Académique

Les couloirs de l'université prennent vie grâce à des ouvrages rédigés par des experts qui éclairent tout, des techniques pédagogiques aux méthodologies de recherche révolutionnaires. Ces œuvres réfléchies fournissent aux lecteurs des cadres puissants pour comprendre des sujets complexes, qu'il s'agisse d'explorer des découvertes scientifiques, d'analyser des mouvements sociaux ou de maîtriser l'art de l'enseignement et de l'écriture.

Académique Résumés de livres

Think

par Simon Blackburn • 1999

Your concepts are a house you never inspected. Philosophy walks you through the foundation.

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📚 Western Philosophy 📖 Introductory Philosophy 💭 Thought Experiments 🔍 Conceptual Analysis 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind

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Think

Your concepts are a house you never inspected. Philosophy walks you through the foundation.

par Simon Blackburn 1999 312 pages

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📚 Western Philosophy 📖 Introductory Philosophy 💭 Thought Experiments 🔍 Conceptual Analysis 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind

La tragédie de la politique des grandes puissances

par John J. Mearsheimer • 2001

Why great powers cannot stop seeking dominance: anarchy rewards aggression and punishes restraint.

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🏛️ International Relations ⚔️ Offensive Realism 🗺️ Geopolitics ⚖️ Balance Of Power 🎖️ Military Strategy

La tragédie de la politique des grandes puissances

Why great powers cannot stop seeking dominance: anarchy rewards aggression and punishes restraint.

par John J. Mearsheimer 2001 592 pages

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🏛️ International Relations ⚔️ Offensive Realism 🗺️ Geopolitics ⚖️ Balance Of Power 🎖️ Military Strategy

Simulacres et Simulation

par Jean Baudrillard • 1981

What's left of reality when the map no longer copies the territory but creates it?

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🏛️ French Theory 🔮 Postmodern Philosophy 🔣 Semiotics 📺 Media Criticism 🎭 Cultural Criticism

Simulacres et Simulation

What's left of reality when the map no longer copies the territory but creates it?

par Jean Baudrillard 1981 164 pages

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🏛️ French Theory 🔮 Postmodern Philosophy 🔣 Semiotics 📺 Media Criticism 🎭 Cultural Criticism

Sensemaking in Organizations

par Karl E. Weick • 1995

Organizations don't just respond to reality. They create it together, story by story.

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🏢 Organizational Behavior 🧱 Social Constructionism 🧠 Organizational Cognition 🌫️ Ambiguity Management 📖 Organizational Narrative

Sensemaking in Organizations

Organizations don't just respond to reality. They create it together, story by story.

par Karl E. Weick 1995 248 pages

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🏢 Organizational Behavior 🧱 Social Constructionism 🧠 Organizational Cognition 🌫️ Ambiguity Management 📖 Organizational Narrative

The Posthuman

par Rosi Braidotti • 2013

Humanism promised progress but delivered exclusion. A theory of what we become next.

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📚 Critical Theory 🤖 Posthumanism 🐾 Animal Studies 🌍 Anthropocene 🏛️ Biopolitics

The Posthuman

Humanism promised progress but delivered exclusion. A theory of what we become next.

par Rosi Braidotti 2013 180 pages

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📚 Critical Theory 🤖 Posthumanism 🐾 Animal Studies 🌍 Anthropocene 🏛️ Biopolitics

Méthodologie de recherche

par C.R. Kothari • 1985

The gap between a research question and a publishable finding, bridged step by step.

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🧪 Research Methodology 📊 Quantitative Methods 📐 Research Design 🔬 Hypothesis Testing 📈 Multivariate Analysis

Méthodologie de recherche

The gap between a research question and a publishable finding, bridged step by step.

par C.R. Kothari 1985 418 pages

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🧪 Research Methodology 📊 Quantitative Methods 📐 Research Design 🔬 Hypothesis Testing 📈 Multivariate Analysis

Indian Polity

par M. Laxmikanth • 2009

A master key to India's Constitution: every provision, doctrine, and principle, in a single volume.

