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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

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Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history’s oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales’s disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a “new slavery,” one intricately
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Philosophical Problems of Quantum Physics

Philosophical Problems of Quantum Physics

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Werner Heisnberg was one of a small group who created the science of quantum physics. Aware that the new physics necessitated deep changes in philosophical outlook, he labored to present this important new material to a more general intellectual community. THese essays, which originally appeared under the title Philosophical problems of Nuclear Science, present an illuminating view of the development and significance of quantum theory.  
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Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory

Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory

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Quantum field theory, one of the most rapidly developing areas of contemporary physics, is full of problems of great theoretical and philosophical interest. This collection of essays is the first systematic exploration of the nature and implications of quantum field theory. The contributors discuss quantum field theory from a wide variety of standpoints, exploring in detail its mathematical structure and metaphysical and methodological implications.  
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Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale: Contemporary Theories in Quantum Gravity

Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale: Contemporary Theories in Quantum Gravity

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The greatest challenge in fundamental physics attempts to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity in a theory of “quantum gravity.” The project suggests a profound revision of the notions of space, time and matter. It has become a key topic of debate and collaboration between physicists and philosophers. This volume collects classic and original contributions from leading experts in both fields for a provocative discussion of the issues. It
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Alternative Energy Resources: The Quest for Sustainable Energy

Alternative Energy Resources: The Quest for Sustainable Energy

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Over the course of the next fifty years, there will be a shift in the quest for sustainable energy, including a major change in transportation from internal combustion engines burning petroleum-derived fuels to newer technology engines using new transportation fuels. Alternative Energy Reources examines our options for energy sources with a focus on hydrogen as a large-scale, secondary energy vector parallel to electricity.  
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Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality

Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality

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Does the brain create the mind, or is some external entity involved? In addressing this “hard problem” of consciousness, we face a central human challenge: what do we really know and how do we know it? Tentative answers in this book follow from a synthesis of profound ideas, borrowed from philosophy, religion, politics, economics, neuroscience, physics, mathematics, and cosmology, the knowledge structures supporting our meager grasps of reality.
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