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What We Know About Climate Change (Second Edition)

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Shopping for good

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Language, Music, and the Brain: A Mysterious Relationship

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Dynamics among Nations: The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern…

"Liberal internationalism has been the West's foreign policy agenda since the Cold War, and the West has long occupied the top rung of a hierarchical system. In this book, Hilton Root argues that international relations, like other complex ecosystems, exists in a constantly shifting landscape, in which hierarchical structures are giving way to systems of networked interdependence, changing ever…

Beyond Versus: The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture

Why the "nature versus nurture" debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the interaction of nature and nurture.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms, and the Brain

Over a century ago, William James proposed that people search through memory much as they rummage through a house looking for lost keys. Like other animal species search space, we scour our environments for territory, food, mates, and other goals, including information. We search for items in visual scenes, for historical facts and shopping deals on internet sites, for new friends to add to our…