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Dyagilev, Vasiliy, and Pavel Razov. Logic. Theory of argumentation. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1085524.
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The textbook covers the main sections of the course of formal logic, the principles of drawing conclusions, the basics of argumentation and communication. The topics are presented taking into account the achievements of modern logical science.
 In addition to the theoretical part, practical tasks and texts for analytical analysis are included.
 Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. 
 It is intended for bachelors, undergraduates and postgraduates of humanitarian specialties. It can also be used by anyone who wants to study logic and the theory of argumentation or improve their knowledge in these disciplines.
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Sinchenko, Georgiy. The logic of the dissertation. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2025. https://doi.org/10.12737/2173831.
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The textbook is a set of rules, techniques and recommendations developed on the basis of formal logic. The minimum of formal and logical knowledge is presented in the form in which it can be directly used to solve a wide range of cognitive tasks of dissertation research. Tips and recommendations are given in a general context with an analysis of examples from dissertations, abstracts and publications in various fields of science. It is intended for applicants for the degree of Candidate of Sciences, and is of interest to applicants for the degree of Doctor of Sciences and anyone who wants to enhance the culture of research work.
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Biryukov, Vladimir, and Pavel Sharonin. Theory of economic analysis. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1851552.
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The textbook reveals the theoretical and organizational foundations, information support of economic analysis. It contains a description of the techniques, methods and methods of analytical research used both in the practical activities of economic entities and in scientific research; a description of the types of economic analysis; a methodology for determining the value of intra-production reserves. 
 It is structured in such a way that the student can understand not only the essence of economic analysis, but also develop practical skills for conducting economic analysis of organizations' activities. The material is illustrated with structural and logical schemes, generalizing analytical tables and many practical examples. To consolidate knowledge, at the end of each chapter there are questions for self-control and tasks in a test form. 
 The fifth edition of the textbook is supplemented with practical tasks on all topics of the course, which allows students to develop and consolidate analytical thinking skills.
 Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation.
 For bachelors studying in the field of training 38.03.01 "Economics" of all profiles, graduate students, teachers of economic universities, specialists of economic and financial services of organizations, auditors.
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Akat'eva, Marina. Documentation of business operations and accounting of the organization's property. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1070199.
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The textbook covers the entire range of issues of documenting business operations and accounting for the organization's property, taking into account current regulations and legislation. The textbook allows you not only to understand the essence of documenting business operations and accounting for the organization's property, but also to develop practical skills on these issues.
 The presentation of the material is illustrated by structural and logical diagrams, generalizing analytical tables, and many practical examples. In order to consolidate knowledge, self-control questions and test tasks are provided at the end of each Chapter.
 Meets the requirements of the Federal state educational standards of secondary professional education of the latest generation.
 The textbook is aimed at students in the specialty 38.02.01 "Economics and accounting (by industry)", as well as teachers of economic educational institutions of secondary vocational education, specialists of economic and financial services organizations, auditors.
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Levchaev, Petr. Finance companies. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/22549.
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The textbook describes theoretical, methodological and practical bases of Finance companies. Logical structure of presentation allows you to consistently learn as the basic material of the course and the topics corresponding to the conceptual higher level of knowledge.
 For a comprehensive assimilation of the provisions of the course "Finance organizations" topics of the discipline are given control questions and tasks for self-examination of knowledge of students, thesis topics and modern research directions of Finance of organizations and themes of final qualification works, questions to prepare for the exam, and recommended reading. Set out the problematic situation of Finance companies in the innovation economy.
 Meets the requirements of Federal state educational standard of higher education of the last generation.
 For students, postgraduates and teachers of economic specialties. Be useful to a wide circle of readers interested in the problems of Finance companies.
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Shumilina, Vera, Galina Krohicheva, Nataliya Izvarina, et al. Application of accounting, analysis and audit in enterprise management. AUS PUBLISHERS, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.26526/monography_618ba6f2989171.05397055.
