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Fibrewise Homotopy Theory

By: Michael Charles Crabb,Ioan Mackenzie James

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Fibrewise Homotopy Theory

By: Michael Charles Crabb,Ioan Mackenzie James

Topology occupies a central position in modern mathematics, and the concept of the fibre bundle provides an appropriate framework for studying differential geometry. Fibrewise homotopy theory is a very large subject that has attracted a good deal of research in recent years. This book provides an overview of the subject as it stands at present.

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Ecclesiastes

By: Michael V. Fox

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Ecclesiastes

By: Michael V. Fox

The Book of Ecclesiastes is part of the "wisdom literature" of the Bible. It concerns itself with universal philosophical questions, rather than events in the history of Israel and in the Hebrews' covenant with God. Koheleth, the speaker in this book, ruminates on what -- if anything -- has lasting value, and how -- if at all -- God interacts with humankind. Koheleth expresses bewilderment and frustration at life's absurdities and injustices. He grapples with the inequities that pervade the world and the frailty and limitations of human wisdom and righteousness. His awareness of these discomfiting facts coexists with a firm believe in God's rule and God's fundamental justice, and he looks for ways to define a meaningful life in a world where so much is senseless. Ecclesiastes is traditionally read on the Jewish holiday Sukkot, the harvest festival.

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Jewish Publication Society

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0827609655

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Contemporary Scenes for Actors

Women

By: Michael Earley,Philippa Keil

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Contemporary Scenes for Actors

Women

By: Michael Earley,Philippa Keil

Contemporary Scenes for Actors: Women collects scenes from the most acclaimed and award-winning playwrights of the 1990s. It contains over 40 two-character scenes (for women/women and women/men), with the selection of scenes encompassing the widest range of styles from serious to comic and shades in between. A fuller appreciation of the dramatic context of the scenes is enhanced by the editors' introductions and commentaries. Each of the scenes offers the actor the opportunity to develop and explore the vital, dynamic and unique challenge of working with a partner on stage.

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Routledge

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Composition

Methods for Developing Simple Melodies and Longer Compositions

By: Michael Miller

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Composition

Methods for Developing Simple Melodies and Longer Compositions

By: Michael Miller

Write the songs that make the whole world sing. A step-by-step guide to writing music, this book shows musicians how to compose simple chord progressions and melodies, and leads them through more advanced compositional techniques and musical forms. Designed for composers of all types of music, it includes instruction on composing stand-alone melodies, using different scales and modes, themes and variations, orchestration, and composing for film, theater, and videogames. -Perfect complement to The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Songwriting -Includes a comprehensive glossary of musical terms, as well as an appendix of various computer-based composition tools -Easy-to-use oversize trim

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Penguin

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Conceptual Atomism and the Computational Theory of Mind

A Defense of Content-internalism and Semantic Externalism

By: John-Michael Kuczynski

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Conceptual Atomism and the Computational Theory of Mind

A Defense of Content-internalism and Semantic Externalism

By: John-Michael Kuczynski

What is it to have a concept? What is it to make an inference? What is it to be rational? On the basis of recent developments in semantics, a number of authors have embraced answers to these questions that have radically counterintuitive consequences, for example: One can rationally accept self-contradictory propositions (e.g. Smith is a composer and Smith is not a composer). Psychological states are causally inert: beliefs and desires do nothing. The mind cannot be understood in terms of folk-psychological concepts (e.g. belief, desire, intention). One can have a single concept without having any others: an otherwise conceptless creature could grasp the concept of justice or of the number seven. Thoughts are sentence-tokens, and thought-processes are driven by the syntactic, not the semantic, properties of those tokens. In the first half of Conceptual Atomism and the Computational Theory of Mind, John-Michael Kuczynski argues that these implausible but widely held views are direct consequences of a popular doctrine known as content-externalism, this being the view that the contents of one's mental states are constitutively dependent on facts about the external world. Kuczynski shows that content-externalism involves a failure to distinguish between, on the one hand, what is literally meant by linguistic expressions and, on the other hand, the information that one must work through to compute the literal meanings of such expressions. The second half of the present work concerns the Computational Theory of Mind (CTM). Underlying CTM is an acceptance of conceptual atomism the view that a creature can have a single concept without having any others and also an acceptance of the view that concepts are not descriptive (i.e. that one can have a concept of a thing without knowing of any description that is satisfied by that thing). Kuczynski shows that both views are false, one reason being that they presuppose the truth of content-externalism, another being that they are incompatible with the epistemological anti-foundationalism proven correct by Wilfred Sellars and Laurence Bonjour. Kuczynski also shows that CTM involves a misunderstanding of terms such as computation, syntax, algorithm and formal truth; and he provides novel analyses of the concepts expressed by these terms. (Series A)

