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Democracy's dilemma: environment, social equity, and the global economy
A call for a balancing of economic, environmental, and social concerns in the age of global economic integration.The realities of global economic integration are far more complex than many of its supporters or detractors acknowledge. One consequence of simplistic thinking about globalization, claims Robert Paehlke, is that we tend to focus on economic prosperity to the neglect of such other imp…
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- 9780262281164
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Digital capitalism: networking the global market system
Schiller traces the transformation of the Internet from government, military, and educational tool to agent of "digital capitalism" through three critically important and interlinked realms.The networks that comprise cyberspace were originally created at the behest of government agencies, military contractors, and allied educational institutions. Over the past generation or so, however, a growi…
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- 9780262283137
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Sensorimotor Cognition and Natural Language Syntax
A proposal that the syntactic structure of a sentence reporting a concrete episode in the world can be interpreted as a description of the sensorimotor processes involved in experiencing that episode.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1283707527
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- 1 online resource (xi, 392 pages) :illustrations
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The pragmatic turn toward action-oriented views in cognitive science
Cognitive science is experiencing a pragmatic turn away from the traditional representation-centered framework toward a view that focuses on understanding cognition as 'enactive'. This enactive view holds that cognition does not produce models of the world but rather subserves action as it is grounded in sensorimotor skills. In this volume, experts from cognitive science, neuroscience, psycholo…
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- 9780262333290
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- 1 online resource (xi, 418 pages) :illustrations.
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An inclusive academy : achieving diversity and excellence
How colleges and universities can live up to their ideals of diversity, and why inclusivity and excellence go hand in hand.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262346221
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- 1 online resource (xxxi, 491 pages)
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Sensory integration and the unity of consciousness
In this volume, cognitive scientists and philosophers examine two closely related aspects of mind and mental functioning: the relationships among the various senses and the links that connect different conscious experiences to form unified wholes. Contributors address a range of questions concerning how information from one sense influences the processing of information from the other senses an…
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- 9780262319270
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- 1 online resource (x, 409 pages) :illustrations
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Migration stigma :understanding prejudice, discrimination, and exclusion
"Scholars from migration and stigma research introduce the concept of "migration stigma" to deepen understanding and inform future action"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262378833
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The unequal effects of globalization
"A look at the effects of globalization on within-country inequality and implications of policies to address this"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262375566
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Mismatch :how inclusion shapes design
Foreword by John Maeda.How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262349628
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- 1 online resource (156 pages) :illustrations.
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The Palgrave Handbook of European Banking
This handbook presents a timely collection of original studies on relevant themes, policies and developments in European banking. The contributors analyse how the crisis years have had a long lasting impact on the structure of European banking and explore the regulatory architecture that has started to take form in their wake. Academic experts and senior policy makers have contributed to this v…
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- 978-1-137-52144-6
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- Banking
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