"One of the most influential, and perhaps surprising,developments in environmental policy in recent decades is the idea that we can protect the environment from the negative impacts of economic development by making environmental protection itself more economic. The goal is to reduce environmental harm not by preventing it, but by pricing it. Using stream mitigation banking, that is the market …
"This book represents a new approach to language acquisition and to variable properties in language. By taking a novel approach in allowing for an account of the acquisition of variable properties of language and a biologically plausible treatment of language variation, Lightfoot argues against the use of binary parameters, for the centrality of parsing in language acquisition, and for the "ope…
"An argument for a novel binarity constraint on merge, preventing syntactic movement from relating more than two distinct positions at one time"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A highly readable and punchy roadmap that ordinary citizens and policymakers alike can use to begin rethinking and refashioning their political interactions to be more productive"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A short, reader-friendly introduction to the neuroscientific study of language. Written by an emerging star in the field"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"How dating apps are empowering women and sexual minorities in China, even as they reveal and reproduce systematic sexism and heteronormativity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Offers a roadmap that will address the gap between the current workforce and the new jobs requiring significant upskilling, with a focus on the sectors of manufacturing, retail, and healthcare"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Insights from the history of numerical notation suggest that how humans write numbers is an active choice involving cognitive and social factors. Over the past 5,000 years, more than 100 methods of numerical notation--distinct ways of writing numbers--have been developed and used by specific communities. Most of these are barely known today; where they are known, they are often derided as cogni…
"Detailed and in-depth investigation of the important but often unappreciated work done by science technicians, in this case in the context of paleontology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A history of therapy at a distance, from Freud's letters to FaceTime and Skype"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.