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John Benjamins Publishing

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Contemporary Scenes for Actors, Men

By: Michael Earley

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Contemporary Scenes for Actors, Men

By: Michael Earley

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

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Response to Modernity

A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism

By: Michael A. Meyer

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Response to Modernity

A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism

By: Michael A. Meyer

Comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement. The movement for religious reform in modern Judaism represents one of the most significant phenomena in Jewish history during the last two hundred years. It introduced new theological conceptions and innovations in liturgy and religious practice that affected millions of Jews, first in central and Western Europe and later in the United States. Today Reform Judaism is one of the three major branches of Jewish faith. Bringing to life the ideas, issues, and personalities that have helped to shape modern Jewry, Response to Modernity offers a comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement, tracing its changing configuration and self-understanding from the beginnings of modernization in late 18th century Jewish thought and practice through Reform's American renewal in the 1970s.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814337554

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Collecting the Now

On the Financial Side of Postwar Art History

By: Michael Maizels

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Collecting the Now

On the Financial Side of Postwar Art History

By: Michael Maizels

Collecting the Now offers a new, in-depth look at the economic forces and institutional actors that have shaped the outlines of postwar art history, with a particular focus on American art, 1960–1990. Working through four case studies, Michael Maizels illuminates how a set of dealers and patrons conditioned the iconic developments of this period: the profusions of pop art, the quixotic impossibility of land art, the dissemination of new media, and the speculation-fueled neo-expressionist painting of the 1980s. This book addresses a question of pivotal importance to a swath of art history that has already received substantial scholarly investigation. We now have a clear, nuanced understanding of why certain evolutions took place: why pop artists exploded the delimited parameters of aesthetic modernism, why land artists further strove against the object form itself, and why artists returned to (neo-)traditional painting in the 1980s. But remarkably elided by extant scholarship has been the question of how. How did conditions coalesce around pop so that its artists entered into museum collections, and scholarly analyses, at pace unprecedented in the prior history of art? How, when seeking to transcend the delimited gallery object, were land artists able to create monumental (and by extension, monumentally expensive), interventions in the extreme wilds of the Western deserts? And how did the esoteric objects of media art come eventually to scholarly attention in the sustained absence of academic interest or a private market? The answers to these questions lie in an exploration of the financial conditions and funding mechanisms through which these works were created, advertised, distributed, and preserved.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472220330

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DB2 Universal Database V8 Application Development Certification Guide

By: Steve Sanyal,David Martineau,Kevin Gashyna,Michael Kyprianou

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DB2 Universal Database V8 Application Development Certification Guide

By: Steve Sanyal,David Martineau,Kevin Gashyna,Michael Kyprianou

The accompanying CD-ROM contains a complete trial version of IBM DB2 Universal Database Personal Edition version 8.1, for Windows operating environments, evaluation copy"--Back cover.

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The 4th Marine Brigade at Belleau Wood and Soissons

History and Battlefield Guide

By: J. Michael Miller

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The 4th Marine Brigade at Belleau Wood and Soissons

History and Battlefield Guide

By: J. Michael Miller

The battles of Belleau Wood and Soissons in June and July of 1918 marked a turning point in World War I and in the stature of the US Marine Corps, whose fighting proved so critical in repelling the Germans that the French would later rename Belleau “Bois de la Brigade de Marine.” In this book J. Michael Miller, a historian of the Marine Corps and veteran chronicler of battle, takes us to the battlefields of Belleau Wood and Soissons, immersing us in the experience of a single brigade of marines at the forefront of the fighting. Through a close-up look at the doughboys’ singular impact on Allied victory in 1918, his work illuminates America’s bloody sacrifice during World War I. The 4th Marine Brigade at Belleau Wood and Soissons for the first time treats these two battles as one campaign and demonstrates why it is impossible to fully understand one without the other. Miller outlines the company and platoon levels of combat throughout the campaign, establishing a basic tactical understanding of the fighting; he also draws on letters, diaries, memoirs, and interviews to create a vivid and personal reconstruction of the battles. His use of French and German sources, also a first, adds unprecedented insights to this boots-on-the-ground account. The book includes detailed mapping of both battlefields, with a thirty-six-stop guide linking the text with the actual terrain. For each of these stops Miller gives GPS coordinates to provide a virtual tour of the sites he discusses. With its strategic overview and ground-level perspective, Miller’s work suggests a new interpretation and offers a new experience of an iconic moment in American military history—and in the story of the Marine Corps.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700629572

