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Invented Edens :techno-cities of the twentieth century
Tracing the design of "techno-cities" that blend the technological and the pastoral. Industrialization created cities of Dickensian squalor that were crowded, smoky, dirty, and disease-ridden. By the beginning of the twentieth century, urban visionaries were looking for ways to improve both living and working conditions in industrial cities. In Invented Edens, Robert Kargon and Arthur Molella t…
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- 9780262276733
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- 1 online resource (viii, 190 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The mechanical mind in history
"A Bradford book."The idea of intelligent machines has become part of popular culture. Tracing the history of the actual science of machine intelligence reveals a rich network of cross-disciplinary contributions, and the origins of ideas now central to artifical intelligence, artificial life, cognitive science and neuroscience.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256384
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Design and destiny :Jewish and Christian perspectives on human germline modif…
Scholars discuss the genetic modification of embryonic cells from the viewpoints of traditional Jewish and Christian teaching, considering both the possible therapeutic benefits of this technology and moral concerns about its implementation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262270632
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Instrumental community :probe microscopy and the path to nanotechnology
In this volume, the author argues that this technology-centric view does not explain how these microscopes helped to launch nanotechnology - and fails to acknowledge the agency of the microscopists in making the STM and its variants critically important tools.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298186
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) :illustrations.
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The art of agent-oriented modeling
A new approach for conceptualizing and modeling multi-agent systems that consist of people, devices, and software agents.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259217
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- 1 online resource (xix, 367 pages) :illustrations.
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School choice international :exploring public-private partnerships
This volume analyses and studies public-private partnerships in education and the varied forms they take in different parts of the world, for example it studies publicly-funded vouchers in Chile and Columbia and private schools in India.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262270113
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- 1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) :illustrations
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Better than conscious? :decision making, the human mind, and implications for…
Forum held June 10-15, 2007 in Frankfurt, Germany.Experts discuss the implications of the ways humans reach decisions through the conscious and subconscious processing of information. Conscious control enables human decision makers to override routines, to exercise willpower, to find innovative solutions, to learn by instruction, to decide collectively, and to justify their choices. These and m…
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- 9780262272353
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 449 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Digital Apollo :human and machine in spaceflight
How human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight--the lunar landings of NASA's Apollo program.As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer's software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrong responded by switching off the automatic mode and taking direct control. He stopped mo…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 359 pages) :illustrations
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Currency boards in retrospect and prospect
Employing economic theory, cross-country empirical comparison and case studies, this work analyses the effect of currency boards on inflation, output growth and macroeconomic performance. The case studies come from Argentina, Estonia Lithuania, Bulgaria and Bosnia and Herzegovina.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286411
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages) :illustrations.
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A hole in the head :more tales in the history of neuroscience
Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys-from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells-in the history of brain sciences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) :illustrations
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