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The scientific attitude :defending science from denial, fraud, and pseudoscie…
An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence. Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is "only a theory," and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of some politicians…
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- 9780262352840
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- 1 online resource (296 pages).
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Think tank aesthetics :midcentury modernism, the Cold War, and the neoliberal…
How the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics--paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism. In Think Tank Aesthetics , Pamela Lee traces the complex encounters between Cold War think tanks and the art of that era. Lee shows how the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operations research,…
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- 9780262357029
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- 1 online resource (360 pages).
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Making and doing :activating STS through knowledge expression and travel
"Focused on engaging with and communicating to audiences outside the STS academy through the "making and doing" movement"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366053
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Groundless grounds :a study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger
This text provides an in-depth comparison of Wittgenstein and Heidegger. It shows how the views of both philosophers emerge from a fundamental attempt to dispense with the transcendent.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301718
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 354 pages)
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From X-rays to DNA :how engineering drives biology
"Engineering has been an essential collaborator in biological research and breakthroughs in biology are often enabled by technological advances. Decoding the double helix structure of DNA, for example, only became possible after significant advances in such technologies as X-ray diffraction and gel electrophoresis. Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis improved as new technologies -- includin…
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- 9781461952183
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- 1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) :illustrations
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Voice :vocal aesthetics in digital arts and media
This work provides perspectives on the voice and technology from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance and sound poetry.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262289695
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- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 399 pages) :illustrations.
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Gaia in turmoil :climate change, biodepletion, and earth ethics in an age of …
Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258692
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 371 pages) :illustrations
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Journey to data quality
A guide for assessing an organization's data quality practice and a roadmap for implementing a viable data and information quality management program, based on rigorous research and drawing on real-world examples.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256544
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- 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) :illustrations
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Mechanisms of implicit learning :connectionist models of sequence processing
"Axel Cleeremans is a Senior Research Assistant at the National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium.""A Bradford book.""What do people learn when they do not know that they are learning? Until recently all of the work in the area of implicit learning focused on empirical questions and methods. In this book, Axel Cleeremans explores unintentional learning from an information-processing perspec…
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- 0585020388
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- 1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) :illustrations.
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Logic programming :proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on …
"July 8-12, 1997, Leuven, Belgium"--Page 4 of cover."The International Conference on Logic Programming is the main annual conference sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming. It covers the latest research in areas such as theoretical foundations, constraints, concurrency and parallelism, deductive databases, language design and implementation nonmonotonic reasoning, and logic programm…
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- 0262291355
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 424 pages) :illustrations
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