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Brainstorms :philosophical essays on mind and psychology
"A Bradford book."This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling institutions.This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditiona…
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- 1st MIT Press edition.
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- 9780262271509
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 353 pages)
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Bringing society back in :grassroots ecosystem management, accountability, an…
In the last two decades, people in a growing number of localities in the United States have developed grassroots ecosystem management (GREM) as a means to resolve policy problems affecting their environment, economy, and communities. Ad hoc and voluntary groups of environmentalists, developers, businesspeople, federal and state resource managers, farmers, loggers, local citizens, and those repr…
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- 9780262285858
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 317 pages) :illustrations.
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A History of California Literature
Blake Allmendinger's A History of California Literature surveys the paradoxical image of the Golden State as a site of dreams and disenchantment, formidable beginnings and ruinous ends. This history encompasses the prismatic nature of California by exploring a variety of historical periods, literary genres, and cultural movements affecting the state's development, from the colonial era to the t…
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- 9781107280359
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Bringing the biosphere home :learning to perceive global environmental change
A guide for understanding the ecological and existential aspects of global environmental change.This book shows how to make global environmental problems more tangible, so that they become an integral part of everyday awareness. At its core is a simple assumption: that the best way to learn to perceive the biosphere is to pay close attention to our immediate surroundings. Through local natural …
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- 9780262284899
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- 1 online resource (244 pages)
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The future was here :the Commodore Amiga
Exploring the often-overlooked history and technological innovations of the world's first true multimedia computer. Long ago, in 1985, personal computers came in two general categories: the friendly, childish game machine used for fun (exemplified by Atari and Commodore products); and the boring, beige adult box used for business (exemplified by products from IBM). The game machines became f…
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- 9780262301510
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- 1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) :illustrations.
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Reforming the unreformable :lessons from Nigeria
A report on development economics in action, by a crucial player in Nigeria's recent reforms. Corrupt, mismanaged, and seemingly hopeless: that's how the international community viewed Nigeria in the early 2000s. Then Nigeria implemented a sweeping set of economic and political changes and began to reform the unreformable. This book tells the story of how a dedicated and politically committe…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 198 pages)
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The art of insight in science and engineering :mastering complexity
Tools to make hard problems easier to solve.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262325233
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 389 pages) :illustrations
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Building the Trident network :a study of the enrollment of people, knowledge,…
In Building the Trident Network, Maggie Mort approaches the United Kingdom's Trident submarine and missile system as a sociotechnical network. Drawing on the sociology of scientific and technical knowledge and on actor-network theory, Mort recounts how the Trident program was stabilized in the United Kingdom and brought into "successful" production. She uncovers the nature of this success by re…
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- 9780262280235
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- 1 online resource (x, 217 pages) :illustrations.
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Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities
The future of the university as an open knowledge institution that institutionalizes diversity and contributes to a common resource of knowledge: a manifesto. In this book, a diverse group of authors—including open access pioneers, science communicators, scholars, researchers, and university administrators—offer a bold proposition: universities should become open knowledge institutions, …
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Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation
The contributors to this volume view digital libraries (DLs) from a social as well as technological perspective. They see DLs as sociotechnical systems, networks of technology, information artifacts, and people and practices interacting with the larger world of work and society. As Bruce Schatz observes in his foreword, for a digital library to be useful, the users, the documents, and the infor…
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