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Plato’s Pragmatism

Plato’s Pragmatism

Nicholas R. Baima; Tyler Paytas

Routledge
2020
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Plato’s Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive defense of a pragmatist reading of Plato. According to Plato, the ultimate rational goal is not to accumulate knowledge and avoid falsehood but rather to live an excellent human life. The book contends that a pragmatic outlook is present throughout the Platonic corpus. The authors argue that the successful pursuit of a good life requires cultivating certain ethical commitments, and that maintaining these commitments often requires violating epistemic norms. In the course of defending the pragmatist interpretation, the authors present a forceful Platonic argument for the conclusion that the value of truth has its limits, and that what matters most are one’s ethical commitments and the courage to live up to them. Their interpretation has far-reaching consequences in that it reshapes how we understand the relationship between Plato’s ethics and epistemology.Plato’s Pragmatism will appeal to scholars and advanced students of Plato and ancient philosophy. It will also be of interest to those working on current controversies in ethics and epistemology
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Plato’s Pragmatism

Plato’s Pragmatism

Nicholas R. Baima; Tyler Paytas

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2022
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Plato’s Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive defense of a pragmatist reading of Plato. According to Plato, the ultimate rational goal is not to accumulate knowledge and avoid falsehood but rather to live an excellent human life. The book contends that a pragmatic outlook is present throughout the Platonic corpus. The authors argue that the successful pursuit of a good life requires cultivating certain ethical commitments, and that maintaining these commitments often requires violating epistemic norms. In the course of defending the pragmatist interpretation, the authors present a forceful Platonic argument for the conclusion that the value of truth has its limits, and that what matters most are one’s ethical commitments and the courage to live up to them. Their interpretation has far-reaching consequences in that it reshapes how we understand the relationship between Plato’s ethics and epistemology.Plato’s Pragmatism will appeal to scholars and advanced students of Plato and ancient philosophy. It will also be of interest to those working on current controversies in ethics and epistemology
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A Colour Atlas of Medical Entomology

A Colour Atlas of Medical Entomology

Nicholas R. H. Burgess; G.O. Cowan

Chapman and Hall
1992
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This atlas should enable users to identify arthropods of medical and public health importance and to assess their significance; it will also assist in the accurate diagnosis of the patient's condition and the prevention of recurrence. Each chapter covers the identification, life cycle and habits of the causative stage and its medical/public health significance. Each section is liberally illustrated with colour photographs/micrographs of the specimens at relevant stages of its life cycle, habitat and the condition(s) it causes. This book should be of interest to professionals in medical entomology, tropical medicine physicians, environmental health specialists.
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Committees, Agendas and Voting

Committees, Agendas and Voting

Nicholas R. Miller

Routledge
2013
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The text is technically precise but at the same time accessible, and is carried forward by numerous examples. The chapters focus on vote counting rules, voting agendas, voter preferences, sincere and sophisticated voting strategies, solution sets, voting outcomes, agendas control, and agenda formation. The author himself has made prior research contributions to a number of these topics.
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Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health

Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health

Nicholas R. Lessa; Walter F. Scanlon

John Wiley Sons Inc
2006
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The Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Substance Use Disorders uses clear, highly accessible language to guide the reader through the entire continuum of addiction care and present the latest scientific understanding of substance use and abuse. This comprehensive, informative reference provides a complete overview of diagnosis, treatment, research, emerging trends, and other critical information about chemical addictions. Both biomedical and psychiatric conditions and complications are thoroughly covered. Like all the books in the Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health series, Substance Use Disorders features a compact, easy-to-use format that includes: Vignettes and case illustrationsA practical approach that emphasizes real-life treatment over theoryResources for specific readers such as clinicians, students, or patients In addition to the fundamentals of chemical addictions and treatment, Substance Use Disorders covers some of the most cutting-edge topics in the field, including innovative treatment approaches, outcome demands, brain science, relapse-prevention strategies, designer drugs, spirituality, and other areas. This straightforward resource is admirably suited for a wide variety of readers, from those in the helping professions, to law enforcement personnel, to recommended reading for clients currently in treatment.
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Delegating Responsibility

Delegating Responsibility

Nicholas R. Micinski

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
2022
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Delegating Responsibility explores the politics of migration in the European Union and explains how the EU responded to the 2015–17 refugee crisis. Based on 86 interviews and fieldwork in Greece and Italy, Nicholas R. Micinski proposes a new theory of international cooperation on international migration. States approach migration policies in many ways—such as coordination, collaboration, subcontracting, and unilateralism—but which policy they choose is based on capacity and on credible partners on the ground. Micinski traces the fifty-year evolution of EU migration management, like border security and asylum policies, and shows how EU officials used “crises” as political leverage to further Europeanize migration governance. In two in-depth case studies, he explains how Italy and Greece responded to the most recent refugee crisis. He concludes with a discussion of policy recommendations regarding contemporary as well as long-term aspirations for migration management in the EU.
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A Truthful Impression of the Country

