Includes index."A fun, informative, illustrated guide to hands-on experiments for home or the classroom that explain the principles of neuroscience; including electrophysiology, neuroengineering, & neuroethology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
How the environmental provisions in US preferential trade agreements affect both the environmental policies of trading partners and the effectiveness of multilateral environmental agreements. As trade negotiations within the World Trade Organization seem permanently stalled, countries turn increasingly to preferential trade agreements (PTAs) between smaller groups of nations. Many of these PTAs…
An examination of the process of prioritizing private motorized transportation in Bengaluru, a rapidly growing megacity of the Global South. Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South. Streets, once crowded with pedestrians, pushcarts, vendors, and bicyclists, are now choked w…
"Mark Lee considers that the current gains in machine learning and deep learning will not produce robots that can interact effectively with humans. The book then explores how robots can become more human-like, more general-purpose, and more social. The book introduces us to the core ideas in Developmental Robotics - showing how this new approach can "grow" robots through (their own) experience …
An argument that the meaning of a psychological or biological measure depends on the age, gender class, and ethnicity of the human subject.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This book sets the agenda for how we think about human activity that arises from embedding manipulated information in our action and embodied cognition"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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A biography of two troublesome words. Isn't it ironic Or is it Never mind, I'm just being sarcastic (or am I ). Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in our conversational lexicon. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psycholinguist Roger Kreuz offers an enlightening and concise overview of the life and times of these two terms…
"The Digital Closet argues that a heterosexual bias is deeply embedded in the infrastructure of the internet, with negative effects for society. In short, the internet is straight"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Never-before-translated, pioneering feminist manifesto that established the question of labor in women's struggle for emancipation"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.