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The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism

Ornamental Community

By: Michael E. Robinson

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The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism

Ornamental Community

By: Michael E. Robinson

How did the buying and collecting of books figure in the lives and works of the Romantics, those supposed apostles of spiritualized poetic genius? Why was book collecting controversial during the Romantic period, and what role has book collecting played in the history of homophobia? The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism: Ornamental Community addresses these and more questions about the suppressed bookish dimension of Romanticism, as well as Romanticism’s historical forebears and Victorian inheritors. The analysis ranges widely, addressing the bookish proclivities of the "romantic friends" the Ladies of Llangollen, the camp works about book collecting produced by a subculture calling themselves “ornamental gentlemen,” narratives of prototypically punk collecting and flâneuring by the essayist and collector Charles Lamb, and rare-book forgeries by Thomas J. Wise and Harry Forman, queer bibliographer-scholars responsible for canonizing some of the Romantic poets during the Victorian period. In the process, this book uncovers surprising connections between conceptions of literature and sexuality; literary materiality and queerness; and forgery, sexuality, and authorship.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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179360794X

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Metaphysics

A Contemporary Introduction

By: Michael J. Loux,Thomas M. Crisp

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Metaphysics

A Contemporary Introduction

By: Michael J. Loux,Thomas M. Crisp

Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction is for students who have already completed an introductory philosophy course and need a fresh look at the central topics in the core subject of metaphysics. It is essential reading for any student of the subject. This Fourth Edition is revised and updated and includes two new chapters on (1) Parts and Wholes, and (2) Metaphysical Indeterminacy or vagueness. This new edition also keeps the user-friendly format, the chapter overviews summarizing the main topics, concrete examples to clarify difficult concepts, annotated further reading at the end of each chapter, endnotes, and a full bibliography. Topics addressed include: the problem of universals the nature of abstract entities the problem of individuation the nature of modality identity through time the nature of time the nature of parts and wholes the problem of metaphysical indeterminacy the Realism/anti-Realism debate. Wherever possible, Michael J. Loux and Thomas M. Crisp relate contemporary views to their classical sources in the history of philosophy. As experienced teachers of philosophy and important contributors to recent debates, Loux and Crisp are uniquely qualified to write this book.

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1317267451

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Meditating in the Word of God

Taking Possession of the Kingdom

By: Michael Josephvon Landry

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Meditating in the Word of God

Taking Possession of the Kingdom

By: Michael Josephvon Landry

Seek Ye First The Kingdom Of GodThis book is a must for those seeking to truly know our father. It provides astounding, and auspicious revelations concerning our coming to;The Knowledge Of God.There are two parts in Jesus statement above. One part is an action, or effort to be taken, and the other is the effect or result. And, is a conj. meaning then, or with this consequence. Shalt, (shall) used with, I, we, or thou, expresses future tense . The action we are to take is, to hear God. God is a spirit, so how do we hear a spirit? To hear God, is to pay attention to his thoughts, which are his righteous judgments, and giving them deep thought continuously. Hearing is an active process that involves thought and expenditure of energy. To hear God is to think his thoughts, hearing him in the spirit of the mind, the heart, where the issues of life are. The King James bible concordance describes the word think as: To Meditate. The Oxford American Dictionary describes thought as; Meditation: The process, or "power of thinking". Deep thought. Through continued meditation in Gods righteous judgments, receiving and keeping them continually in the spirit of our minds, we thereby consecrate ourselves unto his thoughts, withal casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. 2 Cor 10:4-7 God has given us his thoughts, his judgments of all events, past, present, and future by his word. The kingdom is not seen with the eyes. As spoken by Jesus, its neither here nor there. You are to receive the kingdom within your heart, within the spirit of your mind, by meditating in the word. Thereby taking possession of the kingdom of God. The Kings Domain. King: Sovereign, or supreme ruler. Domain: Field Of Thought.h2{color:red;}p.question{color:red}p.answer{color:#red;}

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A Constitution of Direct Democracy

Pure Democracy and the Governance of the Future, Locally and Gobally

By: Michael N Mautner, Ph. D.

