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Tales from a robotic world :how intelligent machines will shape our future
"A glimpse into the future of intelligent machines, and a journey through the laboratories and researchers that are building them. The book offers a mix of fiction and nonfiction narrative: readers can "see" a world, a few decades away, where intelligent machines have become reality, and learn about the science brewing in today's labs and the technical and socioeconomic challenges, often throug…
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Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology
Human cognition is soft. It is too flexible, too rich, and too open-ended to be captured by hard (precise, exceptionless) rules of the sort that can constitute a computer program. In Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology, Horgan and Tienson articulate and defend a new view of cognition. In place of the classical paradigm that take the mind to be a computer (or a group of linked compute…
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- 9780262275675
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 207 pages) :illustrations
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The elusive shift :how role-playing games forged their identity
"Peterson animates the history of role-playing games found in zines, from the collision of the niche audiences of war gaming and fantasy in the 60s to the extreme commercial growth of D&D in the 80s"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262360951
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Command and persuade :crime, law, and the state across history
"This history of crime and punishment spans 3000 years and multiple continents to reveal the larger patterns in how the state has maintained order and enforced law over the centuries"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262361507
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Effective advocacy :lessons from East Asia's environmentalists
"Effective Advocacy examines successful environmental advocacy in East Asia to develop the Connected Stakeholder Model, which helps explain why a small number of advocacy strategies are particularly effective around the world"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363426
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The working mind :meaning and mental attention in human development
"A magnum opus from one of Piaget's most important students. This books seeks to synthesize Piaget's psychology with findings in modern neuroscience to explain cognitive development"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363089
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Game wizards :the epic battle for Dungeons & Dragons
"A detailed history about the early years and drama of TSR, Inc., the company that founded Dungeons and Dragons"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366746
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- 1 online resource.
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A biography of the pixel
"The co-founder of Pixar explains the history and development of computer animation"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262365222
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- 1 online resource.
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Combating inequality :rethinking government's role
"Edited collection with contributions from notable economists on policy solutions to the problem of economic inequality in advanced economies"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363534
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Technology's child :digital media's role in the ages and stages of growing up
"Davis addresses the "screen time" debate by recognizing that children's experiences of technology and social relationships are qualitatively distinct at different stages of development"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262370097
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