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Recursivity and Contingency (Media Philosophy) by Yuk Hui
English | January 29, 2019 | ISBN: 1786600528 | 336 pages | EPUB | 0.51 Mb
This book employs recursivity and contingency as two principle concepts to investigate into the relation between nature and technology, machine and organism, system and freedom. It reconstructs a trajectory of thought from an Organic condition of thinking elaborated by Kant, passing by the philosophy of nature (Schelling and Hegel), to the 20th century Organicism (Bertalanffy, Needham, Whitehead, Wiener among others) and Organology (Bergson, Canguilhem, Simodnon, Stiegler), and questions the new condition of philosophizing in the time of algorithmic contingency, ecological and algorithmic catastrophes, which Heidegger calls the end of philosophy.

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Recruiting and Retaining Teachers: Understanding Why Teachers Teach By Anne D. Cockburn, Terry Haydn
2003 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0415284392 | PDF | 1 MB
Why is there a teacher shortage? How can headteachers recruit and retain good teachers?As teacher shortage becomes an ever greater problem, headteachers and senior management teams are looking for more effective ways to attract and keep teachers in their schools. This book gives useful advice on how to do this and covers issues such as:* Young people's career selection* Choosing a first teaching job* Sustaining interest in the profession* Being a supply teacher and what individuals and others can do to enhance the situation Based on research with teachersabout why they teach and what attracts them to the schools they teach in, Recruiting and Retaining Teachers will be helpful to headteachers and senior managers in all schools. It will also be of interest to education managers, education authority advisers and policy makers.

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Recreating the American Republic: Rules of Apportionment, Constitutional Change, and American Political Development, 1700-1870 By Charles A. Kromkowski
2002 | 488 Pages | ISBN: 0521808480 | PDF | 4 MB
Rules of apportionment are vital elements of every social, political, and legal order. In marriages and families, in business partnerships and social organizations, and in governments and supranational relationships, rules of apportionment affect not only how collective decisions are made and by whom, but also how and why a particular constitutional order develops over time. Recreating the American Republic provides a first and far-reaching analysis of when, how, and why these rules change and with what constitutional consequences. Recreating the American Republic reveals the special import of apportionment rules for pluralistic, democratic orders by engaging three critical eras and events of American history: the colonial era and the American Revolution; the early national years and the 1787 Constitutional Convention; and the nineteenth century and the American Civil War. This study revisits and systematically compares each seemingly familiar era and event--revealing new insights about each and a new metanarrative of American political development from 1700 to 1870. Recreating the American Republic will engage and challenge scholars and students of American history; political scientists and sociologists working within the analytical narrative, comparative, and historical-institutionalist methodological traditions; and political and legal theorists intrigued by questions of history, human order, consensual constitutionalism, the agency-structure antinomy, institutional change and representative governance.

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Reconsidering Read-Aloud By Mary Lee Hahn
2002 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 1571103511 | PDF | 2 MB
Read-aloud is a time of enjoyment and relaxation for teachers and students-a time when powerful, effective teaching and rigorous learning can take place while keeping the pleasures of reading front and center.Reconsidering Read-Aloud invites you to examine both the spontaneous and planned conversations that take place around read-aloud. If these conversations are led by a teacher who knows books and authors as well as language arts standards, outcomes, and objectives, read-aloud will be a time of teaching that doesn't need a script or a lesson plan to validate it and learning that doesn't need a product to measure it.Drawing on her career as a fourth- and fifth-grade teacher and her knowledge of children's literature, Mary Lee Hahn shows you how to make your read-alouds count. She providesclassroom vignettes that demonstrate how read-aloud conversations are teachable moments;a practical application of the Apprenticeship Model of teaching, including an appendix that shows how the concepts modeled during read-aloud workshop can be used independently by students in Reading at Home assignments;suggestions for choosing books, including an appendix that charts a collection of popular read-alouds;examples of teaching strategies that work especially well during all read-alouds, fiction and nonfiction;a discussion of the role of evaluation and assessment in read-aloud.Reconsidering Read-Aloud is a compelling example of the richness that can be found in this daily classroom event. With a love of literature, knowledge of her students, and the desire to teach kids to deeply, every teacher can bring the joy of teaching and learning during read-aloud to the classroom.

