of the muses, presides over this view of the arts. In illustrating her influence, Praz ranges widely through Western sources, providing an incomparable tour of the literary and pictorial arts.

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Princeton University Press

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069125219X

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9780691252193

Attachment and Interaction

From Bowlby to Current Clinical Theory and Practice Second Edition

By: Mario Marrone

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Attachment and Interaction

From Bowlby to Current Clinical Theory and Practice Second Edition

By: Mario Marrone

Attachment and Interaction is an accessible introduction to the history and evolution of attachment theory, which traces the early roots of attachment theory from the work of its creator John Bowlby through to the most recent theoretical developments and their clinical applications. Mario Marrone explores how attachment theory can inform the way in which therapists work with their patients, and what the practical implications are of using such an approach. By bringing together personal anecdotes from his own experiences as Bowlby's supervisee with clear explanations of Bowlby's ideas, Marrone creates a memorable and engaging account of attachment theory. This new, updated edition includes references to bereavement, sexuality and the application of attachment-based principles to individual, family and group psychotherapy. This clear exposition of attachment theory is relevant and valuable reading for trainees and practising individual and group psychotherapists, family therapists and mental health professionals – as well as anyone with an interest in John Bowlby and the evolution of psychotherapy.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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0857004441

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9780857004444

Venice, an entire world

By: Mario Anton Orefice

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Venice, an entire world

By: Mario Anton Orefice

The book is about a lesser-known Venice; Palladio, libraries, artisans, the stones used in mosaics and monuments, places linked to music, and literary landscapes. There is also a chapter dedicated to “Instructions for losing your way” and a list of useful addresses and information about events, libraries, museums and exhitibitions, theatres, cinemas and bookshops.

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Marcianum Press

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8865125136

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Being Sally Cartwright

By: Mario Borazio

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Being Sally Cartwright

By: Mario Borazio

Sally Cartwright is a loner who leads a boring life. She catches the same bus to work every day, eats the same lunch at the same café every day, and comes home to her inner city flat every night where she eats dinner alone and watches the same dull TV shows. Then one day she hits her head on the pavement and is forced into seeing a psychiatrist who begins delving into her past. She is made to relive horrific memories of her childhood, all of which involve her abusive mother who is forever putting her down. The consequences of her head knock also lead to a chance meeting with a young man who she feels an attraction toward. When he turns out to be a different man to the one she thought he was, she begins to question her own worth as well as all of life itself. Through the continued support of her unwavering psychiatrist, she begins to piece her life back together and can begin to see light at the end of the tunnel. But life throws up new challenges when she is forced to care for her sick mother. With no friends to lean on, can she negotiate her obnoxious mother and still succeed in her quest to find true happiness?

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669888622

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Reinventing yourself

By: Mario Alonso Puig

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Reinventing yourself

By: Mario Alonso Puig

At the oracle in Delphos, at the entrance to Apollo's temple in ancient Greece, there was a stone which had some strange signs written on it. It was an invitation to begin one of the most fascinating adventures that a human being can undertake. In other words, the adventure of self-discovery. This book is a map which will accompany us on this trip inside ourselves. Little by little the secret of how people create the eyes through which we observe and perceive the world, will be revealed. It is with the same eyes that so often make us focus on our guiltabout the past rather than on future opportunities. Reinventing yourself does not mean becoming someone different from how we really are but rather bring our REAL SELF to the surface. It is in this new area of possibilities where creativity fl ows, along with the wisdom and energy to completely transform our experience, bringing with it more calm, desire and confi dence into our lives. The key lies within ourselves, in the exercising of our personal freedom, taking choices that slowly but surely lead us to transform our outlook. Marcel Proust said that, "the real act of discovery does not consist in going out to look for a new land but in learning to see the old land with new eyes." It is with our new eyes that we will be able to see what before we were blind to. It is also these new eyes which will lead us to discover how to reach what before had seemed unattainable.

