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The Dead and Empty World

Author : Carrie Ryan
Publisher : Enterprising Kraken, LLC
Release Date :
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 160 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download The Dead and Empty World in PDF Full Online Free by Carrie Ryan and published by Enterprising Kraken, LLC. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Queen of the Undead, Carrie Ryan, takes readers once again to the world of The Forest of Hands and Teeth." -- School Library Journal on "Bougainvillea." From a life raft cast adrift in the middle of the ocean to the attic of a suburban garage; from the heart-pounding moments just after the dead begin to rise, to the ravaged world generations later, the five stories in The Dead and Empty World present a chilling portrait of what it takes to survive – or not – the zombie apocalypse. This 39,000 word collection contains five previously published stories and never before published bonus materials, including background information on each story, easter eggs, and an essay detailing the inspiration for the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Stories included in this collection: "Flotsam & Jetsam," originally published in The Living Dead 2, edited by John Joseph Adams and published by Night Shade Books; "Scenic Route," originally published in Enthralled, edited by Melissa Marr and Kelley Armstrong and published by HarperCollins; "Bougainvillea," originally published in Zombies vs. Unicorns, edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier and published by Simon and Schuster; "A Game of Firsts," originally published in The First Time, edited by Jessica Verday and Rhonda Stapleton; "Hare Moon," originally published in Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love, edited by Trisha Telep and published by Running Press Teens; later published in a slightly different form by Random House.

The Vindication of Nothingness

Author : Marco Simionato
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2021-11-17
ISBN 10 : 9783868385878
Pages : 216 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (385 downloads)

Download The Vindication of Nothingness in PDF Full Online Free by Marco Simionato and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophical question of nothingness has often been controversial. The main core of the question is the use of ‘nothing’ or ‘nothingness’ as a noun phrase rather than a quantifier phrase. This work deals with the question of nothingness and metaphysical nihilism in analytic philosophy. After evaluating an account of nothingness based on the notion of an empty possible world, the present work proposes two original arguments for metaphysical nihilism. With a preface by Graham Priest. “Simionato’s book delivers a welcome deepening of our understanding of nothing.” Graham Priest

Ecological Economics, Second Edition

Author : Herman E. Daly
Publisher : Island Press
Release Date : 2011-01-26
ISBN 10 : 9781597269919
Pages : 544 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (269 downloads)

Download Ecological Economics, Second Edition in PDF Full Online Free by Herman E. Daly and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its first edition, this book helped to define the emerging field of ecological economics. This new edition surveys the field today. It incorporates all of the latest research findings and grounds economic inquiry in a more robust understanding of human needs and behavior. Humans and ecological systems, it argues, are inextricably bound together in complex and long-misunderstood ways. According to ecological economists, conventional economics does not reflect adequately the value of essential factors like clean air and water, species diversity, and social and generational equity. By excluding biophysical and social systems from their analyses, many conventional economists have overlooked problems of the increasing scale of human impacts and the inequitable distribution of resources. This introductory-level textbook is designed specifically to address this significant flaw in economic thought. The book describes a relatively new “transdiscipline” that incorporates insights from the biological, physical, and social sciences. It provides students with a foundation in traditional neoclassical economic thought, but places that foundation within an interdisciplinary framework that embraces the linkages among economic growth, environmental degradation, and social inequity. In doing so, it presents a revolutionary way of viewing the world. The second edition of Ecological Economics provides a clear, readable, and easy-to-understand overview of a field of study that continues to grow in importance. It remains the only stand-alone textbook that offers a complete explanation of theory and practice in the discipline.

Absence and Nothing

Author : Stephen Mumford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-02
ISBN 10 : 9780198831532
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (831 downloads)

Download Absence and Nothing in PDF Full Online Free by Stephen Mumford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that nothing is not and explains how we can meaningfully speak about what is not.

World Views and the Problem of Synthesis

Author : Diederik Aerts
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
ISBN 10 : 9789401147088
Pages : 370 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (147 downloads)

Download World Views and the Problem of Synthesis in PDF Full Online Free by Diederik Aerts and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers philosophy to be more than mere reflection. Through philosophy, humankind can give meaning to the world. In part, this book re-evaluates the philosophy of Leo Apostel, who dedicated his life to the investigation of the use of philosophy in everyday life. But it is also a presentation of international research carried out along the lines of the worldviews project. The contributions address not only professional philosophers, but also students, teachers, academics and everyone interested in the relationship between philosophy and the world.

Non-Being

Author : Sara Bernstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-18
ISBN 10 : 9780192585165
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (585 downloads)

Download Non-Being in PDF Full Online Free by Sara Bernstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonexistence is ubiquitous, yet mysterious. This volume explores some of the most puzzling questions about non-being and nonexistence, and offers answers from diverse philosophical perspectives. The contributors draw on analytic, continental, Buddhist, and Jewish philosophical traditions, and the topics range from metaphysics to ethics, from philosophy of science to philosophy of language, and beyond.

