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Beyond the self :conversations between Buddhism and neuroscience
Converging and diverging views on the mind, the self, consciousness, the unconscious, free will, perception, meditation, and other topics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262343022
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- 1 online resource (x, 282 pages)
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The Semantic Web the Semantic Web - ISWC 2015 14th International Semantic Web…
The two-volume set LNCS 9366 and 9367 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2015, held in Bethlehem, PA, USA, in October 2015. The International Semantic Web Conference is the premier forum for Semantic Web research, where cutting edge scientific results and technological innovations are presented, where problems and solutions are discus…
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- 978-3-319-25010-6
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Blended learning in practice :a guide for practitioners and researchers
A guide to both theory and practice of blended learning offering rigorous research, case studies, and methods for the assessment of educational effectiveness. Blended learning combines traditional in-person learning with technology-enabled education. Its pedagogical aim is to merge the scale, asynchrony, and flexibility of online learning with the benefits of the traditional classroom--content-…
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- 9780262351546
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- 1 online resource (416 pages).
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Getting Through: The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural Communication
Understanding how culture affects the ways we communicate -- how we tell jokes, greet, ask questions, hedge, apologize, compliment, and so much more. We can learn to speak other languages, but do we truly understand what we are saying? How much detail should we offer when someone asks how we are? How close should we stand to our conversational partners? Is an invitation genuine or just pro form…
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- 9780262340601
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- 1 online resource (xx, 276 pages) :illustrations
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Writing on Water
Water links all aspects of our existence. From the politics of watersheds to the romance of turtles climbing up from the sea to the beaches, from Leonardo da Vinci to Octavio Paz, from death at a hot spring to the practicalities of liquidation, the writings in this collection reflect on many aspects of the human encounter with water. The book contains some science, a few plans for managing and …
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Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health
A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices—from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment—help perpetuate global inequities. In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices—from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference—play an essential role in perp…
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Evolutionary intelligence :how technology will make us smarter
"Ubiquitous computational technologies will define our future, and this book takes the hopeful view that such technologies, properly designed, can enhance rather than diminish human agency. As people co-evolve with our technology, we can develop technological assistance to enhance our decision making and compensate for our biases: personalized medicine, intelligent romance, digital law, hybrid …
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The evolution of techniques :rigidity and flexibility in use, transmission, a…
A novel, interdisciplinary exploration of the relative contributions of rigidity and flexibility in the adoption, maintenance, and evolution of technical traditions. Techniques can either be used in rigid, stereotypical ways or in flexibly adaptive ways, or in some combination of the two. The Evolution of Techniques , edited by Mathieu Charbonneau, addresses the impacts of both flexibility and …
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- 9780262378390
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Notebooks of a wandering Monk
"Originally published as Carnets d'un moine errant. Allary ?Editions, 2021.""The memoirs of Matthieu Ricard, one of the the world's most famous Buddhist monks who has captured the minds and hearts of people around the globe"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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A history of the social sciences in 101 books
"The most respected researchers in the social sciences in France were each invited to write an essay presenting a book of interest, significance, and influence in the social sciences for a general readership, addressing its contributions and impact as well as its shortcomings, the lingering questions it leaves, and the work remaining to be done, to offer a new, nuanced portrait of the field's f…
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