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Free Download Phycology By Robert Edward Lee
2018 | 546 Pages | ISBN: 1107555655 | PDF | 26 MB
Phycology is the study of algae, the primary photosynthetic organisms in freshwater and marine food chains. Since the publication of the first edition in 1981, this textbook has established itself as a classic resource on this subject. Aimed at upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in phycology, limnology and biological oceanography, this revised edition maintains the format of previous editions, whilst incorporating the recent developments in the field such as: the potential and challenges of producing algae biofuel; the proliferation of algal toxins; and the development of new molecular tools and technologies on ancestry, phylogeny, and taxonomy of algae.

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Free Download Paul Katsafanas, "Philosophy of Devotion: The Longing for Invulnerable Ideals"
English | ISBN: 0192867679 | 2023 | 256 pages | EPUB, PDF | 690 KB + 1535 KB
Why do people persist in commitments that threaten their happiness, security, and comfort? Why do some of our most central, identity-defining commitments seem to resist the effects of reasoning and critical reflection? Drawing on real-life examples, empirical psychology, and philosophical reflection, Paul Katsafanas argues that these commitments involve an ethical stance called devotion, which plays a pervasive-but often hidden-role in human life. Devotion typically involves sacralizing certain values, goals, or relationships. To sacralize a value is to treat it as inviolable (trade-offs with ordinary values are forbidden), incontestable (even contemplating such trade-offs is prohibited), and dialectically invulnerable (no rational considerations can disrupt the agent's commitment to the value). Philosophy of Devotion offers a detailed philosophical account and defense of these features. Devotion and the sacralization of values can be reasonable; indeed, a life involving meaningful, sustained commitment depends on these stances. Without devotion, we risk an existential condition that Katsafanas describes as normative dissipation, in which all of our commitments become etiolated. Yet devotion can easily go wrong, deforming into the individual and group fanaticism that have become pervasive features of modern social life. Katsafanas provides an alternative to fanaticism, investigating the way in which we can express non-pathological forms of devotion. We can be devoted through affirmation and through what Katsafanas calls the deepening move, which treats the agent's central commitments as systematically inchoate. Each of these stances enables a wholehearted form of devotion that nevertheless preserves flexibility and openness, avoiding the dangers of fanaticism on the one hand and normative dissipation on the other. But this is inevitably a fragile and precarious achievement: affirmation can slide into a focus on rejecting what isn't affirmed, and the deepening move can ossify into rigidity. Only the perpetual quest to maintain a form of existential flexibility, which may require oscillation between affirmation and deepening, can stave off these dangers

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Free Download Paul Fairfield, "Philosophical Reflections on Antiquity: Historical Change"
English | ISBN: 1793614814 | 2020 | 266 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 5 MB
Philosophical Reflections on Antiquity: Historical Change addresses the question of whether there is a logic of historical change, and whether the collapse of teleology should deter us from inquiring anew whether any recurring patterns and themes show themselves amid the complexity of historical life. Paul Fairfield argues that if any conception of universal history remains possible, it is one that rejects teleology and causal laws while identifying thematic tendencies that afford some semblance of unity, including the enduring phenomena that are interlocution, the struggle for predominance, and the endless back and forth that play out between them. This book examines the transitional periods of archaic Greece and late antiquity, the ostensible birth and death of the ancient west. Fairfield argues that an interpretation of the social, political, and intellectual history of these important turning points brings to light some philosophical understanding of the dynamics of change itself, observing that the transition from archaic to classical Greece was no miracle, while the end of the Roman era can no longer be conceived as a story of decline and fall. Rather, Fairfield posits, these were not complete breaks, but relative beginnings and endings in narratives that are ongoing. Scholars of philosophy, history, and anthropology will find this book particularly useful.

