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One of the most important recent developments in financial markets is the institutionalization of saving associated with the growth of pension funds, life insurance companies, and mutual funds. An increasing proportion of household saving is now managed by professional portfolio managers instead of being directly invested in the securities markets or held in the form of bank deposits. With the …
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- 0262041928
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- 1 online resource (xxxi, 524 pages)
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Advances in synaptic plasticity
"A Bradford book."Prepared as an update to: Synaptic plasticity : molecular, cellular, and fucntional aspects. MIT Press, 1993.This book, a follow-up to the editors' Synaptic Plasticity (MIT Press,1993), reports on the most recent trends in the field. The levels of analysis range from molecular to cellular and network, the unifying theme being the nature of the relationships between synaptic pl…
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- 9780262267908
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 335 pages) :illustrations
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The arid lands history power knowledge
An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262333535
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- 1 online resource (xx, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color), maps.
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Visual Attention and Cortical Circuits
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262316170
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 313 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Iterate :ten lessons in design and failure
How to confront, embrace, and learn from the unavoidable failures of creative practice; with case studies that range from winemaking to animation. Failure is an inevitable part of any creative practice. As game designers, John Sharp and Colleen Macklin have grappled with crises of creativity, false starts, and bad outcomes. Their tool for coping with the many varieties of failure: iteration, th…
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- 9780262352123
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- 1 online resource (312 pages).
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The night land
"This edition of The Night Land follows the text of the 1912 edition published by Eveleigh Nash, which is in the public domain."--Title page verso."When the narrator receives a telepathic distress signal from a young woman whom (in a previous incarnation) he'd once loved, he sallies forth on an ill-advised rescue mission-into the uncharted and unfathomable Night Land"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibl…
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- Abridged edition.
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- 9780262376051
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- 1 online resource.
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How artifacts affordthe power and politics of everyday things
A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective. Technological affordances mediate between the features of a technology and the outcomes of engagement with that technology. The concept of affordances, which migrated from psychology to design with Donald Norman's influential 1988 book, The Design of…
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- 9780262358880
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Writers in the secret garden :fanfiction, youth, and new forms of mentoring
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- 9780262355629
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- 1 online resource (168 pages) :illustrations.
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Models of information processing in the basal ganglia
"A Bradford book.""Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion of knowledge about the anatomical organization of the part of the brain known as the basal ganglia, the signal processing that occurs in these structures, and the many relations both to molecular mechanisms and to cognitive functions. This book brings together the biology and computational features of the basal ganglia and their r…
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- 0585357242
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- 1 online resource (xii, 382 pages) :illustrations.
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The Train That Had Wings
The Train That Had Wings presents modern life in Kerala in terms of a shared but tragically compromised humanity. Mukundan dares to look beneath the routines and facades of everyday life in order to probe depth of sin, greed, and hypocrisy but also to rediscover what brings joy and hope.Sixteen short story translations and a critical introduction, offering examples of Mukundan's realistic, exis…
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- 9780472901678
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