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Research as Praxis is an expose of the philosophical, theoretical,
and methodological principles and assumptions of Research as Praxis
(RAP) as an alternative paradigm of education/social research to
the resurgent exclusionary hegemony of the positivist epistemology.
The ultimate purpose of RAP projects is to serve the public
interest, especially the well-being of students and educators. This
is in contrast to projects that serve merely instrumental purposes,
like trying to raise achievement test scores. Improvement of
well-being can be achieved if research participants are able to
participate democratically on an equal footing with researchers in
deciding what to study, why, and how to do it, and how to use this
knowledge to engage in collective action and dialogic understanding
to solve problems and improve their situations. By acknowledging
participants' agency and valuing their knowledge and experiences,
we increase the chances that research results and experiences will
be highly relevant and responsive to participants' needs and
growth, as well as to other communities and society at large. The
authors draw on the participatory research traditions, especially
those experiences made available by researchers, activists, and
public intellectuals from the so-called Third World - Latin
America, India, Bangladesh, Africa, and the Maori indigenous people
from New Zealand. Inspired by those experiences, RAP inquirers blur
the boundaries among research, education, and activism, and instead
interplay them at all times. This book will be useful to
researchers, educators, and graduate students in education, social
sciences and services, and humanities.
[From the foreword by B. Teissier] The main ideas of the proof of
resolution of singularities of complex-analytic spaces presented
here were developed by Heisuke Hironaka in the late 1960s and early
1970s. Since then, a number of proofs, all inspired by Hironaka's
general approach, have appeared, the validity of some of them
extending beyond the complex analytic case. The proof has now been
so streamlined that, although it was seen 50 years ago as one of
the most difficult proofs produced by mathematics, it can now be
the subject of an advanced university course. Yet, far from being
of historical interest only, this long-awaited book will be very
rewarding for any mathematician interested in singularity theory.
Rather than a proof of a canonical or algorithmic resolution of
singularities, what is presented is in fact a masterly study of the
infinitely near "worst" singular points of a complex analytic space
obtained by successive "permissible" blowing ups and of the way to
tame them using certain subspaces of the ambient space. This taming
proves by an induction on the dimension that there exist finite
sequences of permissible blowing ups at the end of which the worst
infinitely near points have disappeared, and this is essentially
enough to obtain resolution of singularities. Hironaka's ideas for
resolution of singularities appear here in a purified and geometric
form, in part because of the need to overcome the globalization
problems appearing in complex analytic geometry. In addition, the
book contains an elegant presentation of all the prerequisites of
complex analytic geometry, including basic definitions and theorems
needed to follow the development of ideas and proofs. Its epilogue
presents the use of similar ideas in the resolution of
singularities of complex analytic foliations. This text will be
particularly useful and interesting for readers of the younger
generation who wish to understand one of the most fundamental
results in algebraic and analytic geometry and invent possible
extensions and applications of the methods created to prove it.
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The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International
Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and
international titles in a single resource. Its International Law
component features works of some of the great legal theorists,
including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf,
Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among
others. The materials in this archive are drawn from three
world-class American law libraries: the Yale Law Library, the
George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law
Library.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.+++++++++++++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: +++++++++++++++Yale Law
LibraryLP3Y101490419100101The Making of Modern Law: Foreign,
Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926At head of title:
1810- Un siglo de instituciones- 1910.La Plata: Taller de
Impresiones Oficiales, 19104 v.: port.; 25 cmArgentina
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