Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?

Continuing the debate over whether consciousness causes behaviour or plays no functional role in it, leading scholars discuss the question in terms of neuroscience, philosophy, law and public policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Does Game Theory Work? The Bargaining Challenge

"This volume brings together all of Ken Binmore's influential experimental papers on bargaining along with newly written commentary in which Binmore discusses the underlying game theory and addresses the criticism leveled at it by behavioral economists."--Jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

A little book of naval wisdom

IT is held to be in the natural order of things for the British seaman to do rather than to say. For centuries he has been accomplishing mighty tasks without making much fuss about it. That is his habit. We land creatures take his work for granted in much the same way as the minutes of the previous meeting are ' taken as read.' That is our habit

Dollarization: Debates and Policy Alternatives

Theoretical and empirical analysis of de jure dollarization.With the persistent instability of international financial markets, emerging economies are exploring new ways to reduce exposure to capital flow volatility. Some analysts argue that financially open economies are best served by more flexible regimes, while others argue in favor of extreme exchange rate regimes that have a strong commit…

Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy: Industry, Environment…

How do international environmental standards come into being? One important way, as Elizabeth DeSombre shows in this book, is through the internationalization of regulations that one or more countries have undertaken domestically. Domestic environmental regulation, DeSombre argues, can create an incentive for environmentalists and industry--previously at odds with each other--to work together t…

The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness

"A Bradford book."In this book, J. Allan Hobson offers a new understanding of altered states of consciousness based on knowledge of how our brain chemistry is balanced when we are awake and how that balance shifts when we fall asleep and dream. He draws on recent research that enables us to explain how psychedelic drugs work to disturb that balance and how similar imbalances may cause depressio…

The Dream of the Factory-Made House: Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann

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Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind

Includes index.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. In this book J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling—and controversial—theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he calls it, is not a fixed identity but a dynamic balancing act between the chemical systems that regulate waking and dreaming.

Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West

"This book offers a reevaluation of the twentieth century. It argues that the disintegration of Soviet socialism marked the abandonment of the idea of mass utopia by both sides in the Cold War. One of the casualties of the end of that war was the shattering of dreamworlds of industrialization, mass culture, and historical progress that gave meaning to collective social life in East and West. Dr…

A history of the Borgias

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