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A theory of indexical shift :meaning, grammar, and crosslinguistic variation
"This book answers both the 'what' and the 'why' question raised by indexical shift in crosslinguistic perspective. What are the possible profiles of an indexical shifting language, and why do we find these profiles and not various equally conceivable others? Drawing both from the literature (published and unpublished) and from original fieldwork on the language Nez Perce, Amy Rose Deal puts fo…
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When blood breaks down :lessons from leukemia
"When Blood Breaks Down explores the lives and emotions of three leukemia patients, their caregivers, the doctor-patient relationship, and the history of the incredible discoveries that led to their treatment. Three people receive a diagnosis of leukemia within hours of each other. As is true of any person diagnosed with cancer, they must make decisions about how their cancer will be treated - …
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Techno-vernacular creativity and innovation :culturally relevant making insid…
"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.
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A new history of the future in 100 objects
"Speculative fiction that presents a possible future -- as rich, complex, and compromised as our present -- in 100 vignettes, each focusing on individual technologies or social innovations"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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From Darwin to Derrida :selfish genes, social selves, and the meanings of life
"The main task of this book is to explain how the process of natural selection produces purposeful beings that make sense of their world - organisms who do things for good reasons. It provides a link between a physical world described in terms of matter in motion and a living world described in terms of meanings and purposes. David is proposing a unification of biology and the humanities throug…
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The promise of artificial intelligence :reckoning and judgment
An argument that--despite dramatic advances in the field--artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent.In this provocative book, Brian Cantwell Smith argues that artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent. Second wave AI, machine learning, even visions of third-wave AI: none will lead to human-level inte…
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- 9780262355209
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- 1 online resource (184 pages).
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Playful visions :optical toys and the emergence of children's media culture
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.
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Levels of organization in the biological sciences
"This book addresses basic and advanced questions surrounding the idea of levels or organization in the biological sciences"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Art and tradition in a time of uprisings
Examining radical reinventions of traditional practices, ranging from a queer reclamation of the Jewish festival of Purim to an Indigenous remixing of musical traditions. Supposedly outmoded modes of doing and making--from music and religious rituals to crafting and cooking--are flourishing, both artistically and politically, in the digital age. In this book, Gabriel Levine examines collective …
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- 1 online resource (352 pages).
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Carbon captured :how business and labor control climate politics
A comparative examination of domestic climate politics that offers a theory for cross-national differences in domestic climate policymaking. Climate change threatens the planet, and yet policy responses have varied widely across nations. Some countries have undertaken ambitious programs to stave off climate disaster, others have done little, and still others have passed policies that were later…
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