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🇮🇳 Indian Constitution ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🛡️ Fundamental Rights 🏛️ Parliamentary System 🗺️ Federalism

Indian Polity

A master key to India's Constitution: every provision, doctrine, and principle, in a single volume.

par M. Laxmikanth 2009 1266 pages

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🇮🇳 Indian Constitution ⚖️ Constitutional Law 🛡️ Fundamental Rights 🏛️ Parliamentary System 🗺️ Federalism

Teaching with AI

par José Antonio Bowen • 2024

AI sets a new floor for competent work. Education must now teach what AI cannot do.

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🤖 Ai In Education 💻 Classroom Technology 🛡️ Academic Integrity 📋 Assignment Design ✍️ Writing Pedagogy

Teaching with AI

AI sets a new floor for competent work. Education must now teach what AI cannot do.

par José Antonio Bowen 2024 270 pages

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🤖 Ai In Education 💻 Classroom Technology 🛡️ Academic Integrity 📋 Assignment Design ✍️ Writing Pedagogy

La Construction sociale de la réalité

par Peter L. Berger • 1966

The world you take for granted is built: how everyday talk, habit, and institutions make reality.

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🧠 Sociology Of Knowledge 🏗️ Social Constructionism 🔍 Phenomenological Sociology 🏠 Everyday Life 🏛️ Institutional Analysis

La Construction sociale de la réalité

The world you take for granted is built: how everyday talk, habit, and institutions make reality.

par Peter L. Berger 1966 219 pages

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🧠 Sociology Of Knowledge 🏗️ Social Constructionism 🔍 Phenomenological Sociology 🏠 Everyday Life 🏛️ Institutional Analysis

Le langage des nouveaux médias

par Lev Manovich • 2001

Why a film is now a database, a screen is a control panel, and cinema became animation.

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🎓 New Media Theory 💻 Digital Culture 🖥️ Software Studies 🏺 Media Archaeology 🗃️ Database Aesthetics

Le langage des nouveaux médias

Why a film is now a database, a screen is a control panel, and cinema became animation.

par Lev Manovich 2001 354 pages

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🎓 New Media Theory 💻 Digital Culture 🖥️ Software Studies 🏺 Media Archaeology 🗃️ Database Aesthetics

Spheres of Justice

par Michael Walzer • 1983

Separate spheres: why a just society walls off money, power, and honor from each other.

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🏛️ Distributive Justice 🏘️ Communitarianism 💰 Critique Of Markets ⚖️ Equality Theory 🧳 Immigration Ethics

Spheres of Justice

Separate spheres: why a just society walls off money, power, and honor from each other.

par Michael Walzer 1983 364 pages

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🏛️ Distributive Justice 🏘️ Communitarianism 💰 Critique Of Markets ⚖️ Equality Theory 🧳 Immigration Ethics

Principes de l'économie

par N. Gregory Mankiw • 1997

One graph with two curves explains both a decade of growth and a sudden recession.

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🌐 Macroeconomics 📚 Economics Textbooks 📈 Business Cycles 💰 Monetary Policy 🏛️ Fiscal Policy

Principes de l'économie

One graph with two curves explains both a decade of growth and a sudden recession.

par N. Gregory Mankiw 1997 848 pages

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🌐 Macroeconomics 📚 Economics Textbooks 📈 Business Cycles 💰 Monetary Policy 🏛️ Fiscal Policy

The Sacred Canopy

par Peter L. Berger • 1967

How religion turns human conventions into cosmic truths, and why that project is collapsing.

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📖 Sociology Of Religion 🏛️ Religious Studies 🏗️ Social Construction Of Reality 🌍 Secularization Theory ⚖️ Religious Legitimation

The Sacred Canopy

How religion turns human conventions into cosmic truths, and why that project is collapsing.

par Peter L. Berger 1967 240 pages

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📖 Sociology Of Religion 🏛️ Religious Studies 🏗️ Social Construction Of Reality 🌍 Secularization Theory ⚖️ Religious Legitimation

Policy Paradox

par Deborah Stone • 1988

Policy runs on stories and symbols more than spreadsheets. The winner defines the problem.

