Design and destiny :Jewish and Christian perspectives on human germline modif…

Scholars discuss the genetic modification of embryonic cells from the viewpoints of traditional Jewish and Christian teaching, considering both the possible therapeutic benefits of this technology and moral concerns about its implementation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Exchange rates under the East Asian dollar standard :living with conflicted v…

The increasingly integrated economies of East Asia--China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand--face the dilemma of how to achieve exchange-rate security in the absence of a unifying "Asian euro." The US dollar has become the region's dominant intraregional trading currency as well as the monetary anchor to which East Asian economies in…

The rationality of emotion

In this urbane and witty book, Ronald de Sousa disputes the widespread notion that reason and emotion are natural antagonists. He argues that emotions are a kind of perception, that their roots in the paradigm scenarios in which they are learned give them an essentially dramatic structure, and that they have a crucial role to-play in rational beliefs, desires, and decisions by breaking the dead…

Reasoning about knowledge

Title from title screen.Title from website (viewed Jan. 20, 2006).Reasoning about knowledge--particularly the knowledge of agents who reason about the world and each other's knowledge--was once the exclusive province of philosophers and puzzle solvers. More recently, this type of reasoning has been shown to play a key role in a surprising number of contexts, from understanding conversations to …

Social consequences of Internet use :access, involvement, and interaction

Drawing on nationally representative telephone surveys conducted from 1995 to 2000, James Katz and Ronald Rice offer a rich and nuanced picture of Internet use in America. Using quantitative data, as well as case studies of Web sites, they explore the impact of the Internet on society from three perspectives: access to Internet technology (the digital divide), involvement with groups and commun…

Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement, and Interaction

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Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering

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Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data

Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data By Ronald E. Day The MIT Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10073.001.0001 ISBN electronic: 9780262322775 Publication date: 2014 A critical history of the modern tradition of documentation, tracing the representation of i…

Revolution, Reform and Regionalism in Southeast Asia

ABSTRACT Based on research carried out over the three decades, this book compares the post-war political economies of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam in the context of their individual and collective impact on contemporary efforts at regional integration. The author highlights the different paths to reform taken by the three neighbours and the effect this has had on regional plans for economic deve…

Global Environmental Assessments: Information and Influence

Knowledge about environmental problems has expanded rapidly in recent decades, as have the number and variety of processes for making large-scale scientific assessments of those problems and their possible solutions. Yet too often scientific information has not been transformed into effective and appropriate policies to protect the global environment. In this book, scholars use a comparative an…