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Elizabeth Blackburn and the story of telomeres : Blackburn and the Story of T…
The story of molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn and her groundbreaking research on telomeres and what it reveals about the resourceful optimism that characterizes the best scientific thinking.
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Strategic bargaining and cooperation in greenhouse gas mitigations : An Integ…
A fresh approach to the economics of climate change that bridges integrated assessment modeling and game theoretic modeling.
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Pragmatism
Pragmatism, America's homegrown philosophy, has been a major intellectual movement for over a century. Unlike its rivals, it reaches well beyond the confines of philosophy into concerns and disciplines as diverse as religion, politics, science, and culture. In this concise, engagingly written overview, John R. Shook describes pragmatism's origins, concepts, and continuing global relevance and a…
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The really hard problem Meaning in a Material World
A noted philosopher proposes a naturalistic (rather than supernaturalistic) way to solve the "really hard problem": how to live a life that really matters-even as a finite material being living in a material world.
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Researching internet governance :methods, frameworks, futures
"Research concepts, methods, and frameworks for the study of internet governance, by leading scholars from law, computer science, communication, science and technology studies, and political science"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Weather by the numbers : by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology
The history of the growth and professionalization of American meteorology and its transformation into a physics- and mathematics-based scientific discipline.
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Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian …
Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South. Streets, once crowded with pedestrians, pushcarts, vendors, and bicyclists, are now choked with motor vehicles, many of them private automobiles. In this book, Govind Gopakumar examines this shift, analyzing the phenomenon of automob…
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3D shape : Its Unique Place in Visual Perception
A new account of how we perceive the 3D shapes of objects and how to design machines that can see shapes the way we do.
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Bridging the Seas: The Rise of Naval Architecture in the Industrial Age, 1800…
In the 1800s, shipbuilding moved from sail and wood to steam, iron, and steel. The competitive pressure to achieve more predictable ocean transportation drove the industrialization of shipbuilding, as shipowners demanded ships that enabled tighter scheduling, improved performance, and safe delivery of cargoes. In Bridging the Seas, naval historian Larrie Ferreiro describes this transformation o…
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Movies and the moral adventure of life
Films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities.
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