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🏛️ Policy Analysis 🔲 Framing Effects 🏗️ Social Construction 🎭 Symbolic Politics 🗣️ Political Rhetoric

Policy Paradox

Policy runs on stories and symbols more than spreadsheets. The winner defines the problem.

par Deborah Stone 1988 428 pages

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🏛️ Policy Analysis 🔲 Framing Effects 🏗️ Social Construction 🎭 Symbolic Politics 🗣️ Political Rhetoric

The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939

par Edward Hallett Carr • 1939

When the peace of 1919 ignored power, power waited twenty years and answered.

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🏛️ International Relations ⚔️ Political Realism 📅 Interwar Period 💪 Power Politics 📜 Diplomatic History

The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939

When the peace of 1919 ignored power, power waited twenty years and answered.

par Edward Hallett Carr 1939 244 pages

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🏛️ International Relations ⚔️ Political Realism 📅 Interwar Period 💪 Power Politics 📜 Diplomatic History

Visual Methodologies

par Gillian Rose • 2001

Seven methods for interpreting images, one demand: know your own position and why it matters.

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🎨 Visual Culture 🔬 Visual Methods 🖼️ Art History 📚 Cultural Studies 🔍 Image Analysis

Visual Methodologies

Seven methods for interpreting images, one demand: know your own position and why it matters.

par Gillian Rose 2001 304 pages

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🎨 Visual Culture 🔬 Visual Methods 🖼️ Art History 📚 Cultural Studies 🔍 Image Analysis

The Craft of Research

par Wayne C. Booth • 1995

Finding a question worth fighting over, then building the case your reader cannot walk away from.

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📝 Academic Writing 🔬 Research Methods 🧩 Argumentation 💡 Critical Thinking ✍️ Writing Process

The Craft of Research

Finding a question worth fighting over, then building the case your reader cannot walk away from.

par Wayne C. Booth 1995 317 pages

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📝 Academic Writing 🔬 Research Methods 🧩 Argumentation 💡 Critical Thinking ✍️ Writing Process

History of Modern India

par Bipan Chandra • 2009

From Mughal collapse to British conquest: how a trading company remade a subcontinent.

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🏛️ Colonial India 🇬🇧 British Empire 💰 Economic Imperialism ✊ Anti-Colonialism 📜 Modern Indian History

History of Modern India

From Mughal collapse to British conquest: how a trading company remade a subcontinent.

par Bipan Chandra 2009 352 pages

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🏛️ Colonial India 🇬🇧 British Empire 💰 Economic Imperialism ✊ Anti-Colonialism 📜 Modern Indian History

Letters to a Law Student

par Nicholas J. McBride • 2006

Why rereading your notes wastes time, and the question-driven method that earns top marks.

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🏛️ Legal Education 📚 Law Students 🧠 Active Recall ✍️ Legal Writing 🔍 Critical Thinking

Letters to a Law Student

Why rereading your notes wastes time, and the question-driven method that earns top marks.

par Nicholas J. McBride 2006 277 pages

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🏛️ Legal Education 📚 Law Students 🧠 Active Recall ✍️ Legal Writing 🔍 Critical Thinking

Criminology

par Tim Newburn • 2007

Crime is whatever the powerful say it is. A textbook that rewrites the syllabus.

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📚 Criminological Theory ⚖️ Critical Criminology 💼 White Collar Crime 🛡️ Crime Prevention 🏙️ Environmental Criminology

Criminology

Crime is whatever the powerful say it is. A textbook that rewrites the syllabus.

par Tim Newburn 2007 1048 pages

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📚 Criminological Theory ⚖️ Critical Criminology 💼 White Collar Crime 🛡️ Crime Prevention 🏙️ Environmental Criminology

Questions d'éthique pratique

par Peter Singer • 1979

Suffering, equally weighed, rewrites what we owe the poor, the dying, and every creature that feels.

