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The Nature of All Being

A Study of Wittgenstein's Modal Atomism

By: Raymond Bradley

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The Nature of All Being

A Study of Wittgenstein's Modal Atomism

By: Raymond Bradley

In this comprehensive study of Wittgenstein's modal theorizing, Bradley offers a radical reinterpretation of Wittgenstein's early thought and presents both an interpretive and a philosophical thesis. A unique feature of Bradley's analysis is his reliance on Wittgenstein's Notebooks, which he believes offer indispensable guidance to the interpretation of difficult passages in the Tractatus. Bradley then goes on to argue that Wittgenstein's account of modality--and the related notion of possible worlds--is in fact superior to any of the currently popular theories in this area. In this context, he examines and critiques the work of such figures as Adams, Carnap, Hintikka, Lewis, Rescher, and Stalnaker.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195071115

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Northern Lights

A Novel

By: Raymond Strom

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Northern Lights

A Novel

By: Raymond Strom

A stunning debut novel set in the late 1990s—“a powerful depiction of the currency of intolerance and addiction in one small town” (Kirkus Reviews)—about an androgynous youth who arrives in Minnesota, searching for the mother who abandoned him as a child. On a clear morning in the summer of 1997, Shane Stephenson arrives in Holm, Minnesota, with only a few changes of clothes, an old Nintendo, and a few dollars to his name. Reeling from the death of his father, Shane wants to find the mother who abandoned him as an adolescent—hoping to reconnect, but also to better understand himself. Against the backdrop of Minnesota’s rugged wilderness, and a town littered with shuttered shops, graffiti, and crumbling infrastructure, Holm feels wild and dangerous. Holm’s residents, too, are wary of outsiders, and Shane’s long blonde hair and androgynous looks draw attention from a violent and bigoted contingent in town, including the unhinged Sven Svenson. He is drawn in by a group of sympathetic friends in their teens and early twenties, all similarly lost: the reckless, charming J and his girlfriend Mary; Jenny, a brilliant and beautiful artist who dreams of escaping Holm; and the mysterious loner Russell, to whom Shane, against his better judgment, feels a strange attraction. As Sven’s threats of violence escalate, Shane is forced to choose between his search for his mother, the first true friendships he’s ever had, and a desire to leave both his past and present behind entirely. “A cross between two of the greats in those categories: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, and Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), Raymond Strom’s Northern Lights presents an unforgettable world and an experience often overlooked, with a new kind of hero to admire.

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Simon & Schuster

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1501190318

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9781501190315

Saddles and Spurs

The Pony Express Saga

By: Raymond W. Settle

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Saddles and Spurs

The Pony Express Saga

By: Raymond W. Settle

The story of the Pony Express, which carried transcontinental mail from April 3, 1860 to October 24, 1861, is one of the most invigorating and satisfying episodes in American history. Saddles and Spurs: The Pony Express Saga brings together a storehouse of information about this brilliant operation. Projected against an account of the historical background—the great overland mail issue, the freighting and the stagecoach business, the development of the telegraph and the Pacific railroad—is the narrative of the Pony Express's organization and the laying out of its route; biographical sketches of the founders, company personnel, and riders; and a list and description of the stations. While undertaking their exhaustive research, the authors collected some three hundred photographs, of which more than fifty of the best appear in this volume.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803257651

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Psychology and Environmental Change

By: Raymond S. Nickerson

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Psychology and Environmental Change

By: Raymond S. Nickerson

This book stimulates thinking on the topic of detrimental environmental change and how research psychologists can help to address the problem. In addition to reporting environmentally relevant psychological research, the author identifies the most pressing questions from an environmental point of view. Psychology and Environmental Change: *focuses on ways in which human behavior contributes to the problem; *deals with the assessment and change of attitudes and with studies of change of behavior; *proposes ways in which psychological research can contribute to making technology and its products more environmentally benign; and *introduces topics such as consumption, risk assessment, cost-benefit and tradeoff analyses, competition, negotiation, and policymaking, and how they relate to the objective of protecting the environment.

