What the body commands :the imperative theory of pain

"In What the Body Commands, Colin Klein proposes and defends a novel theory of pain. Klein argues that pains are imperative; they are sensations with a content, and that content is a command to protect the injured part of the body. He terms this view 'imperativism about pain, ' and argues that imperativism can account for two puzzling features of pain: its strong motivating power and its uninfo…

Paid :tales of dongles, checks, and other money stuff

Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Cultural code :video games and Latin America

How culture uses games and how games use culture: an examination of Latin America's gaming practices and the representation of the region's cultures in games.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Fracking the neighborhood :reluctant activists and natural gas drilling

When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of a back yard fence and diesel trucks clog a quiet two-lane residential street. Children seem to be having more than the usual number of nosebleeds. There are so many local cases of cancer that the elementary school starts a cancer support group. In this book, Jessi…

Winning the reputation game :Creating stakeholder value and competitive advan…

Subtitle on dust jacket cover: Creating stakeholder value and competitive advantage.Core strategies for creating a corporate reputation that will provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace: a back-to-basics approach.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Trees of the brain, roots of the mind

"The human brain is often described as the most complex object in the universe. Tens of billions of nerve cells-tiny tree-like structures--make up a massive network with enormous computational power. In this book, Giorgio Ascoli reveals another aspect of the human brain: the stunning beauty of its cellular form. Doing so, he makes a provocative claim about the mind-brain relationship. If each n…

This is why we can't have nice things :mapping the relationship between onlin…

Why the troll problem is actually a culture problem: how online trolling fits comfortably within today's media landscape.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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

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Productivity, Inequality, and the Digital Economy; A Transatlantic Perspective

Esai tentang komputer dan ekonomi, khususnya yang berkaitan dengan tingkat ketenagakerjaan dan ketimpangan upah. Penyebaran teknologi informasi dan komunikasi (TIK) yang meluas telah menimbulkan konsekuensi yang kontroversial dan tampaknya paradoks. TIK dipandang sebagai pendorong pertumbuhan dan ketenagakerjaan di Amerika Serikat, sekaligus berkontribusi terhadap pengangguran di Eropa dan apa …

Explorations in Parallel Distributed Processing - Macintosh version: A Handbo…

Eksplorasi dalam Pemrosesan Terdistribusi Paralel - versi Macintosh: Buku Pegangan Model, Program, dan Latihan adalah buku pendamping yang dirancang untuk mengeksplorasi konsep dan simulasi pemrosesan terdistribusi paralel (PDP) atau model jaringan online. Buku pegangan ini dirancang khusus untuk digunakan pada platform Macintosh dan menyediakan pendekatan langsung untuk memahami arsitektur, al…