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Thomas Aquinas on Virtue

By: Thomas Osborne

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Thomas Aquinas on Virtue

By: Thomas Osborne

A comprehensive account of Thomas Aquinas's understanding of virtue, for scholars in ethics, medieval philosophy, and theology.

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Cambridge University Press

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131651174X

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The French empire between the wars

Imperialism, politics and society

By: Martin Thomas

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The French empire between the wars

Imperialism, politics and society

By: Martin Thomas

By considering the distinctiveness of the inter-war years as a discrete period of colonial change, this book addresses several larger issues, such as tracing the origins of decolonization in the rise of colonial nationalism, and a re-assessment of the impact of inter-war colonial rebellions in Africa, Syria and Indochina. The book also connects French theories of colonial governance to the lived experience of colonial rule in a period scarred by war and economic dislocation.

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Manchester University Press

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1526118696

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Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham

By: Thomas Michael Osborne

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Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham

By: Thomas Michael Osborne

This book sets out a thematic presentation of human action, especially as it relates to morality, in the three most significant figures in Medieval Scholastic thought: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham

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CUA Press

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0813221781

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9780813221786

The American West in Bronze, 1850–1925

By: Thayer Tolles,Thomas B. Smith

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The American West in Bronze, 1850–1925

By: Thayer Tolles,Thomas B. Smith

The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925' is the first full-scale exhibition to explore the aesthetic and cultural impulses behind the creation of statuettes with American western themes, which have been so popular with audiences then and now. Both the exhibition and this accompanying catalogue offer a fresh look at the multifaceted roles played by these sculptors in creating three-dimensional interpretations of western life, whether based on historical fact, mythologized fiction, or most often, something in-between. Examples by such archetypal representatives of the West as Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell are complemented by the work of sculptors such as James Earle Fraser and Paul Manship, who contributed to the popularity of the American bronze statuette even though their western subjects were less frequent." -- Publisher's description.

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Yale University Press

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0300197438

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9780300197433

The AI Advantage

How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work

By: Thomas H. Davenport

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The AI Advantage

How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work

By: Thomas H. Davenport

Cutting through the hype, a practical guide to using artificial intelligence for business benefits and competitive advantage. In The AI Advantage, Thomas Davenport offers a guide to using artificial intelligence in business. He describes what technologies are available and how companies can use them for business benefits and competitive advantage. He cuts through the hype of the AI craze—remember when it seemed plausible that IBM's Watson could cure cancer?—to explain how businesses can put artificial intelligence to work now, in the real world. His key recommendation: don't go for the “moonshot” (curing cancer, or synthesizing all investment knowledge); look for the “low-hanging fruit” to make your company more efficient. Davenport explains that the business value AI offers is solid rather than sexy or splashy. AI will improve products and processes and make decisions better informed—important but largely invisible tasks. AI technologies won't replace human workers but augment their capabilities, with smart machines to work alongside smart people. AI can automate structured and repetitive work; provide extensive analysis of data through machine learning (“analytics on steroids”), and engage with customers and employees via chatbots and intelligent agents. Companies should experiment with these technologies and develop their own expertise. Davenport describes the major AI technologies and explains how they are being used, reports on the AI work done by large commercial enterprises like Amazon and Google, and outlines strategies and steps to becoming a cognitive corporation. This book provides an invaluable guide to the real-world future of business AI. A book in the Management on the Cutting Edge series, published in cooperation with MIT Sloan Management Review.