A Truthful Impression of the Country

Nicholas R. Clifford

The University of Michigan Press
2001
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A Truthful Impression of the Country spans a period of roughly seven decades in China, from the late nineteenth century through the first half of the twentieth. Nicholas R. Clifford argues that, for a variety of reasons, travel accounts during this time claimed a particular kind of veracity that distinguished them from the work of other writers--scholars, journalists, diplomats, policymakers, or memoir-writing expatriates--who also sought to represent an unfamiliar China to the West. Yet even as the genre claims to be a truthful impression, it contains an implicit warning that the traveler's own sensibility enters into the account and into the representation of the unfamiliar and the exotic. A Truthful Impression of the Country will appeal not only to those interested in the broad phenomenon of imperialism but also to those interested in cultural studies and post-colonialism. It will likewise prove accessible to the general reader exploring Sino-Western interactions or in travel writing as a particular genre. Nicholas R. Clifford is College Professor Emeritus, Middlebury College. He is also the author of the novel The House of Memory and of the monographs Shanghai, 1925: Urban Nationalism and the Defense of Foreign Privilege and Spoilt Children of Empire: Westerners in Shanghai and the Chinese Revolution of 1925--1927.
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Delegating Responsibility

Delegating Responsibility

Nicholas R. Micinski

The University of Michigan Press
2022
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Delegating Responsibility explores the politics of migration in the European Union and explains how the EU responded to the 2015–17 refugee crisis. Based on 86 interviews and fieldwork in Greece and Italy, Nicholas R. Micinski proposes a new theory of international cooperation on international migration. States approach migration policies in many ways—such as coordination, collaboration, subcontracting, and unilateralism—but which policy they choose is based on capacity and on credible partners on the ground. Micinski traces the fifty-year evolution of EU migration management, like border security and asylum policies, and shows how EU officials used “crises” as political leverage to further Europeanize migration governance. In two in-depth case studies, he explains how Italy and Greece responded to the most recent refugee crisis. He concludes with a discussion of policy recommendations regarding contemporary as well as long-term aspirations for migration management in the EU.
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Economic Growth and Distribution in China

Economic Growth and Distribution in China

Nicholas R. Lardy

Cambridge University Press
2006
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This study maintains that China's system of economic planning tends to mitigate the trade-off between economic growth and equity that has been found to prevail in the early stages of development in most less developed countries. The analysis focuses on the Chinese leadership's attempt to improve economic efficiency by decentralizing economic management without encouraging, as a consequence, increased economic inequality among different regions. By examining the budgetary and planning process, focusing in particular on the fiscal relations between the centre and the far-reaching degree of resource redistribution undertaken by the central government through its control of interprovincial and intersectoral resource transfers. Professor Lardy's analysis highlights the essential features of Chinese economic growth and relates these to the experience of both developing and Soviet-type economies.
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Economic Growth and Distribution in China

Economic Growth and Distribution in China

Nicholas R. Lardy

Cambridge University Press
1978
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This study maintains that China’s system of economic planning tends to mitigate the trade-off between economic growth and equity that has been found to prevail in the early stages of development in most less developed countries. The analysis focuses on the Chinese leadership’s attempt to improve economic efficiency by decentralizing economic management without encouraging, as a consequence, increased economic inequality among different regions. By examining the budgetary and planning process, focusing in particular on the fiscal relations between the centre and the far-reaching degree of resource redistribution undertaken by the central government through its control of interprovincial and intersectoral resource transfers. Professor Lardy’s analysis highlights the essential features of Chinese economic growth and relates these to the experience of both developing and Soviet-type economies. The study begins by exploring the implications of alternative systems of resource allocation in an economy marked by an unusually high degree of inequality in per capita output both across different regions as well as in different sectors. The adoption of a highly centralized system of economic planning in the early 1950s is shown to have stemmed not only from the influence of the Soviet model, but also from a desire to use relatively centralized economic policy instruments to accelerate the growth of less developed regions.
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Foreign Trade and Economic Reform in China

Foreign Trade and Economic Reform in China

Nicholas R. Lardy

Cambridge University Press
1991
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This study, first published in 1992, explores the relationship between China's foreign trade reforms and the domestic economic reforms that underlie China's policy of openness. It provided the first comprehensive analysis of how China emerged, since reform began in 1978, as one of the most dynamic trading nations in the world. It examines both the external policy changes, such as the decentralisation of trading authority and the devaluation of the domestic currency, and internal economic reforms such as the increased use of markets and prices. The volume concludes with an analysis of the sources of China's export growth and outlines further domestic economic reforms that the author believes will be required to sustain China's integration into the world economy.
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Foreign Trade and Economic Reform in China

Foreign Trade and Economic Reform in China

Nicholas R. Lardy

Cambridge University Press
1993
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This study explores the relationship between China’s foreign trade reforms and the domestic economic reforms that underlie China’s recent policy of openness. It provides the first comprehensive analysis of how China has emerged, since reform began in 1978, as one of the most dynamic trading nations in the world. It examines both the external policy changes, such as the decentralisation of trading authority and the devaluation of the domestic currency, and internal economic reforms such as the increased use of markets and prices. The volume concludes with an analysis of the sources of China’s export growth and outlines further domestic economic reforms that the author believes will be required to sustain China’s integration into the world economy.
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The Legend of Annapolis Grecco

