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Urgency in the Anthropocene
Is this the Anthropocene? The age in which humans have become a geological force, leaving indelible signs of their activities on the earth. The narrative of the Anthropocene so far is characterized by extremes, emergencies, and exceptions-a tale of apocalypse by our own hands. The sense of ongoing crisis emboldens policy and governance responses that challenge established systems of sovereignty…
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- 9780262348898
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- 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages)
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Visual Attention and Cortical Circuits
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262316170
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 313 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Nonhuman Photography
"Today, in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and satellite images, photography is increasingly decoupled from human agency and human vision. In Nonhuman Photography, Joanna Zylinska offers a new philosophy of photography, going beyond the human-centric view to consider imaging practices from which the human is absent. Zylinska argues further that even those images produced by humans,…
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- 9780262343367
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- 1 online resource (viii, 257 pages) :illustrations
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Vision how it works and what can go wrong
"Over the past fifty years, enormous progress has been made in understanding visual mechanisms and treating eye disorders. And yet the scientist is not always aware of the latest clinical advances and the clinician is often not up to date on the basic scientific discoveries. Writing in nontechnical language, John and Joseph Dowling, a neuroscientist and an ophthalmologist, examine vision from b…
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- 9780262333566
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- 1 online resource (xx, 204 pages) :illustrations
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Visual Space Perception: A Primer
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275316
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 238 pages) :illustrations
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Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing
Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and "like" something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons become so ubiquitous? Why do people love them, loathe them, and fear them? In Power Button, Rachel Plotnick traces the ori…
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- 9780262347501
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Pesticide drift and the pursuit of environmental justice
"In this book, Jill Lindsey Harrison considers political conflicts over pesticide drift in California, using them to illuminate the broader problem and its potential solutions. The fact that pesticide pollution and illnesses associated with it disproportionately affect the poor and the powerless raises questions of environmental justice (and political injustice). Despite California's impressive…
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- 9780262298766
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The man who saw tomorrow :the life and inventions of Stanford R. Ovshinsky
The first full-length biography of a brilliant, self-taught inventor whose innovations in information and energy technology continue to shape our world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345033
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Inside the Fed: Monetary Policy and Its Management, Martin through Greenspan …
An insider's account of the workings of the Federal Reserve, thoroughly updated to encompass the Fed's action (and inaction) during the recent financial meltdown. Stephen Axilrod is the ultimate Federal Reserve insider. He worked at the Fed's Board of Governors for more than thirty years and after that in private markets and as a consultant on monetary policy. With Inside the Fed, he offers …
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- 9780262295895
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- 1 online resource (viii, 225 pages) :illustrations
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Presumptive meanings :the theory of generalized conversational implicature
This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades. When we speak, we mean more than we say. In this book Stephen C. Levinson explains some general processes that underlie presumptions in communication. This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpret…
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- 9780262278256
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 480 pages).
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