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This book develops and defends a new understanding of Kant's account of perceptual representation, showing that it underlies the main doctrines of the Critique of Pure Reason. Intuitions consist of formal unifications by the schematized categories that projectively represent both time and external objects and enable synthetic a priori knowledge.

"This book discusses the fundamental topics of modern-day sonar systems engineering. It provides students and practicing engineers and scientists the tools to analyze and design both passive and active sonar systems, do basic signal design for active sonar systems, and understand the basics of underwater acoustic communication signals"--

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Introduction: The "Public" in Public Housing -- I The Prehistory of Public Housing -- 1 Coping with the Poor: Techniques and Institutions -- 2 Rewarding Upward Mobility: Public Lands, Private Houses, and New Communities -- II Public Housing in Boston -- 3 Building Selective Collectives, 1934–1954 -- 4 Managing Poverty and Race, 1955–1980 -- 5 The Boston Housing Authority since 1980: The Puritans Return -- Notes -- Credits -- Index

Lawrence J. Haas explores how the Kennedy brothers reshaped America's empire for more than six decades after World War II.

Foreword / by Tung Chee-Hwa -- part I. Understanding the trade war : history, facts and potential impacts. Historical highlights of China-U.S. relations -- The reality of the China-U.S. trade balance -- How serious are the impacts? -- part II. Competitors and partners : challenges and opportunities for China and the U.S. Economic complementarities -- Economic competition -- Why is there a technological gap? -- Enhancing mutual economic interdependence -- part III. Beyond the trade war. The long-term forces at work -- The way forward.

"Ever since Lyndon Johnson launched his "War on Poverty," each presidential administration has engaged in a unique effort to help impoverished Americans. Though every president inherited the remnants of his predecessors' policies, each sought to make his own mark and secure his own place in history. The combatants changed, the terrain shifted, the losses mounted, and the victories faded. Johnson (inspired by Kennedy) may have devised the initial strategy to conduct the campaign, but subsequent presidents amplified, altered, and even overturned it. The Presidents and the Poor is an account of honorable intentions, innovative ideas, colossal sums of money, and a vast expansion of government. In the end, however, it is a tale of how nine presidents did not do too much, but too little, to help those on the lowest rungs of American society. Democrats Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama were never fully able to commit the resources that they believed were necessary to defeat poverty. Republicans Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush could never completely fulfill their alternate visions of LBJ's war. Some--notably Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton--did better than others in making inroads against poverty, but all fell short of their goals. And impoverished Americans were left to wonder what might have been, if only their presidents had fought to win against an unyielding enemy."

The rational basis of the principle of double effect -- An agent-based definition of intended effects -- The strongest objection to the principle of double effect -- Trolley cases and an objection from neuroscience and moral psychology -- Hard cases in medicine and war