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8418285915

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The Phenomenology of Learning and Becoming

Enthusiasm, Creativity, and Self-Development

By: Eugene Mario DeRobertis

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The Phenomenology of Learning and Becoming

Enthusiasm, Creativity, and Self-Development

By: Eugene Mario DeRobertis

In this text, the history of phenomenological research on learning is synthesized and brought forward into the areas of existential learning, the development of enthusiasm about learning (from childhood through adulthood), and paradigmatic creative experience. Original research findings are derived using the Giorgi method of descriptive phenomenological analysis in psychology. The results, structural and eidetic in nature, are then integrated from a holistic developmental viewpoint: that of Existential-Humanistic Self-Development Theory (EHSDT). An evolving developmental partnership between learning and creativity emerges as the proper conceptual frame for considering optimal growth and the relative maturity of situated becoming oneself (i.e., the process of self-cultivation). The resulting perspective is supported by cutting edge trends in neuroscience and related to pedagogy and education.

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Springer

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1349952044

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Attachment Theory Expanded

By: Mario Mikulincer,Phillip R. Shaver

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Attachment Theory Expanded

By: Mario Mikulincer,Phillip R. Shaver

From pioneering attachment researchers, this book takes an expansive look at the nature and functions of security dynamics in personal and social relationships. Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver examine how attachment operates not only in close dyadic relationships (parent–child, romantic partners), but also between teachers and students, therapists and clients, physicians and patients, leaders and followers, and within organizations. Also considered is the nature of "attachments" to objects; commercial brands; substances, such as foods and drugs; and places. The book highlights ways to integrate attachment theory with other influential social and psychological theories concerning factors that enable individuals, groups, and societies to flourish despite inevitable threats, conflicts, and losses.

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Guilford Publications

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146255265X

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Dementia

A Clinical Approach

By: Mario F. Mendez,Jeffrey L. Cummings

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Dementia

A Clinical Approach

By: Mario F. Mendez,Jeffrey L. Cummings

This book presents scientific and clinical information on every type of dementing disease-equipping the reader to understand, diagnose, and manage these conditions using all of the best approaches available today.

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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0750674709

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9780750674706

French and Oriental Love in a Harem

By: Uchard Mario Uchard,Mario Uchard

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French and Oriental Love in a Harem

By: Uchard Mario Uchard,Mario Uchard

No indeed, my dear Louis, I am neither dead nor ruined, nor have I turned pirate, trappist, or rural guard, as you might imagine in order to explain my silence these four months since I last appeared at your illustrious studio. No, you witty giber, my fabulous heritage has not taken wings! I am dwelling neither in China on the Blue River, nor in Red Oceania, nor in White Lapland. My yacht, built of teak, still lies in harbour, and is not swaying me over the vasty deep. It is no good your spinning out laborious and far-fetched hyperboles on the subject of my uncle's will: your ironical shafts all miss the mark. My uncle's will surpasses the most astonishing feat of its kind ever accomplished by notary's pen; and your poor imagination could not invent, or come anywhere near inventing, such remarkable adventures as those into which this registered document has led me. First of all, in order that your feeble intellect may be enabled to rise to the level of the subject, I must give you some description of "the Corsair," as you called him after you met him in Paris last winter; for it is only by comprehending the peculiarities of his life and character that you can ever hope to understand my adventures.

