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Nature of Love, Volume 3 : The Modern World
Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994-1987.Print version cataloged as a monographic set by Library of Congress.This third volume of the author's trilogy 'The Nature of Love' examines the pervasive dialectic between optimistic idealism and pessimistic realism in modern thinking about the nature of love. The author offers detailed studies of Freud, Proust, Shaw, D.H. L…
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The Nature of Love, Volume 2: Courtly and Romantic
Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994-1987.Print version cataloged as a monographic set by Library of Congress.This second volume of the author's trilogy 'The Nature of Love' studies the ideas and ideals of medieval courtly love and nineteenth-century Romantic love, as well as the transition between these two perspectives. The author analyzes the transition from cour…
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The Nature of Love, Volume 1: Plato to Luther
Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994-1987.Print version cataloged as a monographic set by Library of Congress.This first volume of the author's trilogy 'The Nature of Love' begins by studying love as appraisal and bestowal as well as imagination and idealization, and then examines the contrasting views of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Ovid, Lucretius, Saint Augustine,…
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- 9780262315111
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The Crucible of Consciousness: An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain
"A Bradford book"--Page 4 of cover.Originally published: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. With new foreword.This text is an interdisciplinary examination of the evolutionary breakthroughs that rendered the brain accessible to itself.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1st MIT Press ed.
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- 9780262255189
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 247 pages) :illustrations
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Design Things
Thomas Binder, Giorgio De Michelis, Pelle Ehn, Giulio Jacucci, Per Linde, and Ina Wagner."A new perspective on design thinking and design practice: beyond products and projects, toward participatory design things.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298254
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages) :illustrations.
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When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America
Where were you when the lights went out? At home during a thunderstorm? During the Great Northeastern Blackout of 1965? In California when rolling blackouts hit in 2000? In 2003, when a cascading power failure left fifty million people without electricity? We often remember vividly our time in the dark. In When the Lights Went Out, David Nye views power outages in America from 1935 to the prese…
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- 9780262280853
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- 1 online resource (x, 292 pages) :illustrations, map
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Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing
Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the authors' collaboration, this book takes seriously the need to understand ubicomp not only technically but also culturally, socially politically and economically.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295345
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- 1 online resource (x, 248 pages) :illustrations
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Perplexities of Consciousness
"A Bradford book."In this book, the author examines various aspects of inner life (dreams, mental imagery, emotions, and other subjective phenomena) and argues that we know very little about our stream of conscious experience. In fact, he contends, we are prone to gross error about our ongoing emotional, visual, and cognitive experiences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295338
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- 1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) :illustrations.
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Waves and Forms: Electronic Music Devices and Computer Encodings in China
An examination of the relationship between technical objects and culture in contemporary China, drawing on concepts from science and technology studies. Technical objects constrain what users do with them. They are not neutral entities but embody information, choices, values, assumptions, or even mistakes embedded by designers. What happens when a technology is designed in one culture and us…
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World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities
Here, experts examine ways in which the use of increasingly powerful and versatile digital information and communication technologies are transforming research activities across all disciplines.
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