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People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This book examines how people record, analyze, and reflect on this data, l…
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- 9780262334693
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- 1 online resource (xi, 233 pages) :illustrations.
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Here/there :telepresence, touch, and art at the interface
An examination of telepresence technologies through the lens of contemporary artistic experiments, from early video art through current ""drone vision"" works.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262338240
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) :illustrations.
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Why are we waiting? :the logic, urgency, and promise of tackling climate change
An urgent case for climate change action that forcefully sets out, in economic, ethical, and political terms, the dangers of delay and the benefits of action.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262329200
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- 1 online resource (xxxv, 406 pages) :illustrations
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Creating language :integrating evolution, acquisition, and processing
A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262334778
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Vivarium :experimental, quantitative, and theoretical biology at Vienna's Bio…
The scientific achievements and forgotten legacy of a major Austrian research institute, from its founding in 1902 to its wartime destruction in 1945.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262342049
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The knowledge capital of nations :education and the economics of growth
A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related in the long run to the skills of its population.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262329170
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- 1 online resource (xii, 262 pages) :illustrations.
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Dirty gold :how activism transformed the jewelry industry
The response from the jewelry industry to a campaign for ethically sourced gold as a case study in the power of business in global environmental politics. Gold mining can be a dirty business. It creates immense amounts of toxic materials that are difficult to dispose of. Mines are often developed without community consent, and working conditions for miners can be poor. Income from gold has fund…
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- 9780262337960
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- 1 online resource (272 pages).
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Evolving enactivism :basic minds meet content
Evolving Enactivism" argues that cognitive phenomena - perceiving, imagining, remembering -- can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition. Building on their earlier book Radicalizing Enactivism, which proposes that there can be forms of cognition without content, Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin demonstrate the unique explanatory advantag…
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- 9780262339773
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 328 pages).
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Emissions trading as a policy instrument :evaluation and prospects
Empirical and theoretical perspectives on the first two phases of the European Emissions Trading Scheme, the largest cap-and-trade market established so far.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262330435
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Cultural code :video games and Latin America
How culture uses games and how games use culture: an examination of Latin America's gaming practices and the representation of the region's cultures in games.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262334914
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