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Psychology Press

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113563890X

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9781135638900

Explorers of the Southern Sky

A History of Australian Astronomy

By: Raymond Haynes

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Explorers of the Southern Sky

A History of Australian Astronomy

By: Raymond Haynes

The most comprehensive account of Australian astronomy to date.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521365759

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On the Edge of Certainty

Philosophical Explorations

By: Raymond Tallis

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On the Edge of Certainty

Philosophical Explorations

By: Raymond Tallis

Raymond Tallis's The Explicit Animal (1991) was a passionate attack on attempts to explain human consciousness in purely biological terms. This ground-breaking book defended the distinctive nature of human consciousness against the misrepresentations of those many philosophers and cognitive scientists who aimed to reduce it to a set of functions understood in evolutionary, neurobiological and computational terms. In his laudatory review in The Times Literary Supplement, Stephen Clark expressed the hope that Tallis would continue his explorations. On the Edge of Certainty does precisely that, investigating and clarifying the implications of the highly original view of human nature discussed in his earlier book, in order to understand the nature of truth, of language, of the mind and of the self.

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Springer

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0230598862

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9780230598867

The Great Mathematicians

Unravelling the Mysteries of the Universe

By: Raymond Flood,Robin Wilson

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The Great Mathematicians

Unravelling the Mysteries of the Universe

By: Raymond Flood,Robin Wilson

Why did Florence Nightingale introduce pie charts? How did Lewis Carroll regard Pythagoras? Who learned calculus from her nursery wallpaper? Spanning from the ancient world to the modern age, The Great Mathematicians tells fascinating and unusual tales of the men and women who transformed mathematics. We meet the mathematician who knew eight languages by the time he was 11, the one who was sent to jail for gambling and the one who published a lot yet never existed. As well as providing rich bibliographic detail, Professors Raymond Flood and Robin Wilson explain various theorems using concise and accessible language. These include the Pythagorean theorem, Gödel's Incompleteness theorem, Fermat's Last Theorem and many more. Flood and Wilson are both former presidents of the British Society for the History of Mathematics and are uniquely qualified to lay out this incredible tale. This entertaining and rigorously accurate book presents mathematics with a human face, celebrating the achievements of the greatest mathematicians across history.

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Arcturus Publishing

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1848589484

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9781848589483

The British Diplomatic Service

1815-1914

By: Raymond Jones

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The British Diplomatic Service

1815-1914

By: Raymond Jones

Previous accounts of the British Foreign Office have left the impression that the diplomatic service was an insignificant appendage of the Foreign Office. Jones's study redresses the balance, demonstrating that the diplomatic service was an equal if not senior partner with the Foreign Office in the execution of British foreign policy. After a brief introduction to the history of diplomacy, Jones follows the changes wrought in the service by the intense political and social pressures of the nineteenth century. Against the background of the growth of the Victorian Civil Service and the emergence of Great Britain as a world power in the age of the Pax Britannica, Jones traces the demise of the family embassy, and of a diplomacy deeply rooted in patronage, and the corresponding development of the professional, bureaucratic elite of the Edwardian era. In case studies of the Near Eastern crisis of 1839-41, the Mason Sliddell Affair of the American Civil War, and the Dogger Bank Crisis of 1904, the volume sets forth the working environment of an embassy, both before and after the communications revolution following upon the introduction of the telegraph. Also examined are the social structures of the unreformed diplomatic service and the later, professional service. The volume will be of interest to historians of diplomacy and foreign policy, to political scientists, and to students of social change.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889207526

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9780889207523

Henry VIII's Military Revolution

The Armies of Sixteenth-century Britain and Europe

By: James Raymond

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Henry VIII's Military Revolution