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It is impractical to plan the further work of the company without taking into account analytical data for previous production periods. Analytical accounting data allows managers to build a company's strategy or make changes to an existing development plan. The importance of accounting for the enterprise plays a large role at the planning stage of the further business strategy. A competent manager studies accounting data before making the next decision regarding the company's finances. The easiest way to streamline accounting documents and eliminate errors in it is to conduct an internal audit. Such an audit will protect the company from possible fines and problems with tax audits. It will help optimize accounting and document flow, and simplify relations with banks and counterparties. Economic analysis aims to turn economic and non-economic information into useful information for decision making. Logical processing, study, generalization of facts, their systematization, conclusions, proposals, search for reserves - all these tasks are solved within the framework of economic analysis, which is designed to ensure the validity of management decisions and increase its effectiveness.
 This monograph is a collective work of teachers and students of the Department of Economic Security, Accounting and Law of the Don State Technical University. It is devoted to the consideration of certain issues of accounting, audit and economic analysis at the enterprise in modern conditions.
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Sinclair-Desgagne, Bernard. The first-order approach to multi-task principal-agent problems. INSEAD, 1991.
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Konurbaev, Marklen. Logic, propositions, and typology of texts in English.Critical Aristotle. Politics. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2025. https://doi.org/10.12737/2169267.
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The textbook was created within the framework of the academic discipline "Logic, proposition and typology of texts" and is focused on integrative work with the text of Aristotle's "Politics" (philosophical treatise "Politics") in English, including analytical reading based on the method of critical thinking, with its subsequent written interpretation. It contains tasks and exercises for the text of "Politics" aimed at maximizing its understanding and developing writing skills. For students of philological faculties, graduate students and teachers.
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Logunova, Oksana, Petr Romanov, and Elena Il'ina. Processing of experimental data on a computer. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1064882.
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The textbook provides information about the main methods and tools for automating computational processes used in data processing; methods for representing and generating models of experimental data; data models and classification of processing tasks; and the organization of the user interface in automated systems for processing experimental data. Contains structured chapters on the specifics of experimental research. The features of using software for processing experimental data are clearly and logically described. Theoretical material and basic algorithms for processing experimental data used in industrial statistics are presented. Examples of processing experimental data in the field of metallurgy and management in higher education are given. Meets the requirements of the Federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. For students and postgraduates of higher educational institutions.
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1945-, Beckermann Ansgar, Tetens Holm 1948-, and Walter Sven 1974-, eds. Philosophie: Grundlagen und Anwendungen : Hauptvorträge und ausgewählte Kolloquiumsbeiträge zu GAP.6 = Philosophy : foundations and applications : main lectures and colloquia talks of GAP.6. Mentis, 2008.
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Gdanskiy, Nikolay, Yu Korablin, and I. Blagoveschenskiy. Discrete mathematics: applied methods of set theory, counting and representation of information and mathematical logic. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1414881.
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The textbook presents in the most simplified form the basic theoretical provisions of set theory, number representation, combinatorics and mathematical logic, as well as ways to solve practical problems using their methods. A large number of examples are considered. There are also questions for self-control of the level of knowledge and tasks for self-solution.
 Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation.
 For undergraduate and graduate students in the field of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, as well as students of other fields studying information technology. Also, the manual can be used by young specialists from the IT field in independently eliminating gaps in certain sections of discrete mathematics.
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Conference, on Human-Centered Software Engineering (2nd 2008 Pisa Italy). Engineering interactive systems 2008: Second Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2008 and 7th International Workshop on Task Models and Diagrams, TAMODIA 2008, Pisa, Italy, September 25-26, 2008 : proceedings. Springer, 2008.
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TAMODIA 2009 (2009 Brussels, Belgium). Task models and diagrams for user interface design: 8th international workshop, TAMODIA 2009, Brussels, Belgium, September 23-25, 2009 : revised selected papers. Springer, 2010.
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Hilary, Johnson, Palanque Philippe 1966-, and SpringerLink (Online service), eds. Task Models and Diagrams for User Interface Design: 6th International Workshop, TAMODIA 2007, Toulouse, France, November 7-9, 2007. Proceedings. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
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Adamchuk, Natal'ya, Rustam Azimov, Tamara Belousova, et al. Insurance in the digital economy: science, practice, education. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1816154.
