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The institutional dimensions of environmental change : fit, interplay, and scale
Researchers studying the role institutions play in causing and confronting environmental change use a variety of concepts and methods that make it difficult to compare their findings. Seeking to remedy this problem, Oran Young takes the analytic themes identified in the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) Science Plan as cutting-edge research concerns and develops th…
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- 9780262286572
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- 1 online resource (xv, 221 pages)
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Mechanisms :new media and the forensic imagination
"In Mechanisms, Matthew Kirschenbaum examines new media and electronic writing against the textual and technological primitives that govern writing, inscription, and textual transmission in all media: erasure, variability, repeatability, and survivability. Mechanisms is the first book in its field to devote significant attention to storage--the hard drive in particular--arguing that understandi…
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- 9780262302746
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 296 pages) :illustrations
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Contagion and chaos :disease, ecology, and national security in the era of gl…
Sequel to: The health of nations / Andrew T. Price-Smith. c2002.An analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, SARS, and Mad Cow Disease.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255530
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- 1 online resource (x, 281 pages) :illustrations
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A mark of the mental :in defense of informational teleosemantics
Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space semantics, a theory of naturalized mental representation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xv, 327 pages) :illustrations.
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Veritas: The Correspondence Theory and Its Critics
A Bradford book."A restatement of the correspondence theory of truth together with a defense against objections and alternative theories, including deflationism, minimalism, and pluralism. In Veritas , Gerald Vision defends the correspondence theory of truth -- the theory that truth has a direct relationship to reality -- against recent attacks, and critically examines its most influential alte…
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MediaArtHistories
Leading scholars take a wider view of new media, placing it in the context of art history and acknowledging the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach in new media art studies and practice.
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Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion
An overview of the art historical antecedents to virtual reality and the impact of virtual reality on contemporary conceptions of art.Although many people view virtual reality as a totally new phenomenon, it has its foundations in an unrecognized history of immersive images. Indeed, the search for illusionary visual space can be traced back to antiquity. In this book, Oliver Grau shows how virt…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 416 pages) :illustrations.
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A History of Egypt
Published in six volumes between 1894 and 1905, this collection served as a valuable reference work for students and scholars of Egyptology at a time when ongoing archaeological excavations were adding significantly to the understanding of one of the world's oldest civilisations. At the forefront of this research was Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942), whose pioneering methods ma…
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
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Virtual Music: Computer Synthesis of Musical Style
Virtual Music is about artificial creativity. Focusing on the author's Experiments in Musical Intelligence computer music composing program, the author and a distinguished group of experts discuss many of the issues surrounding the program, including artificial intelligence, music cognition, and aesthetics. The book is divided into four parts. The first part provides a historical background to…
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Situating semantics :essays on the philosophy of John Perry
"A Bradford book."Original commentary on the work of philosopher John Perry by prominent contemporary analytic philosophers, with Perry's detailed and original responses; topics include the metaphysics of identity, semantics, and philosophy of mind.John Perry, Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, is one of a handful of contemporary analytic philosophers to comb…
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