In peril of his life

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The History of the Jews : from the earliest period to the present time

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Dick Leslie's luck : a story of shipwreck and adventure

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Fifteen years of a drunkard's life; a melodrama in three acts

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32 p. 19 cm

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The lady of La Garaye

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Double Dividend: Environmental Taxes and Fiscal Reform in the United States

"Energy utilization, especially from fossil fuels, creates hidden costs in the form of pollution and environmental damages. The costs are well documented but are hidden in the sense that they occur outside the market, are not reflected in market prices, and are not taken into account by energy users. Double Dividend presents a novel method for designing environmental taxes that correct market p…

Lessons from the Lobster: Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience

How forty years of research on thirty neurons in the stomach of a lobster has yielded valuable insights for the study of the human brain.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life

How sharing the mundane details of daily life did not start with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube but with pocket diaries, photo albums, and baby books. Social critiques argue that social media have made us narcissistic, that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are all vehicles for me-promotion. In The Qualified Self , Lee Humphreys offers a different view. She shows that sharing the mundan…

The Systemic Image: A New Theory of Interactive Real-Time Simulations

In media art history as well as in science studies an intensified reception of cybernetic and system-theoretical concepts can be seen in the last few years. In this work, a conceptualization of the relationship between the systemic and the iconic in interactive real-time simulations is proposed.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The Moral Brain: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

"Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand human moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms shaped through evolution, development, and culture. Evolutionary biologists have shown that moral cognition evolved to aid cooperation; developmental psychologists have demonstrat…