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Free Download Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis, 2nd edition
by Julia Kristeva
English | 2025 | ISBN: 0231216777 | 344 Pages | PDF | 2.21 MB

Free Download Gillian Peele, John Francis, "David Cameron and Conservative renewal: The limits of modernisation?"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1784991538 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.9 mb
This book explores the process of rebuilding the Conservative Party under David Cameron’s leadership since 2005. It traces the different elements of the renewal strategy – ideological reconstruction policy reappraisal and enhanced electoral appeal – and identifies constraints from different sections of the Party, including the parliamentary party and the grassroots membership. It also explores the extent to which long-standing intra-party divisions exacerbated difficulties for the exercise of leadership.

Free Download Envisioning the Good Life: The Limits of Contemporary Vitalism
by Benjamin Noys
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1399539310 | 177 Pages | PDF | 2.7 MB

Free Download Kathleen M Dowley, "Suffrage and Its Limits: The New York Story"
English | ISBN: 1438479697 | 2020 | 177 pages | EPUB | 1281 KB
Suffrage and Its Limits offers a unique interdisciplinary overview of the legacy and limits of suffrage for the women of New York State. It commemorates the state suffrage centennial of 2017, yet arrives in time to contribute to celebrations around the national centennial of 2020. Bringing together scholars with a wide variety of research specialties, it initiates a timely dialogue that links an appreciation of accomplishments to a clearer understanding of present problems and an agenda for future progress. The first three chapters explore the state suffrage movement, the 1917 victory, and what New York women did with the vote. The next three chapters focus on the status of women and politics in New York today. The final three chapters take a prospective look at the limits of liberal feminism and its unfinished agenda for women’s equality in New York. A preface by Lieutenant Governor Katherine Hochul and a final chapter by activist Barbara Smith bookend the discussion. Combining diverse approaches and analyses, this collection enables readers to make connections between history, political science, public policy, sociology, philosophy, and activism. This study moves beyond merely celebrating the centennial to tackle women’s issues of today and tomorrow.

Free Download False Prophets of Economics Imperialism: The Limits of Mathematical Market Models
by Matthew Watson
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1788217667 | 288 Pages | True ePUB | 1.37 MB

Free Download Physics to Philosophy and Back: A Search for the Limits of Physics
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9811292698 | 157 Pages | PDF (True) | 55 MB
What do we really know about the world? Physics utilizes complex equations to avoid having to answer philosophical questions like this. Consider, for example, the fact that the motion of particles is described in terms of straight lines, while any line that we can actually draw is never perfectly straight. Working physicists adopt many of such presuppositions, rarely stopping to question the correspondence between physical equations and reality. This has resulted in the common misconception that there is a clear divide between Newton’s 17th century physics and that of Einstein’s on account of different mathematical descriptions. However, if equations do not always represent reality, what can they tell us about reality?This book focuses on some of the philosophical problems underlying all theories in physics, such as the nature of time (is time just ‘that which is measured by a clock’ or is it more than that?). It may seem as if these problems were more or less solved in the three-and-a-half centuries that have passed since Newton’s time. But the philosophical ‘open ends’ were the same for Einstein and remain the same to this day. Philosophy and physics are two sides of the same coin.Filled with personal anecdotes and amusing examples, this book provides the perfect introduction to the topic for readers with a non-scientific background. It also enables the reader to come to their own informed conclusion about the relation between physics and the reality in which we live.

Free Download Starbound: Interstellar Travel and the Limits of the Possible
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1009457594 | 255 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book is for anyone enthralled by the romantic dream of a voyage ‘to the stars.’ From our current viewpoint in the twenty-first century, crewed interstellar travel will be an exceptionally difficult undertaking. It will require building a spacecraft on a scale never before attempted, at vast cost, relying on unproven technologies. Yet somehow, through works of science fiction, TV and movies, the idea of human interstellar travel being easy or even inevitable has entered our popular consciousness. In this book, Ed Regis critically examines whether humankind is bound for distant stars, or if instead we are bound to our own star, for the indefinite future. How do we overcome the main challenge that even the nearest stars are unimaginably far away? He explores the proposed technologies and the many practical aspects of undertaking an interstellar journey, finishing with his reflections on whether such a journey should be planned for.

Free Download The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe
by Timothy Twining
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009460951 | 354 Pages | PDF | 1.67 MB

Free Download Limits of AI – theoretical, practical, ethical (Technik im Fokus) by Klaus Mainzer, Reinhard Kahle
English | April 1, 2024 | ISBN: 3662682893 | 170 pages | MOBI | 4.49 Mb
Artificial intelligence is a key technology with great expectations in science, industry, and everyday life. This book discusses both the perspectives and the limitations of this technology. This concerns the practical, theoretical, and conceptual challenges that AI has to face. In an early phase of symbolic AI, AI focused on formal programs (e.g., expert systems), in which rule-based knowledge was processed with the help of symbolic logic. Today, AI is dominated by statistics-based machine learning methods and Big Data. While this sub-symbolic AI is extremely successful (e.g., chatbots like ChatGPT), it is often not transparent. The book argues for explainable and reliable AI, in which the logical and mathematical foundations of AI-algorithms become understandable and verifiable.

Free Download Terry Nardin, "Rationality in Politics and its Limits"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138306347 | EPUB | pages: 168 | 0.4 mb
The word ‘rationality’ and its cognates, like ‘reason’, have multiple contexts and connotations. Rational calculation can be contrasted with rational interpretation. There is the rationality of proof and of persuasion, of tradition and of the criticism of tradition. Rationalism (and rationalists) can be reasonable or unreasonable. Reason is sometimes distinguished from revelation, superstition, convention, prejudice, emotion, and chance, but all of these also involve reasoning. In politics, three views of rationality – economic, moral, and historical – have been especially important, often defining approaches to politics and political theory such as utilitarianism and rational choice theory. These approaches privilege positive or natural law, responsibilities, or human rights, and emphasize the importance of culture and tradition, and therefore meaning and context.