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Thinking and reasoning are key activities for human beings. In this book a distinguished set of cont... more

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This book presents the results of research project financed by the Hague Institute for the Internati... more

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This volume contains a peer reviewed selection of the papers presented at the highly successful sixt... more

Exploring the visions of the end of the Cold War that have been put forth since its inception until ... more

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The first in-depth, comparative, and interdisciplinary study of indigenous Amazonian musical culture... more

This book constitutes the referred proceedings of the First International Conference on Certified Pr... more

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At the heart of this volume is the assertion that Sartrean existentialism, most prominent in the 194... more

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