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Leon Trotsky and Victor Serge represent the great and tragic oppositional figures to Stalin's dictatorial grip on the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and 1930s. Written during this period, the letters exchanged between these two friends, published here in translation for the first time together with other material from both the Trotsky Archive at Harvard and the Serge Archive in Mexico, present a unique first-hand account of the alternatives and arguments...
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The series "Meetings with the philosophers" is proposed to present to the lay public the life, thought and the works of the greatest philosophers of all time. The themes are faced with a simple, but rigourous language, basically adapted to anyone. The objective is to provide the reade with the essential cognitive tools to understand the basic features of the works of the author considered as well as the thoughts produces on the authors that they followed...
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The Devil Prefers Mozart is the first comprehensive collection of Anthony Burgess's writings about music. In this extensive compilation of essays and reviews, he covers a vast range of musical topics, from the hurdy-gurdy to Beatlemania and the Sex Pistols, with Burgess's love of English music represented by writings on Elgar, Holst, and Delius. There are essays on Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz and Wagner and other great composers from Monteverdi...
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How to Write the Best Essay of Your Life is based on a simple idea: your best essay means not only the highest grade, but also the easiest, least stressful writing process possible. You can have it all: the best results with less stress and less time.How? By putting an emphasis on thought over style. With this guide for university and college students, you'll learn how to beat procrastination and craft a thorough and engaging paper in as little time...
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Quel est le rle, dans la Cité, des chercheurs, des intellectuels, des professeurs, des universitaires en général? Qui sont-ils et que font-ils exactement? Quel a été leur parcours intellectuel? La collection « Profession » répond à ces questions. Marcel Fournier est professeur titulaire au Département de sociologie de l'Université de Montréal. Spécialiste de l'histoire de la sociologie, il est l'auteur des biographies de Marcel Mauss...
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Human Tissue Authority New Draft Code: Supporting Child Donors or Supporting Parents? by Lisa Cherkassky
The Underprivileged See No light in LASPO Act 2012 by Gina Heung
Jurisprudence and Structural Realism by Kevin Lee
Regulating MNCs and International Norms: Challenges in Focusing on a Human Rights Approach in Emerging Markets and Possible Alternatives by Samuel E. Ojogbo
Whole Life Orders in Hutchinson v UK: A Counter-Revolution,...
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I seek to demonstrate that in the evolution and growth of science, the 'underdetermination thesis' of some prominent philosophers and scientists (like Quine, Kuhn, or Feyerabend), that there are always a large number or possibly an infinite number of theories to fit the data or explain empirical patterns, is false. The 'underdetermination thesis' has been debated by physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers for several centuries, and I seek to...
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Get the Summary of Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How Far the Light Reaches" by Sabrina Imbler is a collection of personal essays that intertwine the author's experiences with broader environmental and societal themes. Imbler reflects on their youth, activism, and the transformation of landscapes, drawing parallels between their life and the adaptability of species...
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La ciencia es tan generosa que permite ser desarrollada desde diferentes perspectivas y, por ende, ofrece inagotables aplicaciones, desde las especializadas hasta las cotidianas.
Por ello, y pensando en la ciencia como un prisma de múltiples caras, este libro se ideó como un espectro de temas de derecho, internacionalización, estrategias educativas, historia, medio ambiente, nutrición, aplicaciones de química, de matemáticas, de física y de...
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NILS UK Law Review is one of the first student-led national law journals aimed at every level of legal study and practice in the UK. NILS UK Law Review was founded in furtherance of a primary aim of NILS International: to contribute to legal education internationally. NILS International is the world's fastest-growing law students' association, with over 5,000 members in 26 countries across 6 continents. This issue contains the following articles:-...
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Legal Issues Journal (LIJ) publishes original research on all legal matters affecting justice, equality and other pressing issues for societies. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary work at the intersection of law and other disciplines, such as genetics, biosciences, philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, medicine, and business. The Journal publishes original papers, case comments, short reports, debates and book reviews. The Journal also provides...
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Legal Issues Journal (LIJ) publishes original research on all legal matters affecting justice, equality and other pressing issues for societies. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary work at the intersection of law and other disciplines, such as genetics, biosciences, philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, medicine, and business. The Journal publishes original papers, case comments, short reports, debates and book reviews. The Journal also provides...
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Colleges organize many social clubs for anything. Here in this book, we will review how to organize a creativity club for your school and college. It is a place to explore inventing, creative thinking, and how to be creative in your own personal life. It is a club for fun, friends, and exploring your creative self.
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Stefan Kisielewski (1911-1991) the dissident Polish writer and composer in his own words - but translated so that English readers can discover for themselves Kisiel's insightful, witty and provocative opinions on Debussy, jazz, Moniuszko, 'musical Marxism' and much else including his own music of course.
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"Unveiling the Secrets: The Truth About Genetically Modified Foods" is a comprehensive and insightful exploration into the world of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food supply. This book delves into the science, politics, and economics surrounding GMOs, aiming to provide a balanced and factual perspective on one of today's most contentious and misunderstood topics.The narrative begins by unpacking the science behind genetic modification,...
16) Where Are All the Dyson Spheres? A Contemplation on the Lack of Evidence for Advanced Technology
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As we contemplate the cosmos and our place in it one question crops up again and again, and has done for centuries: are we alone? So far there is no definitive evidence for an answer one way or the other, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ... or is it?This short essay takes an unconventional approach to this question, while acknowledging that the final answer is still out of reach.
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El nivel evolutivo de la humanidad, exceptuando su desarrollo tecnológico y los hechos puntuales de la extraordinaria creatividad humana, podríamos calificarlo como primitivo.
Las relaciones humanas no han mejorado mucho en miles de años; siguen predominando la violencia para resolver conflictos, la explotación del ser humano, la mentira, el egoísmo, la competición, etc. Las religiones nos hacen temer a Dios, los sistemas de salud se enfocan...
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Freire y Piaget en el siglo XXI: personalidad autónoma, praxis y educación es una nueva mirada sobre la construcción del conocimiento desde el sentimiento moral y la educación en el pensamiento y trabajo de dos grandes intelectuales.
El trabajo de Dongo-Montoya es un ensayo minucioso, de ágil lectura y, a su vez, especializado que se centra en la pedagogía activa y pedagogía problematizadora como un movimiento de transformación de la escuela...
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Pour Schopenhauer, le vrai bonheur ne pouvait venir que de soi, pas de l'opinion des autres.
Une idée encore très appropriée à notre époque, tournée vers les apparences et la quête de la célébrité. Dans cet essai, tiré de ses Aphorismes sur la sagesse dans la vie, le philosophe nous parle de vanité, d'orgueil et de gloire.
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Thoughts and aphorisms on art and style, taste, self-knowledge, psychology, religion, happiness, self-interest, pride, self-reliance, vices and virtues, politics, thinking and genius, illusion, and the purpose of life and death. Influenced by thinkers such as Pascal and Nietzsche, this collection of brief maxims and longer paragraphs argues for energy and order, imagination and tradition, and self-reliance within strong institutions, and attacks the...
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