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Optimality Theory
1999 || Paperback || Rene Kager || Cambridge University Press
Optimality Theory's central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. Exercises with chapters 1-7 and sections on further reading. For linguists with a knowledge of derivational Generative Phonology.
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
1999 || Paperback || Assia Djebar || University of Virginia Press
The cloth edition of Assia Djebar's Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, her first work to be published in English, was named by the American Literary Translators Association as an ALTA Outstanding Translation of the Year. Now available in paperback, this collection of three long stories, three short ones, and a theoretical postface by one of North Africa's leading writers depicts the plight of urban Algerian women who have thrown off the shackles of colonialism only to face a postcolonial re...
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Meditations on First Philosophy
1999 || Paperback || Rene Descartes || Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
This edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method , bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition.
Theater vanuit het niets / Druk 1
alles over improvisatietheater
1999 || Paperback || A. Besseling || ABC Uitgeverij
Ethical Know-How
Action, Wisdom, and Cognition
2020 || Paperback || francisco J. Varela || Stanford University Press
How can science be brought to connect with experience? This book addresses two of the most challenging problems facing contemporary neurobiology and cognitive science: first, understanding how we unconsciously execute habitual actions as a result of neurological and cognitive processes that are not formal actions of conscious judgment but part of a habitual nexus of systematic self-organization; second, creating an ethics adequate to our present awareness that there is no such thing as a tran...
Normal Accidents / Updated edition
Living with High Risk Technologies
1999 || Paperback || Charles Perrow || Princeton University Press
Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents.
(At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety system helped produce the meltdown and subsequent fire.) By recognizing two dimensions of risk--compl...
Maps of Meaning
The Architecture of Belief
1999 || Paperback || Jordan B. Peterson || Taylor & Francis
Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsycho...
Introduction to Protein Structure / 2nd Edition
1999 || Paperback || Carl Ivar Branden e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Introduction to Protein Structure provides an account of the principles of protein structure, with examples of key proteins in their biological context generously illustrated in full-color to illuminate the structural principles described in the text. The first few chapters introduce the general principles of protein structure both for novices and for non-specialists needing a primer. Subsequent chapters use specific examples of proteins to show how they fulfill a wide variety of biological f...
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason
1999 || Paperback || Sebastian Gardner || Taylor & Francis
This GuideBook introduces and assesses Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, arguably the single most important work in western philosophy. It is ideal for newcomers to Kant's thought.