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A Constitution of Direct Democracy

Pure Democracy and the Governance of the Future, Locally and Gobally

By: Michael N Mautner, Ph. D.

All people share the basic needs of survival and the social drives embedded in human nature. Survival demands sustenance, safety and procreation; and the social drives demand dignity, justice and freedom. These shared values emerge when the common will is distilled from the diverse wills of people. Where this communal wisdom governs, human dignity will be honored and our survival will be secure. This book describes a system of pure democracy where all major decision are done through referendums and statistically meaningful public opinion polls. The policies are then executed by expert agencies with oversight from public policy panels. The book also describes transition to Direct Democracy through Representatives pledged to "I shall vote in Congress or Parliament according to the instructions of my constituents.

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Legacy Books

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0473068559

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Morning and Evening Meditations from the Word of God

Education, Challenge, Inspiration, and Encouragement

By: Michael J. Akers

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Morning and Evening Meditations from the Word of God

Education, Challenge, Inspiration, and Encouragement

By: Michael J. Akers

There are many devotional books available containing brief, daily inspirations that benefit all who read them. This book is different in two respects. The first is obvious: it contains two readings per day—732 in all. The second, more important difference is that the author wanted to do more than offer inspiration; this would make this book no different than so many others. The messages in the book are study sketches in that the content is not only inspirational, but also educational, challenging, and encouraging. Most of these writings were based on author Michael J. Akers’s teaching of adult Bible studies for more than thirty years and learning what really brought adults to want to deepen their knowledge and application of the Word of God.

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WestBow Press

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1490829180

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Intelligent Agents III. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages

ECAI'96 Workshop (ATAL), Budapest, Hungary, August 12-13, 1996, Proceedings

By: Michael J. Wooldridge,Nick Jennings

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Intelligent Agents III. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages

ECAI'96 Workshop (ATAL), Budapest, Hungary, August 12-13, 1996, Proceedings

By: Michael J. Wooldridge,Nick Jennings

Intelligent agents are computer systems that are capable of flexible autonomous action in dynamic, typically multi-agent domains. Over the past few years, the computer science community has begun to recognise that the technology of intelligent agents provides the key to solving a range of complex software application problems, for which traditional software engineering tools and techniques offer no solution. This book, the third in a series, represents the state of the art in the science of agent systems. It is based on papers presented at the 3rd workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages (ATAL'96), held in conjunction with the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'96) in Budapest, Hungary, in August 1996. It is essential reading for anyone interested in this vital new technology.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540625070

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Talking Machine West

A History and Catalogue of Tin Pan Alley's Western Recordings, 1902–1918

By: Michael A. Amundson

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Talking Machine West

A History and Catalogue of Tin Pan Alley's Western Recordings, 1902–1918

By: Michael A. Amundson

Many associate early western music with the likes of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, but America’s first western music craze predates these “singing cowboys” by decades. Written by Tin Pan Alley songsters in the era before radio, the first popular cowboy and Indian songs circulated as piano sheet music and as cylinder and disc recordings played on wind-up talking machines. The colorful fantasies of western life depicted in these songs capitalized on popular fascination with the West stoked by Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows, Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian, and Edwin S. Porter’s film The Great Train Robbery. The talking machine music industry, centered in New York City, used state-of-the-art recording and printing technology to produce and advertise songs about the American West. Talking Machine West brings together for the first time the variety of cowboy, cowgirl, and Indian music recorded and sold for mass consumption between 1902 and 1918. In the book’s introductory chapters, Michael A. Amundson explains how this music reflected the nostalgic passing of the Indian and the frontier while incorporating modern ragtime music and the racial attitudes of Jim Crow America. Hardly Old West ditties, the songs gave voice to changing ideas about Indians and assimilation, cowboys, the frontier, the rise of the New Woman, and ethnic and racial equality. In the book’s second part, a chronological catalogue of fifty-four western recordings provides the full lyrics and history of each song and reproduces in full color the cover art of extant period sheet music. Each entry also describes the song’s composer(s), lyricist(s), and sheet music illustrator and directs readers to online digitized recordings of each song. Gorgeously illustrated throughout, this book is as entertaining as it is informative, offering the first comprehensive account of popular western recorded music in its earliest form.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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Daily Reflections and Meditations

Drawing Encouragement from the Word of God

By: Michael J. Akers,Ryan M. Akers

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Drawing Encouragement from the Word of God

By: Michael J. Akers,Ryan M. Akers

This is a book of reflection and meditation to give you encouragement and greater spiritual depth.