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🧭 Applied Ethics ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🐾 Animal Ethics 🌍 Global Poverty 🌿 Environmental Ethics

Questions d'éthique pratique

Suffering, equally weighed, rewrites what we owe the poor, the dying, and every creature that feels.

par Peter Singer 1979 356 pages

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🧭 Applied Ethics ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🐾 Animal Ethics 🌍 Global Poverty 🌿 Environmental Ethics

The Sociological Imagination

par C. Wright Mills • 1959

Private pain is a public problem in disguise—and most social science hides the connection.

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📚 Sociological Theory ✊ Critical Sociology 🎙️ Public Intellectualism 🏛️ Bureaucracy Critique 🛠️ Research As Craft

The Sociological Imagination

Private pain is a public problem in disguise—and most social science hides the connection.

par C. Wright Mills 1959 248 pages

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📚 Sociological Theory ✊ Critical Sociology 🎙️ Public Intellectualism 🏛️ Bureaucracy Critique 🛠️ Research As Craft

From Poor Law to Welfare State

par Walter I. Trattner • 1974

How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.

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🏛️ Social Welfare History 🇺🇸 American Social Policy ⚖️ Poverty And Morality 🏥 Institutional Care ⛪ Religious Charity

From Poor Law to Welfare State

How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.

par Walter I. Trattner 1974 464 pages

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🏛️ Social Welfare History 🇺🇸 American Social Policy ⚖️ Poverty And Morality 🏥 Institutional Care ⛪ Religious Charity

Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership

par Craig E. Johnson • 2001

Leadership brightens or darkens every life it touches. How to spot your own shadows.

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🧭 Ethical Leadership 🏢 Organizational Ethics 🧠 Moral Psychology 🌱 Character Development ⚖️ Ethical Decision Making

Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership

Leadership brightens or darkens every life it touches. How to spot your own shadows.

par Craig E. Johnson 2001 408 pages

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🧭 Ethical Leadership 🏢 Organizational Ethics 🧠 Moral Psychology 🌱 Character Development ⚖️ Ethical Decision Making

Speech Acts

par John Rogers Searle • 1969

Language doesn't just describe actions. It IS action, governed by rules that create the game.

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🗣️ Philosophy Of Language 💬 Speech Act Theory 🏛️ Ordinary Language Philosophy 📝 Pragmatics 🧠 Analytic Philosophy

Speech Acts

Language doesn't just describe actions. It IS action, governed by rules that create the game.

par John Rogers Searle 1969 203 pages

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🗣️ Philosophy Of Language 💬 Speech Act Theory 🏛️ Ordinary Language Philosophy 📝 Pragmatics 🧠 Analytic Philosophy

From Plassey to Partition

par Sekhar Bandyopadhyay • 2004

Imperial greed, local ambition, fractured nationalism: built modern India, broke it at Partition.

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🇮🇳 Modern Indian History 🇬🇧 British Empire 💰 Colonial Economies ✊ Nationalist Movements 💔 Partition Of India

From Plassey to Partition

Imperial greed, local ambition, fractured nationalism: built modern India, broke it at Partition.

par Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 523 pages

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🇮🇳 Modern Indian History 🇬🇧 British Empire 💰 Colonial Economies ✊ Nationalist Movements 💔 Partition Of India

Pioneering Portfolio Management

par David F. Swensen • 2000

Why endowments win: they own real assets, trade rarely, and treat Wall Street like a hazard.

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🏦 Institutional Investing 📊 Asset Allocation 🔄 Alternative Assets 🌐 Diversification Strategies 🎓 Endowment Model

Pioneering Portfolio Management

Why endowments win: they own real assets, trade rarely, and treat Wall Street like a hazard.

par David F. Swensen 2000 408 pages

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🏦 Institutional Investing 📊 Asset Allocation 🔄 Alternative Assets 🌐 Diversification Strategies 🎓 Endowment Model

Fondements de la métaphysique des mœurs

par Immanuel Kant • 1998

Morality comes not from outcomes or emotions but from a test any rational being can apply.

