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Disorders of volition
"A Bradford book."Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists examine the will and its pathologies from theoretical and empirical perspectives, offering a conceptual overview and discussing schizophrenia, depression, prefrontal lobe damage, and substanc.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283359
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- 1 online resource (vii, 493 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice
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- 9780262310604
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 414 pages) :illustrations.
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Disconnected: Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap
How young people think about the moral and ethical dilemmas they encounter when they share and use online content and participate in online communities."Drawing on extensive interviews with young people between the ages of 10 and 25, James describes the nature of their thinking about privacy, property, and participation online. She identifies three ways that young people approach online activit…
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- 9780262325561
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 167 pages).
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Do the Right Thing: Studies in Limited Rationality
The authors argue that a new theoretical foundation for artificial intelligence can be constructed in which rationality is a property of "programs" within a finite architecture, and their behavior over time in the task environment, rather than a property of individual decisions.Like Mooki, the hero of Spike Lee's film "Do the Right Thing," artificially intelligent systems have a hard time knowi…
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- 9780262282772
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- 1 online resource (xx, 200 pages) :illustrations.
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Dollarization: Debates and Policy Alternatives
Theoretical and empirical analysis of de jure dollarization.With the persistent instability of international financial markets, emerging economies are exploring new ways to reduce exposure to capital flow volatility. Some analysts argue that financially open economies are best served by more flexible regimes, while others argue in favor of extreme exchange rate regimes that have a strong commit…
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- 9780262286527
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- 1 online resource (ix, 341 pages) :illustrations
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The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness
"A Bradford book."In this book, J. Allan Hobson offers a new understanding of altered states of consciousness based on knowledge of how our brain chemistry is balanced when we are awake and how that balance shifts when we fall asleep and dream. He draws on recent research that enables us to explain how psychedelic drugs work to disturb that balance and how similar imbalances may cause depressio…
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- 9780262275491
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- 1 online resource (xv, 333 pages) :illustrations, photographs.
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The Dream of the Factory-Made House: Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann
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- 9780262368018
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 407 pages :illustrations)
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Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind
Includes index.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. In this book J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling—and controversial—theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he calls it, is not a fixed identity but a dynamic balancing act between the chemical systems that regulate waking and dreaming.
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- 9780262287036
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 300 pages)
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Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West
"This book offers a reevaluation of the twentieth century. It argues that the disintegration of Soviet socialism marked the abandonment of the idea of mass utopia by both sides in the Cold War. One of the casualties of the end of that war was the shattering of dreamworlds of industrialization, mass culture, and historical progress that gave meaning to collective social life in East and West. Dr…
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- 9780262269506
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Dynamical systems in neuroscience: The geometry of excitability and bursting
Explains the relationship of electrophysiology, nonlinear dynamics, and the computational properties of neurons, with each concept presented in terms of both neuroscience and mathematics and illustrated using geometrical intuition. In order to model neuronal behavior or to interpret the results of modeling studies, neuroscientists must call upon methods of nonlinear dynamics. This book offers a…
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- 9780262276078
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 441 pages) :illustrations.
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