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Reckonings :numerals, cognition, and history
Insights from the history of numerical notation suggest that how humans write numbers is an active choice involving cognitive and social factors. Over the past 5,000 years, more than 100 methods of numerical notation--distinct ways of writing numbers--have been developed and used by specific communities. Most of these are barely known today; where they are known, they are often derided as cogni…
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- 9780262360883
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- 1 online resource (264 pages).
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Youth mental health :a paradigm for prevention and early intervention
Experts discuss the potential of early intervention to transform outcomes for people with mental disorders. Mental illness represents one of the largest disease burdens worldwide, yet treatments have been largely ineffective in improving the quality of life for millions of affected individuals--in part because approaches taken have focused on late-stage disorders in adulthood. This volume shift…
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- 9780262044547
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- 1 online resource (288 pages).
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CRISPR people :the science and ethics of editing humans
"Beginning with the amazing tale of the Chinese "CRISPR Babies," Greely tells the complex story of human germline editing, covering the science, ethics, law, and politics"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363563
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 380 pages).
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Make it clear :speak and write to persuade and inform
"A very cogent guide to compelling talks, lecturers, presentations and pitches"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026236039X
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A citizen's guide to artificial intelligence
"An accessible overview of the threats and opportunities inherent in automated decision making in academia, government, and industry"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262361329
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Recovering the later Georg Luk?acs :a study on the unity of his thought
"A recovery of Georg Luk?acs's later thought on aesthetics, politics, and ontology and the first articulation of its unity, through the lens of the philosopher's writing on totality and reification"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262374064
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Embodying design :an applied science of radical embodied cognition
"This book sets the agenda for how we think about human activity that arises from embedding manipulated information in our action and embodied cognition"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262369885
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How not to study a disease :the story of Alzheimer's
"A trade book on Alzheimer's disease - its human face, some insights into its biology, the discoveries that seemed a path to prevention if not cure, 25 years without progress, and a new path forward"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026236574X
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Digital entrepreneurship in Africa :how a continent is escaping Silicon Valle…
"Digital entrepreneurship has often been viewed as a game changer for African development. Empowered by a single smartphone, the thinking goes, an individual entrepreneur can lay the groundwork for the next Amazon or Apple, and this will jumpstart economic progress on the entire continent. However, the realities of actual African digital entrepreneurship are much more modest. Yes, individual en…
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Play like a feminist
An important new voice provides a riveting look at why video games need feminism and why all of us should make space for more play in our lives. "You play like a girl": it's meant to be an insult, accusing a player of subpar, un-fun playing. If you're a girl, and you grow up, do you "play like a woman"--whatever that means' In this provocative and enlightening book, Shira Chess urges us to play…
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