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WestBow Press

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1512775355

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Substance and Attribute

A Study in Ontology

By: Michael J. Loux

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Substance and Attribute

A Study in Ontology

By: Michael J. Loux

In this book I address a dichotomy that is as central as any in ontology - that between ordinary objects or substances and the various attributes (Le. , properties, kinds, and relations) we associate with them. My aim is to arrive at the correct philosophical account of each member of the dichotomy. What I shall argue is that the various attempts to understand substances or attri butes in reductive terms fail. Talk about attributes, I shall try to show, is just that - talk about attributes; and, likewise, talk about substances is just tha- talk about substances. The result is what many will find a strange combina tion of views - a Platonistic theory of attributes, where attributes are univer sals or multiply exemplifiable entities whose existence is independent of "the world of flux", and an Aristotelian theory of substance, where substances are basic unities not reducible to metaphysically more fundamental kinds of things. Part One is concerned with the ontology of attributes. After distinguishing three different patterns of metaphysical thinking about attributes, I examine, in turn, the phenomena of predication, resemblance, and higher order quanti fication. I argue that none of these phenomena by itself is sufficient to establish the inescapability of a Platonistic interpretation of attributes. Then, I discuss the phenomenon of abstract reference as it is exhibited in the use of abstract singular terms.

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9400998740

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T-Minus AI

Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power

By: Michael Kanaan

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T-Minus AI

Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power

By: Michael Kanaan

Late in 2017, the global significance of the conversation about artificial intelligence (AI) changed forever. China put the world on alert when it released a plan to dominate all aspects of AI across the planet. Only weeks later, Vladimir Putin raised a Russian red flag in response by declaring AI the future for all humankind, and proclaiming that, "Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world." The race was on. Consistent with their unique national agendas, countries throughout the world began plotting their paths and hurrying their pace. Now, not long after, the race has become a sprint. Despite everything at stake, to most of us AI remains shrouded by a cloud of mystery and misunderstanding. Hidden behind complicated and technical jargon and confused by fantastical depictions of science fiction, the modern realities of AI and its profound implications are hard to decipher, but crucial to recognize. In T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power, author Michael Kanaan explains AI from a human-oriented perspective we can all finally understand. A recognized national expert and the U.S. Air Force's first Chairperson for Artificial Intelligence, Kanaan weaves a compelling new view on our history of innovation and technology to masterfully explain what each of us should know about modern computing, AI, and machine learning. Kanaan also dives into the global implications of AI by illuminating the cultural and national vulnerabilities already exposed and the pressing issues now squarely on the table. AI has already become China's all-purpose tool to impose its authoritarian influence around the world. Russia, playing catch up, is weaponizing AI through its military systems and now infamous, aggressive efforts to disrupt democracy by whatever disinformation means possible. America and like-minded nations are awakening to these new realities—and the paths they're electing to follow echo loudly the political foundations and, in most cases, the moral imperatives upon which they were formed. As we march toward a future far different than ever imagined, T-Minus AI is fascinating and crucially well-timed. It leaves the fiction behind, paints the alarming implications of AI for what they actually are, and calls for unified action to protect fundamental human rights and dignities for all.

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BenBella Books

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1950665135

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The CERN Resonant WISP Search (CROWS)

By: Betz, Michael

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The CERN Resonant WISP Search (CROWS)

By: Betz, Michael

The subject of this work is the design, implementation and first results of the "CERN Resonant WISP Search" (CROWS), which probes the existence of Axion Like Particles and Hidden Sector Photons (HSPs) using microwave techniques. By exploiting low loss cavity resonators, multiple layers of electromagnetic shielding and a micro-Hz bandwidth detection scheme, new exclusion limits could be set. For HSPs, sensitivity was improved by a factor of 7 compared to previous laboratory experiments.

