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Sketches of thought
"A Bradford book."Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Berkeley, 1991.Much of the cognitive lies beyond articulate, discursive thought, beyond the reach of current computational notions. In Sketches of Thought, Vinod Goel argues that the cognitive computational conception of the world requires our thought processes to be precise, rigid, discrete, and unambiguous…
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- 9780262273985
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- 1 online resource (xv, 279 pages) :illustrations
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Sketches of landscapes :philosophy by example
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262284516
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages)
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The size of nations
The authors of this timely and provocative book use the tools of economic analysis to examine the formation and change of political borders. They argue that while these issues have always been at the core of historical analysis, international economists have tended to regard the size of a country as "exogenous," or no more subject to explanation than the location of a mountain range or the cour…
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- 9780262266963
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- 1 online resource (x, 261 pages)
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Sites of vision :the discursive construction of sight in the history of philo…
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- [Pbk. ed., 1999].
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- 9780262287913
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- 1 online resource (viii, 512 pages) :illustrations
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Silent spill :the organization of an industrial crisis
In the Guadalupe Dunes, 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of San Francisco, an oil spill persisted unattended for 38 years. Over the period 1990-1996, the national press devoted 504 stories to the Exxon Valdez accident and a mere nine to the Guadalupe spill -- even though the latter is most likely the nation's largest recorded oil spill. Although it was known to oil workers in …
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- 0585442568
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- 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) :illustrations.
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Should the United States Privatize Social Security?
The two papers that make up the core of this book address what is perhaps the most fundamental question in the current debate over Social Security: whether to shift, in part or even entirely, from today's pay-as-you-go system to one that is not just funded but also privatized in the sense that individuals would retain control over the investment of their funds and, therefore, personally bear th…
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- 9780262266697
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- 1 online resource (187 pages)
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Ships and science :the birth of naval architecture in the scientific revoluti…
"In Ships and Science, Ferreiro argues that the birth of naval architecture formed an integral part of the scientific revolution. Using Bouguer's work [Trait?e du navire - Treatise of the ship] as a cornerstone, Ferreiro traces the intriguing and often unexpected development of this new discipline and describes its practical application to ship design in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…
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- 9780262272582
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 441 pages) :illustrations.
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Shifting ground :the changing agricultural soils of China and Indonesia
In this book Peter Lindert evaluates environmental concerns about soil degradation in two very large countries--China and Indonesia--where anecdotal evidence has suggested serious problems. Lindert does what no scholar before him has done: using new archival data sets, he measures changes in soil productivity over long enough periods of time to reveal the influence of human activity.China and I…
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- 9780262278393
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- 1 online resource (xii, 351 pages) :illustrations, maps
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The shattered self :the end of natural evolution
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- 0585388490
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- 1 online resource (xii, 245 pages) :illustrations
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Sharing expertise :beyond knowledge management
An overview of expertise sharing, an approach to knowledge management that emphasizes the human components of knowledge work in addition to information storage and retrieval. The field of knowledge management focuses on how organizations can most effectively store, manage, retrieve, and enlarge their intellectual properties. The repository view of knowledge management emphasizes the gathering, …
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- 9780262266772
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 418 pages) :illustrations
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