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Wallace, Albin. The coherence of the inchoate: Children and the internet. Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.

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Mark, Falco, Peralta Patrick, Purdy Cameron, Founder Tangosol, Oracle Corporation, and ebrary Inc, eds. Oracle Coherence 3.5: Create internet-scale applications using Oracle's high-performance data grid. Packt Pub., 2010.

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Villamil Jiménez, Luis Carlos, Jaime R. Romero-Prada, and Diego Soler-Tovar. Salud pública veterinaria. Universidad de La Salle. Ediciones Unisalle, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.19052/9789588572772.

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La publicación de este libro representa un importante paso en documentar, analizar y comentar los retos pasados, presentes y futuros relacionados con la Salud Pública Veterinaria (SPV). En general, este libro analiza la SPV en el contexto latinoamericano, con especial énfasis en Colombia. Actualmente, el mundo está presenciando la globalización, la urbanización, el crecimiento demográfico y el consumo desmedido de los recursos naturales. Asimismo, están haciéndose sentir las consecuencias directas e indirectas de los cambios climáticos, la extendida recesión económica y los recientes trastorno

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Gatazzo, Irene. Optical Coherence Tomography: Developments and Innovations in Ophthalmology. IntechOpen, 2023.

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Forman, Michelle L., Elizabeth Leisy Stosich, and Candice Bocala. The Internal Coherence Framework: Creating the Conditions for Continuous Improvement in Schools. Harvard Education Press, 2017.

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Forman, Michelle L., Elizabeth Leisy Stosich, and Candice Bocala. The Internal Coherence Framework: Creating the Conditions for Continuous Improvement in Schools. Harvard Education Press, 2017.

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Handbook of Optical Coherence Microscopy: Technology and Applications. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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Peacock, Howard. The Third Man and the Coherence of the Parmenides. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805762.003.0004.

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The ‘Third Man’ in the Parmenides is often reconstructed in terms of unstated background commitments of the Theory of Forms; thus it seems to threaten the internal coherence of that theory. However, the regress can be derived solely from premises explicitly stated within the dialogue, and blocked simply by giving up one candidate account of participation, leaving the central commitments of the Theory of Forms intact. Consequently, the problem highlighted by the argument is not an infinite regress of Forms, but merely the lack of an adequate account of participation. This reading facilitates a

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Kieser, Ty. Theandric and Triune: John Owen and Christological Agency. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780567713728.

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Describing Jesus as an “agent” of divine actions, or as one who possesses human “agency,” is commonplace in christological discussions. Yet these discussions often wade in a shallow understanding of the terms’ meanings and the theological implications of such claims. For example, while many theologians who are committed to the definition of Chalcedon consider Jesus one agent, we might ask if this implies that the triune God comprises “three agents?” Or, if Christ possesses “singular agency,” how are his divinity and humanity operative in his actions? In response, this work draws from the theol

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Wedgwood, Ralph. Why Does Rationality Matter? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802693.003.0009.

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Internalism implies that rationality requires nothing more than what in the broadest sense counts as ‘coherence’. The earlier chapters of this book argue that rationality is in a strong sense normative. But why does coherence matter? The interpretation of this question is clarified. An answer to the question would involve a general characterization of rationality that makes it intuitively less puzzling why rationality is in this strong sense normative. Various approaches to this question are explored: a deflationary approach, the appeal to ‘Dutch book’ theorems, the idea that rationality is co

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Johnson, Peter. R.G. Collingwood. Thoemmes Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350276338.

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R.G. Collingwood’s ideas are often considered difficult to locate in the main lines of 20th century philosophy. Some have read Collingwood as anticipating the later Wittgenstein, others have concentrated exclusively on the internal coherence of his thought. As the first introductory book on this major modern philosopher, Peter Johnson examines his work through direct engagement with his arguments. The text takes the form of a conversation with Collingwood on the topics that interested him: philosophy and method; philosophy of mind; language and logic; the historical imagination; art and expres

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Kettemann, Matthias C. The Normative Order of the Internet. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865995.001.0001.