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MIT Press

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0262538008

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9780262538008

Reassembling the Strange

Naturalists, Missionaries, and the Environment of Nineteenth-Century Madagascar

By: Thomas Anderson

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Reassembling the Strange

Naturalists, Missionaries, and the Environment of Nineteenth-Century Madagascar

By: Thomas Anderson

This book examines how Westerners understood and processed Madagascar and its environment during the nineteenth century. Madagascar’s unique ecosystem crafted its reputation as a strange place full of unusual species. Westerners, however, often minimized Madagascar’s peculiar features to stress the commonality of its fauna and flora with the world. The attempt to understand the island through science led to a domestication of its environment that created the image of a tame and known world capable of being controlled and used by Western powers. At the heart of the exploration of Madagascar and its transformation in Western eyes from a strange world to a cash crop colony were missionaries and naturalists who relied upon global experiences to master the island by normalizing the peculiar qualities of Madagascar’s environment. This book reveals how the environment played a dominant role in understanding the island and its people, and how current environmental debates have evolved from earlier policies and discussions about the environment.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498576060

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9781498576062

Republic of Equals

Predistribution and Property-owning Democracy

By: Alan Thomas

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Republic of Equals

Predistribution and Property-owning Democracy

By: Alan Thomas

This first book length study of property-owning democracy argues that a society in which capital is universally accessible to all citizens uniquely meets the demands of justice. It defends a renovated form of capitalism in which the free market is no longer a threat to social democratic values, but is potentially convergent with them.

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Oxford University Press

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0190602112

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9780190602116

Aquinas's Ethics

By: Thomas M. Osborne Jr

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Aquinas's Ethics

By: Thomas M. Osborne Jr

This Element provides an account of Thomas Aquinas's moral philosophy that emphasizes the intrinsic connection between happiness and the human good, human virtue, and the precepts of practical reason. Human beings by nature have an end to which they are directed and concerning which they do not deliberate, namely happiness. Humans achieve this end by performing good human acts, which are produced by the intellect and the will, and perfected by the relevant virtues. These virtuous acts require that the agent grasps the relevant moral principles and uses them in particular cases.

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Cambridge University Press

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110858683X

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Homework Success for Children with ADHD

A Family-school Intervention Program

By: Thomas J. Power,James L. Karustis,Dina F. Habboushe

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Homework Success for Children with ADHD

A Family-school Intervention Program

By: Thomas J. Power,James L. Karustis,Dina F. Habboushe

This manual presents the first empirically supported homework intervention approach specifically developed for families coping with ADHD in children in grades 1-6. Special features include detailed case examples; checklists for monitoring interventions; recruiting instruments and outcome measures; and reproducible parent handouts. Ideal for use with groups of parents and children, or with one family at a time, this manual is intended for school psychologists and counselors, clinical child psychologists and other mental health practitioners, and special education professionals.

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Guilford Press

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1572306165

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9781572306165

Digital Education

Opportunities for Social Collaboration

By: M. Thomas

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Digital Education

Opportunities for Social Collaboration

By: M. Thomas

A collection of content-based chapters and case studies examining the pedagogical potential and realities of digital literacies in education. The book aims to examine a number of foundational aspects of Web 2.0 technologies and social media applications and to understand the implications for teaching, learning, and professional development.

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Springer

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0230118003

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9780230118003

Who's Afraid of AI?

Fear and Promise in the Age of Thinking Machines

By: Thomas Ramge

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Who's Afraid of AI?

Fear and Promise in the Age of Thinking Machines

By: Thomas Ramge

A penetrating guide to artificial intelligence: what it is, what it does, and how it will change our lives At a breathtaking pace, artificial intelligence is getting better and faster at making complex decisions. AI can already identify malignant tumors on CT scans, give legal advice, out-bluff the best poker players in the world, and, with ever-increasing skill, drive our cars. In Who’s Afraid of AI?, award-winning author Thomas Ramge expertly explains how machines are learning to learn, and he questions what today’s explosion of AI capability could mean for tomorrow: Is it ethical to allow robots—endlessly patient—to replace human caregivers in providing comfort and companionship to the elderly? Since AI feeds on big data, can we prevent its misuse by corporations or the government? Will AI ever be capable of runaway self-improvement? And if “the singularity” does arrive, with AI’s intelligence exponentially outpacing our own, what will become of us when, in many ways, we’re obsolete?

