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Language in mind :advances in the study of language and thought
"A Bradford book."The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and intense controversy. According to the strong version of this hypothesis, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis after the American linguists who propounded it, languages vary in their semantic partitioning of the world, and the structure of one's language influences how one understa…
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- 9780262273664
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- 1 online resource (viii, 528 pages) :illustrations
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Language form and language function
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585078211
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- 1 online resource (xii, 428 pages) :illustrations.
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Language development and learning to read :the scientific study of how langua…
"A Bradford book.""In this seminal work, Bernard Siegan traces the history of constitutional protection for economic liberties in the United States. He argues that the law began to change with respect to economic liberties in the late 1930s. At that time, the Supreme Court abdicated much of its authority to protect property rights, and instead condoned the expansion of state power over private …
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- 9780262279505
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- 1 online resource (x, 494 pages) :illustrations.
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Language, brain, and cognitive development :essays in honor of Jacques Mehler
"A Bradford book.""Short biography of Jacques Mehler": pages [513]-527.Interdisciplinary essays on central issues in cognitive science. In the early 1960s, the bold project of the emerging field of cognition was to put the human mind under the scrutiny of rational inquiry, through the conjoined efforts of philosophy, linguistics, computer science, psychology, and neuroscience. Forty years later…
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- 9780262272032
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- 1 online resource (xv, 541 pages) :illustrations
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The landscape of reform :civic pragmatism and environmental thought in America
In The Landscape of Reform Ben Minteer offers a fresh and provocative reading of the intellectual foundations of American environmentalism, focusing on the work and legacy of four important conservation and planning thinkers in the first half of the twentieth century: Liberty Hyde Bailey, a forgotten figure in the Progressive conservation movement; urban and regional planning theorist Lewis Mum…
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- 9780262279918
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- 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages)
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The land that could be :environmentalism and democracy in the twenty-first ce…
"In this book environmentalist and lawyer William Shutkin describes a new kind of environmental and social activism spreading across the nation, one that joins the pursuit of environmental quality with that of civic health and sustainable local economies. In the face of challenges posed by often corrosive market forces and widespread social disaffection, this civic environmentalism is creating …
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- 9780262283618
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- 1 online resource (xx, 273 pages).
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Labor and the environmental movement :the quest for common ground
Relations between organized labor and environmental groups are typically characterized as adversarial, most often because of the specter of job loss invoked by industries facing environmental regulation. But, as Brian Obach shows, the two largest and most powerful social movements in the United States actually share a great deal of common ground. Unions and environmentalists have worked togethe…
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- 9780262280938
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- 1 online resource (x, 338 pages).
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Knowledge, possibility, and consciousness
Physicalism is the idea that if everything that goes on in the universe is physical, our consciousness and feelings must also be physical. Ever since Descartes formulated the mind-body problem, a long line of philosophers has found the physicalist view to be preposterous. According to John Perry, the history of the mind-body problem is, in part, the slow victory of physical monism over various …
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- 9780262281416
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 221 pages).
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Knowledge management :classic and contemporary works
This book provides an introduction to the field of knowledge management. Taking a learning-centric rather than information-centric approach, it emphasizes the continuous acquisition and application of knowledge. The book is organized into three sections, each opening with a classic work from a leader in the field. The first section, Strategy, discusses the motivation for knowledge management an…
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- 9780262280174
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 435 pages) :illustrations
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Knowledge in action :logical foundations for specifying and implementing dyna…
Modeling and implementing dynamical systems is a central problem in artificial intelligence, robotics, software agents, simulation, decision and control theory, and many other disciplines. In recent years, a new approach to representing such systems, grounded in mathematical logic, has been developed within the AI knowledge-representation community. This book presents a comprehensive treatment …
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages) :illustrations
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