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"These autobiographical and philosophical essays, in the form of expertly probing interviews, provide a superb introduction to the work of one of the most significant contemporary political philosophers and a marvelously readable perspective on the French intellectual and political arenas from the 1970s to the present. Those already familiar with Manent's work will find an indispensable reflection on his transition from the critique of modernity brilliantly represented in his earlier books (most notably Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy and The City of Man), a critique at once original and significantly indebted to Leo Strauss, toward a perspective that emerges in his recent The Metamorphoses of the City, a monumental and profoundly original study that endeavors to situate modernity within the original Greek founding of the act of politics. The autobiographical passages in this vivid and engaging work invite the reader into, first, the world of postwar France in which Manent grew up, in which he was presented with the choice between the Communist hopes of his father and the opposing power and prestige of all things American. There is also an impressive portrait of the rigors and spirit of a provincial lycee where the first sparks of philosophical eros ignited in Manent's soul, and of his studies in the legendary Ecole Normale Superieur in the midst of the ideological confusion associated with the ferment of 1968. The reader then is invited to an inside view of the rise of a broadly Tocquevillean school of French thought around the journal Contrepoints and its successor Commentaire"--

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Gerson Moreno-Riaño and Cary J. Nederman -- 1. The Life of Marsilius of Padua /Frank Godthardt -- 2. Marsilius of Padua at Paris /William J. Courtenay -- 3. Medicine and the Body Politic in Marsilius of Padua's Defensor pacis /Takashi Shogimen -- 4. Marsilius of Padua's Principles of Secular Politics /Gerson Moreno-Riaño and Cary J. Nederman -- 5. Marsilius of Padua on Church and State /Bettina Koch -- 6. The Spirituality of the Church: Scripture, Salvation, and Sacraments /Michael J. Sweeney -- 7. Marsilius and the Poverty Controversy in Dictio II /Roberto Lambertini -- 8. The Minor Marsilius: The Other Works of Marsilius of Padua /Gianluca Briguglia -- 9. The Reception of Marsilius /Thomas M. Izbicki -- Conclusion /Gerson Moreno-Riaño and Cary J. Nederman -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- IDEALIZATION AND CONCRETIZATION IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES -- PLATO'S PHILOSOPHY AND THE ESSENCE OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD -- THE IDEALIZATIONAL THEORY OF SCIENCE AND PHYSICS OF THE MICROWORLD -- THE IDEALIZATIONAL CONCEPTION OF SCIENCE AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION -- ON KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE -- SCIENTIFIC AND EVERYDAY KNOWLEDGE -- UNIVERSALITY OF SCIENTIFIC LAWS -- THE ROLE OF THEORY IN PHYSICAL SCIENCES -- THE LEIBNIZ-EINSTEIN PRINCIPLE OF THE MINIMIZATION OF PREMISES -- ON KINDS OF INTERPRETATION PROCEDURES IN SCIENCE -- THE PROBLEM OF THE RATIONALITY OF SCIENCE -- PRINCIPLES AND KINDS OF SCIENTIFIC RATIONALITY -- THE RATIONALITY OF SCIENCE AND LIMITATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC METHODS -- WHAT HAS CHANGED IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL VIEW OF SCIENCE? -- TYPES OF DETERMINATION VS. THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE IN HISTORICAL EPISTEMOLOGY -- RELATION OF CORRESPONDENCE AND LOGICAL CONSEQUENCE -- EXPERIMENT AND SCIENCE -- HEGEL'S HISTORICISM AND CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTIONS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE -- ARE THERE DEFINITIVELY FALSIFYING PROCEDURES IN SCIENCE? -- ON THE SO-CALLED COMPLEMENTARY EXPERIMENTS. THE EXAMPLE OF FIZEAU'S AND MICHELSON'S EXPERIMENTS -- TESTABILITY OF KNOWLEDGE AT VARIOUS LEVELS OF ITS DEVELOPMENT -- ATOMISTIC EMPIRICISM OR HOLISTIC EMPIRICISM? -- THE NOTION OF AN AD HOC HYPOTHESIS -- ON THE PECULIARITY OF PHYSICS AND ITS DIVISIONS -- MODELS OF RATIONALITY IN PHYSICS -- TRANSCENDENTAL PHILOSOPHY AND PHYSICS OF THE MICROWORLD -- THE UNIVERSALITY OF SCIENTIFIC LAWS AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE -- ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM OF THE SPATIOTEMPORAL INFINITY OF THE WORLD -- THE PECULIAR STATUS OF COSMOLOGY AS A SCIENCE -- THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE AND CONTEMPORARY COSMOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY -- NEWTON'S FIELDS OF STUDY AND METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES -- HEGEL AND CONTEMPORARY NATURAL SCIENCES -- UNITY OR VARIETY OF NATURE? -- THE PLACE OF PROCESSES IN THE STRUCTURE OF REALITY -- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND THE CURRENT TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURE -- HEGEL'S CATEGORY OF TOTALITY AND HIS CONCEPT OF STATE -- THE BEING OF BEINGS IN HEIDEGGER'S SEIN UND ZEIT -- REFERENCES -- POZNAŃ STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES.

Agricultural Advances -- Atomic Bomb -- Eugenics -- FDR's Supreme Court -- Fundamentalism -- Good Neighbor -- Great Depression : Causes -- Great Depression : Ending -- Great Migration -- Harlem Renaissance -- Huey Long -- Influenza Epidemic -- Japanese Internment -- Lindbergh Kidnapping -- Marcus Garvey -- Mexican Revolution -- Narcotics -- Native American New Deal -- New Deal -- New Deal and Farmers -- New Women -- The 1920s -- 1930's Civil Rights -- 1930s labor movement -- Progressive era women -- Progressive movement -- Racism in World War II -- Red Scare -- Sacco and Vanzetti -- Theodore Roosevelt -- United States and the Jews -- Urban Bosses -- Washington and Du Bois.

The paper tends to present an in-depth view of current practices to teach English in department of political science in one of the public sector universities of Sindh. It specifically narrows down its vision to teach specific English course to students of Political science in University of Karachi, Pakistan. The data has been collected with the help of three important methods. It was to find the appropriate curriculum of English that could have meet with the needs of students in specialty. The study even analyses the teaching strategies that have been adopted to teach English to students of political science. This step followed to decipher the learning lacks in students. The results have suggested for the design of specific English curriculum to the students of political science. The curriculum that could bring clarity in practices of teaching methodologies adopted to teach English in connection to particular norm of ESP practice and analysis of students' wants. This has overall forwarded suggestions to incorporate teaching of ESP in department of political science that could result beneficial for learning of students.

"The International almanac; or, Statistical hand-book for 1866 . Comp. by Alexander Delmar": v. 2, p. [81]-208. ; Editors: Jan.-Oct. 1865, Alexander Delmar, Simon Stern.--Jan.-Oct. 1886, Simon Stern, J.K.H. Willcox. ; Mode of access: Internet.