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🏛️ Moral Philosophy 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⚖️ Deontological Ethics 🧠 Practical Reason 🤝 Respect For Persons

Fondements de la métaphysique des mœurs

Morality comes not from outcomes or emotions but from a test any rational being can apply.

par Immanuel Kant 1998 120 pages

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🏛️ Moral Philosophy 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⚖️ Deontological Ethics 🧠 Practical Reason 🤝 Respect For Persons

What Is This Thing Called Science?

par Alan F. Chalmers • 1976

From Popper's falsification to Kuhn's revolutions: why no single method can define science.

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🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🔍 Scientific Method 🤔 Epistemology 🔄 Paradigm Shifts 🔎 Falsification

What Is This Thing Called Science?

From Popper's falsification to Kuhn's revolutions: why no single method can define science.

par Alan F. Chalmers 1976 266 pages

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🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🔍 Scientific Method 🤔 Epistemology 🔄 Paradigm Shifts 🔎 Falsification

The Globalization Paradox

par Dani Rodrik • 2010

The case for why global markets must sometimes give way to the voting booth.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📋 Trade Policy 🌍 Development Economics 💥 Financial Crises ⚖️ Economic Governance

The Globalization Paradox

The case for why global markets must sometimes give way to the voting booth.

par Dani Rodrik 2010 368 pages

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🏛️ Political Economy 📋 Trade Policy 🌍 Development Economics 💥 Financial Crises ⚖️ Economic Governance

Ethics and Infinity

par Emmanuel Levinas • 1985

You are responsible before you are a self. The other's face upends philosophy.

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🌍 Continental Philosophy 🔍 Phenomenology 👤 Alterity 🤝 Interpersonal Ethics 🚫 Anti-Ontology

Ethics and Infinity

You are responsible before you are a self. The other's face upends philosophy.

par Emmanuel Levinas 1985 126 pages

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🌍 Continental Philosophy 🔍 Phenomenology 👤 Alterity 🤝 Interpersonal Ethics 🚫 Anti-Ontology

Play to Learn

par Sharon Boller • 2017

The step-by-step playbook for designing learning games that slash training time and boost retention.

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Play to Learn

The step-by-step playbook for designing learning games that slash training time and boost retention.

par Sharon Boller 2017 168 pages

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🎮 Game Design 🛠️ Instructional Design 🎲 Game-Based Learning 🎯 Serious Games 🏢 Corporate Training

Understanding Analysis

par Stephen Abbott • 2000

Prove what calculus only computes: from the hole-free reals to the oddities of infinite sets.

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📐 Real Analysis 📘 Calculus Foundations 🧱 Transition To Proofs ➿ Sequences And Series 📏 Metric Spaces

Understanding Analysis

Prove what calculus only computes: from the hole-free reals to the oddities of infinite sets.

par Stephen Abbott 2000 272 pages

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📐 Real Analysis 📘 Calculus Foundations 🧱 Transition To Proofs ➿ Sequences And Series 📏 Metric Spaces

The Fundamentals of Ethics

par Russ Shafer-Landau • 2009

Three questions, twelve theories. Every one of them falters on the hard cases.

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⚖️ Ethical Theories 📏 Normative Ethics 🔍 Metaethics 💭 Value Theory 📊 Consequentialism

The Fundamentals of Ethics

Three questions, twelve theories. Every one of them falters on the hard cases.

par Russ Shafer-Landau 2009 322 pages

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⚖️ Ethical Theories 📏 Normative Ethics 🔍 Metaethics 💭 Value Theory 📊 Consequentialism

Small Teaching

par James M. Lang • 2016

A two-minute quiz beats an hour of re-reading: brief, research-backed teaching moves.

