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Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education
An imaginative tour of the contemporary university as it could be: a place to discover self-knowledge, meaning, and purpose. What if college were not just a means of acquiring credentials, but a place to pursue our formation as whole persons striving to lead lives of meaning and purpose? In Undeclared, Chris Higgins confronts the contemporary university in a bid to reclaim a formative missio…
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By force of thought :irregular memoirs of an intellectual journey
"Janos Kornai, a distinguished Hungarian economist, began his adult life as an ardent believer in socialism and then became a critic of the communist political and economic system. He lost family members in the Holocaust, contributed to the ideological preparation for the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and became an influential theorist of the post-Soviet economic transition. He has been a journali…
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- 9780262277440
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- 1 online resource (xix, 461 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations
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Philosophy and AI :essays at the interface
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262315951
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- 1 online resource (xi, 304 pages) :illustrations
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Phrasal movement and its kin
This study investigates the types of movement and movement-like relations that link positions in syntactic structure. David Pesetsky argues that there are three such relations. Besides overt phasal movement, there are two distinct types of movement without phonological effect: covert phrasal movement and feature movement. Focusing on wh-questions, he shows how his classification of movement-lik…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 132 pages).
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Phrase structure composition and syntactic dependencies
"A Bradford Book."In Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies, Robert Frank explores an approach to syntactic theory that weds the Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism with the minimalist framework. TAG has been extensively studied both for its mathematical properties and for its usefulness in computational linguistics applications. Frank shows that incorporating TAG's formally…
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- 9780262273060
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages) :illustrations.
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Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality
How communication technologies meant to empower people with speech disorders—to give voice to the voiceless—are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities. Mobile technologies are often hailed as a way to “give voice to the voiceless.” Behind the praise, though, are beliefs about technology as a gateway to opportunity and voice as a metaphor for agency and self-representatio…
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Picturing machines 1400-1700
How technical drawings shaped early engineering practice.Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a range of new methods of graphic representation. These drawings--among them Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawings of mechanical devices--have long been studied for their aesthetic qualities and technological ingenuity, but their significance for the architect…
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- 9780262278102
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- 1 online resource (vi, 347 pages) :illustrations.
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What do science technology and innovation mean from Africa
Clapperton Mavhunga's collection of essays about science, technology, and innovation (STI) from an African perspective opens with the idea, "Things do not (always) mean the same from everywhere; when we insist that only?our? meaning is the meaning, we silence other people?s meanings." Mavhunga and his contributors argue that our contemporary definitions of STI are those of countries and culture…
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- 9780262342322
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Planning, shortage, and transformation :essays in honor of J?anos Kornai
The three major themes of János Kornai's work reflected in the title of this book—planning, shortage, and transition, or transformation—figure prominently in the essays. The three major themes of János Kornai's work reflected in the title of this book—planning, shortage, and transition, or transformation—figure prominently in the essays. After a philosophical introduction by Edmond…
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 439 pages) :illustrations
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Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism
The computerization of the economy—and everyday life—has transformed the division of labor between humans and machines, shifting many people into work that is hidden, poorly compensated, or accepted as part of being a “user” of digital technology. Through our clicks and swipes, logins and profiles, emails and posts, we are, more or less willingly, participating in digital activities tha…
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