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1st World Publishing

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1421896613

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Epistemology & Methodology I:

Exploring the World

By: Mario BUNGE

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Epistemology & Methodology I:

Exploring the World

By: Mario BUNGE

In this Introduction we shall state the business of both descriptive and normative epistemology, and shall locate them in the map oflearning. This must be done because epistemology has been pronounced dead, and methodology nonexisting; and because, when acknowledged at all, they are often misplaced. 1. DESCRIPTIVE EPISTEMOLOGY The following problems are typical of classical epistemology: (i) What can we know? (ii) How do we know? (iii) What, if anything, does the subject contribute to his knowledge? (iv) What is truth? (v) How can we recognize truth? (vi) What is probable knowledge as opposed to certain knowledge? (vii) Is there a priori knowledge, and if so of what? (viii) How are knowledge and action related? (ix) How are knowledge and language related? (x) What is the status of concepts and propositions? In some guise or other all of these problems are still with us. To be sure, if construed as a demand for an inventory of knowledge the first problem is not a philosophical one any more than the question 'What is there?'. But it is a genuine philosophical problem if construed thus: 'What kinds of object are knowable-and which ones are not?' However, it is doubtful that philosophy can offer a correct answer to this problem without the help of science and technology. For example, only these disciplines can tell us whether man can know not only phenomena (appearances) but also noumena (things in themselves or self-existing objects).

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9027715114

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Attachment in Adulthood

Structure, Dynamics, and Change

By: Mario Mikulincer,Phillip R. Shaver

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Attachment in Adulthood

Structure, Dynamics, and Change

By: Mario Mikulincer,Phillip R. Shaver

Synthesizing a vast body of empirical research and organizing it around a comprehensive conceptual model, this book is recognized as the definitive reference on adult attachment. The authors explain how what began as a theory of child development is now used to conceptualize and study nearly all aspects of social functioning across the lifespan, including mental representations of self and others, emotion regulation, personal goals and strivings, couple relationships, caregiving, sexuality, psychopathology, psychotherapy, and organizational behavior. The origins and measurement of individual differences in adult attachment are examined, as is the question of whether and how attachment patterns can change. New to This Edition: *Reflects major advances, including hundreds of new studies. *Clarifies and extends the authors' influential model of attachment-system functioning. *Cutting-edge content on genetics and on the neural and hormonal substrates of attachment. *Increased attention to the interplay among attachment and other behavioral systems, such as caregiving and sexuality. *Expanded discussion of attachment processes in counseling and psychotherapy. *Additional coverage of leadership, group dynamics, and religion.

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Guilford Publications

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1462525563

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A Fish in the Water

A Memoir

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

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A Fish in the Water

A Memoir

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

In this literary memoir, the Nobel Prize–winning author and Peruvian politician shares “a convincing self-portrait . . . an often funny and cautionary tale” (Time). In 1990, Mario Vargas Llosa decided to run for the presidency of his native Peru. He campaigned on a platform of economic reform and stringent counterterrorism against the far-left gorilla group, Sendero Luminoso. His failed campaign against Alberto Fujimori generated international headlines, transforming the renowned author into a politician of world stature. A Fish in the Water is Vargas Llosa’s personal account of his life as seen through the lens of his time as a candidate. He evokes the experiences that gave rise to his fiction, while—in parallel—he describes the social, literary, and political influences that led him to enter the political arena as a crusader for democracy and a free-market economy.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429922540

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9781429922548

The Sociology-philosophy Connection

By: Mario Bunge

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The Sociology-philosophy Connection

By: Mario Bunge

Most social scientists and philosophers claim that sociology and philosophy are disjoint fields of inquiry. Some have wondered how to trace the precise boundary between them. Mario Bunge argues that the two fields are so entangled with one another that no demarcation is possible or, indeed, desirable. In fact, sociological research has demonstrably philosophical pre-suppositions. In turn, some findings of sociology are bound to correct or enrich the philosophical theories that deal with the world, our knowledge of it, or the ways of acting upon it. While Bunge's thesis would hardly have shocked Mill, Marx, Durkheim, or Weber, it is alien to the current sociological mainstream and dominant philosophical schools. Bunge demonstrates that philosophical problematics arise in social science research. A fertile philosophy of social science unearths critical presuppositions, analyzes key concepts, refines effective research strategies, crafts coherent and realistic syntheses, and identifies important new problems. Bunge examines Marx's and Durkheim's thesis that social facts are as objective as physical facts; the so-called Thomas theorem that refutes the behaviorist thesis that social agents react to social stimuli rather than to the way we perceive them; and Merton's thesis on the ethos of basic science which shows that science and morality are intertwined. He considers selected philosophical problems raised by contemporary social studies and argues forcefully against tolerance of shabby work in academic social science and philosophy alike.

