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Artifacts :an archaeologist's year in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley, a small place with few identifiable geologic or geographic features, has achieved a mythical reputation in a very short time. The modern material culture of the Valley may be driven by technology, but it also encompasses architecture, transportation, food, clothing, entertainment, intercultural exchanges, and rituals.Combining a reporter's instinct for a good interview with trad…
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- 9780262272674
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- 1 online resource (xlix, 246 pages) :illustrations, map
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The Agony of Eros
An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262339247
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- 1 online resource (xi, 60 pages).
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The Terror of Evidence
Meditations, maxims, aphorisms, notes, and comments address topics that range from pathos and genius to careerism and club sandwiches.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262339896
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 157 pages).
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As time goes by :tense and universal grammar
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275712
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- 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) :illustrations
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Asset price bubbles :implications for monetary, regulatory, and international…
Revised papers of a conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the World Bank.In both the industrialized and developing worlds, a distinctive feature of the last two decades has been prolonged buildups and sharp collapses in asset markets such as stock, housing, and exchange markets. The volatility has sparked intense debate in academic and policy circles over the appropria…
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- 9780262275910
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 581 pages) :illustrations
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The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream
Maps showing the Las Vegas Strip over time on front and back endpapers."The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates, followed by replicas of Veneti…
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- 9780262338219
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- 1 online resource (254 pages) :illustrations (chiefly color)
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Asymmetry in morphology
Di Sciullo argues that the asymmetric property of morphological relations is part of the language facility. She proposes a theory of grammar, Asymmetry Theory, according to which generic operations have specific instantiations in parallel deviations of the computational space.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262302845
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- 1 online resource (xix, 234 pages) :illustrations.
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Attachment and bonding :a new synthesis
"In this Dahlem workshop report, scientists from different disciplines-including anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, and behavioral biology-come together to explore the concepts of attachment and bonding from diverse perspectives. In their studies they seek to understand the causes or the consequences of attachment and bonding in general and their different qualities in individual development…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 493 pages) :illustrations.
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Attention and Performance XVII :cognitive regulation of performance, interact…
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- 9780262315777
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 814 pages) :illustrations, portrait.
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Banking on the environment :multilateral development banks and their environm…
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are increasingly expected to address environmental issues in their economic development lending. Yet the banks have been accused of failing to implement their own environmental policies, thereby contributing to environmental degradation in borrowing countries. In this book Tamar Gutner analyzes the environmental policies of three MDBs: the World Bank, the E…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) :illustrations, map.
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