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Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence: Deliberative Environmental Law

A proposal for a philosophical foundation and a realistic deliberative mechanism for creating a transnational common law for the environment.In Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence, Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett explore the necessary characteristics of a meaningful global jurisprudence, a jurisprudence that would underpin international environmental law. Arguing that theories of po…

Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Econ…

Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. This examination of ICT from a political economy perspective argues that innovation and economic growth require new approaches in global governance that will reconcile diverse interests and enable competition to flourish.

Institutional Microeconomics of Development

"The narrative of development economics is now infused with discussions of institutions. Economists debate whether institutions-or other factors altogether (geography, culture, or religion)-are central to development. In this volume, leading scholars in development economics view institutions from a microeconomic perspective, offering both theoretical overviews and empirical analyses spanning t…

Off-Track Profs: Nontenured Teachers in Higher Education

An investigation of non-tenure-track faculty at ten elite research universities and the implications for undergraduate education, institutional governance, and American preeminence in higher education.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The Two Halves of the Brain: Information Processing in the Cerebral Hemispheres

This volume provides a comprehensive view of the latest research in brain asymmetry, offering not only recent empirical and clinical findings but also a coherent theoretical approach to the subject.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution

At the close of the 19th century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. This book examines the construction of an urban-centred, industrial-based culture - an entirely new social reality based on science and technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Computation, Cognition, and Pylyshyn

"A Bradford book."A collection of cutting-edge work on cognition and a celebration of a foundational figure in the field.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Where Does Binding Theory Apply?

An exploration of the architecture of the grammar and nature of the lexical/functional split, this text reveals a relationship of greater subtlety and importance than is generally assumed.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Avant-garde Videogames: Playing with Technoculture

An exploration of avant-garde games that builds upon the formal and political modes of contemporary and historical art movements. The avant-garde challenges or leads culture; it opens up or redefines art forms and our perception of the way the world works. In this book, Brian Schrank describes the ways that the avant-garde emerges through videogames. Just as impressionism or cubism created a…