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This work presents analysis of the evolution and development of the social sciences. It reconsiders how knowledge actually…

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This is the second volume of Judith Shklar's work and brings together essays on a number of themes, including the place of…

In this innovative approach to the practice of social science, Charles Ragin explores the use of fuzzy sets to bridge the…

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From both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, the author paints an intimate portrait of how students and teachers actually cope, in…

Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. This title follows the history of…

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This text reveals how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. It aims to illuminate the…

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Based on 20 years of research at the Jakson Laboratory, this is a comprehensive reference work on the behaviour of dogs.…

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What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? This title seeks to answer this…

A study of Communism and a history of the myth of Communism as perpetuated by its admirers. This book illuminates how the…

Contains 27 essays and reviews defining the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. Ranging from brief reviews to…

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Although the two volumes of "Logic, Language, and Meaning "can be used independently of one another, together they provide a…

\nEngages with one of the oldest philosophical problems-the relationship between thought and being-and offers a fresh…

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Traces the concept of autochthony back to the classical period and incisively explores the idea in two very different…

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