Author : Charles Mallory Williams
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Release Date : 1892
ISBN 10 : HARVARD:32044019297738
Pages : 610 pages
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Author : Luis María Vaschetto
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-11-14
ISBN 10 : 9783031137716
Pages : 239 pages
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Author : Thomas E. Dickins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-11-12
ISBN 10 : 9783030864224
Pages : 250 pages
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Author : Kostas Kampourakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-03
ISBN 10 : 9781139916479
Pages : pages
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Author : Farid Ahmadi
Publisher : European Alliance for Innovation
Release Date : 2019-06-29
ISBN 10 : 9781631902161
Pages : 1096 pages
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Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2002-03-21
ISBN 10 : 9780674417922
Pages : 1460 pages
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Release Date : 1997
ISBN 10 : UCR:31210013882392
Pages : 1504 pages
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Author : Snait B. Gissis
Publisher : MIT Press
Release Date : 2011
ISBN 10 : 9780262015141
Pages : 474 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (262 users)
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Author : Peter Baofu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2010-04-16
ISBN 10 : 9781443821711
Pages : 488 pages
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Download The Future of Post-Human War and Peace PDF by Peter Baofu Full Free and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is peace really so precious that it is popularly viewed in irenology (peace studies) of our time as “natural” and “a prime force in human behavior”—whereas war, its opposite, is instead condemned as “sinful” and “not” natural? In fact, there is even the prestigious Nobel “peace” prize to be awarded to those who contribute to world peace but not an equivalent Nobel “war” prize to those who do the contrary. This euphoric view of peace is by no means a constant conventional wisdom in human history, as it can be sharply contrasted with an equally seductive view of war in polemology (war studies). For instance, only several decades ago, the well-known writer Thomas Mann once approvingly asked about war: “Is not peace an element of civil corruption and war a purification, a liberation, an enormous hope?” (WK 2009a) This fickleness of conventional wisdom on war and peace has blinded us from the dark sides of both war and peace, with the consequence of impoverishing our understanding of the human condition and its future. Contrary to the two opposing sides of this conventional wisdom in its fickle history, war and peace are neither possible nor desirable to the extent that their respective ideologues would like us to believe. In addition, war and peace cannot exist with each other. Of course, this is not to suggest that irenology (peace studies) and polemology (war studies) are worthless, or that other fields of study (related to war studies and peace studies) like “political science, economics, psychology, sociology, international relations, history, anthropology, religious studies,…gender studies, as well as a variety of others” should be ignored. (WK 2009) Needless to say, neither of these two extreme views is reasonable either. Instead, this book accepts the challenging task to provide an alternative (better) way to understand the nature of war and peace, especially in relation to aggression and pacificity—while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other). Thus, this book offers a new theory to transcend the existing approaches in the literature on war and peace in a way not conceived before. If successful, this seminal project is to fundamentally change the way that we think about war and peace, from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture, with enormous implications for the human future and what I originally called its “post-human” fate.
Author : Andreas Koenig
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2011-09-15
ISBN 10 : 9783642238635
Pages : 703 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (642 users)
Download Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Part II PDF by Andreas Koenig Full Free and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four-volume set LNAI 6881-LNAI 6884 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2011, held in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in September 2011. Part 2: The total of 244 high-quality papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The 70 papers of Part 2 are organized in topical sections on web intelligence, text and multimedia mining and retrieval, intelligent tutoring systems and e-learning environments, other / misc. intelligent systems topics, methods and techniques of artificial and computational intelligence in economics, finance and decision making, workshop on seamless integration of semantic technologies in computer-supported office work (sistcow), innovations in chance discovery, advanced knowledge-based systems, recent trends in knowledge engineering, smart systems, and their applications.
Author : Kate Griffiths
Publisher : MHRA
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 10 : 9781906540272
Pages : 158 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (96 users)
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Author : Stephen Molnar
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2015-09-04
ISBN 10 : 9781317347729
Pages : 416 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (317 users)
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Release Date : 1982
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105005941302
Pages : 532 pages
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Publisher : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
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Pages : 480 pages
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Author : David R. Gray
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Release Date : 1994
ISBN 10 : UVA:X002688728
Pages : 108 pages
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Author : Jacob Allen Clark
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Release Date : 1926
ISBN 10 : UIUC:30112019240990
Pages : 76 pages
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Release Date : 1979
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015028555137
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