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Tenacious beasts :animals back from the brink
"Conventional wisdom is that wild animals are being wiped out. But conventional wisdom skips some important details. Wildlife is rebounding. Not everywhere. Not every species. But a handful of wildlife populations have reached numbers unimaginable in a century. Red deer in Europe, bison in North America, humpback whales in the Atlantic. They have all seen their populations explode. They are bac…
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Bounded rationality :heuristics, judgment, and public policy
"An accessible and self-contained treatment of the current state of thinking about rationality in economics and other social sciences"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262369664
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Working with AI :real stories of human-machine collaboration
"An exploration of the future of work featuring real-world profiles of changing jobs and work arrangements in light of human/AI interaction"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Fertility technology
"History and analysis of the principal types of fertility technologies from the 1860s to the present"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262372336
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Visual plague :the emergence of epidemic photography
"Visual Plague claims that what epidemic photography did, besides the individual visualization of each outbreak it depicted, was to transform the way in which we relate to infectious diseases, as both biological and historical agents"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262370913
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Sculptor and destroyer :tales of glutamate -- the brain's most important neur…
The fascinating story of glutamate, the neurotransmitter that controls the structure and function of the brain in health and neurological disorders. Sculptor and Destroyer tells the story of a simple, little-known molecule that became a master architect and commander of the human brain: glutamate. Upward of 90 percent of the neurons in the human brain deploy glutamate as their neurotransmitter.…
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- 0262375184
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Voices from the radium age
"A collection of important science fiction works from the early 20th century"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262368681
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The clockwork man
Several thousand years from now, advanced humanoids known as the Makers will implant clockwork devices into our heads. At the cost of a certain amount of agency, these devices will permit us to move unhindered through time and space, and to live complacent, well-regulated lives. However, when one of these devices goes awry, a "clockwork man" appears accidentally in the 1920s, at a cricket match…
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The science-music borderlands :reckoning with the past and imagining the future
Interdisciplinary essays on music psychology that integrate scientific, humanistic, and artistic ways of knowing in transformative ways. Researchers using scientific methods and approaches to advance our understanding of music and musicality have not yet grappled with some of the perils that humanistic fields concentrating on music have long articulated. In this edited volume, established and e…
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- 9780262373043
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Artificial communication :how algorithms produce social intelligence
"Argues that what makes AI socially relevant and useful is not intelligence at all but something even more human: communication. If machines are going to improve their ability to address ever more important human issues, it will not be because they have learned to think like people, but because we have learned to communicate with them"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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