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Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century G…
A biography of an important but largely forgotten nineteenth-century scientist whose work helped lay the foundation of modern neuroscience.Emil du Bois-Reymond is the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenth century. In his own time (1818-1896) du Bois-Reymond grew famous in his native Germany and beyond for his groundbreaking research in neuroscience and his provocative addresse…
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- 1 online resource.
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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…
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- 9781461950349
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages)
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Beyond the Tragedy in Global Fisheries
An analysis of how responsive governance has shaped the evolution of global fisheries in cyclical patterns of depletion and rebuilding dubbed the "management treadmill."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262329972
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- 1 online resource (468 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects…
Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in Europe. Belarus, at the time a Soviet republic, suffered heavily: nearly a quarter of its territory was covered with long-lasting radionuclides. Yet the damage from the massive fallout was largely impe…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages).
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The Environmental Advantages of Cities: Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism
Conventional wisdom about the environmental impact of cities holds that urbanization and environmental quality are necessarily at odds. Cities are seen to be sites of ecological disruption, consuming a disproportionate share of natural resources, producing high levels of pollution, and concentrating harmful emissions precisely where the population is most concentrated. Cities appear to be parti…
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- 9780262314091
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- 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Thinking like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature
A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of ""nature"" altogether and spoke instead of the built environment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262326988
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- 1 online resource (x, 283 pages) :illustrations
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A Fragmented Continent: Latin America and the Global Politics of Climate Change
How Latin American countries became leading voices and innovators on addressing climate change -- and what threatens their leadership.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262330152
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 274 pages).
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Post-Treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance
"Foreword by Oran R. Young"--Cover.An argument that secretariats -- the administrative arms of international treaties -- are political actors in their own right.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262325356
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- 1 online resource (xx, 245 pages) :illustrations.
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Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch's Transdisciplinary Life in Science
"The book is a scientific biography of American neurophysiologist and cybernetician Warren S. McCulloch, one that places his life and work in historical context. By focusing on the various identities that he assumed throughout his life's major work--the study of the brain and mind--the book examines the intermingling of McCulloch's professional and personal worlds, and by doing so provides a mu…
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- 9780262335386
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages) :illustrations
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In the Wake of the Crisis: Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy
Conference proceedings.In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policy makers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic thinking at a transformational moment. The crisis and the weak recovery that has followed raise fundamental questions concerning macroeconomics and …
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- 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) :illustrations
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