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Redeeming Autonomy

Theology, Agency, Social Justice

Edited by Professor Christopher J. Insole, Dr Benjamin R. DeSpain ...

What can theology offer philosophical discussions of autonomy?In this distinctive collection of essays, Insole and DeSpain lead a cadre of academics from across the world in answering this question. In doing so, they challenge the narrow conception of 'liberalism' that has characterised much of the discussion around autonomy.The contributions disrupt traditional methodologies by starting with ... Read more

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What can theology offer philosophical discussions of autonomy?In this distinctive collection of essays, Insole and DeSpain lead a cadre of academics from across the world in answering this question. In doing so, they challenge the narrow conception of 'liberalism' that has characterised much of the discussion around autonomy.The contributions disrupt traditional methodologies by starting with
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The End of Overkill

Reassessing U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

by Benjamin Friedman, Christopher Preble, Matt Fay ...

U.S. security does not require nearly 1,600 nuclear weapons deployed on a triad of systems—bombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs)—to deliver them. A new paper from Benjamin H. Friedman, Christopher A. Preble and Matt Fay encourages abandonment of the triad and skepticism about the received wisdom justifying U.S. nuclear ... Read more

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U.S. security does not require nearly 1,600 nuclear weapons deployed on a triad of systems—bombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs)—to deliver them. A new paper from Benjamin H. Friedman, Christopher A. Preble and Matt Fay encourages abandonment of the triad and skepticism about the received wisdom justifying U.S. nuclear
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Postgraduate Study in Australia

Surviving and Succeeding

Edited by Christopher McMaster, Caterina Murphy, Benjamin Whitburn, Inger Mewburn ...

Each contributor to this book was given the remit: "If you could go back in time to talk with yourself when you began your studies, what advice would you give?" Hindsight is such a bonus, especially, when vying for your doctorate or postgraduate degree. Postgraduate Study in Australia: Surviving and Succeeding addresses this with advice from postgraduate students and recent graduates that will ... Read more

$55.09 USD

Each contributor to this book was given the remit: "If you could go back in time to talk with yourself when you began your studies, what advice would you give?" Hindsight is such a bonus, especially, when vying for your doctorate or postgraduate degree. Postgraduate Study in Australia: Surviving and Succeeding addresses this with advice from postgraduate students and recent graduates that will
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The Complete Harvard Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

Enriched edition. All 71 Volumes - The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction

by George Gordon Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn, Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, John Milton0, Thomas Browne1, Ralph Waldo Emerson2, Robert Burns3, Saint Augustine4, Thomas à Kempis5, Aeschylus6, Sophocles7, Euripides8, Aristophanes9, Marcus Tullius Cicero0, Pliny the Younger1, Adam Smith2, Charles Darwin3, Plutarch4, Virgil5, Miguel de Cervantes6, John Bunyan7, Izaak Walton8, Aesop9, Wilhelm Grimm0, Jacob Grimm1, Hans Christian Andersen2, John Dryden3, Richard Brinsley Sheridan4, David Garrick5, Oliver Goldsmith6, Percy Bysshe Shelley7, Robert Browning8, Dante Alighieri9, Alessandro Manzoni0, Homer1, Richard Henry Dana2, Edmund Burke3, John Stuart Mill4, Thomas Carlyle5, Pedro Calderón de la Barca6, Pierre Corneille7, Jean Racine8, Molière9, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing0, Friedrich von Schiller1, Philip Sidney2, Ben Jonson3, Abraham Cowley4, Joseph Addison5, Richard Steele6, Jonathan Swift7, Daniel Defoe8, Samuel Johnson9, David Hume0, Sydney Smith1, Samuel Taylor Coleridge2, William Hazlitt3, Leigh Hunt4, Charles Lamb5, Thomas De Quincey6, Thomas Babington Macaulay7, William Makepeace Thackeray8, John Ruskin9, Jayden Walsh2 ...

The Complete Harvard Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature epitomizes the expansive vista of immense thought and varied narrative styles spanning millennia and continents. This monumental collection assembles the seminal works of venerable authors like Homer and Virgil, to modern intellectuals like John Stuart Mill and Charles Darwin, encompassing an array of genres from epic poetry ... Read more

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The Complete Harvard Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature epitomizes the expansive vista of immense thought and varied narrative styles spanning millennia and continents. This monumental collection assembles the seminal works of venerable authors like Homer and Virgil, to modern intellectuals like John Stuart Mill and Charles Darwin, encompassing an array of genres from epic poetry
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The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

by Charles Darwin, John Milton, Molière, Anonymous, Plato, Adam Smith, Francis Bacon, Aesop, Oliver Goldsmith, Epictetus, Benjamin Franklin, Confucius, Virgil, Christopher Marlowe, Marcus Aurelius, Thomas Carlyle, Saint Augustine, Aristophanes, William Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Euripides, Tacitus, Sophocles, Plutarch, Dante Alighieri, Edmund Burke, Cicero, John Dryden, Grimm Brothers, Robert Burns, William Penn, Izaak Walton, Thomas Browne, Charles Eliot, Lord Byron, . Homer, . Voltaire, John Woolman, Jane Austen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas á Kempis, Pliny the Younger, Miguel Cervantes De Saavedra, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, Alessandro Manzoni, Richard Henry Dana Jr, John Stuart Mill, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Michael Faraday, Hermann von Helmholtz, Lord Kelvin, Simon Newcomb, Sir Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Philiip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison, Niccolò Machiavelli, William Roper, Sir Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lyell, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Bret Harte, Samuel L. Clemens, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander L. Kielland, Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Bunyan, René Descartes, Thomas Malory, Christian, Blaise Pascal, Ivan Turgenev ...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus ... Read more

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The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus
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Disability and the University

A Disabled Students' Manifesto, 2nd Edition

Edited by Christopher McMaster, Benjamin Whitburn ...

