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Neither Liberal nor Conservative

Ideological Innocence in the American Public

By: Donald R. Kinder,Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Neither Liberal nor Conservative

Ideological Innocence in the American Public

By: Donald R. Kinder,Nathan P. Kalmoe

Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from terrorism and national security, to taxes and government spending, to immigration and gay marriage. Well, American elites disagree fiercely. But average Americans do not. This, at least, was the position staked out by Philip Converse in his famous essay on belief systems, which drew on surveys carried out during the Eisenhower Era to conclude that most Americans were innocent of ideology. In Neither Liberal nor Conservative, Donald Kinder and Nathan Kalmoe argue that ideological innocence applies nearly as well to the current state of American public opinion. Real liberals and real conservatives are found in impressive numbers only among those who are deeply engaged in political life. The ideological battles between American political elites show up as scattered skirmishes in the general public, if they show up at all. If ideology is out of reach for all but a few who are deeply and seriously engaged in political life, how do Americans decide whom to elect president; whether affirmative action is good or bad? Kinder and Kalmoe offer a persuasive group-centered answer. Political preferences arise less from ideological differences than from the attachments and antagonisms of group life.

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University of Chicago Press

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022645259X

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9780226452593

Thinking and learning to think

in large print

By: Nathan C. Schaeffer

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Thinking and learning to think

in large print

By: Nathan C. Schaeffer

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417

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368375288

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9783368375287

Finite Mathematics and Calculus with Applications

By: Margaret L. Lial,Raymond N. Greenwell,Nathan P. Ritchey

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Finite Mathematics and Calculus with Applications

By: Margaret L. Lial,Raymond N. Greenwell,Nathan P. Ritchey

Widely known for incorporating interesting, relevant, and realistic applications, this text offers many real applications citing current data sources. There are a wide variety of opportunities for use of technology, allowing for increased visualization and a better understanding of difficult concepts. MyMathLab, a complete online course, will be available with this text. For the first time, a comprehensive series of lectures on video will be available.

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Addison-Wesley Longman

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0321228235

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9780321228239

Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning

By: Nathan U. Salmon

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Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning

By: Nathan U. Salmon

Metaphysics, Mathematics and Meaning' brings together Nathan Salmon's influential papers on topics in the metaphysics of existence, non-existence and fiction. He includes a previously unpublished essay and helpful new introduction to orient the reader.

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Oxford University Press

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0199284717

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9780199284719

Hume and the Demands of Philosophy

Science, Skepticism, and Moderation

By: Nathan I. Sasser

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Hume and the Demands of Philosophy

Science, Skepticism, and Moderation

By: Nathan I. Sasser

Hume and the Demands of Philosophy: Science, Skepticism, and Moderation offers a comprehensive interpretation of the relationship between Hume’s scientific project and his skepticism. Nathan I. Sasser argues that Hume is a radical epistemic skeptic who has purely practical reasons for retaining the beliefs that are essential for ordinary life and scientific research. On Sasser’s reading, the key to Hume’s epistemology is his conception of philosophy as a normative method of inquiry governing the special sciences. Philosophy approves of the mental faculties that produce reasoning and sensory beliefs. But sensory beliefs and the products of reason themselves face insuperable rational defeater arguments, and because they do, philosophy demands that we suspend these beliefs. Hume’s solution to this skeptical dilemma is to point out the fatal practical consequences of doing so. He advises us not to submit to the demands of philosophy when doing so is neither agreeable nor useful to ourselves or others. Hume’s moderate approach to philosophy recognizes that if the human mind is not created by a beneficent deity, then we must learn to live with the divergence between the epistemic demands of philosophy and the practical demands of life.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793623228

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9781793623225

The Unwritten Enlightenment

Literature between Ideology and the Unconscious

By: Nathan Gorelick

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The Unwritten Enlightenment

Literature between Ideology and the Unconscious

By: Nathan Gorelick

Unveiling the fantasies that drove the Enlightenment and created modern literature Nathan Gorelick’s The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature between Ideology and the Unconscious traces the relations between literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins in the Enlightenment era’s novels and novelistic discourse, where the period’s efforts to invent new notions of subjectivity and individualism are most apparent. Gorelick shows how modern concepts of literature and the unconscious were generated in response to these efforts and by an ethical concern for what the language of the Enlightenment excludes, represses, or struggles to erase. Troubling the idea of the Enlightenment on its own terms, subverting its supposed authority from within, Gorelick thus reveals the workings of unconscious fantasy at the foundations of our contemporary political realities. The Unwritten Enlightenment makes clear that to criticize the Enlightenment’s deficiencies, ambiguities, and legacies of violence without regard for the unconscious fantasies that drive them risks reproducing the very patterns of thought, action, and imagination that the Enlightenment novel already unsettles.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810146789

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9780810146785

College Geometry

An Introduction to the Modern Geometry of the Triangle and the Circle

By: Nathan Altshiller-Court

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College Geometry

An Introduction to the Modern Geometry of the Triangle and the Circle

By: Nathan Altshiller-Court

The standard university-level text for decades, this volume offers exercises in construction problems, harmonic division, circle and triangle geometry, and other areas. 1952 edition, revised and enlarged by the author.