The Armies of Sixteenth-century Britain and Europe

By: James Raymond

The reign of Henry VIII saw a renascent militarism encapture England. Memories of great victories over the French remained fresh and resplendent in the psyche and pageantry of early-Tudor England, and the pursuit of glory on the battlefield and of due recognition of England as a major player in European power politics were the identifying features of Henry's reign. In an exciting new work, James Raymond traces the development of Henry's military establishment within the context of the wider European military revolution. Making use of extensive new research into the military literature of the mid-Tudor period, 'Henry VIII's Military Revolution' is able to root firmly the military theories of the time within the solid realities of Henry's army. Raymond pays particular attention to the rise of professionalism in the English military, and its adaptation to new technologies and ideas. In this vein, the career of Sir Christopher Morris, Henry's first professional artilleryman, is explored for the first time, casting light on the experience of day-to-day life in the English army of mid-Tudor England, and challenging the established view on the development of artillery both in England and in Europe. "Henry VIII's Military Revolution" develops and expands the argument that the English Army was up-to-date with its European contemporaries, and moves the English experience away from the periphery towards the centre of the debate on the European military revolution. The militarism of Henry VIII's England is seen through new eyes in this fascinating new work.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857713213

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9780857713216

On the Ontology of the Sacred (and the Profane)

By: Raymond Aaron Younis

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On the Ontology of the Sacred (and the Profane)

By: Raymond Aaron Younis

This book examines and clarifies the nature, meaning, significance and vitality of the sacred (and the profane), in relation to some of the diverse religions of the world and the rich and multifarious traditions of the sacred in many cultures and times, in the context of ontology (broadly, the philosophical study or investigation of being). It provides incisive critical analyses and evaluations of many important contributions to our understanding of the sacred, and the holy, especially in relation to the world's religions, religious experience, religious insight or knowledge, metaphysics, mythology and mysticism. A number of important theories and explanations are also critically analyzed and evaluated, including the numinous theory of the sacred and the holy (Otto), the psychodynamic theory (Freud), the sociological theory (Durkheim), empirical theories (Russell and Ayer), the ontological question (Heidegger) and the hierophantic theory (Eliade)—among others. The book concludes with a number of reflections on the ontology of the sacred (and the profane) in relation to philosophy and science, that will open up new pathways of thinking, reflection and investigation in the 21st century.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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149857369X

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9781498573696

The Public Eye

By: Raymond Buchanan

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The Public Eye

By: Raymond Buchanan

This book is about Cordell Weston who is a lawyer and also a licensed private detective and rides a motorcycle every where he can. He loses his best friend to a killer who hates his guts. He also is hired to solve a case where two men were murdered in two separate rooms and even in two separate buildings. The men were shot from long distance and no one else was in the room at the time. the rooms were locked from the inside, the windows did not open and no glass was broken. He falls head over heels in love with a beautiful real estate gal who owns her own Company. Cordell Weston solved the mystery of the two men getting shot in rooms when no one else was there. He goes on to other cases and other adventures where the good times out weigh the bad. Isn't this where we say, "and they lived happily ever after.

