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What We Know About Climate Change (Second Edition)
An updated edition of a guide to the basic science of climate change, and a call to action.The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere--most dramatically since the 1970s. Yet global warming skeptics and ill-informed elected officials continue to dismiss this broad scientific consensus. In this updated edition of his au…
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- Updated edition [2018 edition].
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- 9780262349871
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- 1 online resource (88 pages)
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Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies
Emerging biotechnologies that manipulate human genetic material have drawn a chorus of objections from politicians, pundits, and scholars. In Humanity Enhanced, Russell Blackford examines them in the context of liberal thought, discussing the public policy issues they raise from legal and political perspectives. Some see the possibility of genetic choice as challenging the values of liberal dem…
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- 0262318539
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- 1 online resource (231 pages).
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Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - Stanford University, Department of Communication, 2011) issued under title: A new way to think about press freedom : networked journalism and a public right to Hear in the Age of "Newsware."Reimagining press freedom in a networked era: not just a journalist's right to speak but also a public's right to hear.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345828
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- 1 online resource
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The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation
The issues of mental causation, consciousness, and free will have vexed philosophers since Plato. In this book, Peter Tse examines these unresolved issues from a neuroscientific perspective.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262313155
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- 1 online resource (xii, 456 pages) :illustrations
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Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch's Transdisciplinary Life in Science
"The book is a scientific biography of American neurophysiologist and cybernetician Warren S. McCulloch, one that places his life and work in historical context. By focusing on the various identities that he assumed throughout his life's major work--the study of the brain and mind--the book examines the intermingling of McCulloch's professional and personal worlds, and by doing so provides a mu…
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- 9780262335386
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages) :illustrations
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Everyday Engineering: An Ethnography of Design and Innovation
A guide to the everyday working world of engineers, written by researchers trained in both engineering and sociology.Everyday Engineering was written to help future engineers understand what they are going to be doing in their everyday working lives, so that they can do their work more effectively and with a broader social vision. It will also give sociologists deeper insights into the sociotec…
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- 9780262285551
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- 1 online resource (247 pages) :illustrations.
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Freedom and Determinism
"A Bradford book."This collection of contemporary essays by prominent contemporary thinkers on the topics of determinism and free agency concentrates primarily on two areas: the compatibility problem and the metaphysics of moral responsibility. There are also essays on the related fields of determinism and action theory. The book is unique in that it contains up-to-date summaries of the life-wo…
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- 9780262269773
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- 1 online resource (vi, 329 pages) :illustrations.
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From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Histo…
The overlapping and interacting forces that caused a Conservative government to repeal the protectionist Corn Laws against its own political principles and economic interests: extensive qualitative and quantitative analysis.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283205
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 426 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Data and democracy at work :advanced information technologies, labor law, and…
"An exploration of how labor law has protected companies' rights to surveil their employees and limit worker power, and how it might be reformed"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373357
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Resilient Computer System Design
This book presents a paradigm for designing new generation resilient and evolving computer systems, including their key concepts, elements of supportive theory, methods of analysis and synthesis of ICT with new properties of evolving functioning, as well as implementation schemes and their prototyping. The book explains why new ICT applications require a complete redesign of computer systems to…
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- 621.38
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