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Courier Corporation

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0486141373

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9780486141374

With Ballots and Bullets

Partisanship and Violence in the American Civil War

By: Nathan P. Kalmoe

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With Ballots and Bullets

Partisanship and Violence in the American Civil War

By: Nathan P. Kalmoe

Durable, acrimonious partisanship profoundly shapes contemporary American politics, yet scholars and analysts have been slow to consider the latent capacity of party leaders to mobilize violence.

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305

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Cambridge University Press

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1108834930

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9781108834933

Human Motivation

Commentary on Goal-Directed Action

By: Nathan Brody

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Human Motivation

Commentary on Goal-Directed Action

By: Nathan Brody

Human Motivation: Commentary on Goal-Directed Action deals with human motivation, illustrating a simplistic model of a goal-directed action sequence derived from the usual layman's conception of a goal-directed action. This book consists of five chapters. After an introduction provided in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 considers the Hullian tradition in motivation, emphasizing that there is a body of evidence that requires an analysis of motivational phenomena in nonpurposive terms. The theories growing out of research on achievement motivation is examined in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 covers the theory of affective dynamics and applications of certain economic principles to human behavior, including theoretical developments to the theory of action presented in the preceding chapter. Chapter five discusses complexities in the commonsense view of action tendencies, such as the usual assumption that individuals are aware of the reasons for their actions and goals toward which their actions are directed is challenged. This publication is a good reference for students and researchers conducting work on the study of human motivation.

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Elsevier

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1483265617

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9781483265612

The Spherics of Theodosios

By: Nathan Sidoli,R.S.D. Thomas

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The Spherics of Theodosios

By: Nathan Sidoli,R.S.D. Thomas

This book provides the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios (2nd-1st century BCE), a canonical mathematical and astronomical text used from as early as the 2nd century CE until the early modern period. Accompanied by an introduction to the life and works of Theodosios and a contextualization of his Spherics among other works of Greek mathematics and astronomy, the translation is followed by a detailed commentary, and an accessible English paraphrase accompanied with mathematically generated diagrams. The volume has a broad appeal to both general and specialist readers who do not read ancient Greek – allowing readers to understand the mathematical and astronomical principles and methods used by ancient and medieval readers of this important text. The paraphrase with its mathematical diagrams will be useful for readers with a scientific and mathematical background. This study of one of the canonical mathematical and astronomical texts of the ancient Greco-Roman, classical Islamic, and medieval Christian worlds provides an invaluable resource for historians of science, astronomy, and mathematics, and scholars of the ancient and medieval periods.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000896056

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9781000896053

The Price of Doubt

By: Nicholas Nathan

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The Price of Doubt

By: Nicholas Nathan

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1134567464

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9781134567461

Mathematics in Fun and in Earnest

By: Nathan Altshiller-Court

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Mathematics in Fun and in Earnest

By: Nathan Altshiller-Court

A world-renowned mathematician takes a lighthearted look at the philosophy, form, and re-creations of mathematics, discussing the science's charm as well as its utility and historical role. 1958 edition.

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0486449688

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9780486449685

Visual Group Theory

By: Nathan Carter

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Visual Group Theory

By: Nathan Carter

Group theory is the branch of mathematics that studies symmetry, found in crystals, art, architecture, music and many other contexts, but its beauty is lost on students when it is taught in a technical style that is difficult to understand. Visual Group Theory assumes only a high school mathematics background and covers a typical undergraduate course in group theory from a thoroughly visual perspective. The more than 300 illustrations in Visual Group Theory bring groups, subgroups, homomorphisms, products, and quotients into clear view. Every topic and theorem is accompanied with a visual demonstration of its meaning and import, from the basics of groups and subgroups through advanced structural concepts such as semidirect products and Sylow theory.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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088385757X

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9780883857571

Book's by Nathan Converse

Neither Liberal nor Conservative

Neither Liberal nor Conservative

Thinking and learning to think

Thinking and learning to think

Finite Mathematics and Calculus with Applications

Finite Mathematics and Calculus with Applications

Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning

Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning

Hume and the Demands of Philosophy

Hume and the Demands of Philosophy

The Unwritten Enlightenment

The Unwritten Enlightenment

College Geometry

College Geometry

With Ballots and Bullets

With Ballots and Bullets

Human Motivation

Human Motivation

The Spherics of Theodosios

The Spherics of Theodosios

The Price of Doubt

The Price of Doubt

Mathematics in Fun and in Earnest

Mathematics in Fun and in Earnest

Visual Group Theory

Visual Group Theory

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