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Online anarchy? Far from it: as this study convincingly shows, norms matter online. In a tour de force, internet law expert Matthias C. Kettemann analyses the genesis, ontology, and legitimation of rule and rules on the internet. Innovatively, the study establishes the emergence of a normative order of the internet, an order that integrates norms materially and normatively connected to the use and development of the internet at three different levels (regional, national, international), of two types (privately and publicly authored), and of different character (from ius cogens to technical sta

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Fales, Evan. The Putnamian Argument (the Argument from the Rejection of Global Skepticism) [also, (O) The Argument from Reference, and (K) The Argument from the Confluence of Proper Function and Reliability]. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190842215.003.0013.

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A familiar story about reference that developed in the 1970s appeared to offer a light at the end of the tunnel of positivist theories of meaning. Coherence theories of truth and justification, paradigm shifts, and incommensurability stalked the land. Causal theories of reference (Kripke 1980) promised to change all that and restore scientific realism. But another dialectic took hold that led to what Putnam called internal realism. This chapter aims to rescue Putnam from internal realism, and to breathe new life into real realism. It also aims to rescue science from Plantinga’s argument N (and

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Thagard, Paul. Dreams, Jokes, and Songs. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198962373.001.0001.

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Abstract This book explores the nature and mechanisms of consciousness from the perspectives of neuroscience and philosophy. Thagard proposes the NBC (Neural representation, Binding, Coherence, and Competition) theory as a comprehensive explanation for human consciousness. He addresses external perceptions such as smell, internal sensations such as hunger, emotions such as loneliness, and abstract thoughts such as the self. The book explains how complex conscious experiences emerge from the interactions of neural mechanisms. It highlights the integration of neural and cultural factors, showing

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Dwan, David. Solidarity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198738527.003.0004.

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Orwell’s writings repeatedly extol the virtues of solidarity, or what he liked to call brotherhood. But brotherhood was often something of an ordeal for Orwell as much as it was a coveted value and practice. The issue may be partly a question of character, but it also had a conceptual element: a) the compatibility of solidarity with other values, b) its internal coherence, as it sometimes re-enlists the social divisions it seeks to transcend, c) its problematic scope given its seemingly partisan nature, and d) its practicality in a modern social setting. This chapter examines these four issues

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Arras, John D., James Childress, and Matthew Adams. One Method to Rule Them All? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190665982.003.0008.

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This chapter considers the method of reflective equilibrium, and how it has been used in the context of debates in bioethics. It uncovers the method’s origins in the work of John Rawls and explores how it came to be adopted by Beauchamp and Childress as the unifying method of bioethics. After distinguishing between narrow and wide versions of reflective equilibrium, the chapter proceeds to discuss some problems with the view. The preliminary difficulty that is raised about wide reflective equilibrium in particular is that it is too comprehensive and indeterminate to be useful in bioethics. The

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Harris, Ron. The History and Historical Stance of Law and Economics. Edited by Markus D. Dubber and Christopher Tomlins. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794356.013.1.

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Law and Economics is arguably the most influential and controversial scholarly and jurisprudential movement in the U.S. in recent decades. This chapter first presents the pre-1970 intellectual bedrock of the movement. It then analyses the ways in which the formative period of the movement in Chicago (1970–1985) shaped the particular interaction between law and economics that the movement embraced—namely economic analysis of legal rules. Next, it surveys the expansion of law and economics beyond Chicago, as it became more pluralistic and global, and the challenges to its coherence and viability

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Oppy, Graham. Against Idealism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198746973.003.0004.

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This chapter argues that naturalism is more theoretically virtuous than idealism. It begins by explaining how the author understands naturalism and idealism. It then explains the method used for determining that one philosophical position is superior to a second. The method has three main steps: (1) articulation of the competing positions to the same sufficient level of precision; (2) internal review for the consistency and coherence of the competing positions; and then—supposing that both positions survive (2)—(3) comparative review. Finally, it applies the method to the contest between natur

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Johnson, Niles, and Donald Yau. 2-Dimensional Categories. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198871378.001.0001.

