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Chimeras and Consciousness: Evolution of the Sensory Self
This title begins the inquiry into the evolution of the collective sensitivities of life. Scientist-scholars from a range of fields - including biochemistry, cell biology, history of science, family therapy, genetics, microbial ecology, and primatology - trace the emergence and evolution of consciousness.
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 321 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
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Reforming Rules and Regulations: Laws, Institutions, and Implementation
Contributors examine how regulatory & institutional environments affect the functioning of markets & propose reforms, arguing that quantitative methods should be used to guide policy & to reform rules & regulations. These essays offer methodologies for the assessment of policy alternatives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289412
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- 1 online resource (x, 316 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Living Zen Remindfully: Retraining Subconscious Awareness
"This is a book for readers who want to probe more deeply into mindfulness. It goes beyond the casual, once-in-awhile meditation in popular culture, grounding mindfulness in daily practice, Zen teachings, and recent research in neuroscience. In Living Zen Remindfully, James Austin, author of the groundbreaking Zen and the Brain, describes authentic Zen training--the commitment to a process of r…
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Software design decoded 66 ways experts think
"What makes an expert software designer? It is more than experience or innate ability. Expert software designers have specific habits, learned practices, and observed principles that they apply deliberately during their design work. This book offers sixty-six insights, distilled from years of studying experts at work, that capture what successful software designers actually do to create great s…
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- 9780262337519
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- 1 online resource (66 pages) :illustrations.
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Peer Participation and Software: What Mozilla Has to Teach Government
An examination of Mozilla's unique approach to software development considers how this model of participation might be applied to political and civic engagement.Firefox, a free Web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation, is used by an estimated 270 million people worldwide. To maintain and improve the Firefox browser, Mozilla depends not only on its team of professional programmers and man…
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- 9780262266550
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War and Reconciliation: Reason and Emotion in Conflict Resolution
A study of the role of reconciliation in intrastate and international conflict resolution and an argument for the value of integrating emotion in our conceptions of human rationality and problem-solving.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278522
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- 1 online resource (x, 235 pages) :illustrations
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Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming
This book presents in detail a pair of models of the economics of climate change. The models, called RICE-99 (for the Regional Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy) and DICE-99 (for the Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy) build on the authors' earlier work, particularly their RICE and DICE models of the early 1990s. Humanity is risking the health of the natural e…
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- 9780262280747
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- 1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) :illustrations
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A world to live in :an ecologist's vision for a plundered planet
A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater changes to the earth than any period in human history. The biosphere, the globe's life-giving envelope of air and climate, has been changed irreparably. In A World to Live In, the distinguished ecologist George Woodwell shows that the bio…
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- 9780262333689
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 227 pages)
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Vigor: Neuroeconomics of Movement Control
"Why do we run toward people we love, but only walk toward others? Why do people in New York seem to be in a rush? Why do our eyes linger longer on things we value more? There is a link between how the brain assigns value to things, and how it controls our movements. This link is an ancient one, developed through shared neural circuits that on one hand teach us how to value things, and on the o…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages) :illustrations.
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The Green Paradox: A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming
A leading economist develops a supply-side approach to fighting climate change that encourages resource owners to leave more of their fossil carbon underground.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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