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What do red and yellow autumn leaves signal?: Abstract Introduction Previous Hypotheses for the Signaling Function of Red and Yellow Autumn Leaves Autumn Leaves and the Nature of Signals We Propose That Autumn Leaves Signal That They Are About to Be Shed The Risk of Herbivore Attacks and the Strength of Defense Autumn Leaf Colors...; Tags: A., Brown, E., G., J., Nature, Oxford University Press, S., T.; Research articles 2007-10-01
Hegel, idealism and God: philosophy as the self-correcting appropriation of the norms of life and thought: Hegel can be said to have taken philosophical idealism to its most extreme point, the point of absolute idealism, and, from the perspective of much contemporary philosophy, this has been enough to damn him. (1) However, an adequate approach to what such a philosophical stance entails, as well as what...; Tags: Aristotle, Berkeley, Cambridge University Press, Critique, Durkheim, E., F., G., God, Hegel, J., Kant, Kantian, Leibniz, Nature, Newton, Nietzsche, Philosophy, Press, Robert, Space, Spirit, W.; Research articles 2007-07-01
Philosophical sleaze? The 'strok of thought' in the Miller's Tale and Chaucerian fabliau: Did Chaucer drop his philosophical interests in writing fabliaux? Critics often deny them serious implication, yet these tales share with Troilus and the Knight's Tale a core structuring concept expressing Boethian ideas on chance and providence. The Miller's Tale draws on the representation of flood in the Roman de la...; Tags: English, Green, John, M., Miller, Nature, Nicholas, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Philosophy, Poetry, Press; Research articles 2007-07-01
Works planners read: findings from a Canadian survey: Abstract This article reports on a survey of the readings that have most influenced the professional development of Canadian planning practitioners. Results indicate that influential writings originate from a wide diversity of sources, both inside and outside the discipline. We also detect a relationship between the age of respondents...; Tags: A., Berkeley, E., Ed, F., G., History, House, J., Journal, Ma, Nature, Oxford University Press, Power, Research, Robinson, T.; Research articles 2007-06-22
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: d'Aubigne, Agrippa. Les Tragiques. Champion Classiques Serie "Litteratures" 4. Ed. Jean-Raymond Fanlo. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2006. 1120 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. chron. bibl. [euro]25. ISBN: 2-7453-1475-0. Durning, Louise, ed. Queen Elizabeth's Book of Oxford. Trans. Sarah M. Knight. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2006. 128...; Tags: A., Cambridge University Press, Catherine, Chapel, Church, Court, David, De, E., Ed, Education, English, F., History, II, INTRODUCTION, J., John, La, Les, Maria, Medieval, Nature, Nicholas, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Politics, Rome, Science; Research articles 2007-06-22

Learning From Operating System Earth: The earth's biosphere -- the area that supports life -- has been in operation for 3.5 billion years, nourishing an incredible array of life forms. Do you think your business can learn a thing or two about sustainability from an operating system that has worked and evolved...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Software, Management, Leadership, E-mail Clients, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Business Ethics, Unruh, Operating System, Nature; Blog posts 2008-02-22
Recent titles in Philosophy: ABLONDI, FRED. Gerauld de Cordemy: Atomist, Occasionalist, Cartesian. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2005. 128 pp. Paper, $17.00. ADLER, JONATHON E. Beliefs Own Ethics. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. xv + 375 pp. Cloth, $40.00. ALLEN, BARRY. Knowledge and Civilization. Boulder: Westview Press, 2004. x + 342 pp. Cloth, $95.00;...; Tags: A., American, Aquinas, Books, Cambridge University Press, Court, Culture, Daniel, David, E., F., G., God, History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, Joseph, Life, Logic, M., Nature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philosophy, Politics, Routledge, Science, Social, Thomas, Vol, W., Whitehead, William; Research articles 2006-06-01
Recent titles in philosophy: ABBEY, RUTH, ed. Charles Taylor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 220 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. ABOULAFIA, MITCHELL, MYRA BOOKMAN, AND CATHERINE KEMP, eds. Habermas and Pragmatism. New York: Routledge, 2002. xi + 244 pp. Paper, $24.95. ABUMALHAM, MONTSERRAT, ed. Ley y religion. Madrid: Servicio...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, Court, David, E., F., God, Hegel, History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, Life, Nature, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philosophy, Science, Social, W.; Research articles 2005-06-01
Interdisciplinary expansion of conceptual foundations: insights from beyond our field: Some scholars have been importing constructs from various disciplines to inform theory and practice in the field of gifted education. For example, Borland, Schnur, and Wright (2000) borrowed from anthropology to reveal some obstacles to achievement faced by deprived minority children. Pelletier and Shore (2003) used research from the expert-novice...; Tags: A., C., Cohen, Cross, D., DEVELOPMENT, E., Ed, Electronic Data Systems Corp., G., H., J., Journal, L., M., Nature, NJ, Oxford University Press, P., Press, Princeton University, S., T., Technology, W.; Research articles 2005-03-22
