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Being Buddha at Work
Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2012; US$ 14.95Combining the talents of a professor of religion and an expert on workplace dynamics, this book continues the tradition begun by its bestselling predecessor, What Would Buddha Do (more than 30,000 copies sold), as yet another perfect tool for bringing bite-size chunks of Buddhist wisdom to give meaning to and resolve common conflicts found in everyday... more...
The Classical Heritage in Islam
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 41.95The influence of classical antiquity on the religious disciplines, theology, mysticism and law of Islam cannot be overestimated. This work demonstrates the significance of the classical heritage by drawing together a great range of literary renderings, paraphrases, commentaries and imitations, as well as independent Islamic elaborations. Professor... more...
The Metamorphosis
The Floating Press 2003; US$ 4.50The Metamorphosis begins almost comically. A man wakes up to find he has turned into an insect. But the claustrophobic, dirty room and the increasingly distressed narrator soon turn this into a tale of slow horror. Most horrifying of all is his family's reaction to his metamorphosis and their final solution to the problem. more...
Handbook of Business Interest Associations, Firm Size and Governance
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 288.00This Handbook presents a theory of Business Interest Associations and fifteen empirical country by country case studies in the EU. The book is organized into three main parts. Part I develops a theory of business associations which centres on firm size as the key explanatory variable. Part II consists of country studies covering the EU-15, which... more...
Memory Development
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 110.00This volume, a collection of papers resulting from a conference sponsored by the Max Planck Society, presents an overview of past research on memory development, possible applications of this research, and new ideas for future areas of study. The role of cognitive components in the development of memory performance and the social and motivational... more...
Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 51.95Franz Brentano's classic study Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint was the most important of Brentano's works to be published in his lifetime. A new introduction by Peter Simons places Brentano's work in the context of current philosophical thought. He is able to show how Brentano has emerged since the 1970s as a key figure in both contemporary... more...
Descriptive Psychology
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95Franz Brentano (1838-1917) is a key figure in the development of Twentieth Century thought. It was his work that set Husserl on to the road of phenomenology and intentionality, that inspired Meinong's theory of the object which influenced Bertrand Russell, and the entire Polish school of philosophy. ^Descriptive Psychology presents a series of lectures... more...
Sectioned: Social Services and the 1983 Mental Health Act
Taylor and Francis 1990; US$ 210.00Presents the findings of the only major research into the experience of social services departments in implementing the Act and its impact on the compulsorily detained. more...
Introducing Interpreting Studies
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 44.95This book is the first of its type, designed to introduce students, researchers and practitioners to the relatively new, and now fast developing, discipline of Interpreting Studies. Written by a leading researcher in the field, the book covers international conference, court and hospital interpreting in both spoken and signed languages. The book begins... more...
Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 129.99Provides an overview on the influence of problem representations on genetic and evolutionary algorithm (GEA) performance. This book summarizes knowledge regarding problem representations and describes how basic properties of representations, such as redundancy, scaling, or locality, influence the performance of GEAs and other optimization methods. more...









