Towards Sustainable and Resilient Tourism Futures Insights from the Internat…

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The biology of the first 1,000 days

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Foreign aid and its unintended consequences

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Social Development in the World Bank: Essays in Honor of Michael M. Cernea

This open access book honors the work of Michael Cernea, who was the World Bank’s first professional sociologist, by taking on and extending his arguments for "putting people first.” Cernea led a community of social scientists in formulating and promoting a comprehensive set of innovative and original social policies on development issues, which the World Bank adopted and implemented. This …

Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung: Die Umsetzung der Sustainable Development Goals…

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Science and Technology in the Global Cold War

Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Consciousness :confessions of a romantic reductionist

"What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysical, subjective, conscious states? Christof Koch has devoted much of his career to bridging the seemingly unbridgeable gap between the physics of the brain and phenomenal experience. This engaging book--part scientific overview, part memoir, part…

Thieves of virtue :when bioethics stole medicine

Bioethics emerged in the 1960s from a conviction that physicians and researchers needed the guidance of philosophers in handling the issues raised by technological advances in medicine. It blossomed as a response to the perceived doctor-knows-best paternalism of the traditional medical ethic and today plays a critical role in health policies and treatment decisions. Bioethics claimed to offer a…

Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future

The MIT Sloan School of Management perspective on future management challenges.The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by the legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical resources of MIT and approach the problems of management with the rigorous research practices for which MIT was famous. Fifty years later, the Sloan Sc…

Visual Attention and Cortical Circuits

A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.