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Electric Light: An Architectural History
How electric light created new spaces that transformed the built environment and the perception of modern architecture. In this book, Sandy Isenstadt examines electric light as a form of architecture--as a new, uniquely modern kind of building material. Electric light was more than just a novel way of brightening a room or illuminating a streetscape; it brought with it new ways of perceiving an…
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- 9780262347310
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Human Rights in the Age of Platforms
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262353946
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- 1 online resource (360 pages).
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The future
"How the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers"--Page 4 of cover.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262344753
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- 1 online resource (xvi,169 pages) :illustrations.
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The Handbook of Rationality
The first reference on rationality that integrates accounts from psychology and philosophy, covering descriptive and normative theories from both disciplines. Both analytic philosophy and cognitive psychology have made dramatic advances in understanding rationality, but there has been little interaction between the disciplines. This volume offers the first integrated overview of the state of…
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- 9780262366175
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Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion
An approach to understanding religion that draws on both humanities and natural science but rejects approaches that employ simple monisms and radical dualisms. In Beyond Heaven and Earth, Gabriel Levy argues that collective religious narratives and beliefs are part of nature; they are the basis for the formation of the narratives and beliefs of individuals. Religion grows out of the universe…
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Glass Making in the Greco-Roman World: Results of the Archglass Project
This book presents a reconstruction of the Hellenistic-Roman glass industry from the point of view of raw material procurement. Within the ERC funded ARCHGLASS project, the authors of this work developed new geochemical techniques to provenance primary glass making. They investigated both production and consumer sites of glass, and identified suitable mineral resources for glass making through …
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- Studies in Archaeological Sciences, 4
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Reason and Less: Pursuing Food, Sex, and Politics
A new, biologically driven model of human behavior in which reason is tethered to the evolutionarily older autonomic, instinctive, and associative systems. In Reason and Less, Vinod Goel explains the workings of the tethered mind. Reason does not float on top of our biology but is tethered to evolutionarily older autonomic, instinctive, and associative systems. After describing the conceptua…
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- 9780262369701
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Encoding and Decoding of Emotional Speech A Cross-Cultural and Multimodal St…
This book addresses the subject of emotional speech, especially its encoding and decoding process during interactive communication, based on an improved version of Brunswik’s Lens Model. The process is shown to be influenced by the speaker’s and the listener’s linguistic and cultural backgrounds, as well as by the transmission channels used. Through both psycholinguistic and phonetic a…
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- 978-3-662-47691-8
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- 36 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
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Traversals the use of preservation of early electronic writing
Many pioneering works of electronic literature are now largely inaccessible because of changes in hardware, software, and platforms. The virtual disappearance of these works--created on floppy disks, in Apple's defunct HyperCard, and on other early systems and platforms--not only puts important electronic literary work out of reach but also signals the fragility of most works of culture in the …
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