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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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Evolution and Culture: A Fyssen Foundation Symposium
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- 9780262316224
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 296 pages) :illustrations.
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Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience
An essential reference for the new discipline of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience that defines the field's approach of applying evolutionary theory to guide brain-behavior investigations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281669
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- 1 online resource (xix, 616 pages) :illustrations.
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Exchange Rate Management under Uncertainty
These twelve essays take up economic management under flexible exchange rates in the presence of uncertainty. Nearly all of the contributions adopt a rational expectations framework, focusing on the stochastic aspects of the assumption and exploring the variability of, for example, output and prices in relation to the variability of various external disturbances.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliograph…
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- 9780262268523
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- 1 online resource (xi, 296 pages) :illustrations
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Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias
The jargon of economics and finance contains numerous colorful terms for market-asset prices at odds with any reasonable economic explanation. Examples include "bubble," "tulipmania," "chain letter," "Ponzi scheme," "panic," "crash," "herding," and "irrational exuberance." Although such a term suggests that an event is inexplicably crowd-driven, what it really means, claims Peter Garber, is tha…
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- 9780262273497
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- 1 online resource (xi, 163 pages) :illustrations, map
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Fast Oscillations in Cortical Circuits
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Feeling pain and being in pain
"A Bradford book."An examination of the two most radical dissociation syndromes of the human pain experience--pain without painfulness and painfulness without pain--and what they reveal about the complex nature of pain and its sensory, cognitive, and behavioral components.In Feeling Pain and Being in Pain, Nikola Grahek examines two of the most radical dissociation syndromes to be found in huma…
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- 9780262274234
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- 1 online resource (181 pages)
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Transit-oriented displacement or community dividends? :understanding the effe…
An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that accompany more compact development around transit. Cities and regions throughout the world are encouraging smarter growth patterns and expanding their transit systems to accommodate this growth, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and satisfy new demands for mobility and accessibility. Yet despite a burgeoning…
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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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Responsible brains :neuroscience, law, and human culpability
An examination of the relationship between the brain and culpability that offers a comprehensive neuroscientific theory of human responsibility. When we praise, blame, punish, or reward people for their actions, we are holding them responsible for what they have done. Common sense tells us that what makes human beings responsible has to do with their minds and, in particular, the relationship b…
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