Dolphin communication and cognition : past, present, and future

"Dolphin researchers have collected an impressive amount of data over the last twenty years, thanks to advances in technology for monitoring, recording, and analyzing dolphin behavior as well as increasing interest in exploring and modeling dolphins' cognitive capacities. This volume offers a comprehensive reference to the latest research on dolphin communication and cognition, reporting on fin…

Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann's Entropy

"This is a story about a man and his equation. We learn in this story that entropy is the central quantity in something called the second law of thermodynamics. The second law is always on, running in the background of our lives, providing us with a way to differentiate between past and future. It provides us with an arrow of time: we know that the future will be a state of higher entropy than …

White Space Communication Advances, Developments and Engineering Challenges

This monograph presents a collection of major developments leading toward the implementation of white space technology - an emerging wireless standard for using wireless spectrum in locations where it is unused by licensed users. Some of the key research areas in the field are covered. These include emerging standards, technical insights from early pilots and simulations, software defined radio…

Cultures of prediction :how engineering and science evolve with mathematical …

"This book provides a longue dur?ee story examining the dynamic history of predictive methods and values in sciences--and particularly in engineering and other applied sciences--which is crucial to understanding today's culture of prediction"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Mind in nature :Dewey, cognitive science, and a naturalistic philosophy for l…

"A reassessment of the influence of John Dewey's mature work, especially "Experience and Nature" on recent trends in cognitive science"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Out of the cave :a natural philosophy of mind and knowing

"A grand, unified "natural philosophy of mind" that draws equally from the embodied cognition and cognitive neuroscience literature"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Mind in Nature: John Dewey, Cognitive Science, and a Naturalistic Philosophy …

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A Cultural Biography of the Prostate

What contemporary prostate angst tells us about how we understand masculinity, aging, and sexuality. We are all suffering an acute case of prostate angst. Men worry about their own prostates and those of others close to them; women worry about the prostates of the men they love. The prostate—a gland located directly under the bladder—lurks on the periphery of many men's health issues, bu…

The social sciences in the Asian century

In this collection of essays, we reflect on what it means to practise the social sciences in the twenty-first century. The book brings together leading social scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. We argue for the benefit of dialogue between the diverse theories and methods of social sciences in the region, the role of the social sciences in addressing real-world problems, the need to transc…

Cataract Surgery in the Glaucoma Patient

Cataract surgery is one of the most frequently performed procedure in the United States, and cataracts are a leading cause of visual impairment in the world. Glaucoma is also a very common eye disease with an expected 3.3 million Americans afflicted with primary open angle glaucoma by 2020. The coexistence of these two diseases is not uncommon and management of a cataract can have significant i…