cambridge university press jul 2022 (66 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - All people desire to know. We want to not only know what has happened, but also why it happened, how it happened, whether it will happen again, whether it can be made to happen or not happen, and so on. In short, what we want are explanations. Asking and answering explanatory questions lies at the very heart of scientific practice. The primary aim of this book is to help readers understand how science explains the world. This book explores the nature and contours of scientific explanation, how such explanations are evaluated, as well as how they lead to knowledge and understanding. As well as providing an introduction to scientific explanation, it also tackles misconceptions and misunderstandings, while remaining accessible to a general audience with little or no prior philosophical training.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This combined revision guide and workbook includes practice questions and detailed guidance to give students the confidence they need to tackle a full range of exam questions. It provides clear and concise summaries of key learning points, with a strong visual presentation, to help focus students' attention. Write-in activities support consolidation of learning and encourage active revision. Confidence-building activities help students to unlock the language of assessment and achieve their full potential. Includes digital support to help students check their knowledge and understanding, and to learn what to expect from different types of exam questions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Covering a range of metaphors from a diverse field of sciences, from cell and molecular biology to evolution, ecology, and biomedicine, Understanding Metaphors in the Life Sciences explores the positive and negative implications of the widespread use of metaphors in the biological and life sciences. From genetic codes, programs, and blueprints, to cell factories, survival of the fittest, the tree of life, selfish genes, and ecological niches, to genome editing with CRISPR's molecular scissors, metaphors are ubiquitous and vital components of the modern life sciences. But how exactly do metaphors help scientists to understand the objects they study How can they mislead both scientists and laypeople alike And what should we all understand about the implications of science's reliance on metaphorical speech and thought for objective knowledge and adequate public policy informed by science This book will literally help you to better understand the metaphorical dimensions of science.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Arising from the 2021 Darwin College Lectures, this volume invites leading thinkers on the subject to explore the many meanings of blood across a diverse range of disciplines. Through the eyes of artist Marc Quinn, the paradoxical nature of blood plays with the notion of self. Through those of geneticist Walter Bodmer, it becomes a scientific reality: bloodlines and diaspora capture our notions of community. The transfer of blood between bodies, as Rose George relates, can save lives, or as we learn from Claire Roddie can cure cancer. Tim Pedley and Stuart Egginton explore the extraordinary complexity of blood as a critical biological fluid. Sarah Read examines the intimate connection between blood and womanhood, as Carol Senf does in her consideration of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This Element explores the nature of both imagination and creative thinking in an effort to understand the relation between them and also to understand their role in the vast array of activities in which they are typically implicated, from art, music, and literature to technology, medicine, and science. Focusing on the contemporary philosophical literature, it will take up several interrelated questions: What is imagination, and how does it fit into the cognitive architecture of the mind What is creativity Is imagination required for creativity Is creativity required for imagination Is a person simply born either imaginative or not (and likewise, either creative or not), or are imagination and creativity skills that can be cultivated And finally, are imagination and creativity uniquely human capacities, or can they be had by nonbiological entities such as AI systems.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After over a century of grand theorizing about the universal dimensions to the practice of ritual sacrifice, scholars now question the analytical utility of the notion writ large. The word 'sacrifice' (Latin sacrificium) itself frequently is broken down into its Latin roots, sacer, sacred, and facere, to do or to make ¿ to do or to make sacred ¿ which is a huge category and also vague. Presuming it is people and places that are made sacred, we must question the dynamics. Does sacrifice 'make sacred' by summoning the presence of gods or ancestors By offering gifts to them By dining with them By restoring or establishing cosmic order By atoning for personal or collective sins By rectifying social disequilibrium through scapegoating By inducing an existential epiphany about life and death While this short Element cannot cover all complexities and practices, it does treat critically some prominent themes, theories, and controversies concerning sacrifice, from ancient to present times.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dismissing industrial policy because 'governments cannot pick winners' is counter-productive. This Element studying selected major innovations illustrates the fact that virtually all major new technologies have been developed by a synergetic cooperation between the public and the private sectors, each doing what it can do best. By examining how R&D is financed, rather than where it takes place, the authors show that the role of the public sector is much more pronounced than is often thought. The nature of the cooperation ¿ who does what ¿ varies with the nature of each innovation so that simple, one-size-fits-all, rules about what each sector should do are suspect. These results are particularly important because they challenge the scepticism in the United states and elsewhere about the importance of industrial policy, a scepticism that threatens to undermine the long-term, and necessary cooperation, between the public and private sectors in promoting growth-inducing innovations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tracing her intellectual development from her university years, when she was trained in a Cartesian and neo-Kantian philosophical tradition, to her final decade, during which she was recognised as having inspired the emerging strands of late twentieth-century feminism, Beauvoir is shown to have been among the most influential philosophical voices of the mid twentieth century. Countering the recent trend to read her in isolation from Sartre, she is shown to have both adopted, adapted, and influenced his philosophy, most importantly through encouraging him to engage with Hegel and to consider our relations with others. The Second Sex is read in the light of her existentialist humanism and ultimately faulted for having succumbed too uncritically to the masculine myth that it is men who are solely responsible for society's intellectual and cultural history.