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The Experiment

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1615195505

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Space, Structures and Design in a Post-Pandemic World

By: Thomas Fisher

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Space, Structures and Design in a Post-Pandemic World

By: Thomas Fisher

Pandemics have long-term effects on how we live and work, and the COVID-19 pandemic was no exception, accelerating us into a digital economy, in which people increasingly work, shop, and learn online, transforming how we use space in-person and remotely. Space, Structures, and Design in a Post-Pandemic World explores the rebalancing of our physical and digital interactions and what it means for the built environment going forward. This book examines the effect of the pandemic on our use of land, interior space, energy, and transportation, as well as on our approach to design, wealth, work, and practice. Author Thomas Fisher also discusses the plagues of institutional racism and climate change that coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic and how these were interrelated. At the same time as all of this, the automation of all or part of many jobs continued unabated, eliminating much of the work that people did before COVID-19 arrived. This text discusses how we might leverage the under-utilized human talent and material assets all around us to rebuild our communities and our economy in more creative ways for a more equitable, resilient future. Space, Structures, and Design in a Post-Pandemic World will influence anyone interested in how design thinking can transform how we see the world and those looking for new ways to understand what the COVID-19 pandemic means and what opportunities it creates for our environments.

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Routledge

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1000572153

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Successful Business Model Transformations in Disruptive Times

A conceptual framework for established corporations

By: Thomas Rudolph,Markus Schweizer

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Successful Business Model Transformations in Disruptive Times

A conceptual framework for established corporations

By: Thomas Rudolph,Markus Schweizer

The authors offer solutions for established corporations facing disruptive challenges. Based on extensive research and discussion, a unique management approach, the High 5 approach, has been developed to promote successful self-disruption in established corporations. At the center of this approach is the transformation of the core business. The book supports the idea of permanent self-disruption as the key to success for established players. Successful Business Model Transformations in Disruptive Times is aimed at the management of various industries. This book provides managers in established corporations with a theoretically sound and practical guide.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110772167

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9783110772166

Adventures in Entomology

By: Thomas Miller

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Adventures in Entomology

By: Thomas Miller

This book is a personal account of a research professor of entomology based at University of CaliforniaRiverside who used a background in physics and electronics to first solve research problems in insect physiology and toxicology. He then applied the same background to addressing insect pest problems in cotton in California and Arizona. The narrative also describes personal interactionsmost good, a few nasty. Choosing very difficult problems to solve and using the newest tools available had the effect of attracting some of the top graduate students and postdoctorals in the world. Sometimes a visiting researcher would bring a new problem with them. Achieving breakthroughs in a number of difference disciplines sometimes created jealousies in workers who did not see the competition coming and resented it. The text also gives some idea what research in a university is like, especially in an applied field like entomology. Although based primarily in Riverside, California, both the narrative and subject are global and reflect the authors perspective.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1524526126

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99%

How We've Been Screwed and How to Fight Back

By: Mark Thomas

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How We've Been Screwed and How to Fight Back

By: Mark Thomas

A Financial Times Book of the Year. A clear, readable analysis of the inescapable fact that Generation Y (and subsequent generations) will be poorer than their parents, and how we should pursue other economic paths. If you are part of the 99% – and there is a 99% chance that you are – then you are one of the first generation in living memory who can expect to be poorer than your parents, even as the economy continues to grow. And you could be quite a lot poorer. If we continue as we are going, the civilisation we enjoy today will not last until 2050. Buying their own house is a distant dream for most young people; their wages are failing to keep pace with inflation; and more and more people are having to rely on food banks. Our age is one of chronic anxiety. If the economy is doing so well, how can most people not be doing well? If the pie is growing, why aren't we all getting bigger slices? This book shows what we, the 99%, can do to end mass impoverishment and build a society worth living in: an age of abundance, in which everyone benefits.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1789544521