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Routledge

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1351473670

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Letters to a Young Novelist

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

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Letters to a Young Novelist

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

The Nobel Prize–winning author’s classic on the craft of novel writing “distills [the great works] brilliantly, revealing an architecture to their greatness” (The Washington Post Book World). In Letters to a Young Novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe—including Borges, Bierce, Céline, Cortázar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet and others—he lays bare the inner workings of fiction, all the while urging young novelists not to lose touch with the elemental urge to create. Conversational, eloquent, and effortlessly erudite, this little book is destined to be read and re-read by young writers, old writers, would-be writers, and all those with a stake in the world of letters.

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1429921927

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Finding Philosophy in Social Science

By: Mario Bunge,Professor Mario Bunge

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Finding Philosophy in Social Science

By: Mario Bunge,Professor Mario Bunge

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Yale University Press

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0300066066

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Galileo Courtier

The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism

By: Mario Biagioli

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Galileo Courtier

The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism

By: Mario Biagioli

Informed by currents in sociology, cultural anthropology, and literary theory, Galileo, Courtier is neither a biography nor a conventional history of science. In the court of the Medicis and the Vatican, Galileo fashioned both his career and his science to the demands of patronage and its complex systems of wealth, power, and prestige. Biagioli argues that Galileo's courtly role was integral to his science—the questions he chose to examine, his methods, even his conclusions. Galileo, Courtier is a fascinating cultural and social history of science highlighting the workings of power, patronage, and credibility in the development of science.

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022621897X

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Treatise on Basic Philosophy

Ontology I: The Furniture of the World

By: Mario BUNGE

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Treatise on Basic Philosophy

Ontology I: The Furniture of the World

By: Mario BUNGE

In this Introduction' we shall sketch the business of ontology, or metaphysics, and shall locate it on the map of learning. This has to be done because there are many ways of construing the word 'ontology' and because of the bad reputation metaphysics has suffered until recently - a well deserved one in most cases. 1. ONTOLOGICAL PROBLEMS Ontological (or metaphysical) views are answers to ontological ques tions. And ontological (or metaphysical) questions are questions with an extremely wide scope, such as 'Is the world material or ideal - or perhaps neutral?" 'Is there radical novelty, and if so how does it come about?', 'Is there objective chance or just an appearance of such due to human ignorance?', 'How is the mental related to the physical?', 'Is a community anything but the set of its members?', and 'Are there laws of history?'. Just as religion was born from helplessness, ideology from conflict, and technology from the need to master the environment, so metaphysics - just like theoretical science - was probably begotten by the awe and bewilderment at the boundless variety and apparent chaos of the phenomenal world, i. e. the sum total of human experience. Like the scientist, the metaphysician looked and looks for unity in diversity, for pattern in disorder, for structure in the amorphous heap of phenomena - and in some cases even for some sense, direction or finality in reality as a whole.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9027707804

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9789027707802

Nano-Age

How Nanotechnology Changes Our Future

By: Mario Pagliaro

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Nano-Age

How Nanotechnology Changes Our Future

By: Mario Pagliaro

Sehen wir die Nanotechnologie zu euphorisch, oder kann sie wirklich Antworten auf drängende Fragen der Zukunft geben? In acht Kapiteln widmet sich dieser spannend geschriebene Band den zentralen Aspekten der Nano-Revolution. Argumentiert wird anhand von Beispielen aus verschiedensten Bereichen von der Energieproduktion und Nachhaltigkeit bis zur Pharmazie. Unterhaltend, zum Nachdenken anregend -- eine Pflichtlektüre für jeden, der wissen will, wohin uns die Nanotechnologie bringen kann.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527643869

