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Desire: its role in practical reason and the explanation of action
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- 1 online resource (xi, 223 pages)
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Development and evolution: complexity and change in biology
Development and Evolution surveys and illuminates the key themes of rapidly changing fields and areas of controversy that are redefining the theory and philosophy of biology. It continues Stanley Salthe's investigation of evolutionary theory, begun in his influential book Evolving Hierarchical Systems, while negating the implicit philosophical mechanisms of much of that work. Here Salthe attemp…
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- 9780262282895
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 357 pages) :illustrations
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Development, Geography, and Economic Theory
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- 1 online resource (ix, 117 pages) :illustrations
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Digital halftoning
Along with text and graphics, images are fast becoming a generic data type for general-purpose computer systems. This poses new problems for the systems designer, who must be able to preprocess digital image data for a wide variety of video and hard copy displays. Digital halftoning, the method by which the illusion of continuous-tone images are created through the arrangement of binary picture…
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- 0262291029
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Developmental psychobiology: an interdisciplinary science
This text is the first to provide a coherent theoretical treatment of the flourishing new field of developmental psychobiology which has arisen in recent years on the crest of exciting advances in evolutionary biology, developmental neuroscience, and dynamic systems theory Michel and Moore, two of the field's key pioneers and researchers, integrate primary source information from research in b…
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- 1 online resource (xix, 510 pages) :illustrations
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A History of Christianity in India 1707–1858
This book, a sequel to Bishop Neill's A History of Christianity in India: The Beginnings to 1707, traces its subject from the death of Aurunzib to the so-called Indian Mutiny. The history of India since 1498 is of a tremendous confrontation of cultures and religions. Since 1757, the chief part in this confrontation has been played by Britain; and the Christian missionary enterprise, especially …
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Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with N…
An examination of young people's everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use. Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet t…
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Beyond the big ditch : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal
This title traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama's cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along maritime routes and tracing rivers upstream across the populated watershed that feeds the canal, it explores the politics of environmental management around a waterway th…
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- 9780262320467
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- 1 online resource (xv, 298 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Truly human enhancement : a philosophical defense of limits
The transformative potential of genetic and cybernetic technologies to enhance human capabilities is most often either rejected on moral and prudential grounds or hailed as the future salvation of humanity. In this book, Nicholas Agar offers a more nuanced view, making a case for moderate human enhancement -- improvements to attributes and abilities that do not significantly exceed what is curr…
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- 9780262318976
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- 1 online resource (233 pages) :illustrations.
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Who's asking? : Native science, Western science, and science education
"The answers to scientific questions depend on who's asking, because the questions asked and the answers sought reflect the cultural values and orientations of the questioner. These values and orientations are most often those of Western science. In Who's Asking?, Douglas Medin and Megan Bang argue that despite the widely held view that science is objective, value-neutral, and acultural, scient…
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