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Intended for those who already know the Java language, this book
will help programmers get the most out of Javas capabilities.
Topics covered include: good Java style for reusable components,
using Java beans, the JDBC, optimizing and testing code, using the
IFC tools, and the new JFC. It also explores the significant and
exciting developments in Java and covers techniques that will be
fundamental to programmers developing significant applications in
Java.
"Post is a pioneer in the field of political-personality profiling.
He may be the only psychiatrist who has specialized in the
self-esteem problems of both Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein."
The New Yorker "Policy specialists and academic scholars have long
agreed that for U.S. leaders to deal effectively with other actors
in the international arena, they need images of their adversaries.
Leaders must try to see events, and, indeed, their own behavior,
from the perspective of opponents. . . . Faulty images are a source
of misperceptions and miscalculations that have often led to major
errors in policy, avoidable catastrophes, and missed opportunities.
History supplies all too many examples." from the ForewordWhat
impels leaders to lead and followers to follow? How did Osama bin
Laden, the son of a multibillionaire construction magnate in Saudi
Arabia, become the world's number-one terrorist? What are the
psychological foundations of man's inhumanity to man, ethnic
cleansing, and genocide? Jerrold M. Post contends that such
questions can be answered only through an understanding of the
psychological foundations of leader personality and political
behavior.Post was founding director of the Center for the Analysis
of Personality and Political Behavior for the CIA. He developed the
political personality profiles of Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat
for President Jimmy Carter's use at the Camp David talks and
initiated the U.S. government's research program on the psychology
of political terrorism. He was awarded the Intelligence Medal of
Merit in 1979 for his leadership of the center.In this book, he
draws on psychological and personality theories, as well as
interviews with individual terrorists and those who have interacted
with particular leaders, to discuss a range of issues: the effects
of illness and age on a leader's political behavior; narcissism and
the relationship between followers and a charismatic leader; the
impact of crisis-induced stress on policymakers; the mind of the
terrorist, with a consideration of "killing in the name of God";
and the need for enemies and the rise of ethnic conflict and
terrorism in the post-Cold War environment. The leaders he
discusses include Fidel Castro, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein,
Kim Jong Il, and Slobodan Milosevic."
A touchstone of the Enlightenment dispute between rationality and
religious belief, David Hume's essay "Of Miracles" has elicited
much commentary from proponents and critics ever since it was
published over 250 years ago. Alexander George's lucid and
sustained interpretation of Hume's essay provides fresh insights
into this provocative, occasionally elusive, and always subtle
text. The Everlasting Check will be read with interest by both
students new to Hume and seasoned scholars. George does justice to
the letter and spirit of Hume's essay, explaining the concepts and
claims involved, making intelligible the essay's structure, and
clarifying remarks that have long puzzled readers. Properly
interpreted, the essay's central philosophical argument proves to
be much hardier than Hume's detractors suggest. George considers a
range of objections to Hume-some recent, some perennial-and shows
why most fail, either because they are based on misinterpretations
or because the larger body of Hume's philosophy answers them.
Beyond an analysis and defense of Hume's essay, George also offers
a critique of his own, appealing to Ludwig Wittgenstein's thoughts
on magic and ritual to demonstrate that Hume misconstrues the
character of religious belief and its relationship to evidence and
confirmation. Raising a host of important questions about the
connection between religious and empirically verified beliefs,
George discusses why Hume's master argument can fail to engage with
committed religious thought and why philosophical argumentation in
general often proves ineffective in shaking people's deeply held
beliefs.
Dieses Buch blickt in eine bedeutende Epoche der Philosophie der
Mathematik zuruck, deren Stroemungen die heutige Gestalt der
Mathematik pragten. In der Wende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert befand
sich die Mathematik in einem fundamentalen Umbruch, der die
Mathematiker dieser Zeit herausforderte. Sie mussten Stellung
beziehen. Die Grundsatze und Wege der philosophischen Richtungen,
die dieses Buch verstandlich, kritisch und anerkennend beschreibt,
wurden von Mathematikern formuliert. Eine Zeit gravierender
Disharmonien begann, die bis in Streit und Feindschaften mundeten
und zugleich faszinierende und fruchtbare Ergebnisse
hervorbrachten, mathematisch wie philosophisch. Es war ein
aufregendes, intellektuelles Abenteuer zu Beginn des 20.
Jahrhunderts auf einem aussergewoehnlich scharfsinnigen und
kreativen Niveau. Die Debatte uber die unversoehnlichen Ansichten
versiegte allmahlich und inzwischen ist wieder relative Ruhe in die
Gemeinde der Mathematiker eingekehrt. Zentrale philosophische
Fragen aber, die damals die Protagonisten spalteten, sind nach wie
vor unbeantwortet. Die Suche nach dem Wesen der Mathematik geht
weiter und greift auf die Ideen dieser Kontroversen zuruck.
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