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Memory and Movies: What Films Can Teach Us about Memory
"In the movie Slumdog Millionaire, the childhood memories of a young game show contestant trigger his correct answers. In Memento, the amnesiac hero uses tattoos as memory aids. In Away from Her, an older woman suffering from dementia no longer remembers who her husband is. These are compelling films that tell affecting stories about the human condition. But what can these movies teach us about…
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Strategic Nonviolent Power The Science of Satyagraha
History indicates that there are powerful routes to liberation from oppression that do not involve violence. Mohandas Gandhi called for a science of nonviolent action, one based on satyagraha, or the “insistence on truth.” As Gandhi understood, nonviolent resistance is not passive, nor is it weak; rather, such action is an exercise of power. Despite the success of Gandhi’s “Quit India…
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- 328 pages
Cultures of prediction :how engineering and science evolve with mathematical …
"This book provides a longue dur?ee story examining the dynamic history of predictive methods and values in sciences--and particularly in engineering and other applied sciences--which is crucial to understanding today's culture of prediction"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The ghost in the addict
"Based on 40 years of research and shedding new light on possible treatments for addiction, Siegel presents a compelling overview of the role of learning and Pavlovian condistioning in drug addiction"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The night land
"This edition of The Night Land follows the text of the 1912 edition published by Eveleigh Nash, which is in the public domain."--Title page verso."When the narrator receives a telepathic distress signal from a young woman whom (in a previous incarnation) he'd once loved, he sallies forth on an ill-advised rescue mission-into the uncharted and unfathomable Night Land"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibl…
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More voices from the radium age
"More Voices of the Radium Age will showcase proto- and early sf stories by much-admired authors best known today for their non-sf work (E. Nesbit, author of Three Children and It and other popular children's fantasies, and Booth Tarkington, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Magnificent Ambersons); authors whose outsized success with readers would influence the subsequent development of the …
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Communications breakdown
"This is a collection of stories about possible future communications platforms -- how those technologies might affect social and political structures, and how they play out differently in various geographies and social strata"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The inhumans and other stories :a selection of Bengali science fiction
"A collection of Bangla SF stories, including The Inhumans by Hemendrakumar Roy, Voyage to Venus by Jagadananda Ray, The Mystery of the Giant by Nanigopal Majumdar, and the Martian Purana by Manoranjan Bhattacharya"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Voices from the radium age
"A collection of important science fiction works from the early 20th century"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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What not :a prophetic comedy
"A government ministry decides to increase national brain-power, and stave off the coming idiocracy, through a program of compulsory selective breeding. The propaganda efforts in support of this endeavor are amazing. The book ends on an ambiguous note: Is the victory of "human perverseness, human stupidity, human self-will" over autocratic bureaucracy a triumph? Or not? Macaulay - a beloved Bri…
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