The Problem of Existence

Author : Arthur Witherall
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
ISBN 10 : 9781351883542
Pages : 168 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (883 downloads)

Download The Problem of Existence in PDF Full Online Free by Arthur Witherall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the question of why there is something instead of nothing. Several responses to this question are possible, but only some of them address the question seriously, respecting its emotional aspects as well as its cognitive dimension. The author carefully distinguishes those answers that are truly satisfactory, in both respects, from those that are inadequate. It can be argued that the existence of the world has no explanation at all, or that there is a necessary being whose existence is self-explanatory, or that the world exists because it has value. Each kind of response is defensible to some degree, and it is argued that where they are defensible, they have a common content. Incorporating aspects of both the 'analytical' and 'continental' traditions, this book also responds to several historical philosophers concerned with these questions, including Plato, Leibniz, Kant and Nietzsche.

Could there have been Nothing?

Author : Geraldine Coggins
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2010-11-24
ISBN 10 : 9780230295247
Pages : 171 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (295 downloads)

Download Could there have been Nothing? in PDF Full Online Free by Geraldine Coggins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of metaphysical nihilism: an analytical treatment of one of the most intriguing and fundamental questions in contemporary analytic metaphysics: Could there have been nothing at all? No physical universe, no people, no living beings, no planets, no atoms, no matter, no energy - nothing?

The Puzzle of Existence

Author : Tyron Goldschmidt
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2014-02-05
ISBN 10 : 9781136249228
Pages : 296 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (249 downloads)

Download The Puzzle of Existence in PDF Full Online Free by Tyron Goldschmidt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored from diverse and radical perspectives: religious, naturalistic, platonistic and skeptical. Does science answer the question? Or does theology? Does everything need an explanation? Or can there be brute, inexplicable facts? Could there have been nothing whatsoever? Or is there any being that could not have failed to exist? Is the question meaningful after all? The volume advances cutting-edge debates in metaphysics, philosophy of cosmology and philosophy of religion, and will intrigue and challenge readers interested in any of these subjects.

Mystery and Intelligibility

Author : Jeffrey Dirk Wilson
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
Release Date : 2021-02-26
ISBN 10 : 9780813234182
Pages : 277 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (234 downloads)

Download Mystery and Intelligibility in PDF Full Online Free by Jeffrey Dirk Wilson and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy is born in its history as pursuit of the wisdom we are never able fully to know. Mystery and Intelligibility: History of Philosophy as Pursuit of Wisdom both argues for that method and presents the results it can achieve. Editor Jeffrey Dirk Wilson has gathered essays from six philosophical luminaries. In “History, Philosophy, and the History of Philosophy,” Timothy B. Noone provides the volume’s discourse on method in which he distinguishes three tiers of history. History of philosophy as method occupies the third and highest tier. John Rist reckons with contemporary corruption of the method in “A Guide for the Perplexed or How to Present or Pervert the History of Philosophy.” Wilson’s own essay, “Wonder and the Discovery of Being: From Homeric Myth to the Natural Genera of Early Greek Philosophy,” shows the loss of wonder, so evident in mythology, by early Greek thinkers and its recovery by Plato and Aristotle. In “Metaphysics and the Origin of Culture,” Donald Phillip Verene demonstrates the wide cultural implications of philosophical discoveries even when the discovery is the boundary of what humans can know. William Desmond offers an essay, “Flux-Gibberish: For and Against Heraclitus,” that owes as much to the humor of James Joyce as to the philosophical insights of philosophers, ancient, medieval, and modern. Eric D. Perl’s essay turns to the apophatic character of pursuing wisdom, perhaps especially when asking what may be the most fundamental metaphysical question: “Into the Dark: How (Not) to Ask, ‘Why is There Anything at All.’” Philipp W. Rosemann concludes the volume with the question best asked at the end of this literary seminar, “What is Philosophy?” Although there are philosophers within the analytic and continental schools who are committed to the history of philosophy, Mystery and Intelligibility demonstrates that history of philosophy as a third and distinct philosophical method is revelatory of the nature and structure of reality.