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2-Dimensional Categories provides an introduction to 2-categories and bicategories, assuming only the most elementary aspects of category theory. A review of basic category theory is followed by a systematic discussion of 2-/bicategories; pasting diagrams; lax functors; 2-/bilimits; the Duskin nerve; the 2-nerve; internal adjunctions; monads in bicategories; 2-monads; biequivalences; the Bicategorical Yoneda Lemma; and the Coherence Theorem for bicategories. Grothendieck fibrations and the Grothendieck construction are discussed next, followed by tricategories, monoidal bicategories, the Gray

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Consuegra, Rodríguez Rodríguez. Bloch y Marx: La Coherencia Interna de la Filosofía Marxista. Independently Published, 2019.

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Henderson, Andrea. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809982.003.0001.

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Victorian England witnessed a reconception of mathematics as a formal rather than a referential practice—as a means for describing relationships rather than quantities. The value of a mathematical claim lay not in its capacity to describe the world but its internal coherence. Victorian mathematics thus contributed to the development of liberal capitalism by justifying abstraction: liberals proclaimed that formal consistency was the foundation of a rational, equitable order, and marginalist economists insisted that value was not inherent but relational, and made economics a branch of mathematic

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Williams, Alastair G. Internal structure and interactions of coherent eddies in the lower convective boundary layer. 1991.

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Debaise, Didier. What is the Subject? Translated by Tomas Weber. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423045.003.0006.

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In his reading of Descartes, Whitehead extracts a definition of the subject as a relation through which feelings are unified and appropriated. The key point of disagreement is found in the inverse relations that each constructs between the subject and feeling. If Whitehead does in fact take up the problem’s terms, he is nevertheless radically opposed to the Cartesian economy organised around a subject qua foundation of feeling. Whitehead’s reading could be criticised, of course: he takes a Cartesian proposition, pushes it in the direction of speculative philosophy, only to return, finally, to

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Waechter, Matthias, and Jean-Claude Vérez, eds. Europe. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748909767.

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In the years before the Covid-19 crisis confronted the world with unprecedented challenges, the EU showed two sides of itself: On the one hand, it gave cause for hope, having overcome several crises and presenting itself to the world as a defender of multilateralism and a stronghold of democracy. On the other hand, however, its weaknesses remained visible: its lack of coherence in foreign and security policy; its insufficient influence in its neighbouring regions; and its internal contradictions with regard to upholding the rule of law among its member states. The essays gathered here offer a

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Elwood, Mark. The diagnosis of causation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199682898.003.0010.

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This chapter brings the book together, showing the overall scheme of assessment of causation for one study or in many studies, based on 20 questions in five sections. The scheme includes describing the key features of the study; then assessing observation bias, confounding, and chance variation. The chapter presents the consideration of the positive features of causation: the Bradford Hill guidelines of time relationship, strength, dose-response, consistency, and specificity, leading to an assessment of internal validity. External validity (generalisability) relates to the eligible, source, an

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Henderson, Andrea. Algebraic Art. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809982.001.0001.

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Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian account of the nature and value of aesthetic form, and it traces that account to a surprising source: mathematics. The nineteenth century was a moment of extraordinary mathematical innovation, witnessing the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the revaluation of symbolic algebra, and the importation of mathematical language into philosophy. All these innovations sprang from a reconception of mathematics as a formal rather than a referential practice—as a means for describing relationships rather than quantities. For Victorian ma

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Ozalp, Mehmet. God in Islamic Theology. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666994681.

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Theology is a rational endeavor to understand everything about God, from within a faith tradition and its scriptures, and in response to problems posed by the conditions of a particular time and place. God in Islamic Theology: Tawhid in Classical Islamic Theology and Said Nursi’s Risale-i Nur engages and gleans classical and contemporary understandings on the central tenets of God in Islam. The book makes a substantive contribution to Islamic Studies in four main ways. First, it grasps and justifies the use of the language and genre of theology in relation to scholarly efforts to relate Qur’an

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Kim, Marie Seong-Hak. Custom, Law, and Monarchy. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192845498.001.0001.

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Ancien régime France did not have a unified law. Legal relations of the people were governed by a disorganized amalgam of norms, including provincial and local customs (coutumes), elements of Roman law and canon law that together formed jus commune, royal edicts and ordinances, and judicial decisions, all coexisting with little apparent internal coherence. The multiplicity of laws and the fragmentation of jurisdiction were the defining features of the monarchical era. A key subject in European legal history is the metamorphosis of popular customs into customary law, which covered a broad spect

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Insole, Christopher J. Kant and the Divine. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198853527.001.0001.

