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Philosophy of Physics
A Very Short Introduction
Häftad, 2021
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113 kr
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringPhilosophy of physics is concerned with the deepest theories of modern physics - notably quantum theory, our theories of space, time and symmetry, and thermal physics - and their strange, even bizarre conceptual implications. A deeper …
Geoffrey Chaucer
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2019
98 kr
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Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the character and sheer …
Many Worlds?
Everett, Quantum Theory, & Reality
Av David Wallace, Adrian Kent m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
654 kr
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What does realism about the quantum state imply? What follows when quantum theory is applied without restriction, if need be, to the whole universe? These are the questions which an illustrious team of philosophers and physicists debate in this volume. All the contributors are agreed on realism, …
Emergent Multiverse
Quantum Theory according to the Everett Interpretation
E-bok, 2012
587 kr
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The Emergent Multiverse presents a striking new account of the ''many worlds'' approach to quantum theory. The point of science, it is generally accepted, is to tell us how the world works and what it is like. But quantum theory seems to fail to do this: taken literally as a theory of the world, it …
Geoffrey Chaucer
A New Introduction
E-bok, 2017
91 kr
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Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the character and sheer …
Philosophy of Physics
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2021
92 kr
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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Philosophy of physics is concerned with the deepest theories of modern physics - notably quantum theory, our theories of space, time and symmetry, and thermal physics - and their strange, even bizarre conceptual implications. A deeper …
The Emergent Multiverse
Quantum Theory according to the Everett Interpretation
Häftad, 2014
785 kr
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The Emergent Multiverse presents a striking new account of the 'many worlds' approach to quantum theory. The point of science, it is generally accepted, is to tell us how the world works and what it is like. But quantum theory seems to fail to do this: taken literally as a theory of the world, it …
Geoffrey Chaucer
A Very Short Introduction
Häftad, 2019
120 kr
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Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the character and sheer …
Europe
Volume 1: A Literary History, 1348-1418
Av Wallace, David Wallace
Häftad, 2021
964 kr
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This collaborative two-volume literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked by trade, travel, topography, language, pilgrimage, alliance, disease, and artistic exchange. The period covered, 1348-1418, provides deep context for understanding …
Europe
Volume 2: A Literary History, 1348-1418
Av Wallace, David Wallace
Häftad, 2021
964 kr
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This collaborative two-volume literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked by trade, travel, topography, language, pilgrimage, alliance, disease, and artistic exchange. The period covered, 1348-1418, provides deep context for understanding …
Strong Women
Life, Text, and Territory 1347-1645
Inbunden, 2011
956 kr
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It takes a strong woman to secure bookish remembrance in future times; to see her life becoming a life. David Wallace explores the lives of four Catholic women - Dorothea of Montau (1347-1394) and Margery Kempe of Lynn (c. 1373-c. 1440); Mary Ward of Yorkshire (1585-1645) and Elizabeth Cary of …
The Emergent Multiverse
Quantum Theory according to the Everett Interpretation
Inbunden, 2012
2119 kr
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The Emergent Multiverse presents a striking new account of the 'many worlds' approach to quantum theory. The point of science, it is generally accepted, is to tell us how the world works and what it is like. But quantum theory seems to fail to do this: taken literally as a theory of the world, it …
Many Worlds?
Everett, Quantum Theory, & Reality
Av Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2856 kr
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What would it mean to apply quantum theory, without restriction and without involving any notion of measurement and state reduction, to the whole universe? What would realism about the quantum state then imply? This book brings together an illustrious team of philosophers and physicists to debate …
Europe
Volume 1: A Literary History, 1348-1418
Av David Wallace, David Wallace
Inbunden, 2016
4782 kr
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This collaborative two-volume literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked by trade, travel, topography, language, pilgrimage, alliance, disease, and artistic exchange. The period covered, 1348-1418, provides deep context for understanding …
Europe
Volume 2: A Literary History, 1348-1418
Av David Wallace, David Wallace
Inbunden, 2016
3021 kr
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This collaborative two-volume literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked by trade, travel, topography, language, pilgrimage, alliance, disease, and artistic exchange. The period covered, 1348-1418, provides deep context for understanding …
Many Worlds?
Everett, Quantum Theory, & Reality
Av Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
1025 kr
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What does realism about the quantum state imply? What follows when quantum theory is applied without restriction, if need be, to the whole universe? These are the questions which an illustrious team of philosophers and physicists debate in this volume. All the contributors are agreed on realism, …
Strong Women
Life, Text, and Territory 1347-1645
Häftad, 2012
562 kr
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It takes a strong woman to secure bookish remembrance in future times; to see her life becoming a life. David Wallace explores the lives of four Catholic women - Dorothea of Montau (1347-1394) and Margery Kempe of Lynn (c. 1373-c. 1440); Mary Ward of Yorkshire (1585-1645) and Elizabeth Cary of …
Fate, Time, and Language
An Essay on Free Will
Av David Wallace, Steven Cahn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1679 kr
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In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, …
Fate, Time, and Language
An Essay on Free Will
Av David Wallace, Steven Cahn m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
203 kr
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In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, …
Premodern Places
Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn
E-bok, 2008
2061 kr
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This book recovers places appearing in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. A highly original work, which recovers the places that figure powerfully in premodern imagining. Recreates places that appear in the works of Langland, Chaucer, Dante, …
The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
Inbunden, 1999
3072 kr
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This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in …
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing
Av Carolyn Dinshaw, David Wallace
Inbunden, 2003
1610 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section …
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing
Av Carolyn Dinshaw, David Wallace
Häftad, 2003
560 kr
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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section …
The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
Häftad, 2002
1310 kr
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This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in …
Chaucer and the Early Writings of Boccaccio
Inbunden, 1985
1510 kr
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David Wallace's examination of the aims and literary affiliations of Boccaccio's early writings provides an indispensable preface to and context for an informed appraisal of Chaucer's usage of Boccaccio. Previous studies of the relationship between the work of the two poets have tended to consider …
Environmental Policy and Industrial Innovation
Strategies in Europe, the USA and Japan
Inbunden, 2017
2136 kr
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This book, originally published in 1995, examines the evolution of environmental policy in 6 OECD countries. Through numerous examples, it contrasts the widely-varying political and regulatory styles and their consequences for innovation. Two industry-specific case studies provide a transnational …