The Undiscover'd Country

Author : Markus Zisselsberger
Publisher : Camden House
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : 9781571134653
Pages : 390 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (134 downloads)

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Anselm's Argument

Author : Brian Leftow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-10
ISBN 10 : 9780192896926
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (896 downloads)

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How We Test Software at Microsoft

Author : Alan Page
Publisher : Microsoft Press
Release Date : 2008-12-10
ISBN 10 : 9780735638310
Pages : 448 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (638 downloads)

Download How We Test Software at Microsoft in PDF Full Online Free by Alan Page and published by Microsoft Press. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may surprise you to learn that Microsoft employs as many software testers as developers. Less surprising is the emphasis the company places on the testing discipline—and its role in managing quality across a diverse, 150+ product portfolio. This book—written by three of Microsoft’s most prominent test professionals—shares the best practices, tools, and systems used by the company’s 9,000-strong corps of testers. Learn how your colleagues at Microsoft design and manage testing, their approach to training and career development, and what challenges they see ahead. Most important, you’ll get practical insights you can apply for better results in your organization. Discover how to: Design effective tests and run them throughout the product lifecycle Minimize cost and risk with functional tests, and know when to apply structural techniques Measure code complexity to identify bugs and potential maintenance issues Use models to generate test cases, surface unexpected application behavior, and manage risk Know when to employ automated tests, design them for long-term use, and plug into an automation infrastructure Review the hallmarks of great testers—and the tools they use to run tests, probe systems, and track progress efficiently Explore the challenges of testing services vs. shrink-wrapped software

A New History of the Future in 100 Objects

Author : Adrian Hon
Publisher : MIT Press
Release Date : 2020-10-06
ISBN 10 : 9780262539371
Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (539 downloads)

Download A New History of the Future in 100 Objects in PDF Full Online Free by Adrian Hon and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining the history of the twenty-first century through its artifacts, from silent messaging systems to artificial worlds on asteroids. In the year 2082, a curator looks back at the twenty-first century, offering a history of the era through a series of objects and artifacts. He reminisces about the power of connectivity, which was reinforced by such technologies as silent messaging—wearable computers that relay subvocal communication; recalls the Fourth Great Awakening, when a regimen of pills could make someone virtuous; and notes disapprovingly the use of locked interrogation, which delivers “enhanced interrogation” simulations via virtual reality. The unnamed curator quotes from a self-help guide to making friends with “posthumans,” describes the establishment of artificial worlds on asteroids, and recounts pro-democracy movements in epistocratic states. In A New History of the Future in 100 Objects, Adrian Hon constructs a possible future by imagining the things it might leave in its wake. Many of these things are just an update or two away: improved ankle monitors, for example, and deliverbots. Others may be the logical conclusions of current trends—“downvote” networks that identify and erase undesirables, and Glyphish, an emoticon-based language that supersedes the written word. More benign are Braid Collective, which provides financial support for artists, and Rechartered Cities, which invites immigrants to revitalize urban areas hollowed out by changing demographics. With this engaging and ingenious work, Hon leads the way into an imagined future while offering readers a new perspective on the present.

Sandtray Therapy

Author : Linda E. Homeyer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-08-01
ISBN 10 : 9781000615265
Pages : 218 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (615 downloads)

Download Sandtray Therapy in PDF Full Online Free by Linda E. Homeyer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandtray Therapy is an essential book for professionals and students interested in incorporating this unique modality into work with clients of all ages. The fourth edition includes important discussion of the neurobiological aspects of trauma and sandtray therapy, further exploration of sandtray therapy in the context of the DSM-5, and a renewed review of the sandtray therapy literature. Readers will find that the book is still replete with handouts, images, examples, and resources. The authors’ six-step protocol guides beginners through a typical session, including room setup, creation and processing of the sandtray, cleanup, post-session documentation, and much more.

Passive Constitutions, Or, 7 1/2 Times Bartleby

Author : Branka Arsi?
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : 0804753938
Pages : 234 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (84 downloads)

Download Passive Constitutions, Or, 7 1/2 Times Bartleby in PDF Full Online Free by Branka Arsi? and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through analysis of Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener," this book analyzes major questions in Melville's literature as well as philosophical, theological, political, juridical, psychiatric, and literary discourses of his age and the America in which he lived.

Western Ghats - From Ecology To Economics

Author : Shanavas P H
Publisher : Educreation Publishing
Release Date : 2016-01-23
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 194 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download Western Ghats - From Ecology To Economics in PDF Full Online Free by Shanavas P H and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hill chain of Western Ghats, a treasure trove of biodiversity and the water tower of peninsular India has been engrossed the attention of various stakeholders all over the world. This region is identified as one among the eight hottest hotspots of biodiversity and hence attracted worldwide attention. This book is a compilation of various research articles related to Western Ghats, its ecology, environment, geography, biodiversity, etc. The editors have taken utmost care to include articles related to various issues such as, the debates over WGEEP and HLWG reports, studies on mining and quarrying activities, agriculture and allied activities, issues related to sustainable agricultural practices, agrarian distress, impact of migration, changing land use pattern, other economic activities and its impact on the environment and ecology, etc. The book offers an insight into the concerns of the farmers and offers policy solutions wherever possible.