"New theoretical model of human reasoning proposed by a leading researcher in the cognitive neurosciences. Explains why people are never fully rational in their decision-making"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The subject of this book is moral change, including moral progress and regression. The intention is to use the best thinking about the evolution of morality and the best available social science research to determine the possibilities for progressive change in human moralities by examining important morally progressive changes that have already occurred, in order to determine the social condit…
An exploration of echo not as simple repetition but as an agent of creative possibilities. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amit Pinchevski proposes that echo is not simple repetition and the reproduction of sameness but an agent of change and a source of creation and creativity. Pinchevski views echo as a medium, connecting and mediating across and between disparate …
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"One of the most influential, and perhaps surprising,developments in environmental policy in recent decades is the idea that we can protect the environment from the negative impacts of economic development by making environmental protection itself more economic. The goal is to reduce environmental harm not by preventing it, but by pricing it. Using stream mitigation banking, that is the market …
"Smith investigates the role of parasites in the planning of Paris, specifically those stealing resources, hurting the city's health, and interfering of information transmission"--Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Princeton University, 2015, under the title: Paris and the parasite : the politics of noise in the mediatic city.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Gaskins draws on research and theory from culturally responsive pedagogy to reimagine the maker movement as more inclusive and diverse"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as "new media" of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
How the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for the design and building of ships. In the 1800s, shipbuilding moved from sail and wood to steam, iron, and steel. The competitive pressure to achieve more predictable ocean transportation drove the industrialization of shipbuilding, as shipowners demanded ships that enabled tighter scheduling, improved…
"How new media forms can influence spatial design and placemaking"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.