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The book offers a definitive study of the development of Kant’s conception of the highest good, from his earliest work, to his dying days. It is argued that Kant believes in God, but that he is not a Christian, and that this opens up an important and neglected dimension of Western philosophy. Kant is not a Christian, because he cannot accept Christianity’s traditional claims about the relationship between divine action, grace, human freedom, and happiness. Christian theologians who continue to affirm these traditional claims (and many do), therefore have grounds to be suspicious of Kant as an

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Dempsey, James X., and Fred H. Cate. Recommendations for Government and Industry. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190685515.003.0023.

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The chapters in this volume are uniform in their commitment to the proposition that terrorism can be effectively fought and national security interests can be defended within a system of oversight and control that protects both corporate interests and individual privacy. Moreover, they are remarkable in their consistency in describing the components of an effective system of checks and balances. This chapter draws on the work of the contributors to this volume and on the flood of policy developments over the past five years to recommend a coherent framework for collection of private-sector dat

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Joinson, Adam N., Katelyn Y. A. McKenna, Tom Postmes, and Ulf-Dietrich Reips, eds. Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199561803.001.0001.

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The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology brings together many researchers in what can be termed Internet Psychology. Though a very new area of research, Internet Psychology is a fast-growing one. In addition to well-studied areas of investigation, such as social identity theory, computer-mediated communication, and virtual communities, the book also includes articles on topics as diverse as deception and misrepresentation, attitude change and persuasion online, Internet addiction, online relationships, privacy and trust, health and leisure use of the Internet, and the nature of interactivity

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Parente, Diego. Del órgano al artefacto. Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (EDULP), 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.35537/10915/26681.

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El presente volumen <i>Del órgano al artefacto. Acerca de la dimensión biocultural de la técnica</i>, de Diego Parente, aborda una temática todavía novedosa en nuestro medio. Se trata del resultado de una cuidadosa investigación doctoral realizada en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, trabajo que por su naturaleza representa un valioso aporte, tanto a la reflexión filosófica como a los posibles cruces interdisciplinarios. El autor parte de una firme intuición pragmatista ligada a una concepción de la filosofía según la cual esta evolucionaría de acuerdo a dos series. Una, la más visib

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Barger, Lilian Calles. A Tenuous Consensus. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190695392.003.0012.

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This chapter examines the differences within liberationists’ ranks, and how counter-challenges from a consensus theology in its last throes tested the coherency of liberation theology. As the new Latin American theology challenged the U.S. empire, black and feminist theologians within its borders found an institutional space in which to incubate a new orthodoxy and engage in internal debate. Latin America, historically an object of North American missionary and political expansion, drew the bulk of the relevant attention, casting the entire enterprise of liberation theology as a Latin American

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Hildebrandt, Mireille. Law for Computer Scientists and Other Folk. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198860877.001.0001.

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This book introduces law to computer scientists. Computer scientists develop, protect, and maintain computing systems in the broad sense of that term, whether hardware, software, or data. They may be focused on e.g. digital security, or on embedded systems, or on software science. The aim of this book is to convey the internal logic of legal practice, firmly grounded in legal theory. It attempts to bridge the gap between two scientific practices, and probe the middle ground to present a reasonably coherent picture of the grammar and vocabulary of law and the rule of law. This attempt is geared

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Peari, Sagi. The Formal Structure of Choice-of-Law Rules. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190622305.003.0002.

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This chapter traces the structure of choice-of-law rules and outlines the three leading methodologies: classical connecting factors, American interest analysis, and better law. Among the three methodologies, only the better-law methodology involves a substantive evaluation of the involved laws. Yet, one can make a division between two forms of better law: as a primary rule and as a secondary or subsidiary rule. Choice-of-law thought and judicial decisions treat these forms of better law in fundamentally different ways. The better law as a primary rule is vulnerable to a set of serious objectio

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Ruiz Choque, Mario. Normatividad de la educación superior tecnológica en la investigación formativa. Universidad Nacional de Educación Enrique Guzmán y Valle (UNE) - Fondo Editorial La Cantuta, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54942/lacantuta.25.