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1481756273

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Black Political History

From the Arch of Safety into the Mouth of the Lion

By: Ken Raymond

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Black Political History

From the Arch of Safety into the Mouth of the Lion

By: Ken Raymond

As I researched the African American journey for civil rights throughout history, I discovered many great sources of information. Some of the best places include the Copley Square Library in Boston and the library in the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Street.The libraries within the North Carolina Legislative Building and Wake Forest University have also been great sources of information. But I have to say, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the best source of information is the Frederick Douglass Papers in the Library of Congress.When I discovered the Frederick Douglass Papers on the Library of Congress website, I believe I felt like the early 19th-century miners, who, after investing all their strength, energy, and youth digging into the earth and into mountains, finally struck gold!It has been years since I first discovered the Frederick Douglass Papers. But to this day, I am still amazed when I visit the website and read the hundreds of digitally preserved, handwritten letters and documents authored by the hand of Frederick Douglass himself. These letters reveal the unedited, unfiltered thoughts and beliefs of one of greatest civil rights heroes in history. Addressed to friends, colleagues, and supporters, in them Douglass opens his heart, not only about the issues of his day but about other historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, members of Congress, and many others.It was among this treasure trove of history where I found a letter written by Douglass in which he offers advice to a friend expressing concern about the future of black Americans. In his comments, Douglass describes what he believed to be the best place for African Americans as "the arch of safety." The arch of safety, the place of shelter and protection from storms, is described in this book. In that same letter, Douglass issued a prophetic warning to all black Americans that graphically describes the condition of blacks in urban areas throughout America today. Douglass describes this condition as the "the mouth of the lion." Douglass's definition of the "mouth of the lion" is also found in this book. The day I discovered the Frederick Douglass Papers was a very happy day for me. But as I read his letters, I also became a little angry because many of his thoughts and beliefs are not taught in educational institutions.If they were, the public would know that Frederick Douglass was not only a civil rights hero--he was something of a prophet.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1098045440

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9781098045449

The British Diplomatic Service, 1815-1914

1815-1914

By: Raymond Jones

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The British Diplomatic Service, 1815-1914

1815-1914

By: Raymond Jones

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889201242

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9780889201248

McCarthyism vs. Clinton Jencks

By: Raymond Caballero

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McCarthyism vs. Clinton Jencks

By: Raymond Caballero

For twenty years after World War II, the United States was in the grips of its second and most oppressive red scare. The hysteria was driven by conflating American Communists with the real Soviet threat. The anticommunist movement was named after Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, but its true dominant personality was FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who promoted and implemented its repressive policies and laws. The national fear over communism generated such anxiety that Communist Party members and many left-wing Americans lost the laws’ protections. Thousands lost their jobs, careers, and reputations in the hysteria, though they had committed no crime and were not disloyal to the United States. Among those individuals who experienced more of anticommunism’s varied repressive measures than anyone else was Clinton Jencks. Jencks, a decorated war hero, adopted as his own the Mexican American fight for equal rights in New Mexico’s mining industry. In 1950 he led a local of the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers in the famed Empire Zinc strike—memorialized in the blacklisted 1954 film Salt of the Earth—in which wives and mothers replaced strikers on the picket line after an injunction barred the miners themselves. But three years after the strike, Jencks was arrested and charged with falsely denying that he was a Communist and was sentenced to five years in prison. In Jencks v. United States (1957), the Supreme Court overturned his conviction in a landmark decision that mandated providing to an accused person previously hidden witness statements, thereby making cross-examination truly effective. In McCarthyism vs. Clinton Jencks, Caballero reveals for the first time that the FBI and the prosecution knew all along that Clinton Jencks was innocent. Jencks’s case typified the era, exposing the injustice that many suffered at the hands of McCarthyism. The tale of Jencks’s quest for justice provides a fresh glimpse into the McCarthy era’s oppression, which irrevocably damaged the lives, careers, and reputations of thousands of Americans.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806165901

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9780806165905

Rehabilitation and Probation in England and Wales, 1876-1962

By: Raymond Gard

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Rehabilitation and Probation in England and Wales, 1876-1962

By: Raymond Gard

Rehabilitation and Probation in England and Wales, 1876-1962 draws on a wide range of archive material to describe the arrival of a modern probation service. Focusing on the first half of the twentieth century, it describes the debates, conflicts and compromises that resulted in the creation of a state sponsored, centrally controlled, professional, secular, social work and psychological based agency. Following a chronological structure, Ray Gard explores the arrival of the so-called period of 'penal optimism', showing how rehabilitation arrived in the courts of England and Wales. The book uses archive and original material to give voice to those devising and implementing policy, revealing an uneven path to a modern probation system.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472532600

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The Genealogy of Disjunction

By: Raymond Earl Jennings

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The Genealogy of Disjunction

