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Barry Commoner and the science of survival :the remaking of American environm…
"For over half a century, the biologist Barry Commoner has been one of the most prominent and charismatic defenders of the American environment, appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1970 as the standard-bearer of "the emerging science of survival." In Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival, Michael Egan examines Commoner's social and scientific activism and charts an important shift i…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations.
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Basic category theory for computer scientists
Category theory is a branch of pure mathematics that is becoming an increasingly important tool in theoretical computer science, especially in programming language semantics, domain theory, and concurrency, where it is already a standard language of discourse. Assuming a minimum of mathematical preparation, Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists provides a straightforward presentation of…
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- 9780262288460
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 100 pages).
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Bayesian brain :probabilistic approaches to neural coding
Experimental and theoretical neuroscientists use Bayesian approaches to analyse the brain mechanisms of perception decision-making, and motor control.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262294188
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 326 pages) :illustrations.
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Being no one :the self-model theory of subjectivity
"A Bradford book."According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing process; it is the content of a "transparent self-model." In Being No One, Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neurosc…
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- 9780262279727
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- 1 online resource (xii, 699 pages)
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The Digital Youth Network: Cultivating Digital Media Citizenship in Urban Com…
An ambitious project to help economically disadvantaged students develop technical, creative, and analytical skills across a learning ecology that spans school, community, home, and online.
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Beowulf cluster computing with Windows
Beowulf clusters, which exploit mass-market PC hardware and software in conjunction with cost-effective commercial network technology, are becoming the platform for many scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. With growing popularity has come growing complexity. Addressing that complexity, Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux and Beowulf Cluster Computing with Windows provide syst…
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- 9780262286787
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- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 445 pages) :illustrations.
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Arguments that Count: Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012
How differing assessments of risk by physicists and computer scientists have influenced public debate over nuclear defense.
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Beyond the cognitive map :from place cells to episodic memory
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282192
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 420 pages) :illustrations
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Critical Resistance: From Poststructuralism to Post-Critique
This book serves as both an introduction to the concept of resistance in poststructuralist thought and an original contribution to the continuing philosophical discussion of this topic. How can a body of thought that mistrusts universal principles explain the possibility of critical resistance? Without appeals to abstract norms, how can emancipatory resistance be distinguished from domination? …
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- 1 online resource (viii, 274 pages)
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Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future
A provocatively argued call for shifting the emphasis of critical theory from Habermasian "critique," restricted to normative clarification, to "disclosure," a possibility-enhancing approach that draws on and reinterprets ideas of Heidegger.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 337 pages)
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