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The monograph deals with the transformation of the insurance business in the conditions of digitalization. The logic of scientific analysis is based on the impact of digitalization on all environmental systems of the insurance business, which, in turn, require the transformation of all aspects of the insurer's activities. The scientific analysis of the usefulness of insurance services is given, the influence of digitalization on the formation of information flows and business processes in the insurance business is considered.
 The experience of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkey in the development of digitalization of the insurance market is summarized, development problems are formulated and a number of practical recommendations are given.
 A significant block of material is devoted to the analysis of social aspects of the insurance business, including the tasks and opportunities of insurance organizations in the formation of sustainable development. The problems of ensuring the quality of insurance services in the conditions of digitalization, regulatory activities in this area, protection of the interests of the consumer of insurance services are considered.
 New approaches to training personnel for the insurance market are considered, domestic and foreign experience is summarized. The results of a study of the use of digital technologies at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation and partner universities are presented.
 For a wide range of readers interested in insurance problems. It can be useful for students, postgraduates and teachers of economic universities.
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Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering (2nd 2008 Pisa, Italy). Engineering interactive systems 2008: Second Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2008 and 7th International Workshop on Task Models and Diagrams, TAMODIA 2008, Pisa, Italy, September 25-26, 2008 : proceedings. Springer, 2008.
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Holmes, Basford. Hoshi Sudoku Book. Brain Puzzle Game: 400+. Hard Level Tasks. Book of Logical Puzzles. . Independently Published, 2018.
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Ianchelenko, Viktor, Aleksandr Zagritcenko, and Sergey Ivanov. Artificial Intelligence in Motion Control of Road Transport: Concepts, mathematical models, logical inference, solution of tasks. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2015.
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Big Book of Tasks for Preschooler 100 Pages of Tasks Lara Brooks for Kids Ages 4-8: Easy and Fun Learning Exercises for Perceptiveness, Memory, Logical Thinking and Improvement of the Hand-Eye System. Independently Published, 2021.
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Goswami, Usha. 6. The learning brain. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199646593.003.0007.
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‘The learning brain’ looks at the influence of personal experience on how we apply logical reasoning and how we learn to detach logic from our own experience. Schooling helps children to become ‘reflective learners’. Self-reflective learning behaviour, or meta-cognitive behaviour, refers to the ability to reflect on personal information-processing skills, to monitor personal cognitive performance, and the ability to be aware of demands from different kinds of cognitive tasks. Children also learn ‘executive function’ skills, which are processes that enable a child to gain strategic control over their own mental processes. These sorts of skills have important developmental links to success in school.
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Morozov, V. E. MANUAL FOR THE STUDY OF LOGIC based on the material of advertising messages. Publishing house of the Russian state agrarian University UN-TA im. K. A. Timiryazeva, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.26897/978-5-9675-1861-4-2022-213.
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The manual is intended for students of the humanities, primarily for students in the direction of "Advertising and public relations". The purpose of the manual is to link the study of logic with the solution of future specialists in the field of advertising of their professional tasks, primarily with the ability to logically analyze the content of advertising messages. The manual can also be useful for students of journalistic, philological and economic fields of study.
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Winkler, Kenneth P. Hume’s Skeptical Logic of Induction. Edited by Paul Russell. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199742844.013.37.
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For Hume, one task of logic is “to explain the principles and operations of our reasoning faculties”; this chapter is a study of his logic of inductive reasoning, as presented in Book I of his Treatise and in the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Like other early modern logics—especially those composed, as Hume’s was, under the influence of Locke—Hume’s logic is descriptive, explanatory, and normative. It also aspires to be revelatory. It is descriptive in documenting how our reasoning actually proceeds, explanatory in telling us why it so proceeds, normative in telling us how it should proceed, and revelatory in using those findings to arrive at larger truths about human nature and human life. Hume formulates rules of inductive reasoning and ranks inductive arguments as better and worse. He also advocates the reform of intellectual disciplines. Yet his logic, it is argued, is at the same time deeply skeptical.