By: Raymond Earl Jennings

Jennings's approach considers the various historical conceptions of disjunction from its place in the logic of the Stoics to the present day.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195075242

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9780195075243

Fuzzy-Neuro Approach to Agent Applications

From the AI Perspective to Modern Ontology

By: Raymond S.T. Lee

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Fuzzy-Neuro Approach to Agent Applications

From the AI Perspective to Modern Ontology

By: Raymond S.T. Lee

Complete course on Intelligent Agent or AI with focus on contemporary and latest AI technologies and development Companion technical reference for agent developers/researchers who would like to adopt the iJADK toolkit to develop their own agent-based applications and projects The advanced section on modern ontology and ontological agents serves as research literature for AI researchers who would like to explore the advanced AI/agent topics that involve the contemporary research on ontological agents and applied ontology

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540309845

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9783540309840

John Dewey

Rethinking Our Time

By: Raymond D. Boisvert

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John Dewey

Rethinking Our Time

By: Raymond D. Boisvert

A concise, eminently readable introduction to the thought of America's most prominent philosopher.

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SUNY Press

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0791435296

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9780791435298

This Book Needs No Title

A Budget of Living Paradoxes

By: Raymond Smullyan

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This Book Needs No Title

A Budget of Living Paradoxes

By: Raymond Smullyan

From Simon & Schuster, This Book Needs No Title is Raymond Smullyan's budget of living paradoxes—the author of What is the Name of This Book? Including eighty paradoxes, logical labyrinths, and intriguing enigmas progress from light fables and fancies to challenging Zen exercises and a novella and probe the timeless questions of philosophy and life.

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0671628313

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9780671628314

Manitoba's French-Language Crisis

A Cautionary Tale

By: Raymond Hébert

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Manitoba's French-Language Crisis

A Cautionary Tale

By: Raymond Hébert

Raymond Hebert analyses Manitoba's French-language crisis in detail and considers its local and national implications. For nine months in 1983 and early 1984, beginning with a protest by French-speaking Manitobans, who had received parking tickets written only in English and ending with a legal compromise that made Manitoba all but officially bilingual, Manitoba endured charged demonstrations, grimly fought plebiscites, and legislative filibustering. Towards the end of the crisis, legislative paralysis set in and the government itself ground to a halt. Hebert argues that, far from being a spontaneous populist movement, the crisis was largely manufactured by a few individuals, some of whom were in the Legislative Assembly itself. Hebert considers various theoretical models to explain aspects of the crisis and concludes that the authoritarian personality model is the most relevant. Right-wing authoritarianism exists everywhere and, he argues, under proper conditions, especially demagogic leadership, can provoke populist explosions of racist and prejudiced sentiment; and hence the cautionary nature of this Canadian tale.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773527087

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9780773527089

Juxinseason (Respect The Jux Prt, 1, 2, & 3)

Respect The Jux Prt. 1,2,& 3

By: O.G. YELLO/Raymond James

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Juxinseason (Respect The Jux Prt, 1, 2, & 3)

Respect The Jux Prt. 1,2,& 3

By: O.G. YELLO/Raymond James

The Order Of Thieves" is a band of criminals formed with one thing in mind; to prey on the criminal underworld by way of The JUX. "The JUX" is the craft practiced by the men of The Order Of Thieves. Started by a group of Jamaicans, The Order Of Thieves created a legend in the streets that made it an honor to have this group of men relieve you of your personal wealth. No one was safe from the season of the JUX. If you were dealing in any part of the criminal world then you were fare game for The Order. From Drug dealers to politicians and even a priminister found the season of the JUX upon them. From Jamaica to New York and the Eastern Sea Board to the long arm of the law reaching even across seas for them; one thing was certain, if your wealth became a reason then nothing could protect you from the JUXINSEASON.

