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Analyzing international environmental regimes :from case study to database
Regime theory has become an increasingly influential approach to the analysis of international relations, particularly in the areas of international political economy and international environmental politics. The conceptual appeal of the idea of "governance without government"--in which a combination of different organizations and institutions supply governance to address specific problems--ref…
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- 9780262269230
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) :illustrations.
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The Spontaneous Brain: From the Mind–Body to the World–Brain Problem
An argument for a Copernican revolution in our consideration of mental features -- a shift in which the world-brain problem supersedes the mind-body problem. Philosophers have long debated the mind-body problem -- whether to attribute such mental features as consciousness to mind or to body. Meanwhile, neuroscientists search for empirical answers, seeking neural correlates for consciousness, se…
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- 9780262346962
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 506 pages) :illustrations
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The Cybernetics Group
This is the engaging story of a moment of transformation in the human sciences, a detailed account of a remarkable group of people who met regularly from 1946 to 1953 to explore the possibility of using scientific ideas that had emerged in the war years (cybernetics, information theory, computer theory) as a basis for interdisciplinary alliances. The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics, as they cam…
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- 9780262362757
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- 1 online resource (xii, 334 pages)
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Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior
"A Bradford book."Why the prejudice against adopting a scientific attitude in the social sciences is creating a new "Dark Ages" and preventing us from solving the perennial problems of crime, war, and poverty.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262279512
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- 1 online resource (xx, 144 pages)
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Topology of violence
Originally published as Topologie der Gewalt. Berlin : Matthes & Seitz, 2011.One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity.Some things never disappear--violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In…
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The Mathematics of Marriage: Dynamic Nonlinear Models
Divorce rates are at an all-time high. But without a theoretical understanding of the processes related to marital stability and dissolution, it is difficult to design and evaluate new marriage interventions. The Mathematics of Marriage provides the foundation for a scientific theory of marital relations. The book does not rely on metaphors, but develops and applies a mathematical model using d…
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Interface
In this book, Branden Hookway considers the interface not as technology but as a form of relationship with technology. The interface, Hookway proposes, is at once ubiquitous and hidden from view. It is both the bottleneck through which our relationship to technology must pass and a productive encounter embedded within the use of technology. It is a site of contestation -- between human and mach…
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Grounding Social Sciences in Cognitive Sciences
Exploration of a new integrative intellectual enterprise: the cognitive social sciences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305402
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- 1 online resource (ix, 455 pages) :illustrations
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The Brain's Representational Power: On Consciousness and the Integration of M…
Although science has made considerable progress in discovering the neural basis of cognition, how consciousness arises remains elusive. In this book, Pennartz analyzes which aspects of conscious experience can be peeled away to access its core: the relationship between brain processes and the qualitative nature of consciousness. Pennartz traces the problem back to its historical foundations and…
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- 9780262330121
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- 1 online resource (xi, 382 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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Media and sovereignty :
Media have been central to government efforts to reinforce sovereignty and define national identity, but globalization is fundamentally altering media practices, institutions, and content. More than the activities of large conglomerates, globalization entails competition among states as well as private entities to dominate the world's consciousness. Changes in formal and informal rules, in addi…
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