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Ryle, Cym Anthony. Risk and Reason in Clinical Diagnosis. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190944001.001.0001.
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This book provides, without the use of specialist language, a description of diagnostic reasoning and error and a discussion of steps that could improve diagnostic accuracy. Drawing on work in cognitive psychology, it presents the key characteristics of human reasoning. It notes that complex cognitive tasks such as medical diagnosis require a synergy of intuition and analytical thinking and introduces the concept of bias. The book considers the value of current classifications of disease, the meaning of diagnostic thresholds, and the potential for overdiagnosis. It examines the role of the patient-centred approach in this context. It develops a description of the diagnostic process, provides illustrative examples and metaphors, and refers to the dual-process model. It suggests that medical training does not consistently provide a coherent account of diagnostic thinking and the associated risks of error. It considers the role of probability in diagnostic reasoning, noting the contribution and the limitations of both informal and mathematical estimates. It refers to clear evidence that error in medical diagnosis is a prevalent and potent cause of harm and may result from systems factors or cognitive glitches such as bias and logical fallacy. It presents cases with commentaries, highlighting the cognitive processes in diagnostic successes, near misses, and disasters. It concludes with proposals for change, notably in institutional culture; in professional culture, education, and training; and in the structure of medical records. The book advocates the development and deployment of computerized diagnostic decision support. It argues that these changes could significantly enhance patient safety.
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Franzese, Robert J. Multicausality, Context‐Conditionality, and Endogeneity. Edited by Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566020.003.0002.
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This article talks about multicausality, context-conditionality, and endogeneity. It studies the problem of having too few observations or information before discussing in detail these three fundamental challenges for empirical analysis. This article stresses that context matters, which helps clarify the logical requirements of empirical evaluation from comparative history and some of the specific approaches to fulfilling those requirements used by quantitative methods.
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Khalidi, Muhammad Ali. Zakī Najīb Maḥmūd (d. 1993), (). Редактори Khaled El-Rouayheb та Sabine Schmidtke. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199917389.013.33.
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Zaki Najib Mahmud (1905–1993) occupies a unique position in the development of twentieth-century Arab thought, as a follower of logical empiricism and the emerging analytic school of philosophy. The task of explicating and promoting the philosophical ideas of logical empiricism to an Arab audience dominated his early work. However, in his later work, he addressed some of the issues that preoccupied other Arab thinkers of his era, notably the possibility of reconciling tradition and modernity, the compatibility of Islamic religious thought with liberalism and democracy, and general questions of progress, secularism, and the state of Arab and Egyptian society. This chapter focuses on Naḥwa Falsafah ʿ–Ilmiyya (Toward a Scientific Philosophy), first published in 1958, which propounds and defends logical empiricism, engaging with its principal arguments and relate it to the work of others. The chapter concludes with an assessment of Mahmud’s work and its place in twentieth-century Arab thought.
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Domińczuk, Jacek. Automatyzacja i robotyzacja procesów produkcyjnych. Ćwiczenia laboratoryjne. Politechnika Lubelska, 2024. https://doi.org/10.35784/9788379475940.
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The textbook contains a compendium of knowledge in the field of automation and robotisation of production processes education. Each chapter presents a theoretical introduction to the topics covered. The chapters include the following topics: selection of pneumatic actuators, control valves, design of pneumatic systems, design of control units, use of sensors, programming of simple and complex programmable logic controllers (PLCs), programming of robots, and safety ensuring in the operation of machines. The information contained in this book includes general and specific knowledge related to the construction, functioning and configuration of the components addressed for production automation. The knowledge is intended to assist the student’s preparation for practical exercises. Each chapter includes information on how to complete a laboratory exercise. The manual includes suggested tasks to be completed during the class. The instructions for completing the exercise indicate sample tools that the student can use to solve the task. The use of the indicated tool is not obligatory and can be replaced by another one chosen by the teacher. The topics of the handbook were selected based on the analysis of the expected competences of technical graduates, which are useful in their professional work
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Vidal, Matt. Management Divided. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198795278.001.0001.
