"A general-readership book about games as an aesthetic form - how to think about the ways in which they create beauty and meaning and exploring the special role they have to play in our present historical moment"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Economist Frank Sloan and lawyer Lindsey Chepke examine the U.S. medical malpractice process from legal, medical, economic & insurance perspectives, analyse past efforts at reform, & offer policy recommendations.
How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought.
Description based upon print version of record."An explanation of where children's scientific intuitions come from and how they can be nurtured. Intended not just for scholars but science teachers and enthusiasts as well"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Conference proceedings."This book is based on a conference on 'Dodd-Frank and the Future of Finance' that was held in Washington, DC, on June 13-14, 2013"--Acknowledgments.Leading scholars, along with regulators and practitioners, discuss Dodd-Frank and financial regulation. The origins of the Dodd-Frank Act in the financial crisis and the legislative process that produced it are described. Sys…
In Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development, Frank C. Keil provides a coherent account of how concepts and word meanings develop in children, adding to our understanding of the representational nature of concepts and word meanings at all ages. "A Bradford book."Includes indexes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Originally published in 1961, Return from the Stars recounts the experiences of Hal Bregg, an astronaut who returns from an exploratory mission of ten years. Due to time dilation 127 years have passed on Earth. Bregg returns to a society that he hardly recognizes, one where danger has been eradicated. Children are 'betrizated' to remove all aggression and violence, but this also removes all im…
Papers presented at the Fifth MIT Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI, organized by the Microsystems Research Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, held in Cambridge, Mass., Mar. 1988.The field of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) is concerned with the design, production, and use of highly complex integrated circuits. The research collected here comes from many disciplines,…
The global stockpile, continued production and use of plutonium and highly enriched uranium facilitates proliferation, increases the risk of nuclear terrorism and is an obstacle to achieving irreversible nuclear disarmament. The book explains how these materials are used, describes the histories of fissile material production for weapons, provides an overview of the current global stockpile of …
An examination of digitality not simply as a technical substrate but also as the logical basis for reshaped concepts of labor, subjectivity, and collectivity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.