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reading Shakespeare through Drama arises out of case study research which focuses on reading as a socio-cultural practice. Underpinned by theories of reading, learning, drama and play, it is, nevertheless, rooted in the everyday work of secondary English classrooms. Utilising the dialogic ambiguities inherent in Shakespeare's playscripts, this collaborative approach to reading pays particular attention to adolescent readers as meaning-makers and cultural producers. The authors examine different iterations of 'active Shakespeare' pedagogies in the UK, the USA and Australia, drawing a distinction between 'reading through drama' as an approach and the theatre inflected practices promoted by well-known arts-based institutions. Observational and interview data highlight the importance of addressing issues concerning identity and representation that are inevitably raised by the study of canonical literature. Importantly, this Element situates teachers' practice within broader ideological contexts at institutional and national policy level, particularly from the perspective of England's highly regulated system of schooling.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Minimally, metaphysical realists hold that there exist some mind-independent entities. Metaphysical realists also (tend to) hold that we can speak meaningfully or truthfully about mind-independent entities. Those who reject metaphysical realism deny one or more of these commitments. This Element aims to introduce the reader to the core commitments of metaphysical realism and to illustrate how these commitments have changed over time by surveying some of the main families of views that realism has been contrasted with: such as (radical) scepticism, idealism, and anti-realism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Authentic examination papers from Cambridge provide perfect practice because they are EXACTLY like the real test. Inside IELTS 17 Academic with Answers with Audio you'll find FOUR complete examination papers plus details of the different parts of the test and the scoring system, so you can familiarise yourself with the Academic test format and practise your exam technique. Download the audio for the Listening tests, example Speaking test videos, answer keys with extra explanations and sample Writing answers (instructions on inner front cover), or access your audio and video directly via QR codes in the book.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This print and digital student book covers all the units for the redeveloped Cambridge National in Health & Social Care, with an easy-to-follow visual layout and accessible language to stimulate students' interest. Takes a scaffolded activity-based approach to understanding the content, written at just the right level, helping to engage students in their learning and give them the confidence to progress. Provides activities to help students develop the knowledge and skills to complete their assessments. Bite-sized learning topics build understanding of essential concepts and are supported by case studies with three levels of differentiated questions to support all students.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Authentic examination papers from Cambridge provide perfect practice because they are EXACTLY like the real test. Inside IELTS 17 General Training with Answers with Audio you'll find FOUR complete examination papers plus details of the different parts of the test and the scoring system, so you can familiarise yourself with the General Training test format and practise your exam technique. Download the audio for the Listening tests, example Speaking test videos, answer keys with extra explanations and sample Writing answers (instructions on inner front cover), or access your audio and video directly via QR codes in the book.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Intermediate Workbook without answers can be used alongside the Student's Book and offers additional consolidation activities. Downloadable audio is available on Cambridge One.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Intermediate Workbook with answers can be used alongside the Student's Book and offers additional consolidation activities. Downloadable audio is available on Cambridge One.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This series supports learners through the Cambridge International AS & A Level Travel & Tourism syllabus (9395). From sustainable tourism to managing events, this third edition helps students understand key travel and tourism ideas and equips them with technical and practical skills. Help students develop their analytical skills to build a deeper understanding of modern tourism, through case studies exploring topics such as conservation and sustainability in the Galapagos Islands. Suitable for the Cambridge International AS & A Level Travel & Tourism syllabus (9395), for examination from 2024. The coursebook supports students whose first language is not English, with key terms and concept links, as well as visual tools throughout, to aid understanding.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'I found this book to be a particularly engaging and useful treatment of scientific method and practice whereby the authors' target is to improve practice. There is a lot of subversion out there that they want to avoid with a content-positive approach. The book's themes for improving scientific practice are generated from earthy checklists, all concerned to improve compliance with the substantive content of science. It results in checklists for eleven user categories, from researchers to courts. The checklists all derive from key elements of the scientific method, summarized by eight criteria. I want to apply seven of these elements to my early work in experimental economics that will help me to see how this book can help you, which is its purpose'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Intermediate Student's Book with Digital Pack A gives learners access to the first half of the Student's Book. This version of the Student's Book comes with access to the first half of the Digital Pack: Online Assessment, Digital Workbook, Class Audio, Documentary Video, Workbook Audio, and an Elektronisches Buch with audio, available on the Cambridge One platform.