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This richly evidenced study of American manufacturing documents how one of the central dynamics shaping organizations today is a contradiction managers face between ensuring workforce discipline and harnessing worker creativity. This contradiction has been intensifying over the last four decades as employee involvement has become increasingly important in response to rapid technical change, requirements for flexibility, and demands for continuous improvement. Global best practice in manufacturing includes lean production with substantive worker empowerment: cross training in enlarged tasks and inclusion in problem solving and decision making. Yet, facing conflicting pressures, many managers satisfice by training workers in narrow tasks and using them exclusively for manual labor. Vidal presents a synthetic theory called organizational political economy, integrating concepts from organization theory—institutional logics, organizational fields, managerial satisficing, and operational routines—into a classical marxist framework. Rather than theorizing managers as preoccupied with controlling labor to maximize exploitation, the theory emphasizes how contradictory developments—conflicting pressures and competing logics of labor management—lead management to be divided. Some managers adopt best practice by substantively empowering their workforce while others settle for good enough. Capitalist management is increasingly a source of organizational inefficiency. The argument is not limited to manufacturing or to lean production. Managers experience contradictory pressures—for standardization versus discretion, deskilling versus upskilling, and routine manual versus abstract cognitive labor—in a wide range of occupations, including social services, education, healthcare, office and administrative support, and software development.
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Chang, Kang-Tsung. Programming Arcobjects with VBA: A Task-Oriented Approach. Taylor & Francis Group, 2008.
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Chang, Kang-Tsung. Programming ArcObjects with VBA: A Task-Oriented Approach. CRC, 2004.
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Chang, Kang-Tsung. Programming ArcObjects with VBA: A Task-oriented Approach. Taylor & Francis Group, 2004.
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Programming ArcObjects with VBA: A task-oriented approach. 2nd ed. Taylor & Francis, 2007.
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Chang, Kang-Tsung. Programming ArcObjects with VBA: A Task-Oriented Approach, Second Edition. Taylor & Francis Group, 2007.
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Chang, Kang-Tsung. Programming ArcObjects with VBA: A Task-Oriented Approach, Second Edition. Taylor & Francis Group, 2007.
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Yang, Lianfen. The “Red Classic” That Never Was. Translated by Ping Qiu and Richard King. Hong Kong University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888390892.003.0001.
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Hinterland (Fudi), written between 1943 and 1944 by Wang Lin, was the first novel to depict the resistance of the Chinese Communist Party against the Japanese invasion. The first edition of this novel came out in 1950, but was soon banned after being criticized for violating Mao Zedong’s 1942 “Talks at the Yan’an Forum”. The second edition, which went through a thirty-year revision by the author and was published in 1985, received only a lukewarm reception from the post-Mao-era readership, precisely because of its author’s faithful response to Mao’s “Yan’an Talks” and the embodiment of the principle of “three prominences” in the novel. Through a comparative study of the two editions of Hinterland, this chapter investigates the difficult process -- and paradoxical nature -- of the creation of a “Red Classic” work. It demonstrates how in socialist China, literary criticism discursively framed by “historical materialism”, exercised political power within revolutionary “dialectic” logics as well as demonstrating a genuine capacity to shape the mindset of a writer.
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Burns, Tom, and Mike Firn. Research and development. Edited by Tom Burns and Mike Firn. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198754237.003.0029.
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This chapter covers the spectrum of routine monitoring, audit, service evaluation, and formal research. Routine monitoring is an essential task for all mental health professionals, and techniques to make it more palatable are explored, including using routine data for clinical supervision and monitoring team targets. Regular audit is described as an essential tool for logical service development and quality improvement. In the discussion of research, the importance of choosing the correct methodology and of paying attention to detail are stressed. In community psychiatry, sampling bias, regression to the mean, and the Hawthorne effect pose important risks. The hierarchy of research methods is outlined with randomized controlled trials (RCTs) at the top, preferably with either single- or double-blinding. Careful statistics and systematic reviews support evidence-based practice. In addition to experimental quantitative trials, there is a place for cohort and case control trials, as well as for qualitative trials to generate hypotheses.
