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New tech, new ties :how mobile communication is reshaping social cohesion
How cell phones and mobile communication may in many cases strengthen social cohesion.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278416
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages)
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Moral psychology.
"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…
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- 9780262303019
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Disjunctivism :contemporary readings
This reader collects in one volume classic texts that define and react to disjunctivism. These include an excerpt from a book by the late J.M. Hinton.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255219
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 334 pages).
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Water, place, and equity
Many predict that by the end of the 21st century water will dominate world natural resource politics as oil does today. At present, much of the world's water is misallocated, wasted or polluted. This book argues that fairness in the allocation of water could be the cornerstone to a more secure future for mankind.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286107
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- 1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Programmed visions :software and memory
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that cycles of obsolescence & renewal result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. In seeking to embody a future based on past data, new media becomes a metaphor for metaphor itself.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295215
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) :illustrations.
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Eye, retina, and visual system of the mouse
A comprehensive guide to current research, reflecting recent technical breakthroughs that have established the usefulness of the mouse model as part of a bilateral exchange between experimental and clinical research. Recent years have seen a burst of studies on the mouse eye and visual system, fueled in large part by the relatively recent ability to produce mice with precisely defined changes i…
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- 9780262270137
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- 1 online resource (xii, 754 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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The analysis and synthesis of linear servomechanisms
The 1943 printing of "The Analysis and Synthesis of Linear Servomechanisms" was classified as restricted and distributed accordingly. After the close of WWII, the book was declassified in order to permit general dissemination of the material.From the Preface: This book is a formulation of a servomechanism design procedure based primarily upon an analysis of the system response to sinusoidal inp…
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- 0262310783
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- 1 online resource (193 pages) :illustrations
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The analysis of feedback systems
"Parts of this monograph appeared in the author's doctoral dissertation entitled 'Nonlinear harmonic analysis' ... 1968."This monograph is an attempt to develop further and refine methods based on input -output descriptions for analyzing feedback systems. Contrary to previous work in this area, the treatment heavily emphasizes and exploits the causality of the operators involved. This brings th…
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- 0262257203
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- 1 online resource (xv, 188 pages) :illustrations.
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The analogical mind :perspectives from cognitive science
Analogy has been the focus of extensive research in cognitive science over the past two decades. Through analogy, novel situations and problems can be understood in terms of familiar ones. Indeed, a case can be made for analogical processing as the very core of cognition. This is the first book to span the full range of disciplines concerned with analogy. Its contributors represent cognitive, d…
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America's water :federal roles and responsibilities
"A Twentieth Century Fund book."Were water considered an industry, it would be one of the largest in the United States, surely the most capital-intensive, and the most closely regulated by Congress. Yet as Peter Rogers argues in this readable, pragmatic, and scientifically grounded assessment of national water issues, it would also be one of the most fragmented and least coherent areas of publi…
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- 0585339228
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- 1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) :illustrations
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