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Extraterrestrials
"In this EK title Roush investigates a topic that has fascinated him since college -- the possibility and probability of life, intelligent or otherwise, in the universe. The book covers the history and science of our search for extraterrestrial life, and investigates what that search means for us as a species, as well as what the implications of finding life on other planets might mean for life…
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The Mind: Consciousness, Prediction, and the Brain
The mind encompasses everything we experience, and these experiences are created by the brain—often without our awareness. Experience is private; we can't know the minds of others. But we also don't know what is happening in our own minds. In this book, E. Bruce Goldstein offers an accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. He takes as his starting point two …
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Bridging the silos :collaborating for environment, health, and justice in urb…
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- 9780262354981
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- 1 online resource (376 pages) :illustrations.
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In the images of development :city design in the Global South
"Magisterial and critical study of city design in the Global South, tracing the historical, economic, political, and ideological forces influencing development up to the present"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262361118
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- 1 online resource.
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Remaking Berlin :a history of the city through infrastructure, 1920-2020
"The first carefully researched historical analysis of the co-evolution of Berlin and its infrastructure services"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262360906
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Government's place in the market
In his first book, the former New York governor and current CNN cohost offers a manifesto on the economy and the public interest.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295987
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- 1 online resource (83 pages).
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Coding Places: Software Practice in a South American City
An examination of software practice in Brazil that reveals both the globalization and the localization of software development. Software development would seem to be a quintessential example of today's Internet-enabled “knowledge work”—a global profession not bound by the constraints of geography. In Coding Places, Yuri Takhteyev looks at the work of software developers who inhabit two…
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Principles of brain dynamics :global state interactions
Experimental and theoretical approaches to global brain dynamics that draw on the latest research in the field. The consideration of time or dynamics is fundamental for all aspects of mental activity--perception, cognition, and emotion--because the main feature of brain activity is the continuous change of the underlying brain states even in a constant environment. The application of nonlinear …
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- 9780262305587
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- 1 online resource (vi, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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On the origin of objects
On the Origin of Objects is the culmination of Brian Cantwell Smith's decade-long investigation into the philosophical and metaphysical foundations of computation, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Based on a sustained critique of the formal tradition that underlies the reigning views, he presents an argument for an embedded, participatory, "irreductionist," metaphysical alternati…
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- 0585038198
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- 1 online resource (xii, 420 pages) :illustrations
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Burdens of Proof: Cryptographic Culture and Evidence Law in the Age of Electr…
An examination of the challenges of establishing the authenticity of electronic documents—in particular the design of a cryptographic equivalent to handwritten signatures. The gradual disappearance of paper and its familiar evidential qualities affects almost every dimension of contemporary life. From health records to ballots, almost all documents are now digitized at some point of their …
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