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Mody, Ashoka. Three Leaps in the Dark, 1950–1982. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199351381.003.0002.
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This chapter describes the evolution of Europe's monetary union as a French initiative motivated by goal of achieving monetary and economic parity with Germany. The Schuman Declaration in 1950 brought European nations together in a spirit of reconciliation and laid the preparatory basis for post-War Europe. In 1957, the Treaty of Rome enabled the flowering of the European community—which, by the mid-1960s, had completed its primary task of establishing an institutional framework for cooperative coexistence and, by opening trade borders, had enhanced the material capabilities of the nation state. However, the European monetary union project in 1969 resulted in severe economic problems. Forcing one monetary policy on divergent nations made no logical or practical sense. Thus, repeated efforts to fix exchange rates predictably failed. Ultimately, the pursuit of monetary union created great risks and did little for Europe's real economic problem of generating long-term growth and reducing unemployment.
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Baele, Stephane J., Katharine A. Boyd, and Travis G. Coan, eds. ISIS Propaganda. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190932459.001.0001.
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ISIS Propaganda offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of the Islamic State’s (IS) propaganda. Combining a range of different theoretical perspectives from across the social sciences and using rigorous methods, the authors pursue several interconnected tasks. They trace the origins of IS’s message, they lay bare the strategic logic guiding its evolution, they examine each of its many components (magazines, videos, music, social media, etc.) and show how they work together to radicalize audiences’ worldviews, and they highlight the challenges such a “full-spectrum propaganda” raises in terms of counterterrorism. The volume hence not only represents a one-stop point for any analyst of IS and Salafi-jihadism, but also a rich contribution to the study of text and visual propaganda, radicalization and political violence, and international security.
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Clark, Gordon L., and Ashby H. B. Monk. Scope of Financial Institutions. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793212.003.0005.
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In expanding on the model introduced in Chapter 4, Chapter 5 delves deeper in its explanation about the scope of tasks and functions of financial institutions. In discussing Coase’s theory of the firm in the context of insourcing versus outsourcing, it explains the logic behind insourcing and outsourcing, and the geographical reach of financial institutions. Furthermore, it provides a more detailed account of the distinctive attributes of the financial institution as it pertains to the structure and governance of a firm. An explanation is provided of the representative financial institution as relating to the maximization of the risk-adjusted rate of return, how this is conceived and how its various elements drive the ‘production’ of the financial ‘product’. The imperatives behind offshoring are looked at, treating insourcing and outsourcing as expressions of geographical footprints and identifying a summary of current offshoring strategies in the financial industry along with emerging hybrid strategies and trends.
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Kulik, Anatoly, and Susanna Pshizova. Political Parties in Post-Soviet Space. Praeger, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400698194.
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Anatoly Kulik and Susanna Pshizova have compiled an engaging and comprehensive, cross-national study that explores the stormy political developments in the post-Soviet countries. They gathered essays regarding the formation of the various new democratic institutions of Russia, the Baltic States, the Slavic States, and Moldova. The contributors are all distinguished scholars indigenous to their areas of focus; consequently, they are able to provide a true insider's perspective of the political climates of their respective lands. Kulik and Pshizova have organized the studies into seven generously detailed, nation-specific chapters that permit readers to see the individual party systems in both their sub-regional contexts as well as in their national ones. The Newly Independent States that appeared after the collapse of the Soviet Union faced the necessity of creating their own democratic political systems in the first months of independence. While each state had the same basic task and came out of roughly the same background, each country implemented its own methods of government rule: they each pursued different paths with different outcomes. It is logical to view and study the states as a group, but also necessary to see them as individual governments with individual policies and political cultures.
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Lidz, Jeffrey L., William Snyder, and Joe Pater, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199601264.001.0001.