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9783527643868

Philosophy of Science

Volume 2, From Explanation to Justification

By: Mario Bunge

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Philosophy of Science

Volume 2, From Explanation to Justification

By: Mario Bunge

Originally published as Scientific Research, this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science. Mario Bunge, one of the major figures of the century in the development of a scientific epistemology, describes and analyzes scientific philosophy, as well as discloses its philosophical presuppositions. This work may be used as a map to identify the various stages in the road to scientific knowledge.Philosophy of Science is divided into two volumes, each with two parts. Part 1 offers a preview of the scheme of science and the logical and semantical took that will be used throughout the work. The account of scientific research begins with part 2, where Bunge discusses formulating the problem to be solved, hypothesis, scientific law, and theory.The second volume opens with part 3, which deals with the application of theories to explanation, prediction, and action. This section is graced by an outstanding discussion of the philosophy of technology. Part 4 begins with measurement and experiment. It then examines risks in jumping to conclusions from data to hypotheses as well as the converse procedure.Bunge begins this mammoth work with a section entitled ""How to Use This Book."" He writes that it is intended for both independent reading and reference as well as for use in courses on scientific method and the philosophy of science. It suits a variety of purposes from introductory to advanced levels. Philosophy of Science is a versatile, informative, and useful text that will benefit professors, researchers, and students in a variety of disciplines, ranging from the behavioral and biological sciences to the physical sciences.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351499750

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Multilateralism Past, Present and Future

A European Perspective

By: Mario Telò

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Multilateralism Past, Present and Future

A European Perspective

By: Mario Telò

This book offers an important chronological perspective on the evolution of multilateralism within Europe and beyond. It provides a critical reconstruction of the history of the idea and praxis of peaceful global governance, a comparative analysis of regional multilateral organisations and a discussion about concrete trends and perspectives of a new multilateralism against the challenging context of the current multipolar power politics. Focusing on the changing European interplay with multilateralism – from Eurocentric cradle of civilian cooperation among sovereign imperial states, to political dwarf after the two world wars and decolonisation, and to potential co-leader of a multilayered and multi-actor cooperation within the current multipolar order, it addresses a theoretical “gap” by fuelling the long-recognised idealism v. realism debate over international cooperation and institutionalisation with both historical and new empirical insights. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European studies, global governance, multilateralism, international organisations and more broadly international relations.

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1000888789

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Mathematical methods for wave propagation in science and engineering

Volume 1: Fundamentals

By: Mario Durán

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Mathematical methods for wave propagation in science and engineering

Volume 1: Fundamentals

By: Mario Durán

This series of books deals with the mathematical modeling and computational simulation of complex wave propagation phenomena in science and engineering. This first volume of the series introduces the basic mathematical and physical fundamentals, and it is mainly intended as a reference guide and a general survey for scientists and engineers. It presents a broad and practical overview of the involved foundations, being useful as much in industrial research, development, and innovation activities, as in academic labors.

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9561413140

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NonInvasive Cardiovascular Imaging: A Multimodality Approach

By: Mario J. Garcia

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NonInvasive Cardiovascular Imaging: A Multimodality Approach

By: Mario J. Garcia

This textbook covers the fundamental principles of cardiovascular imaging modalities and their applications for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. The main focus is on the comprehensive diagnosis of clinical conditions/disease entities through the most effective cardiovascular imaging test or combination. The authors discuss the clinical utility and relative value of each test to address specific clinical questions, based on evidence and expert opinion. Each chapter presents information in the following format: overview, discussion of pathophysiology; differential diagnosis/diagnostic evaluation; prognosis; therapeutic guidance with illustration of treatment pathway. A companion Website will offer the full text, ten multiple-choice questions for each chapter, still and cine images, and imaging clips.

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1451148526

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