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Deserting from the culture wars
Artists and writers consider a tactical desertion from the "culture wars"--a refusal to be distracted, an embrace of the emancipatory understanding of culture. Deserting from the Culture Wars reflects upon and intervenes in our current moment of ever-more polarizing ideological combat, often seen as the return of the "culture wars." How are these culture wars defined and waged Engaging in a the…
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- 1 online resource (150 pages).
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Concepts, kinds, and cognitive development
In Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development, Frank C. Keil provides a coherent account of how concepts and word meanings develop in children, adding to our understanding of the representational nature of concepts and word meanings at all ages. "A Bradford book."Includes indexes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262276900
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- 1 online resource (xv, 328 pages) :illustrations.
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Peace parks :conservation and conflict resolution
An analysis of the potential for environmental cooperation in multijurisdictional conservation zones to contribute to political conflict resolution; includes case studies of existing parks and proposals for new ones.Although the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Kenyan environmentalist, few have considered whether environmental conservation can contribute to peace-building in conflict zon…
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- 9780262266970
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- 1 online resource (xx, 406 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Introduction to statistical relational learning
"Index" : an online index is available on the book webpage at http://www.cs.umd.edu/srl-book/index.htm.Advanced statistical modeling and knowledge representation techniques for a newly emerging area of machine learning and probabilistic reasoning; includes introductory material, tutorials for different proposed approaches, and applications.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256230
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- 1 online resource (ix, 586 pages) :illustrations.
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Autonomous bidding agents :strategies and lessons from the trading agent comp…
Overview and analysis of algorithmic advances developed within an integrated bidding agent architecture that emerged from recent research in a growing domain of AI.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285957
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- 1 online resource (xi, 238 pages) :illustrations.
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The information resources policy handbook : research for the Information Age
To understand the Information Age one must understand the concept of information as a resource. Like other basic resources, such as energy and materials, information resources are building blocks of society. But unlike energy and materials, they are far more abundant and versatile. Information resources include computers, telecommunications, the mass media, and financial services, all created o…
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- 0585070156
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- 1 online resource (xxviii, 631 pages) : illustrations
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- 005 INF
G?odel, Putnam, and functionalism :a new reading of Representation and reality
"A Bradford book."The first systematic examination of Hilary Putnam's arguments against computational functionalism challenges each of Putnam's main arguments.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269513
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- 1 online resource (x, 344 pages)
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Underground :the secret life of videocassettes in Iran
"First book length study of home video in Iran during the 1980s and 1990s, and the informal distribution infrastructure that developed in reaction to the ban on all video technology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366088
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Insights of genius : imagery and creativity in science and art
Originally published: New York : Copernicus, ?1996."How can new knowledge be created from already existing knowledge? Insights of Genius shows how seeing in all it's many forms - insight, revelation, a distinctive point of view - is central to the greatest advances of the human intellect. Artists and scientists alike rely on visual representations of worlds both visible and invisible"--Page 4 o…
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- 1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
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- 9780262287340
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 482 pages) :i llustrations
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- 500 MIL i
A History of Egypt
Published in six volumes between 1894 and 1905, this collection served as a valuable reference work for students and scholars of Egyptology at a time when ongoing archaeological excavations were adding significantly to the understanding of one of the world's oldest civilisations. At the forefront of this research was Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942), whose pioneering methods ma…
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- 9781107325166
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
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