Tom szósty Studiów z filozofii prawa poświęcony jest zagadnieniu normatywności prawa. Jest to jedno z najbardziej kontrowersyjnych zagadnień w filozofii prawa. Było ono przedmiotem gorącej dyskusji w XIX w., a przez ostatnie sto lat, badanie normatywności przybierało różne kształty i formy: od dualizmu Kelsena, poprzez redukcjonizm proponowany przez realistów prawnych, aż do stanowisk...

From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of the current empress, Masako. We encounter shamans and warlords, poets and...

Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible? If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred, and irrationality. Yet Steven Pinker shows that this is an illusion - a symptom of historical amnesia and statistical fallacies. If you follow the trendlines rather than the headlines,...

The future needs Dyslexic Thinking! British social entrepreneur, founder and CEO of charity Made By Dyslexia, Kate Griggs has been shifting the narrative on dyslexia and educating people on its strengths since 2004. Having been surrounded by an extraordinary 'smorgasbord of Dyslexic Thinking' her whole life, Griggs knows the superpower of dyslexia all too well. With a forward from Sir...

Boken, som är femte upplagan, ska användas som ett redskap för chefer, arbetsledare, pedagoger, fackliga förtroendemän och skyddsombud inom skolan och hjälpa dem att lösa svåra arbetsmiljöproblem på arbetsplatsen. Skolans arbetsmiljö. Praktiska typfall är till stor del uppbyggd på konkreta exempel som författarna kommit i kontakt med i sina roller som arbetsrättsjurister på central...

Preface 1. Preliminaries 1.1. Short LMS Algorithm History 1.2. Random Processes 1.3. Stability and Convergence 1.4. Linear Optimum Filtering 1.5. Least MEan Squares Algorithm 1.6. Partial Update Algorithms 2. Classic Stability and Convergence Analysis 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Small-Step-Size Theory ...

Dr. Agnieszka Bieńczyk - Missala is a lecturer at the Institutei of International Relations of the Warsaw University and an analist at the Polish Institute of International Affairs. She is engaged in problems of human rights and democracy, primarily in the context of security and foreign policy, and has written articles that have appeared in: Rocznik Strategiczny, Sprawy Międzynarodowe,...

The official study guide for the entry-level Oracle Certified Associate exam for Java Programmers--fully updated for Java SE 8 Confidently prepare for the OCA Java SE 8 Programmer I exam with this thoroughly revised, up-to-date guide from Oracle Press. Featuring step-by-step exercises, comprehensive chapter self-tests, and a CD-ROM containing two complete practice exams, this volume provides...

The book is comprised of three components. The first component analyses the creative contribution to the theory of imperatives and norms provided by 20th-century Polish researchers. The second component summarizes their reflections and considerations. The third component is an anthology of the classic writings of Polish authors of the time; it constitutes an illustration of the first part...

With over 1.3 million copies sold of the previous edition, Pearson’s textbooks are the market-leading and most trusted resources for AS and A level Mathematics. This book can be used alongside the Year 1 book to cover all the content needed for the Edexcel A level Pure Mathematics exams.Fully updated to match the 2017 specifications, with more of a focus on problem-solving and modelling as...

In Zusammenarbeit mit Dr. K. Uecker Dr. S. Franz, Dr. med. K. Yilmatz und C. Schork Zeichnungen von Slavka Zsolnai Die Anatomie des Körpers ist durch einen langen evolutionären Prozess entstanden, an dessen Ende die heutige ausbalancierte Form von Knochen, Muskeln, Nerven und Organen steht. Das funktionelle Gleichgewicht des Körpers beruht auf dem Prinzip der gegensätzlichen Kräfte, die...

The problem of the continuity of science from the medieval to the modern times of the 17th century, when Galileo and Newton developed the correct theory of mechanics, occupied historians of science from the beginning of the 20th century. Some believe that the fourteenth-century English scholars who created the School of Oxford Calculators and their French and Italian followers. with their...

Something happens in students when they define themselves as makers and inventors and creators. They discover powerful skills-problem-solving, critical thinking, and imagination-that will help them shape the world's future ... our future. If that's true, why isn't creativity a priority in more schools today? Educators John Spencer and A.J. Juliani know firsthand the challenges teachers face...

Compact and easy to use, Kaplan & Sadock's Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry, Fourth Edition is an authoritative, affordable text that provides must-know information in clinical psychiatry. Containing the most relevant clinical material from the best-selling Kaplan and Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry, Eleventh Edition , it offers step-by-step guidance on the clinical examination, the...

When it was published in 2008, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness quickly became one of the most influential books in modern economics and politics. Within a short time, it had inspired whole government departments in the US and UK, and others as far afield as Singapore. One of the keys to Nudge’s success is Thaler and Sunstein’s...

A collection of essays dealing with the issue of normativity from various academic and scientific perspectives. The Reader will learn how phenomena such as norms, morality and rule-following are described and explained in philosophy, biology, psychology, linguistics and neuroscience. In addition, a discussion of the naturalistic fallacy from the philosophical and ethical perspectives will be...

We humans are social animals, naturally driven to form close-knit groups. All too often, though, these groups become partisan. They start to compete with one another. They become mutually hostile. Why does this happen? And what can be done to counter the tendency In Poles Apart, an expert on polarisation, a behavioural scientist and a professional communicator explain why we are so prone to be...

This book presents a unique collection of the most relevant perspectives in contemporary human rights education. Different intellectual, legal, political and philosophical traditions and views are brought together to explore some of the issues challenging standard justification. Widely accessible also to non experts, contributors aim at opening new perspective on the state of the art of...

The rhythm of life on Earth includes several strong themes contributed by Kingdom Fungi. So why are fungi ignored when theorists ponder the origin of life? Casting aside common theories that life originated in an oceanic primeval soup, in a deep, hot place, or even a warm little pond, this is a mycological perspective on the emergence of life on Earth. The author traces the crucial role played...

"What Vesalius was to Galen, what Copernicus was to Ptolemy, that was Lobachevski to Euclid." Lobachevski was the first to publish non-Euclidean geometry. An unabridged printing, to include all figures, from the translation by Halsted.