<p><div>Recent decades have witnessed the extraordinary growth of radical relativism, a doctrine which now dominates the entire culture, from popular music to journalism and from religion to school curricula. According to the radical relativist creed, any proposition can be true or false in relation to a chosen framework, the evaluation of fundamental theories or 'paradigms' is beyond argument, there are no universal standards of rationality, and, methodologically, 'Anything goes!'. As James Harris explains in Against Relativism, the new relativism undoes the work of the Enlightenment and inevitably leads to the conclusion that Galileo was wrong to insist that the Earth indeed moves. Succor for relativism has come from many philosophical schools, both Analytic and 'Continental'. Among the sources of the new relativism are the collapse of Logical Positivism and the shift within anthropology from a linear evolutionary model to numerous models for understanding human culture. In this detailed critique, Professor Harris has selected the strongest and most plausible arguments for relativism within contemporary academic philosophy. He turns the techniques of relativism against relativism itself, showing that it is ultimately self-refuting or otherwise ineffectual. He demonstrates that Quine's rejection of the analytic-synthetic distinction appeals to the very analytic truths Quine tries to dispel; that Kuhn's celebrated account of paradigms must be either self-refuting or unintelligible; that Rorty cannot avoid presuppposing the epistemological principles he attacks; and that (although feminist criticisms of science exert a welcome corrective) attempts to develop a distinctively 'feminist science'are misconceived and unhelpful to feminism. In all these discussions, the author explains the arguments he is criticizing, for the benefit of the non-specialist reader, so that this work can serve as a partisan but fair introduction to some of the most important of present-day philosophy.</div></p>

Eyewitness Testimony Strategies and Tactics/With Supplement (Trial Practice Series)

Carroll, William

Shepards/McGraw-Hill

William K. Carroll uses network analysis to explore the social organization of corporate business in Canada in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Arguing that the corporate elite constitutes the leading edge of a ruling class, he traces the three distinct terrains in which its membersoperate: the organizational field of old boys' networks and finance capital, the spatial field of overlapping regional, national, continental, and global contexts, and the hegemonic field in which business extends its reach into the global public sphere to shape visions and practices beyond thedomain of capital accumulation. In a globalizing world, how are these terrains being reconfigured? How do the changing forms of corporate power define and delimit the possibilities for a democratic way of life?Unique in its systematic examination of the Canadian corporate network in the global context, this comprehensive and up-to-date analysis sheds light on issues of concern to scholars and students in a broad range of disciplines: sociological, economic, and political.

Corporate Power in a Globalizing World: A Study in Elite Social Organization

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Oxford University Press

Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Columbia University Press

<p>In 1968, Suzuki Seijun―a low-budget genre filmmaker known for movies including Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter, and Youth of the Beast―was unceremoniously fired by Nikkatsu Studios. Soon to be known as the “Suzuki Seijun Incident,” his dismissal became a cause for leftist student protestors and a burgeoning group of cinephiles to rally around. His films rapidly emerged as central to debates over politics and aesthetics in Japanese cinema.\nWilliam Carroll offers a new account of Suzuki’s career that highlights the intersections of film theory, film production, cinephile culture, and politics in 1960s Japan. Carroll places Suzuki’s work between two factions that claimed him as one of their own after 1968: the New Left and its politicized theoretical practice on one hand, and the apparently apolitical cinephiles and their formalist criticism on the other. He considers how both of these strands of film theory shed light on the distinctive qualities of Suzuki’s films, and he explores how both Suzuki’s works and unheralded Japanese film theorists offer new ways of understanding world cinema.\nThis book presents both a major reinterpretation of Suzuki’s work―which influenced directors such as John Woo, Jim Jarmusch, and Quentin Tarantino―and a new lens on postwar Japanese film culture and industry. Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema also includes a complete production history of Suzuki’s filmography along with never-before-discussed information about his unfinished film projects.</p>

Locke had a profound influence on the 18th century and beyond. The early reception and interpretation of Locke is illustrated here in original texts, not only important in their own right but providing useful research material for studies on Locke.

John Locke Collection I (History of British Philosophy)

Lardner, Dionysius

Wynne, John

Marion, Henri

Webb, Thomas E.

Schärer, Emanuel

Foster, T.

Watts, Issac

Reference

Routledge

<p>Over the last six decades, there has been tremendous improvement in the survival rate for the majority of children affected by cancer in the United States and in Western Europe. Despite dramatic advances in the developed world, 85% of children diagnosed with cancer globally will not survive this disease. Cancer in Children and Adolescents is an accessible textbook that covers the complexities and interdisciplinary nature of cancer occurrences and provides the fundamentals of diagnosis and management of cancers that affect children and adolescents. Distinguished for its global focus, many chapters in Cancer in Children and Adolescents are co-authored by recognized specialists from around the world.</p>

Cancer In Children And Adolescents

Medical Books

Medicine

Jones& Bartlett Learning

Ford Cobra guide, (Modern sports car series)

Sports Car Press

Bill Carroll's automotive gas turbines (Bill Carroll's performance engineering handbooks, 102)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Auto Book Press

Bill Carroll's Driving for economy, safely (Bill Carroll's performance engineering handbooks, 109)

Automotive Troubleshooting: Glossary

Automotive

Auto Book Pr

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