This unique book investigates the implications of the rising importance of supra-national regional organizations for global governance in general, and for the United Nations, in particular.
While much has been written about Canada's modern settlement program and there is a growing body of research and analysis of the settlement and integration successes and challenges of recent years, there is virtually no literature that has addressed the history of settlement services since the beginning of immigration to Canada.
This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician Honore Fabri (1608-1688), a senior representative of Jesuit scientists during the period between Galileo's death (1642) and Newton's Principia (1687).
A comprehensive, wide ranging and detailed account of the unfolding of higher education and higher education policy in Portugal from 1974 to 2009 by leading policy-makers and scholars, with the explicit purpose of showing how different disciplinary canons and perspectives contribute to the study of higher education and higher education policy including Law and Science Policy perspectives.
Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking.
This book is a remarkable feat of scholarship - so remarkable in fact that I put it in the same league as the great classics of the field that had so much to do with setting the direction of Comparative Education.
Though the publication of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions seemed to herald the advent of a unified study of the history and philosophy of science, it is a hard fact that history of science and philosophy of science have increasingly grown apart.
This volume contains a selection of papers whose content have been presented at the International conferences CIPHI on Cultural Heritage and History of Engineering at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, Spain, in recent years.
This book discusses three linguistic projects carried out in the seventeenth century: the artificial languages created by Dalgamo and Wilkins, and Leibniz's uncompleted scheme.
(Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein will be read by philosophers investigating Wittgenstein and by scholars, interpreters, students, and specialists, in both analytic and continental philosophy.
The volume will consist of a series of interpretative studies of Locke's philosophical and religious thought in historical context and consider his contributions to the Enlightenment and modern liberal thought.
Colonial Scholasticism: Interpreting Nature, Society, and Philosophy in Spanish America explores the enduring influence of scholasticism beyond Europe, tracing its evolution in the intellectual and educational institutions of colonial Latin America.
Democratic 'transitions' in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and South Africa, often studied under the conceptual rubric of 'transitional justice', have involved the formation of public policies toward the past that are multifaceted and often ambitious.
Since after the Second World War, the crime of aggression is - along with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes - a "e;core crime"e; under international law.
This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between central Europe and Asia.
For the past 50 years a select group of scientists has provided advice to the US President, mostly out of the public eye, on issues ranging from the deployment of weapons to the launching of rockets to the moon to the use of stem cells to cure disease.
This book tells the story of the Earth itself, explaining the interplay of its gradual geologi- levolution, presented as a generally slow and safe process, with the sudden manifestations of natural hazards, which involve disasters that affect the environment and lead to huge material damage and human losses.
Scientia is the term that early modern philosophers applied to a certain kind of demonstrative knowledge, the kind whose starting points were appropriate first principles.
Ptolemy was the most important physical scientist of the Roman Empire, and for a millennium and a half his writings on astronomy, astrology, and geography were models for imitation, resources for new work, and targets of criticism.
Numerous scientists have taken part in the war effort during World War I, but few gave it the passionate energy of the prominent Italian mathematician Volterra.
The present volume brings together the author's most recent thinking on the tasks and methods of linguistic historiography and his critical assessment of the legacy of a number of major 20th-century scholars.
Il volume si pone l’obiettivo di scoprire, affrontare e analizzare un tema, l’ultima creatività, che la psicologia, le neuroscienze e la medicina non hanno mai pienamente esaminato.
The nineteenth century saw the emergence both of history as an independent scientific discipline and of national history as a means to legitimize the nation state.
Now in its second edition, The American Indian Mind in a Linear World examines the persistence of Native peoples in retaining their own worldviews, from the pre-Columbian era into the twenty-first century.
La falsificació de la descoberta catalana d'AmèricaLibrooks reedita l'obra pionera de Jordi Bilbeny que ha estat capaç de fascinar milers de lectors i en la qual demostra i argumenta de forma magistral la catalanitat d'En Cristòfor Colom i de la Descoberta d'Amèrica.
A través de esta breve selección de su intensa, atractiva y sugerente actividad de investigación llevada a cabo durante los últimos años, vemos cómo el profesor Roger Chartier ha transformado en fuente de conocimiento histórico los discursos del pasado, que hemos recibido en herencia, evaluando el entramado social y cultural en el que surgieron, así como las modalidades de recepción y uso a las que se vieron sometidos a lo largo del tiempo.
A través d'aquesta breu selecció de la intensa, atractiva i suggeridora activitat d'investigació que el professor Roger Chartier ha dut a terme durant els darrers anys, veiem com ha transformat en font de coneixement històric els discursos del passat, que hem rebut en herència, avaluant l'entramat social i cultural en el qual van sorgir, així com les modalitats de recepció i ús a les quals es van veure sotmesos al llarg del temps.
D'ençà de la recuperació de la democràcia han estat nombrosíssims els intents de trobar una identitat de poble, comarca i país a través de l'estudi històric de la vida de les comunitats que configuren la Ribera del Xúquer, a tots els nivells, i tant des de l'àmbit universitari com també des del món dels cronistes, l'erudició local o els joves investigadors, implicats en els nous corrents historiogràfics europeus, amb la microhistòria i la història local com a bandera.
La publicación de once trabajos de diplomática episcopal se presenta como un buen manual en esta materia, más allá del ámbito de la diócesis valentina en la Edad Media.
