A Common Cause

Author : Robert G. Parkinson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469626925

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When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications leaders linked British tyranny to colonial prejudices, stereotypes, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Indians. Manipulating newspaper networks, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow agitators broadcast stories of British agents inciting African Americans and Indians to take up arms against the American rebellion. Using rhetoric like "domestic insurrectionists" and "merciless savages," the founding fathers rallied the people around a common enemy and made racial prejudice a cornerstone of the new Republic. In a fresh reading of the founding moment, Parkinson demonstrates the dual projection of the "common cause." Patriots through both an ideological appeal to popular rights and a wartime movement against a host of British-recruited slaves and Indians forged a racialized, exclusionary model of American citizenship.

Author : Gábor Hofer-Szabó,Miklós Rédei,László E. Szabó
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107067363

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The Principle of the Common Cause by Gábor Hofer-Szabó,Miklós Rédei,László E. Szabó Pdf

The common cause principle says that every correlation is either due to a direct causal effect linking the correlated entities or is brought about by a third factor, a so-called common cause. The principle is of central importance in the philosophy of science, especially in causal explanation, causal modeling and in the foundations of quantum physics. Written for philosophers of science, physicists and statisticians, this book contributes to the debate over the validity of the common cause principle, by proving results that bring to the surface the nature of explanation by common causes. It provides a technical and mathematically rigorous examination of the notion of common cause, providing an analysis not only in terms of classical probability measure spaces, which is typical in the available literature, but in quantum probability theory as well. The authors provide numerous open problems to further the debate and encourage future research in this field.

Author : Gábor Hofer-Szabó,Miklós Rédei,László E. Szabó
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107019355

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The Principle of the Common Cause by Gábor Hofer-Szabó,Miklós Rédei,László E. Szabó Pdf

A conceptually and mathematically rigorous analysis of the common cause principle and its status in quantum theory.

Author : Aniello Amendola
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401706292

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Advanced Seminar on Common Cause Failure Analysis in Probabilistic Safety Assessment by Aniello Amendola Pdf

Proceedings of the Ispra Course held at the Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, November 16-19, 1987

Author : Susan S. Kissel
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879726172

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In Common Cause by Susan S. Kissel Pdf

It considers the many contributions of both women to the most significant political movements of their times: anti-slavery; women's rights; and industrial reform. It also traces their defining influence on the ideas and writings of Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and the American suffragists.

Author : Kimberly Anderson
Publisher : IAP
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607529965

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War or Common Cause? by Kimberly Anderson Pdf

This book on bilingual education policy represents a multidimensional and longitudinal study of “policy processes” as they play out on the ground (a single school in Los Angeles), and over time (both within the same school, and also within the state of Georgia). In order to reconstruct this complex policy process, Anderson impressively marshals a great variety of forms of “discourse.” Most of this discourse, of course, comes from overheard discussions and spontaneous interviews conducted at a particular school—the voices of teachers and administrators. Such discourse forms the heart of her ethnographic findings. Yet Anderson also brings an ethnographer’s eye to national and regional debates as they are conducted and represented in different forms of media, especially newspapers and magazines. She then uses the key theoretical concept of “articulation” to conceptually link these media representations with local school discourse. The result is an illuminating account of how everyday debates at a particular school and media debates occurring more broadly mutually inform one another.

Author : Leela Gandhi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226020075

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The Common Cause by Leela Gandhi Pdf

Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in The Common Cause, Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning. Gandhi identifies a shared culture of perfectionism across imperialism, fascism, and liberalism—an ethic that excluded the ordinary and unexceptional. But, she also illuminates an ethic of moral imperfectionism, a set of anticolonial, antifascist practices devoted to ordinariness and abnegation that ranged from doomed mutinies in the Indian military to Mahatma Gandhi’s spiritual discipline. Reframing the way we think about some of the most consequential political events of the era, Gandhi presents moral imperfectionism as the lost tradition of global democratic thought and offers it to us as a key to democracy’s future. In doing so, she defends democracy as a shared art of living on the other side of perfection and mounts a postcolonial appeal for an ethics of becoming common.

Author : Karen V. Beaman
Publisher : Rector-Duncan
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Personnel management
ISBN : 9780978939700

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Common Cause: Shared Services for Human Resources by Karen V. Beaman Pdf

Collection of essays explore shared services in the human resources environment.

Author : V. Vourkoutiotis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230596603

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Making Common Cause by V. Vourkoutiotis Pdf

Using German and previously closed or underutilized Soviet archives, this work brings to date the historiography of one of the most important aspects of twentieth-century international relations: the steps by which Germany and Soviet Russia would find common ground and establish a relationship whose impact would be felt throughout World War II.

Author : Samuel Hopkins Adams
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1981570721

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Common Cause

Author : Tim Holmes
Publisher : Anchor Books
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social action
ISBN : 0950364878

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The Common Cause Handbook by Tim Holmes Pdf

Author : Thomas R. Zentall,Edward A. Wasserman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199930661

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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition by Thomas R. Zentall,Edward A. Wasserman Pdf

In the past decade, the field of comparative cognition has grown and thrived. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, examinations of animal intelligence are useful for scientists and psychologists alike in their quest to understand the nature and mechanisms of intelligence. Extensive field research of various species has yielded exciting new areas of research, integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a unique and wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research on animal cognition. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition contains sections on perception and illusion, attention and search, memory processes, spatial cognition, conceptualization and categorization, problem solving and behavioral flexibility, and social cognition processes including findings in primate tool usage, pattern learning, and counting. The authors have incorporated findings and theoretical approaches that reflect the current state of the field. This comprehensive volume will be a must-read for students and scientists who want to know about the state of the art of the modern science of comparative cognition.

Author : Jeffrey Bub
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198718536

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Bananaworld by Jeffrey Bub Pdf

What on earth do bananas have to do with quantum mechanics? From a modern perspective, quantum mechanics is about strangely counterintuitive correlations between separated systems, which can be exploited in feats like quantum teleportation, unbreakable cryptographic schemes, and computers with enormously enhanced computing power. Schro'dinger coined the term "entanglement" to describe these bizarre correlations. Bananaworld -- an imaginary island with "entangled" bananas -- brings to life the fascinating discoveries of the new field of quantum information without the mathematical machinery of quantum mechanics. The connection with quantum correlations is fully explained in sections written for the non-physicist reader with a serious interest in understanding the mysteries of the quantum world. The result is a subversive but entertaining book that is accessible and interesting to a wide range of readers, with the novel thesis that quantum mechanics is about the structure of information. What we have discovered is that the possibilities for representing, manipulating, and communicating information are very different than we thought.

Author : Norman. B. Fuqua
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000103359

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Reliability Engineering for Electronic Design by Norman. B. Fuqua Pdf

This book addresses the needs of electronic design engineers, reliability engineers, and their respective managers, stressing a pragmatic viewpoint rather than a vigorous mathematical presentation.

Author : Kate Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912280205

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Common Cause by Kate Hunter Pdf