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  • Hands Are Not for Hitting

    by Martine Agassi ...
    Children learn that violence is never okay, that they can manage their anger and other strong feelings, and that they’re capable of positive, loving actions—like playing, making music, learning, counting, helping, taking care, and much more. Includes a special section for adults with activities and discussion starters. ... Read more

    $16.07 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science and Culture

    by J. Agassi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In Science and Culture, Joseph Agassi addresses scientism and relativism, two false philosophies that divorce science from culture in general and from tradition in particular. According to Agassi, science is an integral part of culture, and both scientism and relativism ignore the cultural value of science. This work helps break the isolation of science from the rest of culture by promoting ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Science in Flux

    by J. Agassi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)

    $267.69 CAD

  • Towards a Rational Philosophical Anthropology

    by J. Agassi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The thesis of the present volume is critical and dual. (1) Present day philosophy of man and sciences of man suffer from the Greek mis taken polarization of everything human into nature and convention which is (allegedly) good and evil, which is (allegedly) truth and fal sity, which is (allegedly) rationality and irrationality, to wit, the polar ization of all fields of inquiry, the natural and ... Read more

    $267.69 CAD

  • Open

    by Andre Agassi ...
    **#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life. • "Agassi’s memoir is just as entrancing as his tennis game.” —Time“Honest in a way that such books seldom are.” —The New York Times**Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Games to Play and Games not to Play

    Strategic Decisions via Extensions of Game Theory

    by Uri Weiss, Joseph Agassi ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book contributes to the theoretical discussions of equilibria that rest on error―in which we include mistaken choices of games to play. Extant game theory recommends diverse strategies (plans of actions) for various given games, particularly those in Nash equilibria, in which no player benefits from one-sided strategy alteration. The literature also refers to the design of games that fit ... Read more

    $217.79 CAD

  • Hypotheses and Perspectives in the History and Philosophy of Science

    Homage to Alexandre Koyré 1892-1964

    Edited by Joseph Agassi, Raffaele Pisano, Daria Drozdova ...
    Series series History (R0)
    To commemorate the 50th anniversary of his passing (in 2014), this special book features studies on Alexandre Koyré (1892–1964), one of the most influential historians of science of the 20th century, who re-evaluated prevalent thinking on the history and philosophy of science. In particular, it explores Koyré’s intellectual matrix and heritage within interdisciplinary fields of historical, ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Paranoia: A Study in Diagnosis

    by A. Fried, J. Agassi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    There is a curious parallel between the philosophy of science and psychiatric theory. The so-called demarcation question, which has exercised philosophers of science over the last decades, posed the problem of distinguishing science proper from non-science - in par ticular, from metaphysics, from pseudo-science, from the non rational or irrational, or from the untestable or the empirically ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Psychiatry as Medicine

    Contemporary Psychotherapies

    by A. Fried, J. Agassi ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    PREFACE This volume is a sequel to yet independent of our Paranoia: A Study in Diagnosis, Reidel, Dordrecht and Boston, 1976. Whereas our first book centered on diagnosis, this centers on treatment. In our first volume, all discussions of nosology (theory of illness) and of treatment was ancillary to our discussion of diagnosis; similarly all discussion of this volume dealing with nosology - there ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Diagnosis: Philosophical and Medical Perspectives

    by N. Laor, J. Agassi ...
    Series Book 15 - Episteme
    GENERAL The term "diagnostics" refers to the general theory of diagnosis, not to the study of specific diagnoses but to their general framework. It borrows from different sciences and from different philosophies. Traditionally, the general framework of diagnostics was not distinguished from the framework of medicine. It was not taught in special courses in any systematic way; it was not accorded ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbrück

    Who Were They?

    by Dr. Judith Buber Agassi ...
    Series series Modern Jewish History
    Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Between 1939 and 1945, it was the site of murder by slave labor, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal injection, medical experimentation, and gassing. In its six-year history, 132,000 women from twenty-seven countries were imprisoned in Ravensbrück. Only about 15,000 in all survived. Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbrück reclaims ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations

    An Attempt at a Critical Rationalist Appraisal

    by Joseph Agassi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book collects 13 papers that explore Wittgenstein's philosophy throughout the different stages of his career. The author writes from the viewpoint of critical rationalism. The tone of his analysis is friendly and appreciative yet critical.Of these papers, seven are on the background to the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Five papers examine different aspects of it: one on the philosophy of young ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD