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Self-trust and reproductive autonomy
A study of the importance of self-trust for women's autonomy in reproductive health. The power of new medical technologies, the cultural authority of physicians, and the gendered power dynamics of many patient-physician relationships can all inhibit women's reproductive freedom. Often these factors interfere with women's ability to trust themselves to choose and act in ways that are consistent …
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- 0585442711
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages).
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Seeing double :shared identities in physics, philosophy, and literature
"The separateness and connection of individuals is perhaps the central question of human life: What, exactly, is my individuality? To what degree is it unique? To what degree can it be shared, and how? To the many philosophical and literary speculations about these topics over time, modern science has added the curious twist of quantum theory, which requires that the elementary particles of whi…
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- 9780262281492
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- 1 online resource (184 pages) :illustrations
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Seeing and visualizing :it's not what you think
"In Seeing and Visualizing Zenon Pylyshyn argues that seeing is different from thinking and that to see is not, as it may seem intuitively, to create an inner replica of the world. Pylyshyn examines how we see and how we visualize and why the scientific account does not align with the way these processes seem to us "from the inside." In doing so, he addresses issues in vision science, cognitive…
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- 9780262316316
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 563 pages) :illustrations.
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Scientific discovery :computational explorations of the creative processes
Includes indexes.Pat Langley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. Herbert Simon is a Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Computer Science, and Philosophy at Carnegie-Mellon University. Gary L. Bradshaw is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Institute of Cognitive Science at the Uni…
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- 9780262316002
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- 1 online resource (357 pages)
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Schools for thought :a science of learning in the classroom
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269384
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- 1 online resource (x, 324 pages) :illustrations
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Roots of social sensibility and neural function
"A Bradford book."We are social animals, with evolved mechanisms to discern the beliefs and desires of others. This social reason is linked to the concept of intentionality, the ability to attribute beliefs and desires to others. In this book Jay Schulkin explores social reason from philosophical, psychological, and cognitive neuroscientific perspectives. He argues for a pragmatist approach, in…
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- 9780262283281
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 206 pages) :illustrations
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The road winds uphill all the way :gender, work, and family in the United Sta…
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585077517
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 276 pages)
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The right way to hire financial help :a complete guide to choosing and managi…
Title from title screen.Detailed, practical advice on hiring financial advisers.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- [2nd ed.].
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- 9780262287845
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Retooling :a historian confronts technological change
A humanistic account of the changing role of technology in society, by a historian and a former Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT.When Warren Kendall Lewis left Spring Garden Farm in Delaware in 1901 to enter MIT, he had no idea that he was becoming part of a profession that would bring untold good to his country but would also contribute to the death of his family's farm. In …
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- 9780262286299
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- 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages)
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Rethinking innateness :a connectionist perspective on development
"A Bradford book."Rethinking Innateness asks the question, "What does it really mean to say that a behavior is innate?" The authors describe a new framework in which interactions, occurring at all levels, give rise to emergent forms and behaviors. These outcomes often may be highly constrained and universal, yet they are not themselves directly contained in the genes in any domain-specific way.…
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 447 pages) :illustrations.
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