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Free Download Shane J. Ralston, Brian E. Butler, Matthew J. Brown, "Philosophical Pragmatism and International Relations: Essays for a Bold New World"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1498556523, 0739168258 | PDF | pages: 235 | 2.5 mb
What are the implications of philosophical pragmatism for international relations theory and foreign policy practice? According to John Ryder, "a foreign policy built on pragmatist principles is neither naïve nor dangerous. In fact, it is very much what both the U.S. and the world are currently in need of." Close observers of Barack Obama's foreign policy statements have also raised the possibility of a distinctly pragmatist approach to international relations. Absent from the three dominant theoretical perspectives in the field-realism, idealism and constructivism-is any mention of pragmatism, except in the very limited, instrumentalist sense of choosing appropriate foreign policy tools to achieve proposed policy objectives. The key commitments of any international relations approach in the pragmatist tradition could include a flexible approach to crafting policy ends, theory integrally related to practice, a concern for both the normative and explanatory dimensions of international relations research, and policy means treated as hypotheses for experimental testing. Following the example of classic pragmatists such as John Dewey and neo-pragmatists like Richard Rorty, international relations scholars and foreign policy practitioners would have to forgo grand theories, instead embracing a situationally-specific approach to understanding and addressing emerging global problems. Unfortunately, commentary on the relationship between philosophical pragmatism and international relations has been limited. The authors in Philosophical Pragmatism and International Relations remedies this lacuna by exploring ways in which philosophical pragmatism, both classic and contemporary, can inform international relations theory and foreign policy practice today.

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Free Download Kim McCosker, 4 Ingredients, "Pet Cookbook"
English | 2017 | pages: 160 | ISBN: 0994447833 | EPUB | 129,9 mb
With over 24 million pets throughout Australian homes, PET COOKBOOK has been developed and written by 4 Ingredients best selling author Kim McCosker. Containing recipes that homemade, human grade and allergy aware it will be the EASIEST Pet Cookbook you have ever owned. Not only will you feel better making the food that nourishes your beloved pet, so will your pet.PET COOKBOOK caters for dogs and cats, with recipes and ideas for birds, guinea pigs, fish and chickens as well. Recent statistics from the Australian Veterinary Association showed in 2016, 1 in 20 people own a dog, with 1 in every 25 owning a cat in Australia Pets are a BIG part of Australian homes and a huge part of families. PET COOKBOOK is a nurturing book that is suitable for the entire family to be more widely informed of good habits for pets and become more aware of what they are eating. PET COOKBOOK contains easy homemade meals and treats like Mex 4 Rex, KittyCake and Budgie Bites, are for our pets to love as much as the whole family loves them.With over 24 million pets throughout Australian homes, PET COOKBOOK has been developed and written by 4 Ingredients best selling author Kim McCosker. Containing recipes that homemade, human grade and allergy aware it will be the EASIEST Pet Cookbook you have ever owned. Not only will you feel better making the food that nourishes your beloved pet, so will your pet.PET COOKBOOK caters for dogs and cats, with recipes and ideas for birds, guinea pigs, fish and chickens as well. Recent statistics from the Australian Veterinary Association showed in 2016, 1 in 20 people own a dog, with 1 in every 25 owning a cat in Australia Pets are a BIG part of Australian homes and a huge part of families. PET COOKBOOK is a nurturing book that is suitable for the entire family to be more widely informed of good habits for pets and become more aware of what they are eating. PET COOKBOOK contains easy homemade meals and treats like Mex 4 Rex, KittyCake and Budgie Bites, are for our pets to love as much as the whole family loves them.