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KIT Scientific Publishing

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3731501996

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I-5S2kaizen4life

Who Says 5S Is Only Happening at Work Place!

By: Michael Lim

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Who Says 5S Is Only Happening at Work Place!

By: Michael Lim

Michael Lim has discovered personal management and improvement can be leveraged on 5S and Kaizen too. The 5S is a well-known Japanese housekeeping management at the workplace, and Kaizen means change for better (continuous improvement by small changes). In fact, 5S is supporting not only at the workplace and factory management systems but also supports our daily activities. Unconsciously, everyone is doing 5S every day yet at what level. Non-Japanese found it difficult to sustain 5S at the workplace (place 5S), and the only answer is personal 5S (self-5S). One should practice self-5S first before practicing place 5S. This makes it easier and can be internalized first by individuals. Results of place 5S will be more effective. Self-5S and place 5S are intertwined and complement each other. I name the title of this book i-5S2Kaizen4Life. I means me, self, ego, one to be internalized, innovative, intelligent; industrious to sort, set, shine, and sustain; and self-principled to change to be good and become better to live in life, the personal life and life situations.

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Partridge Publishing Singapore

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1482831511

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Christian Basics Bible NLT

By: Martin H. Manser,Michael H. Beaumont

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Christian Basics Bible NLT

By: Martin H. Manser,Michael H. Beaumont

Finalist for the 2018 Christian Book Award for Bible of the Year. New to the Bible? Either because you have become a Christian recently, or because somehow the Bible seems to have passed you by? Then this edition is for you! Whether you are reading the Bible for the first time or not, its variety of material--not to mention its length--can seem overwhelming. It can be difficult for readers new to Scripture to explore its teachings and to see how Christian beliefs are established in its pages. But understanding both what we believe and why we believe it provides the foundation for a grounded Christian faith. The Christian Basics Bible is filled with features designed to help readers--especially those new to the Bible--connect biblical teachings to Christian beliefs and to see how those beliefs apply to their lives. By delivering the right amount of both information and application, The Christian Basics Bible can become the catalyst for living a vibrant Christian life.

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1496413601

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Frege

Philosophy of Language

By: Michael Dummett

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Frege

Philosophy of Language

By: Michael Dummett

No one has figured more prominently in the study of German philosopher Gottlob Frege than Michael Dummett. This highly acclaimed book is a major contribution to the philosophy of language as well as a systematic interpretation of Frege, indisputably the father of analytic philosophy. Frege: Philosophy of Language remains indispensable for an understanding of contemporary philosophy. Harvard University Press is pleased to reissue this classic book in paperback.

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0674319311

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Appomattox

The Last Days of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia

By: Michael E. Haskew

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Appomattox

The Last Days of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia

By: Michael E. Haskew

They endured hardship and deprivation as they fought for their home and ideals - relive the final days of the Army of Northern Virginia. Appomattox: The Last Days of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia encompasses the defense and evacuation of the Confederate capital of Richmond, the horrific combat in the trenches of Petersburg, General Robert E. Lee's withdrawal toward the Carolinas in his forlorn hope of a rendezvous with General Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee to carry on the fight, the relentless pursuit of Union forces, and the ultimate realization that further resistance against overwhelming odds was futile. The Army of Northern Virginia was the fighting soul of the Confederacy in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War. From its inception, it fought against overwhelming odds. Union forces might have occupied territory, but as long as the Confederate army was active in the field, the rebellion was alive. Through four years of bitter conflict, the Army of Northern Virginia and its longtime commander, General Robert E. Lee, became the stuff of legend. By April 1865, its days were numbered. There are many stories of heroism and sacrifice, both Union and Confederate, during the Civil War, and Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia wrote their own epic chapter. Author Michael E. Haskew, a researcher, writer, and editor of many military history subjects for over twenty years, puts the hardship and deprivation suffered by this Army's soldiers while defending their home and ideals into proper perspective.

