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The Hot Brain : Survival, Temperature, and the Human Body
The book traces the story of the brain throughout evolution and shows how the control of body temperature as a survival mechanism was achieved. From the first unicellular life on Earth, living things have had the capacity to sense heat and cold and to avoid extreme temperatures. With the development of a bigger brain and a constant body temperature, mammals were able to change their habitats…
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- 9780262273886
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- 1 online resource (286 pages)
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- 613 GIS h
Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality
"This volume contributes to a current debate within the psychology of thought that has wide implications for our ideas about creativity, decision making, and economic behavior. The essays focus on the role of implicit, unconscious thinking in creativity and problem solving, the interaction of intuition and analytic thinking, and the relationship between communicative heuristics and thought. The…
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- 9780262335119
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 385 pages) :illustrations
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Unmanned Systems of World Wars I and II
"Foreword by Michael Toscano"--Cover."Military drones have recently been hailed as a revolutionary new technology that will forever change the conduct of war. And yet the United States and other countries have been deploying such unmanned military systems for more than a century. Written by a renowned authority in the field, this book documents the forgotten legacy of these pioneering efforts, …
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- 0262331772
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- 1 online resource (757 pages) :illustrations, map.
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The Sound of Innovation: Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution
How a team of musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists developed computer music as an academic field and ushered in the era of digital music. In the 1960s, a team of Stanford musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists used computing in an entirely novel way: to produce and manipulate sound and create the sonic basis of new musical compositions. This grou…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780262328814
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- 789 NEL s
Earth System Governance: World Politics in the Anthropocene
In an era of planet-wide transformation, we need a new model for planet-wide environmental politics. This book proposes 'earth system' governance as just such a new paradigm. It offers both analytical and normative perspectives. It provides detailed analysis of global environmental politics in terms of five dimensions of effective governance: agency, particularly agency beyond that of state act…
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- 9780262322928
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- 1 online resource.
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Climate Policy and Nonrenewable Resources: The Green Paradox and Beyond
Too rapidly rising carbon taxes or the introduction of subsidies for renewable energies induce owners of fossil fuel reserves to increase their extraction rates for fear of their reserves becoming worthless. Fossil fuel use is thus brought forward. The resulting acceleration of global warming and counter-productivity of well-intended climate policy has been coined the Green Paradox. This volume…
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- 9780262319836
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- 1 online resource :illustrations.
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The First 100 Feet: Options for Internet and Broadband Access
"The growth of the Internet has been propelled in significant part by user investment in infrastructure: computers, internal wiring, and the connection to the Internet provider. This "bottom-up" investment minimizes the investment burden facing providers. New technologies such as wireless and data transmission over power lines, as well as deregulation of telecommunications and electric utilitie…
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- 9780262287128
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- 1 online resource (viii, 209 pages) :illustrations.
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Quadratic Residues and Non-Residues; Selected Topics
Meskipun teori bilangan sebagai subjek matematika yang koheren dimulai dengan karya Fermat pada tahun 1630-an, teori bilangan modern, yaitu pengembangan subjek yang sistematis dan cermat secara matematis dari sifat-sifat dasar bilangan bulat, dimulai pada tahun 1801 dengan munculnya landmark Gauss. risalah Disquisitiones Arithmeticae [19]. Bagian utama dari Diskuisisi berkaitan dengan residu ku…
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- 2171
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- 978-3-319-45955-4
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- Lecture Notes in Mathematics
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- 512.732 WRI q
Purposeful Engineering Economics
“Ingat Orang Austria” atau “Apa Hubungan Katalaktik dengan Teknik Sipil?” Judul “Purposeful Engineering Economics” dipilih untuk menekankan pentingnya niat di balik setiap tindakan ekonomi. Untuk menjelaskan gagasan ini secara memadai memerlukan penyelidikan yang jauh melampaui ilmu ekonomi teknik. Faktanya, sebagian besar narasi akan berkisar pada bidang subjek yang luas yang dapat…
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- 978-3-319-18848-5
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- 620.00682 CHA p
How children learn the meanings of words
How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of verbs like "think," adjectives like "good," and words for abstract entities such as "mortgage" and "story"? The acquisition of word meaning is one of the fundamental issues in the study of mind. According to Paul…
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- 9780262268783
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- 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations.
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- Learning, Development, And Conceptual Change
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- 400 BLO h
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