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This handbook provides a thorough and systematic investigation of the question of how we come to know a language. Researchers from all over the world explore the leading research questions within developmental linguistics, which include: What does the newborn child bring to the task of language acquisition? What information must the child extract from her linguistic input? And how does biological maturation interact with the child’s developing linguistic abilities? In the main body of the handbook, each chapter addresses a single area of grammatical knowledge, such as syllable structure, negation, or binding theory, and begins with an overview of the fundamental generalizations that guide current linguistic analyses and the features of grammatical representation that these generalizations entail. This is followed by a consideration of language learnability; a review of the relevant acquisition literature organized according to target language, age range of the child, and research methodology; and, finally, a discussion of a series of broader questions, such as: Do the experimental findings that were reviewed in the chapter favour a particular approach to the logical problem of language learnability? In what ways, if any, does the child’s knowledge surpass the information directly available from the input? In what ways can innate structure make the input more informative? Likewise, are there ways in which the child’s knowledge seems more limited than expected, given the richness of the available input?
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Rose, Nikolas. Society, madness, and control. Edited by Alec Buchanan and Lisa Wootton. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198738664.003.0001.
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What role does psychiatry play in contemporary strategies of control? How do psychiatrists and their institutions operate within all those ways of thinking and acting that aim to eliminate, minimize, or manage conduct that authorities consider undesirable? Since the middle of the nineteenth century, two great assemblages for the control of pathological conduct have taken shape in Western societies—the criminal justice system and the psychiatric system. This chapter will explore how these assemblages interact and how those who some now term forensic psychiatrists have claimed, or been given, the task of managing a multiplicity of points of tension, friction, and conflict within this dual logic of control. In doing so, the chapter considers the rise of risk thinking in psychiatry and some social, political, and ethical consequences.
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Dooley, Brendan, ed. The Continued Exercise of Reason. The MIT Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262535007.001.0001.
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George Boole (1815–1864), remembered by history as the developer of an eponymous form of algebraic logic, can be considered a pioneer of the information age not only because of the application of Boolean logic to the design of switching circuits but also because of his contributions to the mass distribution of knowledge. In the classroom and the lecture hall, Boole interpreted recent discoveries and debates in a wide range of fields for a general audience. This collection of lectures, many never before published, offers insights into the early thinking of an innovative mathematician and intellectual polymath. Bertrand Russell claimed that “pure mathematics was discovered by Boole,” but before Boole joined a university faculty as professor of mathematics in 1849, advocacy for science and education occupied much of his time. He was deeply committed to the Victorian ideals of social improvement and cooperation, arguing that “the continued exercise of reason” joined all disciplines in a common endeavor. In these talks, Boole discusses the genius of Isaac Newton; ancient mythologies and forms of worship; the possibility of other inhabited planets in the universe; the virtues of free and open access to knowledge; the benefits of leisure; the quality of education; the origin of scientific knowledge; and the fellowship of intellectual culture. The lectures are accompanied by a substantive introduction that supplies biographical and historical context.
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Jaffro, Laurent. Locke and Port-Royal on Affirmation, Negation, and Other Postures of the Mind. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815037.003.0011.
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The chapter claims that in order to understand Locke’s doctrine of assent, his philosophy of mind needs to be seen in conjunction with his philosophy of language, which in turn gains from being compared with Port-Royal’s logic and grammar. It points out two conflicting facts in Locke’s account of affirmation and negation in the Essay. First, Locke entrusts affirmation and negation with the task of signifying both the assertion by which we manifest our assent to a proposition and the junction or separation of the ideas constituting the proposition. The other fact is that Locke accepts a great variety of ways of considering a proposition. This diversity of ‘postures’ is poorly expressed by the limited number of syncategorematic terms, ‘particles’. The first fact fosters a one-act view of the assent we give to propositions. The second opens the way to a multiple-act view.
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Hankinson, R. J., and Matyáš Havrda, eds. Galen's Epistemology. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009072670.
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Determining what has gone wrong in a malfunctioning body and proposing an effective treatment requires expertise. Since antiquity, philosophers and doctors have wondered what sort of knowledge this expertise involves, and whether and how it can warrant its conclusions. Few people were as qualified to deal with these questions as Galen of Pergamum (129–ca. 216). A practising doctor with a keen interest in logic and natural science, he devoted much of his enormous literary output to the task of putting medicine on firm methodological grounds. At the same time he reflected on philosophical issues entailed by this project, such as the nature of experience, its relation to reason, the criteria of truth, and the methods of justification. This volume explores Galen's contributions to (mainly scientific) epistemology, as they arise in the specific inquiries and polemics of his works, as well as their legacy in the Islamic world.
