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Why have children?: The ethical debate
"In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more careful justification and reasoning than the choice not to. Arguing that the choice to have children i…
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- 9780262301299
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages) :illustrations.
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The Ethical Treatment of Depression: Autonomy Through Psychotherapy
Is there is a moral imperative on physicians to refer patients with mental depression for psychotherapy rather that treating the ailment with drugs? Psychotherapy, in particular cognitive behavior therapy, promotes autonomy & it is the loss of autonomy, argues Paul Biegler, that is at the heart of depression.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295628
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- 1 online resource (x, 213 pages) :illustrations.
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Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and proce…
"David Marr's posthumously published Vision (1982) influenced a generation of brain and cognitive scientists, inspiring many to enter the field. In Vision, Marr describes a general framework for understanding visual perception and touches on broader questions about how the brain and its functions can be studied and understood. Researchers from a range of brain and cognitive sciences have long v…
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- 9780262289610
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 403 pages) :illustrations
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Spreadsheet implementation technology: Basics and extensions
"Spreadsheets are used daily by millions of people for tasks that range from organizing a list of addresses to carrying out complex economic simulations. Spreadsheet programs are easy to learn and convenient to use because they have a clear visual model and a simple efficient underlying computational model. Yet although the basic spreadsheet model could be extended, improved, or otherwise exper…
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- 0262326531
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 310 pages)
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Dream life: An experimental memoir
A pioneer in sleep and dream science surveys his life and work through the lens of dreaming and consciousness.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295598
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- 1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) :illustrations
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Short Circuits: Crafting e-Puppets with DIY Electronics
Tools and methods for creating electronic puppets.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262320016
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Discrete choice theory of product differentiation
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. This important study shows that an understanding of product differentiation is crucial to understanding how modern market economies function and that differentiated markets can be analyzed using discrete choice models of consumer behavior.
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- 9780262267120
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 423 pages) :illustrations
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DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice
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- 9780262310604
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 414 pages) :illustrations.
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Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informat…
Much of the business transacted on the Web today takes place through information exchanges made possible by using documents as interfaces. For example, what seems to be a simple purchase from an online bookstore actually involves at least three different business collaborations -- between the customer and the online catalog to select a book; between the bookstore and a credit card authorization…
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The Dream of the Factory-Made House: Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann
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- 9780262368018
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 407 pages :illustrations)
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