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Toward a Cognitive Semantics: Concept Structuring Systems
Rev. and expanded version of papers, essays, etc. published during the last twenty years; cf. v. 1, p. 6."A Bradford book."In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention a…
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- 9780262284660
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- 1 online resource (viii, 565 pages) :illustrations.
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Toward a Cognitive Semantics: Typology and Process in Concept Structuring
A Bradford book."In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention and viewpoint.One of a two-volume set defining the field of cognitive semantics. Leonard Talmy approaches t…
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- 9780262284677
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- 1 online resource (viii, 495 pages) :illustrations.
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Invisible Mind: Flexible Social Cognition and Dehumanization
In Invisible Mind, Lasana Harris takes a social neuroscience approach to explaining the worst of human behavior. How can a person take part in racially motivated violence and then tenderly cradle a baby or lovingly pet a puppy? Harris argues that our social cognition—the ability to infer the mental states of another agent—is flexible. That is, we can either engage or withhold social cogniti…
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Toward Replacement Parts for the Brain: Implantable Biomimetic Electronics as…
A Bradford book.""This book has its origins in a meeting, entitled "Toward replacement parts for the brain: intracranial implantations of hardward models of neural circuitry" that took place in Washington, D.C. in August 1989"--Preface.The continuing development of implantable neural prostheses signals a new era in bioengineering and neuroscience research. This collection of essays outlines cur…
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- 9780262268226
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- 1 online resource (ix, 405 pages) :illustrations
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Toward a Science of Consciousness: The First Tucson Discussions and Debates
A Bradford book."Papers presented at an international conference held at the University of Arizona in April of 1994.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262316026
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 790 pages) :illustrations.
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Toward a Comparative Institutional Analysis
A conceptual and analytical framework for understanding economic institutions and institutional change.Markets are one of the most salient institutions produced by humans, and economists have traditionally analyzed the workings of the market mechanism. Recently, however, economists and others have begun to appreciate the many institution-related events and phenomena that have a significant impa…
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- 9780262267212
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- 1 online resource (xi, 467 pages) :illustrations.
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Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism
Creationism is no longer the simple notion it once was taken to be. Its new advocates have become more sophisticated in how they present their views, speaking of "intelligent design" rather than "creation science" and aiming their arguments against the naturalistic philosophical method that underlies science, proposing to replace it with a "theistic science." The creationism controversy is not …
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Trace Theory for Automatic Hierarchical Verification of Speed-Independent Cir…
Speed-independent circuits offer a potential solution to the timing problems of VLSI. In this book David Dill develops and implements a theory for practical automatic verification of these control circuits. He describes a formal model of circuit operation, defines the proper relationship between an implementation and its specification, and constructs a computer program that can check this relat…
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- 9780262256025
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- 1 online resource (163 pages) :illustrations.
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Tracing Genres through Organizations: A Sociocultural Approach to Information…
In Tracing Genres through Organizations, Clay Spinuzzi examines the everyday improvisations by workers who deal with designed information and shows how understanding this impromptu creation can improve information design. He argues that the traditional user-centered approach to design does not take into consideration the unofficial genres that spring up as workers write notes, jot down ideas, a…
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- 9780262257015
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- 1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) :illustrations.
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Causation and Explanation
"A Bradford book."Leading scholars discuss the development and application of theories of causation and explanation, offering a state-of-the-art view of current work on these two topics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269766
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 315 pages) :illustrations.
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