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American Intergovernmental Relations - A Fragmented Federal Polity

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 The one constant in the American federal system is change - change that is not always beneficial. This work examines how the dynamic social, economic, and political forces that impinge on American government at all levels shape the way that our federal system functions.
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Civilized Life In The Universe - Scientists On Intelligent Extraterrestrials

by George (Professor Of History, Professor Of History, University Of Delaware (Emeritus)) Basalla

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 Presenting a history of scientific speculation about intelligent extraterrestrial life, the author traces the influence of one speculation on the next, showing a chain of ideas passed from one scientist to the next, and from science to popular culture. He even traces the influence of popular culture on science.
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Thinking Without Words

by José Luis Bermúdez

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 Thinking Without Words provides a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic thought. JosÃ© Luis Bermudez offers a conceptual framework for treating human infants and non-human animals as genuine thinkers. The book is written with an interdisciplinary readership in mind and will appeal to philosophers, psychologists, and students of animal behavior.
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Phenomenal Concepts And Phenomenal Knowledge - New Essays On Consciousness And Physicalism

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 Consciousness has long been regarded as the biggest stumbling block for the view that the mind is physical. This volume collects thirteen new papers on this problem by leading philosophers including Ned Block, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, Frabk Jackson, Joseph Levine, Laurence Nemirow, David Papineau, John Hawthorne, and five others.
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Irish Immigrants In The Land Of Canaan - Letters And Memoirs From Colonial And Revolutionary America, 1675-1815

by Arnold (, University Of Cincinnati (Emeritus)) Schrier, Bruce D. (, University Of New Mexico) Boling, David N. (, University College, Dubin) Doyle e Kerby A. (, University Of Missouri) Miller

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 Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic immigration to America. It explores why the immigrants left, how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, and how their experiences shaped society, and created modern Irish and Irish-American identities, in America and Ireland alike.
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Mighty Fine Words And Smashing Expressions - Making Sense Of Transatlantic English

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 This is a practical and entertaining guide for sorting out the differences between American and British English. As if written from a point in the Atlantic Ocean exactly between Britain and the US, this book catalogues the differences between the two forms of English in a readable and interesting way.
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Good Taste, Bad Taste And Christian Taste - Aesthetics In Religious Life

by Frank Burch Brown

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 By exploring the complex relation between taste, religious imagination, and faith, this work hopes ultimately to offer a new perspective on what it means to be spiritual, religious, and indeed Christian.
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What'S Within? - Nativism Reconsidered

by Fiona Cowie

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 This work reconsiders the influential nativist position towards the mind. It claims that the view that certain skills are hardwired into the brain is mistaken, arguing that nativism is an unstable amalgam of two quite different - and probably inconsistent - theses.
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Simulating Minds - The Philosophy, Psychology, And Neuroscience Of Mindreading

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