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9781789544527

What Nostalgia Was

War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion

By: Thomas Dodman

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What Nostalgia Was

War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion

By: Thomas Dodman

In What Nostalgia Was, historian Thomas Dodman traces the history of clinical "nostalgia" from when it was first coined in 1688 to describe deadly homesickness until the late nineteenth century, when it morphed into the benign yearning for a lost past we are all familiar with today. Dodman explores how people, both doctors and sufferers, understood nostalgia in late seventeenth-century Swiss cantons (where the first cases were reported) to the Napoleonic wars and to the French colonization of North Africa in the latter 1800s. A work of transnational scope over the longue duree, the book is an intellectual biography of a "transient mental illness" that was successively reframed according to prevailing notions of medicine, romanticism, and climatic and racial determinism. At the same time, Dodman adopts an ethnographic sensitivity to understand the everyday experience of living with nostalgia. In so doing, he explains why nostalgia was such a compelling diagnosis for war neuroses and generalized socioemotional disembeddedness at the dawn of the capitalist era and how it can be understood as a powerful bellwether of the psychological effects of living in the modern age.

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University of Chicago Press

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022649294X

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9780226492940

The Formative Five

Fostering Grit, Empathy, and Other Success Skills Every Student Needs

By: Thomas R. Hoerr

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The Formative Five

Fostering Grit, Empathy, and Other Success Skills Every Student Needs

By: Thomas R. Hoerr

For success in school and life, students need more than proficiency in academic subjects and good scores on tests. To truly thrive, students need to develop attributes that aren't typically measured on standardized tests. In this book, educators will learn how to foster the "Formative Five" success skills that today's students need, including : empathy; self-control; integrity; embracing diversity; and grit.

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ASCD

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1416622713

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Intrepid Women

Cantinières and Vivandières of the French Army

By: Thomas Cardoza

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Intrepid Women

Cantinières and Vivandières of the French Army

By: Thomas Cardoza

Based on previously unpublished French archival records as well as published primary sources from France, its enemies, and its allies from the early 1700s until the Great War, Intrepid women is the first serious ... study of a previously ignored aspect women's and military history. Thomas Cardoza shows that these women were far more numerous and far more important to French logistics and morale than previously recognized, and suggests that their suppression was both premature and ultimately counterproductive. He also paints ... a complete picture of these women's daily lives: social origins, recruitment, business dealings, behavior on the battlefield, marriage and family life, retirement, and death"--Jacket.

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Indiana University Press

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025335451X

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9780253354518

Teaching Young Adult Literature

Developing Students as World Citizens

By: Thomas W. Bean,Judith Dunkerly-Bean,Helen J. Harper

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Teaching Young Adult Literature

Developing Students as World Citizens

By: Thomas W. Bean,Judith Dunkerly-Bean,Helen J. Harper

Teaching Young Adult Literature: Developing Students As World Citizens (by Thomas W. Bean, Judith Dunkerly-Bean, and Helen Harper) is a middle and secondary school methods text that introduces pre-service teachers in teacher credential programs and in-service teachers pursuing a Masters degree in Education to the field of young adult literature for use in contemporary contexts. The text introduces teachers to current research on adolescent life and literacy; the new and expanding genres of young adult literature; teaching approaches and practical strategies for using young adult literature in English and Language Arts secondary classrooms and in Content Area Subjects (e.g. History); and ongoing social, political and pedagogical issues of English and Language Arts classrooms in relation to contemporary young adult literature.

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SAGE Publications

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1483309266

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9781483309262

Proteins

Structures and Molecular Properties

By: Thomas E. Creighton

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Proteins

Structures and Molecular Properties

By: Thomas E. Creighton

Organized on a combined basis of chronology and of structural and functional hierarchy, This comprehensive text describes all aspects of proteins--biosynthesis, evolution, dynamics, ligand binding, catalysis, and energy transduction--not just their structures. This edition (first was 1984) is thoroughly updated--especially in the area of protein biosynthesis--and features end-of-chapter exercises and problems, many of which require the student to consult the cited literature in order to obtain the answer. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Macmillan

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071677030X

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9780716770305

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