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Why America is not a new Rome
An investigation of the America-Rome analogy that goes deeper than the facile comparisons made on talk shows and in glossy magazine articles.America's post-Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in protracted fighting in Iraq…
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- 9780262283885
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- 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Insatiable curiosity :innovation in a fragile future
An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity.Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science nee…
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- 9780262280761
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- 1 online resource (179 pages).
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Cogent science in context :the science wars, argumentation theory, and Habermas
This text is a proposal for an interdisciplinary context-sensitive framework for assessing the strength of scientific arguments that melds J?urgen Habermas's discourse theory and sociological contextualism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255318
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- 1 online resource (x, 345 pages) :illustrations.
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Learning to communicate in science and engineering :case studies from MIT
To many science and engineering students, the task of writing may seem irrelevant to their future professional careers. At MIT, however, students discover that writing about their technical work is important not only in solving real-world problems but also in developing their professional identities. MIT puts into practice the belief that "engineers who don't write well end up working for engin…
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- 0262310627
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- 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) :illustrations
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Midbrain mutiny :the picoeconomics and neuroeconomics of disordered gambling …
"A Bradford book."An analysis of how economic theories can be used to understand disordered and pathological gambling that calls on empirical evidence about behavior and the brain and argues that addictive gambling is the basic form of all addiction.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282642
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- 1 online resource (x, 301 pages) :illustrations
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Better than conscious? :decision making, the human mind, and implications for…
Forum held June 10-15, 2007 in Frankfurt, Germany.Experts discuss the implications of the ways humans reach decisions through the conscious and subconscious processing of information. Conscious control enables human decision makers to override routines, to exercise willpower, to find innovative solutions, to learn by instruction, to decide collectively, and to justify their choices. These and m…
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- 9780262272353
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 449 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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A hole in the head :more tales in the history of neuroscience
Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys-from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells-in the history of brain sciences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258852
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- 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) :illustrations
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Handbook of developmental cognitive neuroscience
"A Bradford book."The second edition of an essential resource to the evolving field of developmental cognitive neuroscience, completely revised, with expanded emphasis on social neuroscience, clinical disorders, and imaging genomics.The publication of the second edition of this handbook testifies to the rapid evolution of developmental cognitive neuroscience as a distinct field. Brain imaging a…
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- 9780262280532
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- 1 online resource (xi, 923 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Predicting structured data
Collected papers based on talks presented at two Neural Information Processing Systems workshops.State-of-the-art algorithms and theory in a novel domain of machine learning, prediction when the output has structure.Machine learning develops intelligent computer systems that are able to generalize from previously seen examples. A new domain of machine learning, in which the prediction must sati…
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- 9780262255691
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- 1 online resource (viii, 348 pages) :illustrations.
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The genetics of cognitive neuroscience
A primer on understanding the influence of specific genetic variants on cognition, affective regulation, personality, and central nervous system disorders.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259637
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- 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) :illustrations.
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