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Transgression in games and play
Contributors from a range of disciplines explore boundary-crossing in videogames, examining both transgressive game content and transgressive player actions. Video gameplay can include transgressive play practices in which players act in ways meant to annoy, punish, or harass other players. Videogames themselves can include transgressive or upsetting content, including excessive violence. Such …
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- 0262348705
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- 1 online resource (vi, 318 pages)
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Agrobiodiversity: Integrating Knowledge for a Sustainable Future
Wide-ranging environmental phenomena—including climate change, extreme weather events, and soil and water availability—combine with such socioeconomic factors as food policies, dietary preferences, and market forces to affect agriculture and food production systems on local, national, and global scales. The increasing simplification of food systems, the continuing decline of plant species, …
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A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882–1982
Electrical engineering is a protean profession. Today the field embraces many disciplines that seem far removed from its roots in the telegraph, telephone, electric lamps, motors, and generators. To a remarkable extent, this chronicle of change and growth at a single institution is a capsule history of the discipline and profession of electrical engineering as it developed worldwide. Even when …
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- 9780262291033
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- 1 online resource (xi, 423 pages) :illustrations
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The economics of conflict : theory and empirical evidence
Modern economics has largely ignored the issue of outright conflict as an alternative way of allocating goods, assuming instead the existence of well-defined property rights enforced by an undefined third party. And yet even in ostensibly peaceful market transactions, conflict exists as an outside option, sometimes constraining the outcomes reached through voluntary agreement. In this volume, e…
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- 9780262321976
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 285 pages) :illustrations.
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Space in mind : concepts for spatial learning and education
Leading researchers offer a range of disciplinary perspectives on the implications of spatial thinking and reasoning for education and learning.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262321730
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- 1 online resource (viii, 341 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Multicellularity origins and evolution
Scholars consider the origins and consequences of the evolution of multicellularity, addressing a range of organisms, experimental protocols, theoretical concepts, and philosophical issues.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262333740
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 302 pages) :illustrations.
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Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior
Active inference is a way of understanding sentient behavior—a theory that characterizes perception, planning, and action in terms of probabilistic inference. Developed by theoretical neuroscientist Karl Friston over years of groundbreaking research, active inference provides an integrated perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior that is increasingly used across multiple disciplines incl…
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- 9780262369978
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Agrobiodiversity: Integrating Knowledge for a Sustainable Future
Experts discuss the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and conservation, integrating disciplines that range from plant and biological sciences to economics and political science. Wide-ranging environmental phenomena—including climate change, extreme weather events, and soil and water availability—combine with such socioeconomic factors as food policies, dietary preferences, and market …
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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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Agrobiodiversity :integrating knowledge for a sustainable future
Experts discuss the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and conservation, integrating disciplines that range from plant and biological sciences to economics and political science. Wide-ranging environmental phenomena -- including climate change, extreme weather events, and soil and water availability -- combine with such socioeconomic factors as food policies, dietary preferences, and market f…
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