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Free Download Persuasive Communication for Science and Technology Leaders: Writing and Speaking with Confidence (IEEE Press Series on Technology Management, Innovation, and Leadership) by Stephen Wilbers
English | December 1, 2022 | ISBN: 111957322X | 256 pages | MOBI | 1.47 Mb
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Free Download Perspectives on Hate: How It Originates, Develops, Manifests, and Spreads
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1433831538 | 340 Pages | PDF | 8 MB
With hate crimes on the rise, it is more important than ever to understand how hate originates, develops, manifests, and spreads-and how it can be counteracted. In this book, renowned psychologist Robert J. Sternberg assembles a diverse group of experts to examine these central issues from the perspectives of multiple disciplines. The book is anchored by Sternberg's FLOTSAM theory, which identifies key conditions that enable the development and transmission of hate, including fear, license, obedience to authority, trust, sense of belonging to a valued group, amplification of arousal, and modeling. Chapters work through various manifestations of hate: hate as a thought, a feeling, or an action; forms of hate that are rooted in group bias, or that stem from a single relationship; and hate that varies in intensity, from the mundane to the extreme. Authors also explore the various cognitive and emotional processes at work, as well as the political motivations that can spark violent acts of hate. The book also considers the role of hate crime legislation and the relationships among hate speech, free speech, and group violence.

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Free Download Tommi Lehtonen Chandana Chakrabarti, "Perspectives on Culture, Values, and Justice"
English | ISBN: 1443880086 | 2015 | 195 pages | PDF | 881 KB
This book explores three central concepts, namely justice and human rights, ethics and values, and intercultural learning. These are important to everyone in a multicultural society and of special interest to students and scholars of philosophy, cultural studies, religious studies, and other related disciplines. In this volume, a pluralistic approach is adopted to examine ethical and value questions. Accordingly, readers will learn much from the interaction between Western and Eastern methods of ethical inquiry. The impetus for this collection of essays is the notion that cultural diversity represents a source of exchange, innovation and creativity. Consequently, cultural diversity is as critical for humankind as biodiversity is for nature. Furthermore, cultural diversity is a property of the entire community, just as biodiversity is a property of the entire ecosystem. Therefore, understanding and learning from cultural pluralism is as central to social and cultural stewardship as protection and restoration are to biological diversity. Within the pages of Perspectives on Culture, Values, and Justice readers will experience a growth in perspective and a greater understanding of issues of culture, value, and justice. A major starting point for these contemplations is that culture and values are integral to our identity and the essence of who we are and what we do.

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Free Download Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism By Mana Kia
2020 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 1503610683 | PDF | 3 MB
For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic education through which they understood and engaged with the world. Not everyone who lived in the land of Iran was Persian, and Persians lived in many other lands as well. Thus to be Persian was to be embedded in a set of connections with people we today consider members of different groups. Persianate selfhood encompassed a broader range of possibilities than contemporary nationalist claims to place and origin allow. We cannot grasp these older connections without historicizing our conceptions of difference and affiliation. Mana Kia sketches the contours of a larger Persianate world, historicizing place, origin, and selfhood through its tradition of proper form: adab. In this shared culture, proximities and similarities constituted a logic that distinguished between people while simultaneously accommodating plurality. Adab was the basis of cohesion for self and community over the turbulent eighteenth century, as populations dispersed and centers of power shifted, disrupting the circulations that linked Persianate regions. Challenging the bases of protonationalist community, Persianate Selves seeks to make sense of an earlier transregional Persianate culture outside the anachronistic shadow of nationalisms.

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Free Download Perry Rhodan 3258: Der Zeitsalto
Deutsch | 2024 | ASIN: B0CNVYZQK1 | 181 Seiten | EPUB | 1.5 MB
Das Ende des 21. Jahrhunderts Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung ist angebrochen. Mehr als dreieinhalbtausend Jahre von unserer Zeit entfernt lebt die Menschheit in Frieden. Zwischen den Sternen der Milchstraße herrschen keine großen Konflikte mehr. Wie es aussieht, könnte Perry Rhodan, der als erster Mensch von der Erde auf Außerirdische gestoßen ist, sich endlich seinem großen Ziel nähern: der alte Traum von Freundschaft und Frieden zwischen den Völkern der Milchstraße und der umliegenden Galaxien. Die Angehörigen der Sternenvölker stehen für Freiheit und Selbstbestimmung ein, man arbeitet intensiv und gleichberechtigt zusammen.

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