17th century AD: ABSTRACT: Urban sprawl's negative impacts have been amply demonstrated, starting as long as 30 years ago, and most North American urban plans have, somewhere, reference to sprawl as bad policy (or, perhaps, absence of policy). Yet North Americans continue to tolerate the construction of more and more suburban subdivisions. This...; Tags: Alexander, American, Americans, Berkeley, Books, C., Cambridge University Press, Charles, D., David, Gilbert, History, Jacob, James, John, Leo, Life, Martin, Nature, NJ, Politics, Press, Routledge, Science, Simon, Social, Society, Thomas, Victorian; Research articles 2005-01-01
A challenge to conservationists: As corporate and government money flow into the three big international organizations that dominate the world's conservation agenda, their programs have been marked by growing conflicts of interest--and by a disturbing neglect of the indigenous peoples whose land they are in business to protect. ********** A WAKE-UP CALL...; Tags: Central, Conservation International, David, IUCN, Nature, TNC, Vol, Wildlife Conservation Society, World Wildlife Fund Inc.; Research articles 2004-11-01
The revival of human nature [not equal to] the denial of human nurture: toward a consilient science of human behavior: When dealing with biological systems, understanding structure is crucial to understanding function--a view that is completely antithetical to the ... black box approach to brain function. For example, consider how our understanding of the anatomy of the DNA molecule--its double-helical structure--completely transformed our understanding of heredity and genetics, which until...; Tags: A., Behavior, Books, Evolution, F., J., L., M., Mind, Nature, Oxford University Press, Press, S., Science; Research articles 2004-06-22
Recent titles in philosophy: ABBAGNANO, NICOLA. The Human Project: The Year 2000. Atlanta: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2001. xxv + 162 pp. Paper, $28.00. ABELA, PAUL. Kant's Empirical Realism. New York: Clarendon Press, 2002. x + 303 pp. Cloth, $55.00. ACHTNER, WOLFGANG, STEFAN KUNZ, AND THOMAS WALTER. Dimensions of Time: The Structures of...; Tags: Berkeley, Cambridge University Press, David, E., F., God, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, Nature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philosophy, Science, Thomas; Research articles 2004-06-01
Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition: Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition. By HUGH WHITE. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. ix + 278 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-818730-0.Hugh White demonstrates convincingly that the concept of Nature inherited from the classical period and developed throughout the Middle Ages was morally...; Tags: Gower, Nature, Oxford University Press, White; Research articles 2003-10-01
Harmony and beauty, disease and suffering: indeterminacy a necessary condition for free will: The order and harmony of the universe could be much more easily reconciled with the iniquity of nature incomprehensible natural calamities if we were to accept without thought that the universe is accidental and not something responding to a deliberate creative project. The exercise of free will, however, is possible...; Tags: C., J., Nature, Oxford University Press, Pp; Research articles 2003-09-22
Why shoot the gopher? Reading the politics of a prairie icon: How do you grow a prairie town? The gopher was the model. Stand up straight: telephone poles grain elevators church steeples. Vanish suddenly: the gopher was the model. --Robert Kroetsch, Seed Catalogue In...; Tags: American, American General, John, Mitchell, Nature, Nelson, Robert, Western; Research articles 2003-09-22
Doing philosophy historically: QUINE IS SAID TO HAVE JOKED THAT "there are two sorts of people interested in philosophy, those interested in philosophy and those interested in the history of philosophy." (1) Though many of us would bristle at Quine's joke, it makes a straightforward point: that there is a distinction to be...; Tags: Campbell, Descartes, Hegel, Heidegger, History, John, Nature, Philosophy, Plato, Randall, Richard, Truth; Research articles 2003-06-01
Books received: BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCE: Adams, Alison, Stephen Rawles, and Alison M. Saunders. A Bibliography of French Emblem Books. Vol. 2: L-Z. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2002. xxii + 760 pp. illus. bibi. n.p. ISBN: 2-600-00676-1. Ferriss, Suzanne, Shari Benstock, and Susanne Woods. A Handbook of Literary Feminisms. New...; Tags: A., Cambridge University Press, David, De, Ed, English, God, History, II, INTRODUCTION, J., John, Justice, King, La, Leo, Les, Letters, Nature, Nicholas, Nicolas, Oxford University Press, Paul, Politics, Power, Rome, Science, Susan; Research articles 2002-12-22
Hugh White, Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition: (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), ix + 278 pp. ISBN 0-19-818730-0. $65.00. Characterized by meticulous and undogmatic scholarship, Hugh White's book will be an indispensable guide to the contradictoriness of Nature in medieval literature. In fulfilling its aim to `demonstrate the complexity of the tradition of thought of which...; Tags: Nature, Oxford University Press; Research articles 2002-03-22
Recent Titles In Philosophy: ADAMS, DAVID M. Philosophical Problems in the Law. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2000. xiii + 650 pp. n.p. ADAMS, WILLIAM Y. The Philosophical Roots of Anthropology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiii + 466 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $19.95. ALESSI, ADRIANO. Sui sentieri del sacro: Introduzione alla...; Tags: A., Berkeley, Cambridge University Press, Court, D., David, De, E., F., G., God, H., Hegel, History, INTRODUCTION, J., Jacques, James, John, Justice, L., La, Lang, Logic, M., Martin, Nature, Oxford University Press, P., Paul, Philosophy, Politics, Press, Routledge, Science, Social, Thomas, Thought, William; Research articles 2000-06-01