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The pragmatic turn toward action-oriented views in cognitive science
Cognitive science is experiencing a pragmatic turn away from the traditional representation-centered framework toward a view that focuses on understanding cognition as 'enactive'. This enactive view holds that cognition does not produce models of the world but rather subserves action as it is grounded in sensorimotor skills. In this volume, experts from cognitive science, neuroscience, psycholo…
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- 9780262333290
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- 1 online resource (xi, 418 pages) :illustrations.
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Families at play connecting and learning through video games
"How family video game play promotes intergenerational communication, connection, and learning. Video games have a bad reputation in the mainstream media. They are blamed for encouraging social isolation, promoting violence, and creating tensions between parents and children. In this book, Sinem Siyahhan and Elisabeth Gee offer another view. They show that video games can be a tool for connecti…
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- 9780262344579
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Missed information better information for building a wealthier more sustainab…
How better information and better access to it improves the quality of our decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory society.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262336253
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Why only us language and evolution
"We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language--'the language faculty'--raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This boo…
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- 9780262333351
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- 1 online resource (215 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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Ecuador's environmental revolutions ecoimperialists ecodependents, and ecores…
An account of the movement for sustainable development in Ecuador through four eras: movement origins, neoliberal boom, neoliberal bust, and citizens' revolution.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262333382
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The Cultural Nature of Attachment: Contextualizing Relationships and Development
Multidisciplinary perspectives on the cultural and evolutionary foundations of children's attachment relationships and on the consequences for education, counseling, and policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262342872
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- 1 online resource (xi, 429 pages).
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Demographic change and long-run development
Recent approaches to economic demography, investigating the effect of the transition to low mortality and low fertility on economic development.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262341660
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- 1 online resource (vi, 354 pages).
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Governing Complex Systems: Social Capital for the Anthropocene
An exploration of the need for innovative mechanisms of governance in an era when human actions are major drivers of environmental change.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262338899
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages).
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The Walls Have the Floor: Mural Journal, May '68
The graffiti of the French student and worker uprising of May 1968, capturing participatory politics in action."Fifty years ago, in 1968, barricades were erected in the streets of Paris for the first time since the Paris Commune of nearly one hundred years before. The events of May 1968 began with student protests against the Vietnam War and American imperialism but quickly expanded to rebellio…
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- 9780262346795
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 202 pages) :illustration
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