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Quantified :biosensing technologies in everyday life
Today anyone can purchase technology that can track, quantify, and measure the body and its environment. Wearable or portable sensors detect heart rates, glucose levels, steps taken, water quality, genomes, and microbiomes, and turn them into electronic data. Is this phenomenon empowering, or a new form of social control? Who volunteers to enumerate bodily experiences, and who is forced to do s…
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- 1 online resource (xxxi, 243 pages) :illustrations
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Trees of the brain, roots of the mind
"The human brain is often described as the most complex object in the universe. Tens of billions of nerve cells-tiny tree-like structures--make up a massive network with enormous computational power. In this book, Giorgio Ascoli reveals another aspect of the human brain: the stunning beauty of its cellular form. Doing so, he makes a provocative claim about the mind-brain relationship. If each n…
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- 9780262329026
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages) :illustrations
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This is why we can't have nice things :mapping the relationship between onlin…
Why the troll problem is actually a culture problem: how online trolling fits comfortably within today's media landscape.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262328999
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- 1 online resource (xi, 237 pages) :illustrations.
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Consciousness, attention, and conscious attention
"In this book, Carlos Montemayor and Harry Haladjian consider the relationship between consciousness and attention. The cognitive mechanism of attention has often been compared to consciousness, because attention and consciousness appear to share similar qualities. But, Montemayor and Haladjian point out, attention is defined functionally, whereas consciousness is generally defined in terms of …
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- 9780262327497
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) :illustrations
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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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The internet of things
We turn on the lights in our house from a desk in an office miles away. Our refrigerator alerts us to buy milk on the way home. A package of cookies on the supermarket shelf suggests that we buy it, based on past purchases. The cookies themselves are on the shelf because of a "smart" supply chain. When we get home, the thermostat has already adjusted the temperature so that it's toasty or braci…
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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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