Meaning and Language: Phenomenological Perspectives (Phaenomenologica)

This book is the first anthology to provide a wide-ranging picture of how phenomenology relates to language. It contains both in-depth studies on new aspects of language in Husserl’s thought as well as original phenomenological research that explores the respective potentials and limits of linguistic expression and conceptualization.

 

Perception and the Physical World: Psychological and Philosophical Issues in Perception

How can we conceive of the relation between the available sensory input and our perceptual achievement? 
Does our perceptual system exploit the sensory input in terms of innately determined knowledge of properties of the physical world? 
How can we use Bayesian principles to provide key insights into the scope and limits of perception?  

Comprehensive Psychiatry Review 2009

Dr. William Weiqi Wang has developed a concise, outline-oriented format supplemented with case studies to prepare residents for the oral and written psychiatry boards. Each chapter can stand alone and is presented in "bite-size" clusters to facilitate easy absorption of the material.

Lectures in Astrobiology, Vol I

This is the first of a divided two-part softcover edition of the "Lectures in Astrobiology Volume I" containing the sections "General Introduction", "The Early Earth and Other Cosmic Habitats for Life" and "Appendices" including an extensive glossary on Astrobiology."Lectures in Astrobiology" is the first comprehensive textbook at graduate level encompassing all aspects of freeduan.com the emerging field of astrobiology. 

Environmental Engineering: Designing a Sustainable Future

Environmental engineering's future seems boundless because it is based in the myriad ways in which nature solves its own engineering challenges. People have yet to design a system that pumps water 200 feet straight up toward the sky in a system that is silent, requires no mechanical pumps, and never malfunctions, yet giant sequoia trees do this every day. Environmental engineering has a distance to go to mimic nature's activities, but fortunately, nature provides endless examples of processes like the sequoias' that maximize energy conservation.