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Existe una menor proporción de titulados por investigaciones conducentes a tesis, lo que limita al egresado insertarse al mercado laboral y productivo, que son actividades de transformación de recursos en bienes y servicios para beneficio de la comunidad, lo que es de importancia la normatividad de institutos de educación superior tecnología, que debe ser integral, secuencial y coherente a la formación investigativa. Como problema general nos preguntamos: ¿Cuál es el impacto de la normatividad de Educación Superior Tecnológica en la investigación formativa, en el Instituto de Educación Superio

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Block, Fred L. Capitalism. University of California Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520283220.001.0001.

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Since the 1980s, a particular definition of the United States and the global economy as being “capitalist” has become hegemonic. In this view, a capitalist economy is autonomous and coherent, and it needs to be regulated by its own internal laws. This view is an illusion. The reality is that economies organized around the pursuit of private profit are contradictory, incoherent, and heavily intertwined with politics and governmental action. But the illusion remains hugely consequential, because it has been embraced by political and economic elites who are convinced that they are powerless to ch

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Wrathall, Mark A., ed. Heidegger’s Hermeneutic Realism (1991). Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796220.003.0005.

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Dreyfus develops his argument for a kind of “hermeneutic realism” about the entities discovered by the natural sciences. His position is “hermeneutic” in the sense that he recognizes that our access to reality is grounded in interpretive practices, and he aims to spell out what those practices take for granted. But he is a “realist” in the sense that he argues that the conditions of access to entities do not determine or constitute those entities as such. Instead, Dreyfus argues that the realist self-understanding of scientific practices is “internally coherent and compatible with the ontologi

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Sharp, Alan. The Versailles Settlement. 3rd ed. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350494060.

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The third edition of this acclaimed textbook on peace-making after the First World War advances that the responsibility for the outbreak of a new, even more ruinous, war in 1939 cannot be ascribed entirely to the planet's most powerful men and their meeting in Paris in January 1919 to reassemble a shattered world. Giving a concise overview of the problems and pressures these key figures were facing, Alan Sharp provides a coherent introduction to a highly complex and multi-dimensional topic. This is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking modules on the Versailles S

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George, Alain. Paradise or Empire? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190498931.003.0002.

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This essay revolves around a paradox of Umayyad art: the tendency for the same decorative schemes to yield apparently contradictory, yet internally coherent interpretations, mostly to do with paradise or empire. Through a discussion of the Dome of the Rock, the Great Mosque of Damascus, and two key Umayyad Qurʾan manuscripts, it investigates whether this ambiguity should in fact be understood as a consciously crafted polysemy. This reflection is set within a broader cultural context that involves, first of all, the inherent ambiguity of the Qurʾan as a text and related literary values; second,

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Oestreicher, Paul. Camelot, Inc. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400622946.

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This fresh and insightful examination of modern leadership and management issues uses the surprisingly relevant stories of King Arthur and Camelot to illustrate the do's and don'ts of achieving success. The many examples of popular movies, television shows, books, comics, and theatrical plays based upon the character of King Arthur or stories of Camelot provide proof of how firmly rooted they are in mainstream culture. Accordingly, King Arthur and Camelot provide a perfect vehicle to communicate important leadership and management concepts that are completely applicable to today's institutions

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White, Stephen. The Unity of the Self. The MIT Press, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/7002.001.0001.

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In these essays Stephen White examines the forms of psychological integration that give rise to self-knowable and self-conscious individuals who are responsible, concerned for the future, and capable of moral commitment. The essays cover a wide range of basic issues in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, moral psychology, and political philosophy, providing a coherent, sophisticated, and forcefully argued view of the nature of the self. Beginning with mental content and ending with Rawls and utilitarianism, each essay argues a distinctive line. Together they are a unified and powerful philosophic

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McAdams, Dan P. The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197507445.001.0001.

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The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump provides a coherent and nuanced psychological portrait of the 45th president of the United States. Drawing on biographical events in Trump’s life and on contemporary research and theory in personality, social, and developmental psychology, the book explores the personality traits and psychological dynamics that have shaped Trump’s life, with an emphasis on the strangeness of the case—how Trump again and again defies psychological expectations regarding what it means to be a human being. The book’s central thesis is that Donald Trump is the episodic man. He l

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Barrett-Fox, Rebecca. The Bible and the Religious Right. Edited by Paul C. Gutjahr. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190258849.013.9.