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Redding, Paul. What Might it Mean to have a Systematic Idealist, but Anti-Platonist, Practical Philosophy? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198778165.003.0002.
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While in broad agreement with Rorty’s emphasis on the role of redescription in Hegel’s method, and with his wish to free Hegel from the constraints of traditional metaphysics, this chapter argues against Rorty’s account of Hegel’s redescriptive methodology. His account is, it suggests, tied to a misleading Sartrean interpretation of Hegel’s famous “master–slave” dialectic—an interpretation that is in fact closer to Fichte’s use of the notion of recognition than Hegel’s own. When Hegel’s concept of recognition is understood in relation to the logic of his concept of the will, a more nuanced account of recognition is achieved. This is one that coheres with a “redescription” of the task of metaphysics that portrays it as an inquiry into a modally conceived actual world. Unlike Rorty’s redescription, this is one that preserves the relevance of the value of truth and not merely that of freedom for metaphysics.
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Moyar, Dean. Absolute Knowledge and the Ethical Conclusion of the Phenomenology. Edited by Dean Moyar. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199355228.013.9.
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Hegel wrote in The Science of Logic that the deduction of the concept of science was accomplished at the end of the Phenomenology of Spirit in ‘Absolute Knowledge.’ This chapter links the deduction claim to the metaphor of a ladder to science that Hegel discusses in the Phenomenology Preface, and to the sublation of the form of objectivity that is the focus of ‘Absolute Knowledge.’ It argues that this reconciliation of self-consciousness with objectivity coincides with the task of unifying the theoretical and practical domains. Once one appreciates that Hegel’s goal is such a unification, one can see why he holds that the agent of conscience is already quite close to possessing absolute knowledge. The agent’s knowledge in deliberation, together with the agent’s relation to other agents in the process of recognizing action on conscience, has the same conceptual form as the complete theoretical object, the expanded version of the Concept, or inferential objectivity.
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Frederick, Samuel. The Redemption of Things. Cornell University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501761553.001.0001.
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Collecting is usually understood as an activity that bestows permanence, unity, and meaning on otherwise scattered and ephemeral objects. This book emphasizes that to collect things, however, always entails displacing, immobilizing, and potentially disfiguring them, too. The book argues that the dispersal of objects, seemingly antithetical to the collector's task, is essential to the logic of gathering and preservation. Through analyses of collecting as a dialectical process of preservation and loss, the book illustrates this paradox by focusing on objects that challenge notions of collectability: ephemera, detritus, and trivialities such as moss, junk, paper scraps, dust, scent, and the transitory moment. In close readings of works by Gotthelf, Stifter, Keller, Rilke, Glauser, and Frisch, and by examining an experimental film by Oskar Fischinger, the author reveals how the difficulties posed by these fleeting, fragile, and forsaken objects help to reconceptualize collecting as a poetic activity that makes the world of scattered things uniquely palpable and knowable.
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Dobrenko, Evgeny. Late Stalinism. Translated by Jesse M. Savage. Yale University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300198478.001.0001.
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This nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events of the period—beginning with Victory in May 1945 and concluding with the death of Stalin in March 1953—analyzes key cultural texts to trace the emergence of an imperial Soviet consciousness that, the book argues, still defines the political and cultural profile of modern Russia. The book provides a cultural and intellectual history of the era in which the shaping of the Soviet nation was completed. It talks about the era when mental and cultural dominants that determined the character of Russia were definitively affirmed. It also looks into cultural texts of literature, theater, cinema, art, music, scientific and historical texts, and popular literature through which history reveals its internal logic. The book analyzes Stalinism that communicated the new agenda, gave the new political course form through media, and inculcated the new ideological modulations. It explores the prism of Soviet art in order to trace the political and ideological transformation of the Stalinist regime from revolutionary international utopianism to conservatively patriarchal national Bolshevism.