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ISBN: 9780511496523

Series Statement: Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought 4th ser., 35

Content: This book provides perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought. Historians of medieval science have hesitated to step outside the sphere of intellectual culture in their search for factors influencing proto-scientific thought. This book searches for influences both within and beyond university culture, and argues that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260–1380 was strongly influenced by the contemporary rapid monetisation of European society. It analyses the impact of the monetised market place on the most characteristic concern of natural philosophy of the period: its preoccupation with measurement, gradation, and the quantification of qualities

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Economic background: monetization and monetary consciousness in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- Aristotelian model of money and economic exchange -- Earliest Latin commentaries on the Aristotelian model of economic exchange: Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas -- Models of economic equality and equalization in the thirteenth century -- Evolving models of money and market exchange in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- Linking the scholastic model of money as measure to proto-scientific innovations in fourteenth-century natural philosophy -- Linking scholastic models of monetized exchange to innovations in fourteenth-century mathematics and natural philosophy.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780521572767

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780521793865

Additional Edition: Print version ISBN 9780521572767

Language: English

DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511496523

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 353 p)

ISBN: 9781461218241 , 9781461273004

Series Statement: Statistics for Social Science and Public Policy

Note: "Prove It With Figures" displays some of the tools of the social and statistical sciences that have been applied to the proof of facts in the courtroom and to the study of questions of legal importance. It explains how researchers can extract the most valuable and reliable data that can conveniently be made available, and how these efforts sometimes go awry. In the tradition of Zeisel's "Say It with Figures," a standard in the field of social statistics since 1947, it clarifies, in non-technical language, some of the basic problems common to all efforts to discern cause-and-effect relationships. Designed as a textbook for law students who seek an appreciation of the power and limits of empirical methods, the work also is a useful reference for lawyers, policymakers, and members of the public who would like to improve their critical understanding of the statistics presented to them. The many case histories include analyses of the death penalty, jury selection, employment discrimination, mass torts, and DNA profiling. Hans Zeisel was Professor of Law and Sociology Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he pioneered the application of social science to the law. Earlier, he had a distinguished career in public opinion and market research. He has written on a wide variety of topics, ranging from research methodology and history to law enforcement, juries, and Sheakespeare. He was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Assoication and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 1980 he was inducted into the Market Research Hall of Fame. David Kaye is Regents Professor at the Arizona State University, where he teaches evidence and related topics. An author of several law textbooks and treatises, his work also has appeared in journals of

Language: English

Keywords: Rechtsfindung ; Empirische Sozialforschung

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-1824-1

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 329 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)

ISBN: 9780511542381

Content: Although the behaviour and ecology of primates have been more thoroughly studied than that of any other group of mammals, there have been very few attempts to compare the communities of living primates found in different parts of the world. In Primate Communities, an international group of experts compares the composition, behaviour and ecology of primate communities in Africa, Asia, Madagascar and South America. They examine the factors underlying the similarities and differences between these communities, including their phylogenetic history, climate, rainfall, soil type, forest composition, competition with other vertebrates and human activities. As it brings together information about primate communities from around the world for the very first time, it will quickly become an important source book for researchers in anthropology, ecology and conservation, and a readable and informative text for undergraduate and graduate students studying primate ecology, primate conservation or primate behaviour

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , African primate communities: determinants of structure and threats to survival , Comparing commuunities , Primate diversity , Spatial and temporal scales in primate community structure , Biomass and use of resources in south and south-east Asian primate communities , Species coexistence, distribution and environmental determinants of neotropical primate richness: a community-level zoogeographic analysis , Primate communities: Madagascar , Large-scale patterns of species richness and species range size in anthropoid primates , Recent evolutionary past of primate communities: likely environmental impacts during the past three millennia , Resources and primate community structure , Effects of subsistence hunting and forest types on the structure of Amazonian primate communities , Phylogenetic and temporal perspectives on primate ecology , Population density of primates in communities: differences in community structure , Body mass, competition and the structure of primate communities , Convergence and divergence in primate social systems , Of mice and monkeys: primates as predictors of mammal community richness , Primate communities in Africa: the consequences of long-term evolution or the artifact of recent hunting? , Future of primate communities: a reflection of the present? , Concluding remarks

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780521620444

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780521629676

Additional Edition: Print version ISBN 9780521620444

Language: English

DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511542381

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ISBN: 9789004635425

Series Statement: International Law - Book Archive pre-2000 12

Content: This is the twelfth book in the series International Straits of the World which describes the geography of a narrow waterway linking two seas and its relevance to shipping, economic development, and social welfare in the region, especially examining the legal status of the strait and its international relations. As a central focus, this study addresses the legal status of the Strait in the light of the 1982 U.N. Law of the Sea Convention. The Convention not only prescribes limits to the territorial sea, an exclusive economic zone and a continental shelf for coastal states, but also addresses rules for the transit of straits for international navigation. The book details the unusual demarcation of Australian territorial seas in certain islands and the unique fisheries - deep seabed lines of jurisdiction. Finally, this study turns sympathetically to the welfare of the Islanders, a small distinct ethnic group which has suffered losses in land, culture, and independence through the rush of western civilization. The author illuminates the importance of the Protected Zone established by the Torres Strait Treaty to Islander economic and environmental concerns. He also examines and takes a position on the feasibility of an independent state for the Islanders

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 9789041105066

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Torres Strait Leiden : Brill | Nijhoff, 1997 ISBN 9789041105066

Language: English

DOI: 110.1163/9789004635425

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 248 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)

ISBN: 9780511485121

Content: When Constance Garnett's translations (1910–1920) made Dostoevsky's novels accessible in England for the first time they introduced a disruptive and liberating literary force, and English novelists had to confront a new model and rival. The writers who are the focus of this study - Lawrence, Woolf, Bennett, Conrad, Forster, Galsworthy and James - either admired or feared Dostoevsky as a monster who might dissolve all literary and cultural distinctions. Though their responses differed greatly, these writers were unanimous in their inability to recognize Dostoevsky as a literary artist. They viewed him instead as a psychologist, a mystic, a prophet and, in the cases of Lawrence and Conrad, a hated rival who compelled creative response. This study constructs a map of English modernist novelists' misreadings of Dostoevsky, and in so doing it illuminates their aesthetic and cultural values and the nature of the modern English novel

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , 1. Introduction -- 2. Prophetic rage and rivalry: D.H. Lawrence -- 3. A modernist ambivalence: Virginia Woolf -- 4. Sympathy, truth, and artlessness: Arnold Bennett -- 5. Keeping the monster at bay: Joseph Conrad -- 6. Dostoevsky and the gentleman-writers: E.M. Forster, John Galsworthy, and Henry James.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780521623582

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780521024198

Additional Edition: Print version ISBN 9780521623582

Language: English

DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511485121

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