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This chapter identifies the doctrines that are central to conservative American Christians’ interpretation of biblical texts. Such believers view their scriptures as inerrant, literal, divinely inspired, authoritative, easily understood, internally consistent, and coherent, a vision of the Bible that does not necessarily lead to conservative social and political views, even as those conservative Christians who participate in conservative politics insist that it must. Those who use conservative faith to justify conservative politics form the Religious Right, which seeks to form a “Bible-based”

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Precioso Izquierdo, Francisco, and Judit Gutiérrez de Armas, eds. Al encuentro de la familia. Estudios de género, transmisión y reproducción social en España (siglos XVI-XIX). Editum. Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/editum.2934.

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Los nueve capítulos que forman este libro son reflejo de la pluralidad de observaciones y modos de acercarnos al estudio y comprensión de una misma realidad social que está en permanente transformación. Sin embargo, existe un elemento común que ha motivado la emergencia de intereses en uno y otro grupo y que justifica la voluntad de reunión y debate. Nos referimos a la familia, una de las categorías analíticas más activas en el terreno de la investigación histórico-social de la actualidad. Más que como un fondo limitador, la familia actúa en este libro como un elemento posibilitador que facili

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Hedrick, Donald. Shakespeare and Fun. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350002876.

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In this bold, original study Hedrick proposes an early modern ‘entertainment value’ revolution, to which Shakespeare contributed and in which he played a competitive role. As London’s nascent capitalist industry developed and the variety of entertainments proliferated, theatre contributes to the birth of entertainment value and a commercial trajectory toward what Marxist critic Adorno theorizes as ‘fun,’ seen contemporaneously in LasVegasization and the election of Donald Trump to U.S. Presidency. In this innovative approach to Shakespeare’s plays through their compulsory, competitive relation

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Wani, Aijaz Ashraf. What Happened to Governance in Kashmir? Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199487608.001.0001.

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What Happened to governance in Kashmir? studies the state of Jammu and Kashmir from the perspective of an ‘exceptional state’ rather than a ‘normal state’, a periphery on the margins of the centre, and thus shifts the focus from the central grid to the local arena. It contains a mass of information on what successive governments did to manage the conflicted state of Jammu and Kashmir. It identifies the various issues and problems the state has been confronted with since the transfer of power to ‘popular’ government in 1948 to 1989. The book makes a critical study of the engagement of Indian st

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Roscini, Marco. International Law and the Principle of Non-Intervention. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786894.001.0001.

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Abstract The principle of non-intervention in the domestic affairs of states is one of the most venerable principles of international law but the determination of its exact content has remained an enigma that has haunted generations of international lawyers. This book solves this problem and identifies what the principle of non-intervention specifically prohibits, and what it does not. The principle in question is strictly linked to some fundamental notions of international law, such as sovereignty, use of force, and self-determination: its study, therefore, is of great significance as it offe

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Wienand, Johannes, ed. Contested Monarchy. Oxford University PressNew York, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199768998.001.0001.

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Abstract This volume aims to reappraise the wide-ranging and lasting transformation of the Roman monarchy between the Principate and Late Antiquity. The book takes as its focus the period from Diocletian to Theodosius I (284-395) and thus on a major developmental phase in the history of the Roman Empire. During this period, the stability of monarchical rule depended heavily on the emperor's mobility, on collegial or dynastic rule, and on the military resolution of internal political crises. At the same time, profound religious changes modified the premises of political interaction and symbolic

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Ariel, Shlomo. Children's Imaginative Play. Praeger, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400625480.

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In this visit to the wonderland of children's imaginative, make-believe play, readers are be exposed to both a general, bird's-eye view of the whole of this fascinating realm, and to a closer look at its diverse regions. This volume examines the borderlines between make-believe play and akin phenomena such as dreams, drama, and rituals. Readers will become acquainted with the secret codes of make-believe play. These codes are activated in both covert and overt power struggles among children as well as in the child's internal theater of emotions. Readers will have the opportunity to examine the

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