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The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries reflect a period of remarkable intellectual vitality in British philosophy, as personalities such as Hobbes, Hume, Locke, and Smith attempted to explain the origins and supporting mechanisms of civil society. Their insights continue to educate how political and moral theorists think about the world in

The Moon exerted a potent influence on ancient intellectual history, as a playground for the scientific imagination. The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination, (PDF) studies the history of the Moon in the Greco-Roman imaginary from Homer to Lucian, with an exclusive focus on those accounts of the Moon,

Get a deeper understanding of respiratory disease with Clinical Manifestations and Assessment of Respiratory Disease, 7th Edition (PDF). This popular, full-color PDF etextbook provides all the necessary tools you need to learn how to gather clinical data, formulate assessments, identify desired outcomes, design a safe and effective treatment plan, make

In an increasingly ethnically diverse society, debates about migration, community, cultural difference, and social interaction have never been more pressing. Drawing on the findings from a two-year, qualitative Economic and Social Research Council-funded study of different locations across England, Lived Experiences of Multiculture (PDF) uses interdisciplinary perspectives to examine the

Sociology of unintended consequences is commonly depicted as a framework for understanding the outcomes that run counter to the initial intentions of social actors because of factors such as ignorance, error, and complexity. This conventional approach, however, is now undergoing change under the influence of more encompassing shifts in framing