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The bodily self :selected essays on self-consciousness
"These essays explore how the rich and sophisticated forms of self-consciousness with which we are most familiar -- as philosophers, psychologists, and as ordinary, reflective individuals -- depend on a complex underpinning that has been largely invisible to students of the self and self-consciousness. Jos?e Luis Berm?udez, extending the insights of his groundbreaking 1998 book, The Paradox of …
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- 9780262344661
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- 1 online resource (viii, 303 pages) :illustrations
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Electric Light: An Architectural History
How electric light created new spaces that transformed the built environment and the perception of modern architecture. In this book, Sandy Isenstadt examines electric light as a form of architecture--as a new, uniquely modern kind of building material. Electric light was more than just a novel way of brightening a room or illuminating a streetscape; it brought with it new ways of perceiving an…
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- 9780262347310
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- 1 online resource (304 pages).
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The future
"How the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers"--Page 4 of cover.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262344753
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- 1 online resource (xvi,169 pages) :illustrations.
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Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion
An approach to understanding religion that draws on both humanities and natural science but rejects approaches that employ simple monisms and radical dualisms. In Beyond Heaven and Earth, Gabriel Levy argues that collective religious narratives and beliefs are part of nature; they are the basis for the formation of the narratives and beliefs of individuals. Religion grows out of the universe…
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Glass Making in the Greco-Roman World: Results of the Archglass Project
This book presents a reconstruction of the Hellenistic-Roman glass industry from the point of view of raw material procurement. Within the ERC funded ARCHGLASS project, the authors of this work developed new geochemical techniques to provenance primary glass making. They investigated both production and consumer sites of glass, and identified suitable mineral resources for glass making through …
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- 9789461661579
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- 190
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- Studies in Archaeological Sciences, 4
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- 930.1 DEG g
Traversals the use of preservation of early electronic writing
Many pioneering works of electronic literature are now largely inaccessible because of changes in hardware, software, and platforms. The virtual disappearance of these works--created on floppy disks, in Apple's defunct HyperCard, and on other early systems and platforms--not only puts important electronic literary work out of reach but also signals the fragility of most works of culture in the …
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- 9780262339018
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The Secret Life of Literature
An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works. For over four thousand years, writers have been experimenting with what cognitive scientists call “mindreading”: constantly devising new social contexts for making their audiences imagine complex mental states of chara…
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- 9780262367653
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A Grammar of the Sungskrit Language to Which Are Added Examples for the Exer…
The Indo-Aryan language of Sanskrit is the primary language of Hinduism and also a scholarly language of Buddhism. Dating back to the second millennium BCE, it is considered to be the parent of most modern languages of India, and remains central to work in Indo-European studies, philology and linguistics today. First published in 1806, this is a comprehensive grammar of Sanskrit, compiled by th…
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- 9781139507271
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
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Connected Code: Why Children Need to Learn Programming
Why every child needs to learn to code: the shift from "computational thinking" to computational participation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262319241
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