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🎓 College Teaching 🧠 Science Of Learning 📋 Evidence-Based Teaching 👩‍🏫 Faculty Development ✋ Active Learning

Small Teaching

A two-minute quiz beats an hour of re-reading: brief, research-backed teaching moves.

par James M. Lang 2016 272 pages

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🎓 College Teaching 🧠 Science Of Learning 📋 Evidence-Based Teaching 👩‍🏫 Faculty Development ✋ Active Learning

Documentary Storytelling

par Sheila Curran Bernard • 2010

From research to final cut: the craft rules for making nonfiction films that grip like fiction.

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🎬 Documentary Filmmaking 📐 Narrative Structure 👁️ Visual Storytelling ✍️ Creative Nonfiction 🎥 Film Production

Documentary Storytelling

From research to final cut: the craft rules for making nonfiction films that grip like fiction.

par Sheila Curran Bernard 2010 352 pages

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Living a Feminist Life

par Sara Ahmed • 2017

Feminism starts with a bodily sensation of wrongness. Living it means refusing to keep the peace.

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Living a Feminist Life

Feminism starts with a bodily sensation of wrongness. Living it means refusing to keep the peace.

par Sara Ahmed 2017 312 pages

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📖 Feminist Theory 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Feminism 🏛️ University Politics ✋ Political Refusal 🏠 Everyday Resistance

Hard Romance

par Eva Illouz • 2013

A sociologist explains why Fifty Shades conquered the world: BDSM solves what modern romance cannot.

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📚 Sociology Of Literature 🎭 Cultural Criticism ⚡ Sexual Politics 💕 Modern Courtship 🛠️ Self-Help Culture

Hard Romance

A sociologist explains why Fifty Shades conquered the world: BDSM solves what modern romance cannot.

par Eva Illouz 2013 96 pages

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📚 Sociology Of Literature 🎭 Cultural Criticism ⚡ Sexual Politics 💕 Modern Courtship 🛠️ Self-Help Culture

e-Learning by Design

par William Horton • 2006

Stop building courses that just present slides. The activity-first system for e-learning that works.

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🎯 Instructional Design 🏢 Workplace Learning 💻 Online Learning 🏋️ Learning Activities 📝 Assessment Design

e-Learning by Design

Stop building courses that just present slides. The activity-first system for e-learning that works.

par William Horton 2006 640 pages

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🎯 Instructional Design 🏢 Workplace Learning 💻 Online Learning 🏋️ Learning Activities 📝 Assessment Design

I Am Gifted, So Are You!

par Adam Khoo • 1998

Ace exams without burnout: the visual memory and speed-reading system that rewires how you learn.

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📚 Study Skills ⚡ Accelerated Learning 📖 Speed Reading 🗺️ Mind Mapping 🧠 Memory Techniques

I Am Gifted, So Are You!

Ace exams without burnout: the visual memory and speed-reading system that rewires how you learn.

par Adam Khoo 1998

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📚 Study Skills ⚡ Accelerated Learning 📖 Speed Reading 🗺️ Mind Mapping 🧠 Memory Techniques

Mama Lola

par Karen McCarthy Brown • 2001

A religion of survival, not sorcery: the life of a Haitian Vodou priestess in Brooklyn.

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🥁 Haitian Vodou 🧳 Immigrant Religion 🌍 African Diaspora Religions 👻 Spirit Possession 👩🏿‍🦱 Women's Spirituality

Mama Lola

A religion of survival, not sorcery: the life of a Haitian Vodou priestess in Brooklyn.

par Karen McCarthy Brown 2001 440 pages

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🥁 Haitian Vodou 🧳 Immigrant Religion 🌍 African Diaspora Religions 👻 Spirit Possession 👩🏿‍🦱 Women's Spirituality

Multicultural Citizenship

par Will Kymlicka • 1995

Collective rights for minorities are not a betrayal of liberalism; they are its logical extension.

