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A practical reference source that provides essential information on the first 108 known chemical elements for students and working scientists. The information contained in this third edition reflects state-of-the-art values on the most frequently required constants. Each value was checked in a minimum of ten sources to ensure accuracy.

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A humorous investigation into the connections between the likes of Marx and Foucault and one of the legendary symbols of outlaw individualism. Here, words like Sturgis, Hollister, and panhead share the page with philosophical giants such as Marx, Hobbes and Socrates. It offers a series of essays, combining humour and philosophical introspection.

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Scientific naturalism, or scientism, is the theory that science has all the answers. This book argues that not all philosophical explanations can be reduced to scientific ones. Refuting support for scientism, it suggests that reliabilist and causal theories of epistemic justification are unsound.

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Scientific naturalism, or scientism, is the theory that science has all the answers. This book argues that not all philosophical explanations can be reduced to scientific ones. Refuting support for scientism, it suggests that reliabilist and causal theories of epistemic justification are unsound.

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In 'Harry Potter and Philosophy', 17 philosophical experts unlock some of Hogwarts' secret panels, and uncover surprising insights that are enlightening both for wizards and the most discerning muggles.

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Sandplay is a method of psychotherapy based on practical, creative modelling, with both diagnostic and therapeutic value. The author focuses on the process of sandplay and deals with the necessary role of sandplay in enhancing the self-regulation of the psyche.

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Witty, provocative essays ponder thorny questions, linking the searing cultural issues in hip-hop to the weighty matters examined by the great philosophers of the past. This volume proves that rhyme and reason can be mixed and mastered to contemplate life's most profound mysteries.

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Philosophers explain and criticize many controversial aspects of the ambitious new TV show, His Dark Materials.

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Through a study of a number of classic horror stories, this work argues that spiritual understanding of life can be reached through horror; that it steers a path between fanaticism and despair - the path of wonderment; and that revulsion and disgust are the obverse of excitement and freedom.

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This work argues that what we now think of as "reason" or "objective thinking" is not a natural product of the existence of an enlarged brain. Rather, it is a way of learning to use the brain that runs counter to the natural characteristics involved in being an animal, a mammal and a primate.

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In 1902 in a small German town a traveler turns up singing songs about America. The land sounds like paradise, and young Johann Bonfert is excited when his own family plans a life overseas. His father and brother leave early to find jobs in the steel mills of Ohio. The rest of the family follows later in a long, miserable sea journey. Johann soon discovers that it's not easy starting a new life.

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This text provides an explanation of what makes schools succeed or fail. It shows how an outside observer or a concerned parent can swiftly size up the performance of the school and lay the blame for any shortcomings squarely where it belongs.

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Explains why reason shows there must be a God. This title contains articles from different stages of the author's philosophical career, with pieces from 1943 to 1981 showing him defending his position against critics and struggling to improve it by correcting his earlier errors.

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Argues that philosophy of human freedom has been transformed by developments in science, especially evolution. The author accounts for freedom and creativity, and tests his theory with examples from drug addiction, hypnosis, slavery, brainwashing, and creative leaps in thought.

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Argues that philosophy of human freedom has been transformed by developments in science, especially evolution. The author accounts for freedom and creativity, and tests his theory with examples from drug addiction, hypnosis, slavery, brainwashing and creative leaps in thought.

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This revised edition examines different notions of rationality, such as the means-end concept, hedonism and the "evil-avoidance" view, and then rejects them in favour of the theory that to act rationally is to act "for the best", a theory the author characterises as "critical pluralism".

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This revised edition examines different notions of rationality, such as the means-end concept, hedonism and the "evil-avoidance" view, and then rejects them in favour of the theory that to act rationally is to act "for the best", a theory the author characterises as "critical pluralism".

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Here, Nicholas Rescher surveys and analyzes the different kinds of unreal possibilities and nonexistent objects, tying together all the ways in which this area has been approached by philosophers.