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Where To Go When: Italy
Dorling Kindersley Ltd 2012; Not AvailableWhere To Go When: Italy offers a beautifully illustrated tour of Italy, unearthing the best of every region month by month. Whether you're looking for a fun family holiday or a cultural weekend in the city, Where To Go When: Italy suggests suitable locations and the best month of the year to visit each one. Written by knowledgeable travel writers... more...
Partnerships in Sustainable Forest Resource Management
BRILL 2006; US$ 74.00Brings together experiences with a variety of sustainable forest and tree resource management partnerships in various countries in Latin America. This book reflects on the scope, objectives, institutional organisation and benefits of partnerships. It is for those dealing with the governance forms in forest and natural resource management. more...
The Courage of Doing Philosophy
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 131.60In Recent years, the problem if idealization has been one of the central issues discussed in philosophy of science. This volume gathers original essays written by well-known philosophers. The papers address the method of idealization and its applications in science as well as ontological and epistemological problems that have arisen. Among the questions... more...
Konin
Random House 2013; US$ 13.34The extraordinary story of a small Jewish ghetto in a small town in Poland - and of one man's obsessive quest to discover its fate and its survivors. Since his early childhood in London, Theo Richmond had heard his relatives mention a place called Konin, the Polish Shetetl from which both his parents came. He felt an irresistible urge to find out more... more...
A Literary History of the Low Countries
Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd 2013; US$ 58.33What was the written culture behind visual artists like Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Rubens? What made the historical novel in nineteenth-century Flanders so different from its counterpart in Holland? What was the literary impact of the huge colonial empires run by the Netherlands and Belgium? What role did Latin, French, and Frisian play in the literary... more...
General Philosophy of Science
Elsevier Science 2007; US$ 200.00Scientists use concepts and principles that are partly specific for their subject matter, but they also share part of them with colleagues working in different fields. Compare the biological notion of a 'natural kind' with the general notion of 'confirmation' of a hypothesis by certain evidence. Or compare the physical principle of the 'conservation... more...
Nominalism and Its Aftermath
Springer 2009; US$ 129.99Presents a chronology of Nelson Goodman's writings. This book delineates the constraints imposed upon the aesthetics by both the metaphysics and the epistemology. It is suitable for those who want to understand Goodman's disparate writings within their proper context. more...
Culture and Cultural Entities
Springer 2009; US$ 129.99Culture and Cultural Entities provides an original philosophical analysis of the nature and explanation of cultural phenomena, with special attention to ontology and methodology. It addresses in depth such topics as: the relation between physical and biological nature and cultural phenomena; the analysis of intentionality; the nature and explanation... more...
Life on the Refrigerator Door
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99Claire and her mother are running out of time, but they don't know it. Not yet. Claire is wrapped up with the difficulties of her bourgeoning adulthood?boys, school, friends, identity; Claire's mother, a single mom, is rushed off her feet both at work and at home. They rarely find themselves in the same room at the same time, and it often seems that... more...
The Crisis Imperative
Amsterdam University Press 2005; US$ 42.50Discusses two distinct approaches to welfare state reform in two European Union countries faced with mounting costs of 'welfare without work' more...









