'And' :conjunction reduction redux

In this book, Barry Schein argues that "and" is always the sentential logical connective with the same, one, meaning. "And" always means "&," across the varied constructions in which it is tokened in natural language. Schein examines the constructions that challenge his thesis, and shows that the objections disappear when these constructions are translated into Eventish, a neo-Davidsonian event…

Neuroplasticity

The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes -- with or without ""brain training."""Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes. This concept of neuroplasticity has captured the imagination of a public eager …

Sequel to suburbia :glimpses of America's post-suburban future

How the decentralized, automobile-oriented, and fuel-consuming model of American suburban development might change.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The knowledge capital of nations :education and the economics of growth

A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related in the long run to the skills of its population.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Zones of control :perspectives on wargaming

Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game history. This volume fills that gap, providing a diverse set of perspectives on war-gaming's past, present, and future. In Zones of Control, contributors consider war-games played for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of d…

Extraordinary science and psychiatry :responses to the crisis in mental healt…

Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5."Psychiatry and mental health research is in crisis, with tensions between psychiatry's clinical and research aims and controversies over diagnosis, treatment, and scientific constructs for studying mental disorders. At the center of these controv…

Global climate policy :actors, concepts, and enduring challenges

Analyses of the international climate change regime consider the challenges of maintaining current structures and the possibilities for creating new forms of international cooperation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

For name and fame : or, To Cabul with Roberts

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Golden thoughts of Carmen Sylva [pseud.], Queen of Roumania : Translated by p…

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The first violin; a novel

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