The Legend of Annapolis Grecco

Nicholas R. Regan

Lulu.com
2010
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This is the second edition paperback print of Annapolis Grecco...When Annapolis Grecco's queen gets kidnapped, he and his companions are hurled into an action fueled plot to find her. He and his loyal friends are sent sailing around the Mediterranean to find his beloved queen. The epic adventure casts them into storm fueled seas, action packed battles, and several sea faring adventures. Will Annapolis find his queen? Will the great Greek king survive the quest? Find out in the Legend of Annapolis Grecco.
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Zephaniah: An Earth Bible Commentary

Zephaniah: An Earth Bible Commentary

Nicholas R. Werse

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
2024
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With astute attention to Zephaniah’s intertextual relationships with other biblical texts, Nicholas R. Werse explores the implications of Zephaniah as a book in perpetual conversation with other biblical cosmologies and conceptions of the human place in relationship with creation. Werse guides readers to critically examine Zephaniah’s ancient worldview and subsequent legacy in dialog with the world’s modern ecological crises. Werse argues that Zephaniah begins and ends with the land. It begins with the removal of all life from the land and ends with a proclamation returning the exiles to their ancestral home. Along this journey, all three chapters of Zephaniah systematically reverse language and imagery from Gen 1-11 and draw deeply from the language of earlier prophets to depict the 6th century BCE destruction of Jerusalem as nothing short of the unravelling of creation. While remaining suspicious of Zephaniah’s distinctively androcentric worldview, Werse traces Zephaniah’s rhetorical journey from the deconstruction of creation and the nations, to its proclamations of hope for the future.
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Zephaniah: An Earth Bible Commentary

Zephaniah: An Earth Bible Commentary

Nicholas R Werse

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
2026
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With astute attention to Zephaniah's intertextual relationships with other biblical texts, Nicholas R. Werse explores the implications of Zephaniah as a book in perpetual conversation with other biblical cosmologies and conceptions of the human place in relationship with creation. Werse guides readers to critically examine Zephaniah's ancient worldview and subsequent legacy in dialog with the world's modern ecological crises. Werse argues that Zephaniah begins and ends with the land. It begins with the removal of all life from the land and ends with a proclamation returning the exiles to their ancestral home. Along this journey, all three chapters of Zephaniah systematically reverse language and imagery from Gen 1-11 and draw deeply from the language of earlier prophets to depict the 6th century BCE destruction of Jerusalem as nothing short of the unravelling of creation. While remaining suspicious of Zephaniah's distinctively androcentric worldview, Werse traces Zephaniah's rhetorical journey from the deconstruction of creation and the nations, to its proclamations of hope for the future.
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Henry The Hedgehog Is In A Hurry

Henry The Hedgehog Is In A Hurry

Nicholas R Domingo

Happy Hive Studios and Productions
2022
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Henry The Hedgehog Is In A Hurry follows the journey of a young hedgehog who has a problem that is all too familiar to children in our society's current landscape: The energetic and ambitious Henry takes on too much in his day and has so much to do that he can't possibly juggle it all. Henry ultimately learns that when we don't take time to breathe and focus on one task at a time, we set ourselves up to fail instead of achieving more.The affable hedgehog creates a miles-long to-do list, adding more and more to his plate. As he attempts to complete multiple tasks at once, believing it will help him get through his many jobs, it only serves to create a hilarious pandemonium as all breaks loose and his master plan falls short. The rollicking and undulating text of the story mimics the speed and chaos with which Henry attempts to complete all of the many chores and assignments he has plotted out for his day. Families will delight in the exceptional read-aloud nature of this frenetic and silly story with a big lesson.
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China's Unfinished Economic Revolution

China's Unfinished Economic Revolution

Nicholas R. Lardy

Brookings Institution
1998
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"China's Unfinished Economic Revolution offers a fundamentally different interpretation of China's economic reform. The common view that China's gradualistic approach has served it well overlooks the fact that state-owned banks for the last two decades have channeled a large share of sharply rising household savings into what are mostly unreformed, money-losing companies. The result is that several of China's largest financial institutions now are insolvent. To avoid a major domestic banking crisis the book argues that China must recapitalize and restructure its domestic banking system and end the long-standing practice of making lending decisions based on political rather than economic criteria.Nicholas Lardy explains that this course will inevitably be costly in political terms, in part because it will lead for a time to a slower rate of economic growth. But the alternative is even less attractive—permanently slower growth, continued macroeconomic instability, an inability to meet the expectations of the international community for the opening of its domestic financial markets, and insufficient resources to deal with severe environmental deterioration, growing water shortages, and a rapidly aging population.This timely book also analyzes the new reform initiatives China has launched in the wake of the Asian financial crisis, suggests additional steps that must be taken, and evaluates the implications for U.S. policy."
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