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The high price of materialism
A study of how materialism and consumerism undermine our quality of life. In The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness and psychological health. Other writers have shown that once we have sufficient food, shelter, and clothing, further material gains do little to impr…
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- 9780262276764
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 149 pages) : illustrations.
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- 332 KAS h
High technology and low-income communities : prospects for the positive use o…
"How will low-income communities be affected by the waves of social, economic, political, and cultural change that surround the new information technologies? How can we influence the outcome? This action-oriented book identifies the key issues, explores the evidence, and suggests some answers. Avoiding both utopianism and despair, the book presents the voices of technology enthusiasts and skept…
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- 0585003076
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 411 pages) : illustrations
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- 001 HIG
Historia : empiricism and erudition in early modern Europe
Essays examine how the genre of historia reflects connections between the study of nature and the study of culture in early modern scholarly pursuits. The early modern genre of historia connected the study of nature and the study of culture from the early Renaissance to the eighteenth century. The ubiquity of historia as a descriptive method across a variety of disciplines—including natura…
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- 9780262281775
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- 1 online resource (viii, 490 pages) : illustrations.
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- 900 POM h
Histories of the electron : the birth of microphysics
In the mid to late 1890s, J.J. Thomson and colleagues at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory conducted experiments on "cathode rays" (a form of radiation produced within evacuated glass vessels subjected to electric fields) -- the results of which some historians later viewed as the "discovery" of the electron. This book is both a biography of the electron and a history of the microphysical world …
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- 9780262269483
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- 1 online resource (xi, 514) : illustrations.
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- 620 HIS
The historiography of modern architecture
"Tournikiotis argues that the history of modern architecture tends to be written from the present, projecting back onto the past our current concerns, so that the "beginning" of the story really functions as a "representation" of its end. In this book the buildings are the quotations, while the texts are the structure." "Tournikiotis focuses on a group of books by major historians of the twenti…
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- 9780262285100
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- 1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) : illustrations
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- 720 TOU h
A History of Modern Experimental Psychology : From James and Wundt to Cogniti…
The evolution of cognitive psychology, traced from the beginnings of a rigorous experimental psychology at the end of the nineteenth century to the "cognitive revolution" at the end of the twentieth, and the social and cultural contexts of its theoretical developments. Modern psychology began with the adoption of experimental methods at the end of the nineteenth century: Wilhelm Wundt establ…
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- 9780262279017
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- 1 online resource (310 pages)
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- 150 MAN h
A history of online information services, 1963-1976
Every field of history has a basic need for a detailed chronology of what happened: who did what when. In the absence of such a resource, fanciful accounts flourish. This book provides a rich narrative of the early development of online information retrieval systems and services, from 1963 to 1976--a period important to anyone who uses a search engine, online catalog, or large database. Drawing…
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- 9780262269049
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 493 pages) : illustrations
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The Hot Brain : Survival, Temperature, and the Human Body
The book traces the story of the brain throughout evolution and shows how the control of body temperature as a survival mechanism was achieved. From the first unicellular life on Earth, living things have had the capacity to sense heat and cold and to avoid extreme temperatures. With the development of a bigger brain and a constant body temperature, mammals were able to change their habitats…
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- 9780262273886
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- 1 online resource (286 pages)
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- 613 GIS h
Household portfolios
Papers presented at the Conference on Household Portfolios, held in Florence, Italy, Dec. 17-18, 1999.Theoretical and empirical analysis of the structure of household portfolios.Until recently, researchers in economics and finance paid relatively little attention to household portfolios. Reasons included the tendency of most households to hold simple portfolios, the inability of the dominant as…
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- 9780262274517
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- 1 online resource (xii, 496 pages) : illustrations
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- 658 HOU
Human rights in the global information society
Papers originally presented at the World Summit on the Information Society, November 2005.International organizations, governments, academia, industry, and the media have all begun to grapple with the information society as a global policy issue. The first United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held in December 2003, recognized the connections between information technol…
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- 9780262256445
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- 1 online resource (x, 324 pages)
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- 320 HUM
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