Theories of Geographic Concepts: Ontological Approaches to Semantic Integration By Marinos Kavouras, Margarita Kokla
2007 | 340 Pages | ISBN: 0849330890 | PDF | 7 MB
Most widely available approaches to semantic integration provide ad-hoc, non-systematic, subjective manual mappings that lead to procrustean amalgamations to fit the target standard, an outcome that pleases no one. Written by experts in the field, Theories of Geographic Concepts: Ontological Approaches to Semantic Integration emphasizes the real issues involved in integrating existing geo-ontologies. The book addresses theoretical, formal, and pragmatic issues of geographic knowledge representation and integration based on an ontological approach. The authors highlight the importance of philosophical, cognitive, and formal theories in preserving the semantics of geographic concepts during ontology development and integration. They elucidate major theoretical issues, then introduce a number of formal tools. The book delineates a general framework with the necessary processes and guidelines to ontology integration and applies it to a selection of ontology integration cases. It concludes with a retrospection of key issues and identifies open research questions. Copiously illustrated, the book contains more than 80 illustrations and several examples to various approaches that provide a better understanding of the complexity of ontology integration tasks. The authors provide guidance on selecting the most appropriate approach and details on its application to indicative integration problems.

The State at War in South Asia By Pradeep P. Barua
2005 | 459 Pages | ISBN: 0803213441 | PDF | 3 MB
Much research has been done on Western warfare and state building but very little on the military effectiveness of states, until now. Using South Asia as a case study, The State at War in South Asia examines how the state, from prehistory to modern times, has managed to wage war. The State at War in South Asia is the first book to cover such a vast period of South Asian military history-more than three thousand years. In doing so, Pradeep P. Barua explores the state's military effectiveness and moves beyond the western and nonwestern dichotomy characterized by most military analysis to date. He leads the reader through a selective study of significant battles, campaigns, and wars fought on the subcontinent. Barua combines this overview with an analysis of the state-building process, showing how the South Asian state has conducted war under its many political guises from the prehistoric and ancient periods to the modern era, with its threat of nuclear war. He challenges the historiographic idea that the Western way of war is superior, while examining in detail those battles, such as the Maratha-Afghan battle of 1763, that offer the most insight into the introduction of new tactics, organization, and technology. This meticulous study offers a panoramic view of the evolution of the South Asian state's military system and its contribution to the effectiveness of the state itself. Pradeep P. Barua is an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He is the author of Gentlemen of the Raj: The Indian Army Officer Corps, 1817-1949.

The Problem of Evil in Early Modern Philosophy By Elmar J. Kremer, Michael J. Latzer
2001 | 188 Pages | ISBN: 0802035523 | PDF | 11 MB
Many distinct, controvertial issues are to be found within the labyrinthine twists and turns of the problem of evil. For philosophers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centures, evil presented a challenge to the consistency and rationality of the world-picture disclosed by the new way of ideas. In dealing with this challenge, however, philosophers were also concerned with their positions in the theological debates about original sin, free will, and justification that were the legacy of the Protestant Reformation to European intellectual life. Emerging from a conference on the problem of evil in the early modern period held at the University of Toronto in 1999, the papers in this collection represent some of the best original work being done today on the theodicies of such early modern philosophers as Leibniz, Suarez, Spinoza, Malebranche, and Pierre Bayle.

John Tracy Thames, "The Politics of Ritual Change The zukru Festival in the Political History of Late Bronze Age Emar "
English | ISBN: 9004429107 | 2020 | 362 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In The Politics of Ritual Change, John Thames explores the intersection of ritual and politics in the zukru festival texts from Emar and suggests a new understanding of the Hittite Empires relationship to northern Syria in the 13th century BCE.

Michael Della Rocca, "The Parmenidean Ascent"
English | ISBN: 0197510949 | 2020 | 346 pages | PDF | 3 MB
For the Parmenidean monist, there are no distinctions whatsoever-indeed, distinctions are unintelligible. In The Parmenidean Ascent, Michael Della Rocca aims to revive this controversial approach on rationalist grounds. He not only defends the attribution of such an extreme monism to the pre-Socratic philosopher Parmenides, but also embraces this extreme monism in its own right and expands these monistic results to many of the most crucial areas of philosophy, including being, action, knowledge, meaning, truth, and metaphysical explanation. On Della Rocca's account, there is no differentiated being, no differentiated action, knowledge, or meaning; rather all is being, just as all is action, all is knowledge, all is meaning.

The Organizing Principle: There are No Coincidences by Bert Janssen
English | November 22, 2019 | ISBN: 1734217146 | 270 pages | MOBI | 22 Mb
'the Organizing Principle - There are No Coincidences', describes a principle that determines everything that is happening to us and around us, and the language it uses for this. Since this Organizing Principle is not held by cause and effect, nor limited by time and space, its operation is often perceived as curious coincidences, synchronicities and even as pure miracles.

S. Alexander Haslam, "The New Psychology of Leadership: Identity, Influence and Power"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1841696099 | 296 pages | PDF | 8,2 MB
According to John Adair, the most important word in the leader's vocabulary is "we" and the least important word is "I". But if this is true, it raises one important question: Why do psychological analyses of leadership always focus on the leader as an individual - as the great "I"?

The Modern Rain Garden: Scrape, Shape, and Plant
By Michael Albanese
English | 2020 | ASIN: B08NTTC37K | 61 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 13 MB

Mohammed Ayoob, "The Many Faces of Political Islam, Second Edition: Religion and Politics in Muslim Societies Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 047203765X | 2020 | 258 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Analysts and pundits from across the American political spectrum describe Islamic fundamentalism as one of the greatest threats to modern, Western-style democracy. Yet very few non-Muslims would be able to venture an accurate definition of political Islam. Fully revised and updated, The Many Faces of Political Islam thoroughly analyzes the many facets of this political ideology and shows its impact on global relations.

The Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity (Class 200: New Studies in Religion) by Maia Kotrosits
English | October 5, 2020 | ISBN: 022670744X, 022670758X | PDF | 232 pages | 1.5 MB
Our lives are filled with objects-ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they can feel alien, take on a different use, or become trash. The lives of objects change when our relationships to them change.