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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.
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- 9780262338332
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 288 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Plantations and protected areas :a global history of forest management
"This book offers a historical perspective on the global proliferation of protected forest areas and productive timber plantations. It argues that a forest management divergence--the separation of wood production from the protection of forests--has occurred during the twentieth century as a result of globalisation. The book shows how plantations and protected areas evolved from, and then underm…
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- 9780262329910
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 201 pages) :illustrations.
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Neuroplasticity
The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes -- with or without ""brain training."""Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes. This concept of neuroplasticity has captured the imagination of a public eager …
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- 9780262337069
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- 1 online resource (x, 181 pages).
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Self-tracking
People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This book examines how people record, analyze, and reflect on this data, l…
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- 9780262334693
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- 1 online resource (xi, 233 pages) :illustrations.
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Trace metals and infectious diseases
Experts explore the influence of trace metals on the pathogenesis of infectious diseases.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262327619
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- 1 online resource (xii, 488 pages) :illustrations.
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Here/there :telepresence, touch, and art at the interface
An examination of telepresence technologies through the lens of contemporary artistic experiments, from early video art through current ""drone vision"" works.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262338240
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) :illustrations.
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Giving a damn :essays in dialogue with John Haugeland
A collection of essays that use John Haugeland's work on intentionality, embodiment, objectivity, and caring to explore contemporary issues in philosophy of mind."In his work, the philosopher John Haugeland (1945-2010) proposed a radical expansion of philosophy's conceptual toolkit, calling for a wider range of resources for understanding the mind, the world, and how they relate. Haugeland argu…
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- 9780262335850
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- 1 online resource (vi, 373 pages)
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Why are we waiting? :the logic, urgency, and promise of tackling climate change
An urgent case for climate change action that forcefully sets out, in economic, ethical, and political terms, the dangers of delay and the benefits of action.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262329200
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- 1 online resource (xxxv, 406 pages) :illustrations
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Sequel to suburbia :glimpses of America's post-suburban future
How the decentralized, automobile-oriented, and fuel-consuming model of American suburban development might change.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262330749
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- 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Creating language :integrating evolution, acquisition, and processing
A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262334778
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