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Civic Space/Cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Information Ag
In Civic Space/Cyberspace Redmond Kathleen Molz and Phyllis Dain assess the current condition and direction of the American public library. They consider the challenges and opportunities presented by new electronic technologies, changing public policy, fiscal realities, and cultural trends. They draw on site visits and interviews conducted across the country; extensive reading of reports, surve…
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Cognitive Modeling
Computational modeling plays a central role in cognitive science. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to computational models of human cognition. It covers major approaches and architectures, both neural network and symbolic; major theoretical issues; and specific computational models of a variety of cognitive processes, ranging from low-level (e.g., attention and memory) to higher-…
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 1270 pages) :illustrations.
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The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
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' rhetorical repertoire. Defenders of science often point to its discoveries (penicillin! relativity!) without explaining exactly why scientific clai…
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Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal…
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, and cybernetics—paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism and set the terms for contemporary neoliberalism. Lee casts these shadowy institutions as site…
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Networked: The new social operating system
Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking. Some worry that this new environment makes us isolated and lo…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 358 pages) :illustrations
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Code for what? :computer science for storytelling and social justice
"Challenges the 'Code for All' movement with a framework for critical computational literacy that integrates computer science with journalism, data, art, civic imagination, and social action"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Peace parks :conservation and conflict resolution
An analysis of the potential for environmental cooperation in multijurisdictional conservation zones to contribute to political conflict resolution; includes case studies of existing parks and proposals for new ones.Although the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Kenyan environmentalist, few have considered whether environmental conservation can contribute to peace-building in conflict zon…
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- 1 online resource (xx, 406 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt
"A Bradford book."The original essays in this book address Harry Frankfurt's influential writing on personal identity, love, value, moral responsibility, and the freedom and limits of the human will. Many of Frankfurt's deepest insights come from exploring the self-reflective nature of human agents and the psychic conflicts that self-reflection often produces. His work has informed discussions …
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- 1 online resource (xx, 361 pages)
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Creative Destruction: Business Survival Strategies in the Global Internet Eco…
A collection of 12 papers which "grew out of a March 1999 symposium held at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. "Creative Destruction -- or Just Destruction? Telecoms in Transition: Survival and Success in the Global Internet Economy" was co-sponsored by the Fletcher School's Hitachi Center for Technology and International Affairs, the Fletcher School's Edward R. Murrow …
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- 1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) :illustrations
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Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior
"A Bradford book."Why the prejudice against adopting a scientific attitude in the social sciences is creating a new "Dark Ages" and preventing us from solving the perennial problems of crime, war, and poverty.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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