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Zenith Press

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1627886192

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Qoheleth and His Contradictions

By: Michael V. Fox

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Qoheleth and His Contradictions

By: Michael V. Fox

Fox takes as his starting point the issues that Quoheleth's interpreters have faced in their efforts to render the book faithfully, and in so doing, provides a new analysis of Quoheleth's reasoning, logic, and means of expression. Fox reaches three key conclusions about the work: Quoheleth is primarily concerned with the rationality of existence; Quoheleth is not against wisdom or the wise, and finally: Quoheleth supports the grasping of inner experience as the one domain of human freedom. These conclusions are supported by a thorough look at other analyses of Quoheleth.

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A&C Black

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1850751439

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The Capitals of the Confederacy

A History

By: Michael C. Hardy

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The Capitals of the Confederacy

A History

By: Michael C. Hardy

“A handy, all-in-one reference on the Confederate capitals . . . Rich details and effective anecdotes . . . evok[e] a real sense of the people, places, and events” (The Civil War Monitor). The Confederate States of America boasted five capital cities in four years. The center of the Confederate government moved from one Southern city to another, including Montgomery, Richmond, Danville, Greensboro, and Charlotte. From the heady early days of the new country to the dismal last hours of a transient government, each city played a role in the Confederate story. While some of these sites are commemorated with impressive monuments and museums, others offer scant evidence of their importance in Civil War history. Join award-winning historian Michael C. Hardy as he recounts the harrowing history of the capitals of the Confederacy. Includes photos!

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625854323

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Hershey

Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams

By: Michael D'Antonio

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Hershey

Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams

By: Michael D'Antonio

D'Antonio pens the first full biography of one of the most successful and unusual business titans of the 20th century--Milton Hershey--and a startling history of how his commanding fortune shaped a unique utopian legacy.

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Simon and Schuster

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074326410X

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Discipleship in the Ancient World and Matthew's Gospel, Second Edition

By: Michael Wilkins

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Discipleship in the Ancient World and Matthew's Gospel, Second Edition

By: Michael Wilkins

With a comprehensive sweep of the relevant literature--including classical and Hellenistic sources, the Septuagint, and the New Testament--the author defines disciple and related terms as they were used in the ancient world. Pertinent Semitic words from the Hebrew Bible, Rabbinic literature, and Qumran documents provide additional background for the term. A special emphasis is Matthew's use of mathetes and the role of Simon Peter as a model disciple. The study first appeared in 1988 in the prestigious Novum Testamentum Supplements under the title The Concept of Disciple in Matthew's Gospel: As Reflected in the Use of the Term Mathetes. In this second edition, the author includes a new chapter outlining advances in the field since the book was first published.

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1498234976

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The Battle of Roanoke Island

Burnside and the Fight for North Carolina

By: Michael P. Zatarga

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The Battle of Roanoke Island

Burnside and the Fight for North Carolina

By: Michael P. Zatarga

In the winter of 1861, Union armies had failed to win any significant victories over their Confederate counterparts. The Northern populace, overwhelmed by the bloodshed, questioned whether the costs of the war were too high. President Lincoln despondently wondered if he was going to lose the Union. As a result, tension was incredibly high when Union hero Ambrose Burnside embarked for coastal North Carolina. With the eyes of the nation and world on little Roanoke Island in the Outer Banks, Burnside began his amphibious assault on the beaches and earned a victory that shifted control of Southern waters. Join author and historian Michael Zatarga as he traces the story of the crucial fight on Roanoke Island.

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1626199019

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Accepting God's Love, Whether You Are Married or Single

By: Michael Dothard

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Accepting God's Love, Whether You Are Married or Single

By: Michael Dothard

Our choice to accept God can be the turning point in our lives. This choice can allow God to express the best that is within us. God is the ultimate answer to everything that we may need in life. Along with his love, he lives in every human heart, regardless of ethnicity, age, life situation, or marital status. He patiently awaits us to receive him throughout any and every point in our lives. He is immeasurable. He is infinite. He is wisdom. He is the peace that we find, and he is also the good potential that we all possess. He existed before all else and holds all creation together with his love, from which we can never be separated. He is who we should all accept to be spiritually healthy. He is the light that makes all things visible, and only by His Presence are we capable of expressing true love. God is truly the one and only spirit that we all need to breathe, and he is real whether or not we believe and accept him!

