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Fracking the neighborhood :reluctant activists and natural gas drilling
When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of a back yard fence and diesel trucks clog a quiet two-lane residential street. Children seem to be having more than the usual number of nosebleeds. There are so many local cases of cancer that the elementary school starts a cancer support group. In this book, Jessi…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages).
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The not-two :logic and God in Lacan
In The Not-Two, Lorenzo Chiesa examines the treatment of logic and God in Lacan's later work. Chiesa draws for the most part from Lacan's Seminars of the early 1970s, as they revolve around the axiom "There is no sexual relationship." Chiesa provides both a close reading of Lacan's effort to formalize sexual difference as incompleteness and an assessment of its broader implications for philosop…
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- 9780262335034
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 251 pages).
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The rationality quotient :toward a test of rational thinking
How to assess critical aspects of cognitive functioning that are not measured by IQ tests: rational thinking skills.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262336819
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 459 pages) :illustrations
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Winning the reputation game :Creating stakeholder value and competitive advan…
Subtitle on dust jacket cover: Creating stakeholder value and competitive advantage.Core strategies for creating a corporate reputation that will provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace: a back-to-basics approach.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262335089
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- 1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) :illustrations
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Extraordinary science and psychiatry :responses to the crisis in mental healt…
Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5."Psychiatry and mental health research is in crisis, with tensions between psychiatry's clinical and research aims and controversies over diagnosis, treatment, and scientific constructs for studying mental disorders. At the center of these controv…
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- 9780262341752
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- 1 online resource (viii, 327 pages).
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Thinking about oneself :from nonconceptual content to the concept of self
"In this book, Kristina Musholt offers a novel theory of self-consciousness, understood as the ability to think about oneself. Traditionally, self-consciousness has been central to many philosophical theories. More recently, it has become the focus of empirical investigation in psychology and neuroscience. Musholt draws both on philosophical considerations and on insights from the empirical sci…
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- 9780262329767
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 210 pages)
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Oblivious network routing :algorithms and applications
"Our increasingly integrated world relies on networks both physical and virtual to transfer goods and information. The Internet is a network of networks that connects people around the world in a real-time manner, but it can be disrupted by massive data flows, diverse traffic patterns, inadequate infrastructure, and even natural disasters and political conflict. Similar challenges exist for tra…
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- 9780262328968
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 160 pages) :illustrations
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Political economy and instruments of environmental politics
Economists have long argued that market-based instruments such as, environmental taxes, and emission trading systems, are the superior way to offset the negative externalities of any kind of economic activities. Yet, whether the effects of using these instruments are sufficient, whether they are actually used efficiently, and especially which factors influence their effectiveness is subject to …
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Becoming fluent :how cognitive science can help adults learn a foreign language
"Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don't seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do? In this book, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights f…
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- 9780262330466
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 226 pages) :illustrations
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The genealogy of a gene :patents, HIV/AIDS, and race
In The Genealogy of a Gene, Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied "genealogy" of CCR5 -- intellectual property, natural selection, Big and Small Pharma, human diversity studies, personalized medicine, ancestry studies, and race and genomics -- Jackson links a myriad of diverse topics. The hi…
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- 9780262327190
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- 1 online resource (xii, 336 pages) :illustrations, map.
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