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UNINA9910453548103321 |
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Meisels Tamar |
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The trouble with terror : liberty, security, and the response to terrorism / / Tamar Meisels [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008 |
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1-107-20240-X |
1-281-79158-X |
9786611791582 |
0-511-42968-1 |
0-511-42859-6 |
0-511-43006-X |
0-511-42788-3 |
0-511-75598-8 |
0-511-42930-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Terrorism |
Terrorism - United States |
Terrorism - Government policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Defining terrorism -- a typology -- The apologetics of terrorism : a refutation -- How terrorism upsets liberty -- Combatants -- lawful and unlawful -- Targeting terror -- Torturing terrorists -- Torture and the problem of dirty hands. |
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What is terrorism and can it ever be defended? Beginning with its definition, proceeding to its possible justifications, and culminating in proposals for contending with and combating it, this book offers a full theoretical analysis of the issue of terrorism. Tamar Meisels argues that, regardless of its professed cause, terrorism is diametrically opposed to the requirements of liberal morality and can only be defended at the expense of relinquishing the most basic of liberal commitments. Meisels opposes those who express sympathy and |
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justification for Islamist (particularly Palestinian) terrorism and terrorism allegedly carried out on behalf of developing nations, but, at the same time, also opposes those who would tolerate any reduction in civil liberties in exchange for greater security. Calling wholeheartedly for a unanimous liberal front against terrorism, this is a strong and provocative attempt to address the tension between liberty and security in a time of terror. |
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UNINA9910967084603321 |
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Autore |
Gray Jeremy <1947-> |
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Henri Poincaré : a scientific biography / / Jeremy Gray |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2013 |
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9781283833752 |
1283833751 |
9781400844791 |
1400844797 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (609 p.) |
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MAT015000BIO015000MAT000000SCI055000TEC009000 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Essayist -- 2. Poincaré's Career -- 3. The Prize Competition of 1880 -- 4. The Three Body Problem -- 5. Cosmogony -- 6. Physics -- 7. Theory of Functions and Mathematical Physics -- 8. Topology -- 9. Interventions in Pure Mathematics -- 10. Poincaré as a Professional Physicist -- 11. Poincaré and the Philosophy of Science -- 12. Appendixes -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index |
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"Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time--he was also a leading physicist who almost won a Nobel Prize for physics and a prominent philosopher of science whose fresh and surprising essays |
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are still in print a century later. The first in-depth and comprehensive look at his many accomplishments, Henri Poincaré explores all the fields that Poincaré touched, the debates sparked by his original investigations, and how his discoveries still contribute to society today. Math historian Jeremy Gray shows that Poincaré's influence was wide-ranging and permanent. His novel interpretation of non-Euclidean geometry challenged contemporary ideas about space, stirred heated discussion, and led to flourishing research. His work in topology began the modern study of the subject, recently highlighted by the successful resolution of the famous Poincaré conjecture. And Poincaré's reformulation of celestial mechanics and discovery of chaotic motion started the modern theory of dynamical systems. In physics, his insights on the Lorentz group preceded Einstein's, and he was the first to indicate that space and time might be fundamentally atomic. Poincaré the public intellectual did not shy away from scientific controversy, and he defended mathematics against the attacks of logicians such as Bertrand Russell, opposed the views of Catholic apologists, and served as an expert witness in probability for the notorious Dreyfus case that polarized France. Richly informed by letters and documents, Henri Poincaré demonstrates how one man's work revolutionized math, science, and the greater world"-- |
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