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Vision how it works and what can go wrong
"Over the past fifty years, enormous progress has been made in understanding visual mechanisms and treating eye disorders. And yet the scientist is not always aware of the latest clinical advances and the clinician is often not up to date on the basic scientific discoveries. Writing in nontechnical language, John and Joseph Dowling, a neuroscientist and an ophthalmologist, examine vision from b…
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- 9780262333566
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- 1 online resource (xx, 204 pages) :illustrations
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Pesticide drift and the pursuit of environmental justice
"In this book, Jill Lindsey Harrison considers political conflicts over pesticide drift in California, using them to illuminate the broader problem and its potential solutions. The fact that pesticide pollution and illnesses associated with it disproportionately affect the poor and the powerless raises questions of environmental justice (and political injustice). Despite California's impressive…
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- 9780262298766
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The man who saw tomorrow :the life and inventions of Stanford R. Ovshinsky
The first full-length biography of a brilliant, self-taught inventor whose innovations in information and energy technology continue to shape our world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345033
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Power-system reliability calculations
This is a significant work in an important area, and one that is receiving growing attention. It has been estimated that many professional meetings currently devote a third or more of their time to questions of power-system reliability. The book digests this research and covers the standard techniques and methods that are currently standard. The presentation employs a minimum of mathematics.The…
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- 9780262310765
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- 1 online resource (viii, 173 pages) :illustrations.
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The Practice of Prolog
"Leon Sterling is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Science at Case Western Reserve University. He is the coauthor, along with Ehud Shapiro, of The Art of Prolog.""Addressed to readers at different levels of programming expertise, The Practice of Prolog offers a departure from current books that focus on small programming examples requiring additional instruction…
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- 9780262284332
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- 1 online resource (312 pages) :illustrations.
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The primacy of the subjective :foundations for a unified theory of mind and l…
A proposal that the concept of minimal content--a narrow, first-person, non-phenomenal concept--plays a necessary, pivotal, foundational, and unifying role in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language.In this highly original monograph, Nicholas Georgalis proposes that the concept of minimal content is fundamental both to the philosophy of mind and to the philosophy of language. He a…
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- 9780262316279
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 352 pages)
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Kids and Credibility: An Empirical Examination of Youth, Digital Media Use, a…
Overview: How well do children navigate the ocean of information that is available online? The enormous variety of Web-based resources represents both opportunities and challenges for Internet-savvy kids, offering extraordinary potential for learning and social connection but little guidance on assessing the reliability of online information. This book reports on the first large-scale survey to…
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Principle B, VP ellipsis, and interpretation in child grammar
This is the first experimental study of Principle B with verb phrase ellipsis and properties of the interpretation of empty pronouns in ellipsis. Among the universal principles are those known as the principles of the binding theory. These principles constrain the range of interpretations that can be assigned to sentences containing reflexives and reciprocals, pronouns, and referring express…
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- 9780262284974
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Principles and Practice of Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (Second Edition)
The long-awaited second edition of an authoritative reference on electrophysiologic vision testing, including detailed information on techniques and problems, basic physiology and anatomy, theoretical concepts, and clinical findings; with extensive new material. This authoritative text is the only comprehensive reference available on electrophysiologic vision testing, offering both practical in…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262275187
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 977 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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An inclusive academy : achieving diversity and excellence
How colleges and universities can live up to their ideals of diversity, and why inclusivity and excellence go hand in hand.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262346221
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- 1 online resource (xxxi, 491 pages)
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