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Recommender Systems for Information Providers: Designing Customer Centric Paths to Information By Andreas W. Neumann (auth.)
2009 | 158 Pages | ISBN: 3790821330 | PDF | 7 MB
Information providers are a very promising application area of recommender systems due to the general problem of assessing the quality of information products prior to the purchase. Recommender systems automatically generate product recommendations: customers profit from a faster finding of relevant products, stores profit from rising sales. All aspects of recommender systems are covered: the economic background, mechanism design, a survey of systems in the Internet, statistical methods and algorithms, service oriented architectures, user interfaces, as well as experiences and data from real-world applications. Specific solutions for areas with strong privacy concerns, scalability issues for large collections of products, as well as algorithms to lessen the cold-start problem for a faster return on investment of recommender projects are addressed. This book describes all steps it takes to design, implement, and successfully operate a recommender system for a specific information platform.

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Matthew Congdon, "Recognition: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 103230491X | 2026 | 442pages | PDF | 6 MB
The concept of recognition has moved to the forefront of philosophical research in recent decades, particularly in political and social philosophy but also related areas, including philosophy of race and gender, philosophy of mind and language, ethics and aesthetics. It is a concept with deep roots from at least Rousseau and Hegel to contemporary social theory.

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Simon Hannah, "Reclaiming the Future: A Beginner's Guide to Planning the Economy"
English | ISBN: 0745350208 | 2024 | 272 pages | AZW3 | 574 KB
'A convincing case for socialist democratic planning as the only way to meet the needs of billions of humans without destroying the planet' Michael Roberts, economist and author of Capitalism in the 21st Century

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Reclaiming the Center: Confronting Evangelical Accommodation in Postmodern Times By Millard J. Erickson, Paul Kjoss Helseth, Justin Taylor
2004 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 1581345682 | PDF | 2 MB
"When evangelicals confuse an improper passion for novelty with a proper pursuit of academic and pastoral relevance, the results can be distressing. I cannot express how grateful I am for the well-formed wisdom with which this book points to the abiding and decisive relevance for future route-finding of the old theological paths." -J. I. Packer, Professor, Regent College "For those evangelicals who-like myself-are increasingly troubled by extravagant claims made by various evangelical scholars about the nature of the 'postmodern' challenge, as well as by earnest calls to develop new epistemological and theological perspectives in response to this challenge, the writers of these essays shed much light. This book is must-reading for everyone who wants to promote a clear-thinking evangelicalism for our contemporary context." -Richard J. Mouw, President and Professor of Christian Philosophy, Fuller Seminary "Here is a collection of intelligent, provocative, gutsy essays that dare to fly into the eye of the scholarly storm over evangelical identity. Though different perspectives are present even here, the underlying thesis is clear and worth heeding: the eager, and sometimes uncritical, embrace of postmodernist paradigms may be as premature as it has proven to be unproductive for the well-being of the evangelical church. One of the most important books of the new century!" -Timothy George, Dean, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University "Provocative, timely, and controversial!" -Donald G. Bloesch, Professor of Theology Emeritus, Dubuque Theological Seminary "Compromise and confusion stand at the center of evangelicalism's theological crisis, and a clear-headed and convictional analysis of the problem has been desperately needed. Thankfully, Reclaiming the Center has arrived just in time. . . . My fervent hope is that it will open evangelical eyes, humble evangelical hearts, and awaken this generation to the peril of accommodationism." -R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary "The authors of this well-designed volume provide a bold and well-argued response to what is sometimes called 'postconservative evangelicalism.' This important conversation regarding the essence, center, and boundaries of evangelicalism is here explored, interpreted, and assessed from a well-informed theological, philosophical, and historical perspective. . . . I heartily commend this volume and trust it will find a large readership." -David S. Dockery, President, Union University

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Reclaiming Latin America: Experiments in Radical Social Democracy By Geraldine Lievesley, Steve Ludlam
2009 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1848131836 | PDF | 2 MB
This bookis a one-stop guide to the revival of social democratic and socialist politics across the region.At the end of the Cold War, after decades of neoliberal domination and the "Washington Consensus," it seemed that the left was finished in Latin America. But in fact new opportunities sprang up through electoral politics and mass action.Warning against over-simplification, this book offers detailed historical analysis of Latin America as a whole and country-specific case studies. From the anti-imperialism of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas in Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba, to the more gradualist routes being taken in Chile, Argentina and Brazil, Reclaiming Latin America gives a real sense of the plurality of political responses to popular discontent.

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Reclaim Your Magic: A Practical Guide to Manifesting Your True Self (Self Help) by Mirela Gorjanu
English | August 11, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0FM2YJL89 | 52 pages | EPUB | 0.13 Mb
"Reclaim Your Magic: A Practical Guide to Manifesting Your True Self" is a profound invitation to peel back the layers of societal expectations and limiting beliefs that have held you back. This book is a guide for self-discovery, offering a holistic approach to personal empowerment and authenticity.

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