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🏛️ Liberal Political Theory ⚖️ Minority Rights 🌍 Cultural Diversity 👥 Collective Rights 🏴 National Minorities

Multicultural Citizenship

Collective rights for minorities are not a betrayal of liberalism; they are its logical extension.

par Will Kymlicka 1995 290 pages

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🏛️ Liberal Political Theory ⚖️ Minority Rights 🌍 Cultural Diversity 👥 Collective Rights 🏴 National Minorities

Experience and Education

par John Dewey • 1938

Two principles separate experiences that grow a mind from those that just fill time.

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🏫 Progressive Education 🔍 Experiential Learning ❓ Inquiry-Based Learning 🗳️ Democratic Classrooms 📚 Educational Philosophy

Experience and Education

Two principles separate experiences that grow a mind from those that just fill time.

par John Dewey 1938 96 pages

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How to Write a Lot

par Paul J. Silvia • 2007

Schedule four hours. Track every word. Ignore the mood. The academic writing fix that ships papers.

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📚 Scholarly Publishing 🏫 Faculty Productivity ✍️ Writing Habits ⏰ Procrastination 💰 Grant Writing

How to Write a Lot

Schedule four hours. Track every word. Ignore the mood. The academic writing fix that ships papers.

par Paul J. Silvia 2007 145 pages

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Mapping Experiences

par James Kalbach • 2015

One diagram that puts customer actions and business processes on one page: the gaps become obvious.

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🗺️ Experience Mapping 🛠️ Service Design 💼 Jobs To Be Done 🧠 Mental Models 💡 Design Thinking

Mapping Experiences

One diagram that puts customer actions and business processes on one page: the gaps become obvious.

par James Kalbach 2015 379 pages

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🗺️ Experience Mapping 🛠️ Service Design 💼 Jobs To Be Done 🧠 Mental Models 💡 Design Thinking

Études de cas et développement théorique dans les sciences sociales

par Alexander L. George • 2005

A single case, properly analyzed, reveals what regressions miss: the causal mechanism.

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Études de cas et développement théorique dans les sciences sociales

A single case, properly analyzed, reveals what regressions miss: the causal mechanism.

par Alexander L. George 2005 331 pages

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🔍 Qualitative Research 📋 Case Study Design ⛓️ Causal Mechanisms 🏗️ Theory Building 🔗 Mixed Methods

Concise Inorganic Chemistry

par J.D. Lee • 1965

The electron runs the periodic table. Its few rules are the key to all 118 elements.

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414

🧪 Inorganic Chemistry 🔬 Chemical Bonding 📊 Periodic Table ⚗️ Coordination Chemistry ⛏️ Metallurgy

Concise Inorganic Chemistry

The electron runs the periodic table. Its few rules are the key to all 118 elements.

par J.D. Lee 1965 1032 pages

4.08

414 évaluations

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Les fondements de la philosophie des sciences

par Samir Okasha • 2002

Atoms are invisible. Theories change every half-century. Why trust science? A compact guide.

3.93

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Les fondements de la philosophie des sciences

Atoms are invisible. Theories change every half-century. Why trust science? A compact guide.

par Samir Okasha 2002 144 pages

3.93

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Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks

par Wendy Laura Belcher • 2008

Short daily sessions beat weekend binges: twelve weeks to turn your draft into a published article.

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Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks

Short daily sessions beat weekend binges: twelve weeks to turn your draft into a published article.

par Wendy Laura Belcher 2008 376 pages

4.12

500+ évaluations

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Argonauts of the Western Pacific; An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea.

par Bronisław Malinowski • 1922

A Pacific ceremonial shell ring reveals an economy driven by honor, not self-interest.

3.76

1 000+

🏦 Economic Anthropology 🎁 Gift Economies 📝 Ethnographic Fieldwork 👁️ Participant Observation 🔄 Ceremonial Exchange

Argonauts of the Western Pacific; An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea.

A Pacific ceremonial shell ring reveals an economy driven by honor, not self-interest.

par Bronisław Malinowski 1922 614 pages

3.76

1 000+ évaluations

🏦 Economic Anthropology 🎁 Gift Economies 📝 Ethnographic Fieldwork 👁️ Participant Observation 🔄 Ceremonial Exchange

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