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Pursuing the endless frontier :essays on MIT and the role of research univers…
The former president of MIT discusses challenges and policy issues confronting academia, science and technology, and the world at large.In his fourteen years as president of MIT, Charles Vest worked continuously to realize his vision of rebuilding America's trust in science and technology. In a time when the federal government dramatically reduced its funding of academic research programs and i…
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 292 pages)
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The puppet and the dwarf :the perverse core of Christianity
One of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first revolutionary collective.Slavoj Zizek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild man of theory"; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop culture in order to dissect current intellectual pieties. In The Puppet and the Dwarf he offers a …
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- 1 online resource ([188] pages).
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Pulsed neural networks
"A Bradford book."Presents a spectrum of current research in pulsed neural networks and includes work from some of the key scientists in the field.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278768
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 377 pages) :illustrations
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Public policy and the economics of entrepreneurship
Papers presented at a conference held at Syracuse University in April 2001.This groundbreaking collection of essays by leading economists examines different aspects of entrepreneurship and its relation to public policy.Entrepreneurship has been a subject of much recent discussion among academics and policymakers because of the belief that it invigorates the economy--producing greater productivi…
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- 9780262275606
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- 1 online resource (xii, 213 pages) :illustrations
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Public finance and public policy in the new century
Essays on the theory and practice of public finance and policy.The sixteen essays in this book were written to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of Richard Musgrave and to commemorate the tenth anniversary of CES, the Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich. Musgrave is considered to be a founding father of modern public economics. He belongs to the intellectual tradition that vi…
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- 9780262270502
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- 1 online resource (xxx, 535 pages) :illustrations.
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Public Finance and Public Choice :Two Contrasting Visions of the State.
In this volume, based on a week-long symposium at the University of Munich's Center for Economic Studies, two leading scholars of governmental economics debate their divergent perspectives on the role of government and its fiscal functions. James M. Buchanan, who was influential in developing the research program in public choice, concentrates on the imperfections of the political process and s…
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- 9780262269476
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- 1 online resource (282 pages)
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Psychosemantics :the problem of meaning in the philosophy of mind
Bradford Books.AnnotationOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262560526
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- 1 online resource (187 pages .).
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Psychoneural reduction :the new wave
John Bickle presents a new type of reductionism, one that is stronger than one-way dependency yet sidesteps the arguments that sank classical reductionism.One of the central problems in the philosophy of psychology is an updated version of the old mind-body problem: how levels of theories in the behavioral and brain sciences relate to one another. Many contemporary philosophers of mind believe …
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- 1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) :illustrations
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The psychology of proof :deductive reasoning in human thinking
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282413
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 449 pages) :illustrations
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The psychology of attention
"A Bradford book."In the past two decades, attention has been one of the most investigated areas of research in perception and cognition. However, the literature on the field contains a bewildering array of findings, and empirical progress has not been matched by consensus on major theoretical issues. The Psychology of Attention presents a systematic review of the main lines of research on atte…
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