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Polarity, Free Choice, and InterventionIn a fundamental investigation of language and human reasoning, Gennaro Chierchia looks at how syntactic and inferential processes interact through the study of polarity sensitive and free choice items. He reformulates the semantics of focus and scope and the pragmatics of implicature as part of the recursive...

A Liberal InterpretationToo often in economics the understanding of how things work by and large--not axiomatically or categorically--and the idea that we generally cannot know the economic system well enough to intervene into it beneficially are done less than justice. Yet they were Adam Smith&'s central messages for public policy, and they...

There has been little analysis of the constitutional framework for management of the UK economy, either in constitutional law or regulatory studies. This is in contrast to many other countries where the concept of an &'economic constitution&' is well established, as it is in the law of the European Union. Given the extensive role of the state in...

John Calvin as Sixteenth-Century Prophet examines Calvin's sense of vocation. Jon Balserak argues that Calvin believed himself to be a prophet "e;placed over nations and kingdoms to tear down and destroy, to build and to plant"e; (Jer 1: 10). With this authority, Calvin pursued an expansionist agenda which blended the religious,...

The Qur&'an and Other ReligionsA number of passages in the Qur&'an criticize Jews and Christians, from claims of exclusive salvation and charges of Jewish and Christian falsification of revelation to cautions against the taking of Jews and Christians as patrons, allies, or intimates. Mun&'im Sirry offers a novel exploration of these polemical...

An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The key concepts are carefully presented in a clear way, and new ideas are illustrated with copious...