Examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways. In moral philosophy, fear of the so-called naturalistic fallacy kept moral philosophers from incorporating developments in biology and psychology. Since the 1990s, however, many philosophers have drawn on recent advances in cognitive psychology, brain science, and evolutionary psychology to inform their work. T…
Modern science is increasingly collaborative, and this volume looks at the challenges and rewards of scientific collaboration enabled by information and communication technology, from theoretical approaches to in-depth case studies.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford book."A new view of the metaphysics of time, arguing that the traditional tensed-tenseless debate within analytic philosophy should be seen as the first stage in a philosophical investigation of time, and that the next stage belongs to phenomenology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Notions of nature and art as they have been defined and redefined in Western culture, from the Hippocratic writers and Aristotle of Ancient Greece to nineteenth-century chemistry and twenty-first century biomimetics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Yves Balasko, a leading scholar in the field, presents post-1970 developments in the theory of general equilibrium, unified by the concept of equilibrium manifold.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Recent academic research findings on topics relating to taxation and social insurance policy, including the implicit tax imposed by Medicaid on private long-term care insurance benefits, an alternative system of unemployment insurance, and federal energy tax policy.This NBER series presents current academic research findings in the areas of taxation and government spending. The papers included …
"A Bradford book."This volume presents a timely overview of the latest BCI research, with contributions from many of the important research groups in the field.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
'Tactical Biopolitics' suggests that the political challenges at the intersection of life, science and art are best addressed through a combination of artistic intervention, critical theorising and reflective practices. The multidisciplinary contributions focus on the political significance of recent advances in biological science.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
When we think of the Internet, we generally think of Amazon, Google, Hotmail, Napster, MySpace, and other sites for buying products, searching for information, downloading entertainment, chatting with friends, or posting photographs. In the academic literature about the Internet, however, these uses are rarely covered. The Internet and American Businessfills this gap, picking up where most scho…