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Understanding the mechanisms in health and diseaseOne of the most widespread words in medicine is placebo and placebo effect, although it is not always clear what it means exactly. Recent progress in biomedical research has allowed a better clarification of the placebo effect. We know that this is an active psychobiological phenomenon which takes...

The John Locke LecturesReference and Existence, Saul Kripke's John Locke Lectures for 1973, can be read as a sequel to his classic Naming and Necessity. It confronts important issues left open in that work -- among them, the semantics of proper names and natural kind terms as they occur in fiction and in myth; negative existential statements;...

Counter to popular perceptions, contemporary American sociology is and promotes a profoundly sacred project at heart. Sociology today is in fact animated by sacred impulses, driven by sacred commitments, and serves a sacred project.  Sociology appears on the surface to be a secular, scientific enterprise--its founding fathers were mostly atheists....

Japan remains one of the dominant economic powers. Yet the Japanese economy is one of the most misunderstood phenomena in the modern world. Conventionally, Japan is presented as the exception to mainstream economic theory: an exception to the standard models of modern economics. This book demolishes that notion, bringing the full analytical power...

A Critical Assessment of Oxford's Development of the Study of Politics and International Relations in Comparative PerspectiveForging a Discipline analyses the growth of the academic discipline of politics and international relations at Oxford University over the last hundred years. This century marked the maturation and professionalization of...

How Government Should Spend Our MoneyWe Are Better Than This fundamentally reframes budget debates in the United States. Author Edward D. Kleinbard explains how the public&'s preoccupation with tax policy alone has obscured any understanding of government&'s ability to complement the private sector through investment and insurance programs that...