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From Darwin to Derrida :selfish genes, social selves, and the meanings of life
"The main task of this book is to explain how the process of natural selection produces purposeful beings that make sense of their world - organisms who do things for good reasons. It provides a link between a physical world described in terms of matter in motion and a living world described in terms of meanings and purposes. David is proposing a unification of biology and the humanities throug…
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The promise of artificial intelligence :reckoning and judgment
An argument that--despite dramatic advances in the field--artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent.In this provocative book, Brian Cantwell Smith argues that artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent. Second wave AI, machine learning, even visions of third-wave AI: none will lead to human-level inte…
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- 9780262355209
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- 1 online resource (184 pages).
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Playful visions :optical toys and the emergence of children's media culture
The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as "new media" of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262358040
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- 1 online resource (288 pages).
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Levels of organization in the biological sciences
"This book addresses basic and advanced questions surrounding the idea of levels or organization in the biological sciences"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366193
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Art and tradition in a time of uprisings
Examining radical reinventions of traditional practices, ranging from a queer reclamation of the Jewish festival of Purim to an Indigenous remixing of musical traditions. Supposedly outmoded modes of doing and making--from music and religious rituals to crafting and cooking--are flourishing, both artistically and politically, in the digital age. In this book, Gabriel Levine examines collective …
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- 9780262357166
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- 1 online resource (352 pages).
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Carbon captured :how business and labor control climate politics
A comparative examination of domestic climate politics that offers a theory for cross-national differences in domestic climate policymaking. Climate change threatens the planet, and yet policy responses have varied widely across nations. Some countries have undertaken ambitious programs to stave off climate disaster, others have done little, and still others have passed policies that were later…
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- 9780262357272
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- 1 online resource (368 pages).
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Bridging the seas :the rise of naval architecture in the industrial age, 1800…
How the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for the design and building of ships. In the 1800s, shipbuilding moved from sail and wood to steam, iron, and steel. The competitive pressure to achieve more predictable ocean transportation drove the industrialization of shipbuilding, as shipowners demanded ships that enabled tighter scheduling, improved…
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- 1 online resource (408 pages).
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Installing automobility :emerging politics of mobility and streets in Indian …
An examination of the process of prioritizing private motorized transportation in Bengaluru, a rapidly growing megacity of the Global South. Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South. Streets, once crowded with pedestrians, pushcarts, vendors, and bicyclists, are now choked w…
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Pragmatism
"A concise, reader-friendly overview of pragmatism, the most influential school of American philosophical thought"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Quantum entanglement
"The purpose of this book is to empower readers to deeply understand how quantum-entangled particles violate common-sense assumptions and constraints. This book focuses on what quantum physics is not and investigates seemingly plausible theories that cannot account for experimental results"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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