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The resistance dilemma :place-based movements and the climate crisis
"The book focuses on a strategic choice by the North American wing of the global climate movement: to ally themselves with place-based interests, including Indigenous groups, to block new coal plants, coal port expansion, fracking, and more recently, oil sands pipelines. The strategy by climate activists to target fossil fuel infrastructure has been effective at movement building and driving po…
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The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution
The introduction of a mathematical and computational framework within which to analyze the interplay between language learning and language evolution.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262280686
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 482 pages) :illustrations.
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Mnemonic ecologies :memory and nature conservation along the former iron curtain
"Examination of the relationships among conservation, restoration, novel ecosystems, collective trauma, and memorialization as illustrated by the Green Belt between the former East and West Germanies"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262375245
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Induction : processes of inference, learning, and discovery
Includes appendix 12A: a walking tour of the computational ideas underlying classifier systems.Two psychologists, a computer scientist, and a philosopher have collaborated to present a framework for understanding processes of inductive reasoning and learning in organisms and machines. Theirs is the first major effort to bring the ideas of several disciplines to bear on a subject that has been a…
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- 0262081601
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 398 pages) : illustrations.
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- 100 HOL i
Inductive inference and its natural ground : an essay in naturalistic epistem…
"A Bradford book."Hilary Kornblith presents an account of inductive inference that addresses both its metaphysical and epistemological aspects. He argues that inductive knowledge is possible by virtue of the fit between our innate psychological capacities and the causal structure of the world.Kornblith begins by developing an account of natural kinds that has its origins in John Locke's work on…
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- 0585311234
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The unknown city :contesting architecture and social space : a Strangely Fami…
Essays on architecture as narrative and urban space as experience and the new geographies they create.The Unknown City takes its place in the emerging architectural literature that looks beyond design process and buildings to discover new ways of looking at the urban experience. A multistranded contemplation of the notion of "knowing a place," it is about both the existence and the possibilitie…
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- 9780262269018
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- 1 online resource (xxvii, 533 pages) :illustrations
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Wonder :childhood and the lifelong love of science
Description based upon print version of record."An explanation of where children's scientific intuitions come from and how they can be nurtured. Intended not just for scholars but science teachers and enthusiasts as well"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262368455
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- 1 online resource (253 pages)
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Using OpenMP—The Next Step: Affinity, Accelerators, Tasking, and SIMD
A guide to the most recent, advanced features of the widely used OpenMP parallel programming model, with coverage of major features in OpenMP 4.5.This book offers an up-to-date, practical tutorial on advanced features in the widely used OpenMP parallel programming model. Building on the previous volume, Using OpenMP: Portable Shared Memory Parallel Programming (MIT Press), this book goes beyond…
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- 9780262344012
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 365 pages) :illustrations.
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Ostension: Word Learning and the Embodied Mind
"Ostension is bodily movement that manifests our engagement with things, whether we wish it to or not. Gestures, glances, facial expressions: all betray our interest in something. Ostension enables our first word learning, providing infants with a prelinguistic way to grasp the meaning of words. Ostension is philosophically puzzling; it cuts across domains seemingly unbridgeable--public--privat…
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- 9780262320610
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 305 pages)
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Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming
"How do Americans think about energy? Is the debate over fossil fuels highly partisan and ideological? Does public opinion about fossil fuels and alternative energies divide along the fault between red states and blue states? And how much do concerns about climate change weigh on their opinions? In Cheap and Clean, Stephen Ansolabehere and David Konisky show that Americans are more pragmatic th…
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- 0262321068
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