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The rational imagination :how people create alternatives to reality
"A Bradford book.""The human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. This accessible and original monograph explores a central aspect of the imagination, the creation of counterfactual alternatives to reality, and claims that imaginative thoughts are guided by the same principles that underlie rational thoughts. Research has shown that rational thought is more imagin…
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- 9780262269629
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) :illustrations
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Profiling machines :mapping the personal information economy
The cultural and media studies perspectives on the technology of electronic consumer profiling.In this book Greg Elmer brings the perspectives of cultural and media studies to the subject of consumer profiling and feedback technology in the digital economy. He examines the multiplicity of processes that monitor consumers and automatically collect, store, and cross-reference personal information…
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- 9780262272308
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- 1 online resource (x, 179 pages)
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Explorations in parallel distributed processing :a handbook of models, progra…
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262291279
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- 1 online resource (ix, 355 pages) :illustrations.
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LISP 1.5 programmer's manual :the Computation Center and Research Laboratory …
Includes index.The manual describes LISP, a formal mathematical language. LISP differs from most programming languages in three important ways. The first way is in the nature of the data.The LISP language is designed primarily for symbolic data processing used for symbolic calculations in differential and integral calculus, electrical circuit theory, mathematical logic, game playing, and other …
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- 9780262287722
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- 1 online resource (vi, 106 pages)
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PVM--parallel virtual machine :a users' guide and tutorial for networked para…
Written by the team that developed the software, this tutorial is the definitive resource for scientists, engineers, and other computer users who want to use PVM to increase the flexibility and power of their high-performance computing resources.Written by the team that developed the software, this tutorial is the definitive resource for scientists, engineers, and other computer users who want …
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- 0585309604
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 279 pages) :illustrations.
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The rapid evaluation of potential fields in particle systems
"Leslie Greengard received his doctorate from Yale University where he is a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computer Science Department. The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems is a 1987 ACM Distinguished Dissertation.""The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems presents a group of algorithms for the computation of the potential and force fields in large-sc…
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- 9780262256254
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- 1 online resource (iv, 90 pages) :illustrations.
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Radioactive waste disposal at sea :public ideas, transnational policy entrepr…
Most studies of environmental regimes focus on the use of power, the pursuit of rational self-interest, and the influence of scientific knowledge. Lasse Ringius focuses instead on the influence of public ideas and policy entrepreneurs. He shows how transnational coalitions of policy entrepreneurs can build environmental regimes and how global environmental nongovernmental organizations can act …
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- 9780262282406
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- 1 online resource (x, 261 pages) :illustrations.
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Qualitative methods for reasoning under uncertainty
In this book Simon Parsons describes qualitative methods for reasoning under uncertainty, "uncertainty" being a catch-all term for various types of imperfect information. The advantage of qualitative methods is that they do not require precise numerical information. Instead, they work with abstractions such as interval values and information about how values change. The author does not invent c…
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- 9780262256773
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 506 pages) :illustrations.
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Public Finance and Public Choice :Two Contrasting Visions of the State.
In this volume, based on a week-long symposium at the University of Munich's Center for Economic Studies, two leading scholars of governmental economics debate their divergent perspectives on the role of government and its fiscal functions. James M. Buchanan, who was influential in developing the research program in public choice, concentrates on the imperfections of the political process and s…
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- 9780262269476
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- 1 online resource (282 pages)
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Psychology :the hope of a science
"A Bradford book."At a time in the history of psychology when many psychologists are troubled by the splintered condition of the field, Gregory Kimble proposes that the diverse perspectives in psychology share ways of thinking that can bring coherence to the discipline. Drawing on years of extensive research and scholarship, Kimble presents evidence for this potential unity. He portrays psychol…
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- 0585021317
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- 1 online resource (xii, 153 pages) :illustrations
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