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  • Science and Culture

    by J. Agassi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In Science and Culture, Joseph Agassi addresses scientism and relativism, two false philosophies that divorce science from culture in general and from tradition in particular. According to Agassi, science is an integral part of culture, and both scientism and relativism ignore the cultural value of science. This work helps break the isolation of science from the rest of culture by promoting ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Towards a Rational Philosophical Anthropology

    by J. Agassi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The thesis of the present volume is critical and dual. (1) Present day philosophy of man and sciences of man suffer from the Greek mis taken polarization of everything human into nature and convention which is (allegedly) good and evil, which is (allegedly) truth and fal sity, which is (allegedly) rationality and irrationality, to wit, the polar ization of all fields of inquiry, the natural and ... Read more

    $206.09 USD

  • Science in Flux

    by J. Agassi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)

    $206.09 USD

  • Psychiatry as Medicine

    Contemporary Psychotherapies

    by A. Fried, J. Agassi ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    PREFACE This volume is a sequel to yet independent of our Paranoia: A Study in Diagnosis, Reidel, Dordrecht and Boston, 1976. Whereas our first book centered on diagnosis, this centers on treatment. In our first volume, all discussions of nosology (theory of illness) and of treatment was ancillary to our discussion of diagnosis; similarly all discussion of this volume dealing with nosology - there ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Paranoia: A Study in Diagnosis

    by A. Fried, J. Agassi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    There is a curious parallel between the philosophy of science and psychiatric theory. The so-called demarcation question, which has exercised philosophers of science over the last decades, posed the problem of distinguishing science proper from non-science - in par ticular, from metaphysics, from pseudo-science, from the non rational or irrational, or from the untestable or the empirically ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Diagnosis: Philosophical and Medical Perspectives

    by N. Laor, J. Agassi ...
    Series Book 15 - Episteme
    GENERAL The term "diagnostics" refers to the general theory of diagnosis, not to the study of specific diagnoses but to their general framework. It borrows from different sciences and from different philosophies. Traditionally, the general framework of diagnostics was not distinguished from the framework of medicine. It was not taught in special courses in any systematic way; it was not accorded ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Open

    by Andre Agassi ...
    **#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life. • "Agassi’s memoir is just as entrancing as his tennis game.” —Time“Honest in a way that such books seldom are.” —The New York Times**Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Open

    An Autobiography

    by Andre Agassi ...
    Narrated by Erik Davies ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 5 min

    From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyAgassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. Lonely, scared, a ... Read more

    $27.50 USD

  • Games to Play and Games not to Play

    Strategic Decisions via Extensions of Game Theory

    by Uri Weiss, Joseph Agassi ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book contributes to the theoretical discussions of equilibria that rest on error―in which we include mistaken choices of games to play. Extant game theory recommends diverse strategies (plans of actions) for various given games, particularly those in Nash equilibria, in which no player benefits from one-sided strategy alteration. The literature also refers to the design of games that fit ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • The Philosophy of Practical Affairs

    An Introduction

    by Joseph Agassi ...
    Series series Philosophical Practice: Transformative Reflection on Life
    The Philosophy of Practical Affairs: An Introduction addresses the problems of everyday life, problems that from time to time fate drops on normal twenty-first-century western individuals. Addressing both students and philosophers, Joseph Agassi considers the usefulness of the treatment of daily problems within academic philosophy, including rationalism and fundamental issues of practical wisdom, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbrück

    Who Were They?

    by Dr. Judith Buber Agassi ...
    Series series Modern Jewish History
    Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Between 1939 and 1945, it was the site of murder by slave labor, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal injection, medical experimentation, and gassing. In its six-year history, 132,000 women from twenty-seven countries were imprisoned in Ravensbrück. Only about 15,000 in all survived. Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbrück reclaims ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • The Whirl

    by Andre Agassi ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    What’s heaven to seven-year-old Andre Agassi? To never play tennis again. Yet his father has other plans. Mike Agassi was born in Iran, where Allied soldiers gave him a racket after the war and introduced him to the game. He shaves without soap or cream, boxed in the Olympics, and speaks five languages. The sixth is tennis. And his greatest dream is for his son to become number one in the world. A ... Read more

    $0.99 USD