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Da-Order P&E Company

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976952980X

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Analysis of Perception

By: Paul Humphreys,John Raymond Smythies

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Analysis of Perception

By: Paul Humphreys,John Raymond Smythies

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

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Psychology Press

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0415209749

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9780415209748

Aspects of Rationality

Reflections on What It Means To Be Rational and Whether We Are

By: Raymond S. Nickerson

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Aspects of Rationality

Reflections on What It Means To Be Rational and Whether We Are

By: Raymond S. Nickerson

What does it mean to be rational to reason well and effectively? How does rationality, broadly conceived, relate to the knowledge one acquires, the beliefs one forms, the explanations one constructs or appropriates, the judgments and decisions one makes, the values one adopts? What is the character of human reasoning and, in particular, does it t

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Psychology Press

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1136676341

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On the Dynamics of Exploited Fish Populations

By: Raymond J.H. Beverton,Sidney J. Holt

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On the Dynamics of Exploited Fish Populations

By: Raymond J.H. Beverton,Sidney J. Holt

Among the fishes, a remarkably wide range of biological adaptations to diverse habitats has evolved. As well as living in the conventional habitats of lakes, ponds, rivers, rock pools and the open sea, fish have solved the problems of life in deserts, in the deep sea, in the cold antarctic, and in warm waters of high alkalinity or of low oxygen. Along with these adaptations, we find the most impressive specializations of morphology, physiology and behaviour. For example we can marvel at the high-speed swimming of the marlins, sailfish and warm-blooded tunas, air-breathing in catfish and lungfish, parental care in the mouth-brooding cichlids, and viviparity in many sharks and toothcarps. Moreover, fish are of considerable importance to the survival of the human species in the form of nutritious, delicious and diverse food. Rational exploitation and management of our global stocks of fishes must rely upon a detailed and precise insight of their biology. The Chapman & Hall Fish and Fisheries Series aims to present timely volumes reviewing important aspects of fish biology. Most volumes will be of interest to research workers in biology, zoology, ecology and physiology but an additional aim is for the books to be accessible to a wide spectrum of non-specialist readers ranging from undergraduates and postgraduates to those with an interest in industrial and commercial aspects of fish and fisheries.

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9401121060

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9789401121064

Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary

By: Raymond D. Boisvert

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Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary

By: Raymond D. Boisvert

The standard interpretation keeps repeating that Camus is the prototypical “absurdist” thinker. Such a reading freezes Camus at the stage at which he wrote The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus. By taking seriously how (1) Camus was always searching and (2) the rest of his corpus, Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary corrects the one-sided, and thus faulty, depiction of Camus as committed to a philosophy of absurdism. His guiding project, which he explicitly acknowledged, was an attempt to get beyond nihilism, the general dismissal of value and meaning in ordinary life. Tracing this project via Camus's works, Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary, offers a new lens for thinking about the well-known author.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350347930

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9781350347939

Satan, Cantor, And Infinity And Other Mind-bogglin

By: Raymond M. Smullyan

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Satan, Cantor, And Infinity And Other Mind-bogglin

By: Raymond M. Smullyan

More than two hundred new and challenging logic puzzles—the simplest brainteaser to the most complex paradoxes in contemporary mathematical thinking—from our topmost puzzlemaster (“the most entertaining logician who ever lived,” Martin Gardner has called him). Our guide to the puzzles is the Sorcerer, who resides on the Island of Knights and Knaves, where knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie, and he introduces us to the amazing magic—logic—that enables to discover which inhabitants are which. Then, in a picaresque adventure in logic, he takes us to the planet Og, to the Island of Partial Silence, and to a land where metallic robots wearing strings of capital letters are noisily duplicating and dismantling themselves and others. The reader’s job is to figure out how it all works. Finally, we accompany the Sorcerer on an alluring tour of Infinity which includes George Cantor’s amazing mathematical insights. The tour (and the book) ends with Satan devising a diabolical puzzle for one of Cantor’s prize students—who outwits him! In sum: a devilish magician’s cornucopia of puzzles—a delight for every age and level of ability.

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0307819825

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9780307819826

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