For the student: This is what you should demand.For the institution: This is what you should provide.Disability and the University: A Disabled Students’ Manifesto, 2nd edition is a guide to what students with disabilities need to know about attending university, as well as to the essential supports and rights universities should provide. Each chapter represents a benchmark for students to follow ... Read more

$36.89 USD

For the student: This is what you should demand.For the institution: This is what you should provide.Disability and the University: A Disabled Students’ Manifesto, 2nd edition is a guide to what students with disabilities need to know about attending university, as well as to the essential supports and rights universities should provide. Each chapter represents a benchmark for students to follow
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Biotechnology and AI: Technological Convergence and Information Hazards

Edited by Christopher L. Cummings, Benjamin D. Trump, Valentina Prado, Beth Ellinport, Igor Linkov ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book offers a forward-looking perspective on the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and biotechnology, and its transformative impact on synthetic biology. As these fields evolve rapidly, their integration is reshaping science, industry, and society in profound ways.Through a collection of rigorously researched chapters, the volume provides a comprehensive analysis of this dynamic ... Read more

$224.09 USD

This book offers a forward-looking perspective on the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and biotechnology, and its transformative impact on synthetic biology. As these fields evolve rapidly, their integration is reshaping science, industry, and society in profound ways.Through a collection of rigorously researched chapters, the volume provides a comprehensive analysis of this dynamic
... Read more
Disability and the University

A Disabled Students’ Manifesto

Edited by Christopher McMaster, Benjamin Whitburn ...

Disability and the University: A Disabled Students’ Manifesto is a guide to what students with disabilities need to know about attending university, as well as to the essentials universities should provide for these students. Each chapter presents a benchmark for students to follow as they travel through the institution, and lays clear what they should expect. Written by former students with ... Read more

$38.69 USD

Disability and the University: A Disabled Students’ Manifesto is a guide to what students with disabilities need to know about attending university, as well as to the essentials universities should provide for these students. Each chapter presents a benchmark for students to follow as they travel through the institution, and lays clear what they should expect. Written by former students with
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Single Best Answer Questions for the Final FFICM

by Keith Davies, Christopher Gough, Emma King, Benjamin Plumb, Benjamin Walton ...

This is the first dedicated revision aid for the Single Best Answer component of the Final FFICM, added to the written examination in July 2014. It contains 240 SBA practice questions, divided into eight papers covering the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine curriculum. Each answer consists of a short explanation, allowing a quick review of the correct answer, and a long explanation, providing a ... Read more

$63.19 USD

This is the first dedicated revision aid for the Single Best Answer component of the Final FFICM, added to the written examination in July 2014. It contains 240 SBA practice questions, divided into eight papers covering the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine curriculum. Each answer consists of a short explanation, allowing a quick review of the correct answer, and a long explanation, providing a
... Read more
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Audiobook

The House

A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Political Drama

by Christopher Lee ...

Narrated by Julian Glover, Peter Kelly, Isla Blair, Sheila Reid, Trevor Peacock, Full Cast, Timothy West, Sarah Badel, Christopher Benjamin, David Ryall ...

Unabridged

19 hours 6 min

All six series of Christopher Lee's enthralling parliamentary drama - plus Christmas SpecialSuave, unflappable and ambitious, veteran politician Charles Bannister knows his way around the corridors of power. As Chief Whip, he's adept at keeping MPs in line and squashing potential scandals - aided by his brother-in-law, MI6 agent Henry Colvil, who whispers useful titbits of information in his ear. ... Read more

$21.48 USD

All six series of Christopher Lee's enthralling parliamentary drama - plus Christmas SpecialSuave, unflappable and ambitious, veteran politician Charles Bannister knows his way around the corridors of power. As Chief Whip, he's adept at keeping MPs in line and squashing potential scandals - aided by his brother-in-law, MI6 agent Henry Colvil, who whispers useful titbits of information in his ear.
... Read more
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Audiobook

Hacker U

by Christopher Dalton ...

Narrated by Benjamin Knight ...

Unabridged

1 hour 9 min

Tyler, a small town computer whiz, is recruited into the top computer science programs in the country by an ex-Silicon Valley hotshot turned professor. He is quickly seduced by money and the perks, for winning a hack-a-thon and proving himself as one of the “Elite”. In doing so, he becomes totally oblivious to the more sinister side of the university. Once he realizes that the university is a ... Read more

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Tyler, a small town computer whiz, is recruited into the top computer science programs in the country by an ex-Silicon Valley hotshot turned professor. He is quickly seduced by money and the perks, for winning a hack-a-thon and proving himself as one of the “Elite”. In doing so, he becomes totally oblivious to the more sinister side of the university. Once he realizes that the university is a
... Read more
Principles of Verification: Cycling the Probabilistic Landscape

Essays Dedicated to Joost-Pieter Katoen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Part I

Edited by Nils Jansen, Sebastian Junges, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Christoph Matheja, Thomas Noll, Tim Quatmann, Mariëlle Stoelinga, Matthias Volk ...

Series Book 1 - Computer Science (R0)
This Festschrift is dedicated to Joost-Pieter Katoen in recognition of his outstanding research, teaching, and organizational successes. Joost-Pieter received his Master's and later his Ph.D. from the University of Twente, and his Professional Doctorate in Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology. He had research positions at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Philips Research, ... Read more

$80.99 USD

This Festschrift is dedicated to Joost-Pieter Katoen in recognition of his outstanding research, teaching, and organizational successes. Joost-Pieter received his Master's and later his Ph.D. from the University of Twente, and his Professional Doctorate in Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology. He had research positions at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Philips Research,
... Read more