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Red Prometheus: engineering and dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990
This analysis of the relationship between science and totalitarian rule in one of the most technically advanced countries in the East bloc examines professional autonomy under dictatorship and the place of technology in Communist ideology. In Cold War-era East Germany, the German tradition of science-based technology merged with a socialist system that made technological progress central to its…
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- 9780262267458
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- 1 online resource (xxx, 381 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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The genetics of cognitive neuroscience
A primer on understanding the influence of specific genetic variants on cognition, affective regulation, personality, and central nervous system disorders.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259637
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- 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) :illustrations.
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Weather by the numbers :the genesis of modern meteorology
The history of the growth and professionalization of American meteorology and its transformation into a physics- and mathematics-based scientific discipline.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274982
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- 1 online resource (ix, 308 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Elizabeth Blackburn and the story of telomeres :deciphering the ends of DNA
The story of molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn and her groundbreaking research on telomeres and what it reveals about the resourceful optimism that characterizes the best scientific thinking.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269117
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- 1 online resource (392 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations
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Emergence :contemporary readings in philosophy and science
"A Bradford book."This reader collects in one easy, accessible place, classic writings on emergence from contemporary philosophy and science. This title includes contributions from the likes of John Searle, Stephen Weinberg, Thomas Schelling, Stephen Wolfram and Jenny Fodor.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9781435640740
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- 1 online resource (xv, 464 pages) :illustrations
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Subjectivity and otherness :a philosophical reading of Lacan
The evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262288149
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- 1 online resource (235 pages) :illustrations.
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HCI remixed :essays on works that have influenced the HCI community
Over almost three decades, the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) has produced a rich and varied literature. Although the focus of attention today is naturally on new work, older contributions that played a role in shaping the trajectory and character of the field have much to tell us. The contributors to HCI Remixed were asked to reflect on a single work at least ten years old that infl…
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- 9780262256070
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- 1 online resource (xv, 337 pages) :illustrations
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Sex and the brain
AnnotationOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262272247
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 834 pages) :illustrations
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Structures of scientific collaboration
How technology and bureaucracy shape collaborative scientific research projects: an empirical study of multiorganizational collaboration in the physical sciences. Collaboration among organizations is rapidly becoming common in scientific research as globalization and new communication technologies make it possible for researchers from different locations and institutions to work together on com…
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- 9780262283588
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- 1 online resource (xi, 280 pages) :illustrations.
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Institutions and norms in economic development
Experts address "the development puzzle"--Unprecedented growth coupled with unequal distribution of that growth across different countries-and focus on the importance of institutional arrangements and norms and culture.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274197
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) :illustrations, map.
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