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Cicero's De Officiis is perhaps his most influential philosophical work. This Critical Guide, the first collection of essays devoted to the work, explores its richness and variety and will be valuable for a range of readers in fields including philosophy, classics and political theory.

This volume of essays retrieves the largely unresearched thought and the original ideas of ancient women philosophers and carves out a space for them in the canon. The broad focus includes women thinkers in ancient Indian, Chinese, and Arabic philosophy as well as in the Greek and Roman philosophical traditions.

Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony delves into the central role of music among the early modern sciences by focusing on the work of the French polymath Marin Mersenne (1588-1648). Although now considered more an art than a science, music was for many early modern scholars a universal science for studying the harmonies present in all beings. Music's ability to be quantified while being experienced aesthetically meant that, for Mersenne, it was the central science to approximate the sounding and inaudible harmonies present in the world and universe at large. Bringing together Mersenne's interests in the physics of sound and hearing, combinatorics, musical instruments, curiosities, and music from outside of Europe, this book shows why so many early modern scholars were drawn to music and how the discipline of music was transformed in the seventeenth century.

Accompanying the 4-part documentary series from multi-award-winning filmmaker, James Bluemel. It's been 63 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first human to ever go into space. Since then, only 676 people have followed him up there. But now with huge technological advances bridging the gap between our planet and all that lies beyond, that number is about to rise dramatically. Once Upon a Time in Space is the human story of how we've made it this far - the remarkable achievements, tragic losses, left-field experiments, renegade characters and ever-shifting powerplay - and where we're about to go. Featuring stunning full-colour photography from both personal collections of astronauts and NASA's archives, the human story of space is told through intimate and powerful testimony from the astronauts, scientists, engineers and space tourists who have lived it. Looking ahead as we take the first steps towards becoming an interplanetary species, Once Upon a Time in Space brings you closer to the incredible story of our next stage of evolution as the human species. Life on Earth will never be the same again.

An urgent comparison of what Confucianism and Charles Taylor's communitarianism have to say about the concept of the self and the contemporary challenges that it can unlock.

Qualitative diary methods (QDMs) are a versatile range of multi-modal data collection methods that involve participants recording events and experiences, and emotions and reflections, as they happen, on multiple occasions and over a particular time period. These data collection methods include a pen and paper diary, as well as other electronic modes of diary keeping, including text but also audio, photo-, video-, and app-based diaries that allow for a range of modalities.

This book examines the sovereignty paradox in the Global South within the context of the Russia-Ukraine war. It illustrates the contradiction that countries which helped establish the post-World War II norm of "equal sovereignty".

Drawing on a variety of perspectives and methodologies, this collection explores the intricate relationship between mis- and disinformation and the functioning of democratic society.

The Eighteenth Brumaire in the United States, Germany, and France, 1852-1933 explores the political history of Karl Marx's seminal text. Written in an engaging narrative that centers political actors engaging with the text, the book uses published and archival sources to reconstruct the contexts of editions over eight decades.

This book presents fundamental concepts in microbial biofilms, antimicrobial strategies, and examines various laboratory models to study biofilm formation. It also discusses analytical methods for studying biofilms. This book is useful for researchers, scientists, and students of microbiology.

This book brings together leading philosophers and Newman scholars to explore his philosophical thought and to show its relevance to contemporary philosophy. The chapters explore, develop, and evaluate Newman's thought considering recent work in epistemology, philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, and philosophy of education.

Bringing together the main critical Marxist perspectives from around the world on contemporary urban studies, it engages with a range of issues connected to the 'urban question', such as urban sprawl, housing and increasing rates of urbanization across the globe.

This is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia and is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the text, and of Greek philosophy, historiography, and literature more broadly.

This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approaches to its production and management. This book will be of interest to researchers, students and professionals of architecture, urban planning, anthropology and philosophy.

By mapping the debates and existing findings, as well as presenting the different conceptual and theoretical lenses, the handbook provides new insights as to whether and to what extent populism influences foreign policy.

This book carefully examines the constraints and possibilities for participatory governance under capitalism. Bridging critical urban studies and democratic theory, it will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of democratic innovations, political economy, and urban planning.

This collection brings together fifteen essays from practitioners of a variety of disciplines that concern themselves with the past: not only historians, but scholars from other branches of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.

Provides an overview of tumor microenvironment, the challenges and opportunities in developing stimuli-responsive and site-specific delivery nanoplatforms, and their related strategies for cancer treatment as well as toxicological and regulatory aspects. This illustrates their industrial applicability and commercialization prospects.

This book comprises scholarly essays and creative works exploring the implications of Christian environmentalism through literary and cultural criticism. For scholars, researchers and upper-level students interested in the relationship between religion and environment, ethics, animal welfare, poetry, and post-secularism.

This book of problems and solutions in classical mechanics is dedicated to junior or senior undergraduate students in physics, engineering, applied mathematics, astronomy, or chemistry who may want to improve their problems solving skills, or to freshman graduate students who may be seeking a refresh of the material.

Comprising 31 chapters by a superb international team of contributors, the Handbook will be of great interest to students and researchers in philosophy of psychology, moral psychology and philosophy of mind as well as related disciplines such as psychology and cognitive science.

This Handbook provides the first in-depth analysis of non-violent extremism across different ideologies and geographic centres, a topic overshadowed until now by the political and academic focus on violent and jihadi extremism in the Global North.

A comprehensive survey of the key topics, debates and problems surrounding autonomy. Comprising over 40 chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is essential reading for those in political philosophy, ethics, applied ethics and philosophy of law.

An outstanding reference source to this fascinating subject. Comprising 33 chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook will be of great interest to those in a wide variety of philosophical subdisciplines as well as those in psychology, cognitive science, sociology and related subjects.

Experimental Visualization in Architectural Design Media: How It Actually Works is a theoretical, practical, and interdisciplinary account of the tools used by architects and designers.

This book explains various kinds of non-ionizing and high energy radiations, their interaction with materials and chemical reactions, conditions of various kinds of materials development technologies including applications. It covers processing-structure-property relationship, radiations used in developing advanced materials.