From Animals to Animats 7: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conferenc…

The Simulation of Adaptive Behavior Conference brings together researchers from ethology, psychology, ecology, artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, computer science, engineering, and related fields to further understanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow adaptation and survival in uncertain environments. The work presented focuses on robotic and computationa…

Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma

An argument that environmental challenges will only resonate with citizens of affluent postindustrial countries if sustainability concerns emerge from everyday practices.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science

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

Attention and performance XIV :synergies in experimental psychology, artifici…

"A Bradford book."Title from title screen (viewed Aug. 31st, 2005).Attention and Performance XIV, the silver jubilee volume in a renowned series of international symposia on human mental and physical performance, provides a broad, historic, and timely synthesis of the empirical and theoretical ideas on which performance theory now rests.Extending trends set by earlier symposia volumes, the thir…

Debt Defaults and Lessons from a Decade of Crises

Providing case studies of debt defaults by Russia, Ukraine, Pakistan, Ecuador, Moldova, and Uruguay, framed by a discussion of the history, economic theory, legal issues, and policy lessons of sovereign debt crises, this work examines the facts, economic theory, and policy implications of sovereign debt crises.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Political nature :environmentalism and the interpretation of Western thought

Concern over environmental problems is prompting us to reexamine established thinking about society and politics. The challenge is to find a way for the public's concern for the environment to become more integral to social, economic, and political decision making. Two interpretations have dominated Western portrayals of the nature-politics relationship, what John Meyer calls the dualist and th…

Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities

In Knowledge Machines, Eric Meyer and Ralph Schroeder argue that digital technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Meyer and Schroeder show that digital tools and data, used collectively and in distributed mode -- which they term e-research -- have transformed not just the consumption of knowledge but also the production of know…

Prenatal testosterone in mind :amniotic fluid studies

"A Bradford book."This pioneering study looks at the effects of prenatal testosterone on postnatal development and behavior. Hormonal effects on behavior have long been studied in animals; the unique contribution of this book is to suggest a connection between human fetal hormones and later behavior. It details for the first time testosterone's effect on social and language development, opening…

Whistled Languages A Worldwide Inquiry on Human Whistled Speech

The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author’s unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience. The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms of languages are also explored, including the role of environmental constraints in the emergence of whistled speech, their phonetic and phonol…