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Can animals act morally? Philosophical tradition answers "e;no,"e; and has apparently convincing arguments on its side. Cognitive ethology supplies a growing body of empirical evidence that suggests these arguments are wrong. This groundbreaking book assimilates both philosophical and ethological frameworks into a unified whole and argues...

This critical study locates musical monumentality, a central property of the nineteenth-century German repertoire, at the intersections of aesthetics and memory. In examples including Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner and Bruckner, Rehding explores how monumentality contributes to an experiential music history and how it conveys the sublime to the listening...

This volume will lay out the best methods for measuring net primary productivity (NPP) in ecological research. Primary productivity is the rate at which energy is stored in the organic matter of plants per unit area of the earth's surface. NPP is the beginning point of the carbon cycle, so our ability to accurately measure NPP is important. The...

Criminalization is a new series arising from an interdisciplinary investigation        into the issue of criminalization, focussing on the principles and goals that should        guide decisions about what kinds of conduct are to be criminalized, and the forms        that criminalization should take. Developing a normative theory of...

Microeconomic Theory is based on lecture notes for a graduate course in        microeconomic theory. It covers a broad range of topics, and to some extent the        lecture structure is retained in the style of the book. The author provides a clear        account of the main ideas in each area concisely, and in some depth of detail....

In   GIVING WELL: THE ETHICS OF PHILANTHROPY, an accomplished trio of editors bring together an international group of distinguished philosophers, social scientists, lawyers and practitioners to identify and address the most urgent moral questions arising today in the practice of philanthropy....