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Intermediate Student's Book with Digital Pack B gives learners access to the second half of the Student's Book. This version of the Student's Book comes with access to the second half of the Digital Pack: Online Assessment, Digital Workbook, Class Audio, Documentary Video, Workbook Audio, and an Elektronisches Buch with audio, available on the Cambridge One platform.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is aimed at legal and political scholars and professionals. It will provide them with a coherent explanation of how law is conceived within its ideological context, and how the Chinese Communist Party uses it as part of its governance toolkit.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Think Second edition is the English course that develops your students as learners and challenges them to consider global issues such as climate change and important scientific discoveries. With inspirational topics and texts from around the world, pages dedicated to life competencies and focused Cambridge English exam practice, this course encourages students to think big - in English. The Workbook offers extra practice of the language covered in the Student's Book - perfect for homework. It also comes with access to the Digital Pack, with mobile-friendly online practice and collaboration tools on Cambridge One.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A resource for scholars and students of international public health, this volume analyses the global system for sharing pathogens for research into diagnostics, medicines, and vaccines. Authors trace the problems posed by negotiating for access to biological resources and offer solutions to ensure that politics do not threaten biomedical advances.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Encounters involving different cultures and languages are increasingly the norm in the era of globalization. While considerable attention has been paid to how languages and cultures transform in the era of globalization, their characteristic features prior to transformation are frequently taken for granted. This pioneering book argues that globalization offers an unprecedented opportunity to revisit fundamental assumptions about what distinguishes languages and cultures from each other in the first place. It takes the case of global Korea, showing how the notion of 'culture' is both represented but also reinvented in public space, with examples from numerous sites across Korea and Koreatowns around the world. It is not merely about locating spaces where translingualism happens but also about exploring the various ways in which linguistic and cultural difference come to be located via translingualism. It will appeal to anyone interested in the globalization of language and culture.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Worldviews are the unexamined, pre-theoretical foundations of the approaches with which we understand and navigate the world, and this volume provides the first major study of worldviews in international relations. Advances in twentieth century physics and cosmology questioning anthropocentrism have fostered the articulation of alternative worldviews, rivalling conventional Newtonian humanism and its assumption that the world is constituted by controllable risks. This matters for accepting uncertainties that are an indelible part of many spheres of life including public health, the environment, finance, security and politics - uncertainties that are concealed by the conventional presumption that the world is governed only by risk. The confluence of risk and uncertainty requires an awareness of alternative worldviews, alerts us to possible intersections between humanist Newtonianism and hyper-humanist Post-Newtonianism, and reminds us of the relevance of science, religion and moral values in world politics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Court of Justice of the European Union is the busiest court in the world. The second edition of this textbook explores why this is. It examines in detail the interactions between European Union and national institutions, instruments, laws and concepts that make up this unique legal order. It explains the core constitutional and substantive principles that underpin the European Union legal order, and introduces EU law in a detailed, comprehensive way which is both enjoyable and clear to read. It offers an up-to-date and accessible analysis of EU law and avoids technical jargon, providing informed insights on an exciting but challenging subject. Combining a historical perspective with up-to-date examples, it aims to help students appreciate how EU law developed and its continued significance in day-to-day life. This updated edition features new coverage on free movement, online resources plus additional chapters on Article 50 and EU law in the UK after Brexit.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This edited collection is the first to comprehensively consider the role that litigation can play in galvanizing climate action in countries including Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and China. Scholars, lawyers, and students of law and environmental studies will find this immensely useful.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examines the anarchist networks that connected Florida, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Panama in the early 1900s.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Uniting Nations is a comparative study of Britons who worked in the United Nations and international non-governmental and civil society organizations from 1945 to 1970 and their role in forging the postwar international system. Daniel Gorman interweaves the personal histories of scores of individuals who worked in UN organizations, the world government movement, Quaker international volunteer societies, and colonial freedom societies to demonstrate how international public policy often emerged 'from the ground up.' He reveals the importance of interwar, Second World War, colonial, and voluntary experiences in inspiring international careers, how international and national identities intermingled in the minds of international civil servants and civil society activists, and the ways in which international policy is personal. It is in the personal relationships forged by international civil servants and activists, positive and negative, biased and altruistic, short-sighted or visionary, that the 'international' is to be found in the postwar international order.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Addressing the consequences of European slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on African history, knowledge, and its institutions, this . book applies autoethnography to the understanding of African knowledge systems. Considering the 'Self' and Yoruba Being (the individual and the collective) in the context of the African decolonial project, Falola strips away Eurocentric influences and interruptions from African epistemology'--Jacket flap.