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2010

Welchman, J.

In his 1930 foreword to Human Nature and Conduct, Dewey wrote: “In the eighteenth century, the word Morals was used in English literature with a meaning of broad sweep. It included all the subjects of distinctly humane import, all of the social disciplines as far as they are intimately connected...

2003-01-01

Beard, Laura J.

Introduction: In The Spanich American Regional Novel: Modernity and Autochthony, Carlos Alonso argues that the movement away from modernity became discursively and politically institutionalized as a continual search for identity that provided that foundation for an intrinsically Spanish American...

2013

Pavlich, George

Introduction: Adorno’s words could be read alongside Klare’s critical focus on the political and moral dimensions of adjudicative law-making generally, and South African constitutional adjudication in particular. Klare (1998:150) asks: “Can we describe a method of adjudication that is politically...

2012-01-01

Lupke, Christopher

The period of Martial Law in Taiwan (1949-1987) was clearly not a setting that encouraged much criticism of the government or public works. This began to change in the early 1980s as the global environmentalist movement took shape and concerns were increasingly being raised over such things as...

2011

Susan Brown

2012

Hutchinson, D. J., Diederichs, M. S., Moore, D. , Kalenchuk, K. S.

The Downie Slide case history demonstrates the importance of detailed site investigation and long-term monitoring, as well as the need for reinterpretation of the local geologic, structural, and groundwater conditions, and reassessment of slope stability as new information becomes available....

2022-09-26

Laishram, Devika

Owing to its high energy density, simple device design, and flexibility; Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have attracted much consideration as the most promising energy storage devices for their wide application in mobile phones, laptops, and also in electric vehicles. One of the critical parts of...

2015

Welchman, Jennifer

Mindful of the keen public interest in heritage preservation, environmental organizations have routinely characterized nature as a “heritage” asset to be preserved for future generations. But while doing so has often proved effective for winning public support for environmental initiatives, it...

2010-11-17

Schrader, Alvin M.

As academic librarians increasingly embrace the core value and challenge of engaging in research and scholarly work, and as senior library administrators continue to adopt evidence-based decision making, staff research knowledge and skills must be constantly and systematically developed and...

2010

Wilson, Robert A.

Vision constitutes an interesting domain, or range of domains, for debate over the extended mind thesis: the idea that minds extend physically beyond the boundaries of the body. In part this is because vision (and visual experience more particularly) are sometimes presented as a kind of line in...