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WestBow Press

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1449724116

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The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864

By: Sean Michael Chick

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The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864

By: Sean Michael Chick

The Battle of Petersburg was the culmination of the Virginia Overland campaign, which pitted the Army of the Potomac, led by Ulysses S. Grant and George Gordon Meade, against Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. In spite of having outmaneuvered Lee, after three days of battle in which the Confederates at Petersburg were severely outnumbered, Union forces failed to take the city, and their final, futile attack on the fourth day only added to already staggering casualties. By holding Petersburg against great odds, the Confederacy arguably won its last great strategic victory of the Civil War. In The Battle of Petersburg, June 15–18, 1864, Sean Michael Chick takes an in-depth look at an important battle often overlooked by historians and offers a new perspective on why the Army of the Potomac’s leadership, from Grant down to his corps commanders, could not win a battle in which they held colossal advantages. He also discusses the battle’s wider context, including politics, memory, and battlefield preservation. Highlights include the role played by African American soldiers on the first day and a detailed retelling of the famed attack of the First Maine Heavy Artillery, which lost more men than any other Civil War regiment in a single battle. In addition, the book has a fresh and nuanced interpretation of the generalships of Grant, Meade, Lee, P. G. T. Beauregard, and William Farrar Smith during this critical battle.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1612347398

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Confidence Intervals

By: Michael Smithson

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Confidence Intervals

By: Michael Smithson

Smithson first introduces the basis of the confidence interval framework and then provides the criteria for "best" confidence intervals, along with the trade-offs between confidence and precision. Next, using a reader-friendly style with lots of worked out examples from various disciplines, he covers such pertinent topics as: the transformation principle whereby a confidence interval for a parameter may be used to construct an interval for any monotonic transformation of that parameter; confidence intervals on distributions whose shape changes with the value of the parameter being estimated; and, the relationship between confidence interval and significance testing frameworks, particularly regarding power.

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SAGE

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076192499X

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Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English

By: James B. McMillan,Michael Montgomery

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Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English

By: James B. McMillan,Michael Montgomery

A collection of the total range of scholarly and popular writing on English as spoken from Maryland to Texas and from Kentucky to Florida The only book-length bibliography on the speech of the American South, this volume focuses on the pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, naming practices, word play, and other aspects of language that have interested researchers and writers for two centuries. Compiled here are the works of linguists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and educators, as well as popular commentators. With over 3,800 entries, this invaluable resource is a testament to the significance of Southern speech, long recognized as a distinguishing feature of the South, and the abiding interest of Southerners in their speech as a mark of their identity. The entries encompass Southern dialects in all their distinctive varieties—from Appalachian to African American, and sea islander to urbanite.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817304487

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Progressive Dystopia

By: Michael Ozga

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Progressive Dystopia

By: Michael Ozga

We are at a crossroads in our nation's history and presented with two distinct choices; liberty or tyranny. We either believe in American exceptionalism and the founding principle that man can rule himself. Or we choose a style of governance that centrally plans our very existence. We either believe in the principles espoused by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, et al...or we believe in the principles espoused by Marx, Engels, Bismarck, Lenin, et al... Following The Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin said "we have a Republic if we can keep it." A warning against apathy and a call to arms that freedom requires eternal vigilance. Reagan planted his flag and asked, "if not us who, if not now, when?" We are presented with a choice, between a style of government whereby the power is derived from the people and a style of government that usurps all power from the governed. Progressivism is a villainous perfidy and a style of government completely antithetical to our founding principles.

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1467040320

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The Rise of Analytic Philosophy, 1879–1930

From Frege to Ramsey

By: Michael Potter

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The Rise of Analytic Philosophy, 1879–1930

From Frege to Ramsey

By: Michael Potter

In this book Michael Potter offers a fresh and compelling portrait of the birth of modern analytic philosophy, viewed through the lens of a detailed study of the work of the four philosophers who contributed most to shaping it: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Frank Ramsey. It covers the remarkable period of discovery that began with the publication of Frege's Begriffsschrift in 1879 and ended with Ramsey's death in 1930. Potter—one of the most influential scholars of this period in philosophy—presents a deep but accessible account of the break with absolute idealism and neo-Kantianism, and the emergence of approaches that exploited the newly discovered methods in logic. Like his subjects, Potter focusses principally on philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics, but he also discusses epistemology, meta-ethics, and the philosophy of language. The book is an essential starting point for any student attempting to understand the work of Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey, as well as their interactions and their larger intellectual milieux. It will also be of interest to anyone who wants to cast light on current philosophical problems through a better understanding of their origins.

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1317689712

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