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Paperback. This book examines religion as a key driver of cultural flows. It illustrates that religion and religious organization is a political and cultural force in a contemporary globalized world. Editor(s): Manderson, Lenore; Smith, Wendy; Tomlinson, Matt. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 397.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400794290
- ISBN
- 9789400794290
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Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Peri-urban Water and Sanitation Services: Policy, Planning and Method
. Ed(S): Kurian, Mathew; McCarney, Professor ...
paperback. This book discusses practical tools to help decision makers institute incremental improvements in the delivery of water and sanitation services in developing countries so that more people can have access to safe water and sanitation service. Editor(s): Kurian, Mathew; McCarney, Professor Patricia L. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; J; LNKJ; RBK; RGC; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400794399
- ISBN
- 9789400794399
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Condition: New
€ 194.44
€ 194.44
Paperback. The first and only collection of essays honoring the work of Rudolf Bernet, this volume covers three themes: his phenomenological views on life, its relation to subjectivity, experiences and consciousness, and both as the basis of original reflections on art. Editor(s): Breeur, Roland; Melle, Ullrich. Series: Phaenomenologica. Num Pages: 548 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 831.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 548
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400794535
- ISBN
- 9789400794535
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Condition: New
€ 251.84
€ 251.84
Paperback. This book surveys and analyzes a decade of growing interest in polar regions, and the consequent challenges and opportunities of increasing tourist traffic in formerly remote and seldom-visited places which are especially vulnerable to disturbance by visitors. Editor(s): Muller, Dieter K. (Umea University); Lundmark, Linda. Num Pages: 240 pages, 9 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HP; KCG; KCP; RGC; RP; TQD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 373.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400794726
- ISBN
- 9789400794726
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Condition: New
€ 127.04
€ 127.04
Paperback. This volume offers a comprehensive account of higher education policy in Portugal from 1974 to 2009. The text illustrates how different disciplinary canons and perspectives contribute to the study of higher education and higher education policy, including Law and Science Policy perspectives. Editor(s): Neave, Guy; Amaral, Alberto. Num Pages: 448 pages, 60 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HB; JHB; JNF; JNM; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 682.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400794757
- ISBN
- 9789400794757
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Condition: New
€ 195.64
€ 195.64
Paperback. A central premise of this book is that a postmodern reading of ethics represents an expression of, and engagement with, the ethical complexities that define the business landscape. Discusses such concepts as responsible leadership and corporate responsibility. Series: Issues in Business Ethics. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JNA; KJC; KJM; PHU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 308.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400794801
- ISBN
- 9789400794801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.61
€ 126.61
Paperback. This book provides an entirely new interpretation of the impact of the early-modern Aristotelian tradition upon the rise of British Empiricism. It also reexamines the fundamental shift from a humanist logic to epistemology and facultative logic. Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPL; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 421.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400794894
- ISBN
- 9789400794894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Paperback. This is the first book-length analysis of the problematic concept of the horizon in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology. The author demonstrates the rightful centrality of the concept of the horizon, too often viewed as an imprecise metaphor of little importance. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPCF; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 397.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400794900
- ISBN
- 9789400794900
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Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Focusing on the role of social and political ideology in the development of bioethics, this book offers offers a retrospective look at the ideological foundations of the discipline, and a range of perspectives on the current influence of ideology in bioethics. Editor(s): . Engelhardt, H.T. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 332.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400794948
- ISBN
- 9789400794948
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Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
The Evolution of Global Paper Industry 1800¬–2050: A Comparative An...
. Ed(S): Lamberg, Juha-Antti (Helsinki Univer...
paperback. This book presents a historical analysis of the evolution of the global paper industry and its future prospects. It covers a period of 250 years and includes 16 countries, from Finland, Japan and Chile to Uruguay, the USA, and the Netherlands. Editor(s): Lamberg, Juha-Antti (Helsinki University of Technology); Ojala, Jari; Peltoniemi, Mirva; Sarkka, Timo. Series: World Forests. Num Pages: 388 pages, 68 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HB; KCD; KJ; TVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 593.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400794993
- ISBN
- 9789400794993
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Condition: New
€ 317.97
€ 317.97
Paperback. This book examines the complex relationship between engineering education and social justice. It presents a framework to make social justice more visible in engineering education and enhance scholarship in Engineering and Social Justice (ESJ). Editor(s): Lucena, Juan C. Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GT; HP; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400795020
- ISBN
- 9789400795020
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Condition: New
€ 127.54
€ 127.54
Paperback. Editor(s): Grasswick, Heidi E. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GT; HPJ; HPK; HPQ; HPS; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400795044
- ISBN
- 9789400795044
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 205.19
€ 205.19
paperback. This volume gathers together a sampling of contemporary thinking on when, why, and how mindedness evolved in the natural world from researchers working in the biological, cognitive, and medical sciences. Editor(s): Swan, Liz Stillwaggon. Series: Biosemiotics. Num Pages: 432 pages, 24 black & white tables, 7 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JHM; JMM; PSA; UGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400795051
- ISBN
- 9789400795051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 249.25
€ 249.25
Paperback. The essays in this survey of the 'new science' of the seventeenth century offer a fresh historiographical paradigm for the Enlightenment's cultural ambience, viewing the epoch's key figures, from Kepler to Newton, through the prism of Baroque culture. Editor(s): Gal, Ofer; Chen-Morris, Raz. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HB; HPC; PDA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400795136
- ISBN
- 9789400795136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 183.00
€ 183.00
Paperback. This ethnographic account of Muslim merit-making rhetoric, rituals and rationales in Cabetigo, southern Thailand, is a much-needed counterbalance to the critical assessments of Islamic influence in the region proffered by political and security 'specialists'. Series: Muslims in Global Societies Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; HRH; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400795235
- ISBN
- 9789400795235
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 116.74
€ 116.74
Paperback. With examples ranging from ancient arms to modern innovations such as pilotless drones, this study of the neglected topic of weapons research deploys applied ethics and moral philosophy to argue that its injurious intent renders it morally unjustifiable. Series: Research Ethics Forum. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; PSAD; TNKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400795242
- ISBN
- 9789400795242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.81
€ 127.81
Paperback. This book presents an original theory of justice, which combines Hegelian recognition theory and republican ideas of freedom, and applies this hybrid theory to the global domain. Series: Studies in Global Justice. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPA; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400795297
- ISBN
- 9789400795297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Paperback. Combining fundamental philosophical anthropological reflection with applied ethics and socio-cultural and empirical approaches, this book focuses sustained ethical scrutiny on the controversies surrounding natural athletic talent and enhanced performance. Editor(s): Tolleneer, Jan; Sterckx, Sigrid; Bonte, Pieter. Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Num Pages: 332 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; MMS; PSAD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400795334
- ISBN
- 9789400795334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.17
€ 128.17
Paperback. More's centrality in seventeenth-century metaphysics is undisputed. This sustained examination of More's own highly systematic philosophy offers readers a rounded assessment and provides fresh insights thus far missed in the secondary literature. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 420 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HRA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400795464
- ISBN
- 9789400795464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 283.74
€ 283.74
Paperback. Editor(s): Gutwirth, Serge; Leenes, Ronald E.; Hert, Paul de; Poullet, Yves. Num Pages: 452 pages. BIC Classification: HP; LAB; LBB; UBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 688.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 452
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400795624
- ISBN
- 9789400795624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 195.25
€ 195.25