1.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIASUN0126293

Titolo

Handbook of Nanofibers / Ahmed Barhoum, Mikhael Bechelany, Abdel Salam Hamdy Makhlouf editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

XXIII, 1170 p., : ill. ; 24 cm

Edizione

[Cham : Springer, 2019]

Descrizione fisica

Pubblicazione in formato elettronico

Disciplina

620.5

621.39

620.1

541.2

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451549103321

Autore

Hurford James R

Titolo

The origins of meaning [[electronic resource] /] / James R. Hurford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-14907-1

9786611149079

0-19-152592-8

1-4356-0979-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (404 p.)

Collana

Language in the light of evolution ; ; 1

Disciplina

401.43

Soggetti

Semantics - History

Communication

Evolution

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; PART I: MEANING BEFORE COMMUNICATION; 1. Let's Agree on Terms; 2. Animals Approach Human Cognition; 3. A New Kind of Memory Evolves; 4. Animals Form Proto-propositions; 5. Towards Human Semantics; PART II: COMMUNICATION: WHAT AND WHY?; 6. Communication by Dyadic Acts; 7. Going Triadic: Precursors of Reference; 8. Why Communicate? Squaring with Evolutionary Theory; 9. Cooperation, Fair Play, and Trust in Primates; 10. Epilogue and Prologue; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at the origins of meaning and of its expression in language and reviews a mass of evidence to uncover the evolutionary path between the non-speaking minds of apes and our own speaking minds. This is a landmark contribution to the understanding of linguistic and thinking processes, and the fullest account yet published of the evolution of language and. communication. - ;In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953195503321

Autore

Haworth Alan <1944->

Titolo

Anti-libertarianism : markets, philosophy, and myth / / Alan Haworth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994

ISBN

1-134-89071-0

1-134-89072-9

1-280-56262-5

9786610562626

0-203-00371-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 p.)

Disciplina

330.12/6

Soggetti

Libertarianism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-146) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Part I; Chapter 1. Libertarianism - anti-libertarianism; Chapter 2. Market romances I; Chapter 3. Reducibility, freedom, the invisible hand; Chapter 4. Market romances II; Chapter 5. On freedom; Chapter 6. The legend of the angels and the fable of the bees; Part II; Chapter 7. Moralising the market; Chapter 8. Rights, wrongs and rhetoric; Chapter 9. Visions of Valhalla; Part Ill; Chapter 10. The good fairy's wand; Chapter 11. Hayek and the hand of fate; Chapter 12. Conclusions and postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Free marketeers claim that theirs is the only economic mechanism which respects and furthers human freedom. Socialism, they say, has been thoroughly discredited. Most libertarians treat the state in anything other than its minimal, 'nightwatchman' form as a repressive embodiment of evil. Some reject the state altogether.But is the 'free market idea' a rationally defensible belief? Or do its proponents fail to examine the philosophical roots of their so-called freedom? Anti-libertarianism takes a sceptical look at the conceptual tenets of free market politics. Alan Haworth argues t