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Growing artificial societies :social science from the bottom up
"A product of the 2050 Project, a collaborative effort of the Brookings Institution, the Santa Fe Institute and the World Resources Institute."How do social structures and group behaviors arise from the interaction of individuals? Growing Artificial Societies approaches this question with cutting-edge computer simulation techniques. Fundamental collective behaviors such as group formation, cult…
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- 9780262272360
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- 1 online resource (xv, 208 pages) : color illustrations.
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- Complex Adaptive Systems
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Growing smarter :achieving livable communities, environmental justice, and re…
Experts from academia, government, and nonprofit organizations offer an environmental justice perspective on Smart Growth, discussing equitable solutions to suburban sprawl and urban decay.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269537
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 407 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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- Urban and Industrial Environments
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Digital research confidential :the secrets of studying behavior online
Behind-the-scenes stories of how Internet research projects actually get done.The realm of the digital offers both new methods of research and new objects of study. Because the digital environment for scholarship is constantly evolving, researchers must sometimes improvise, change their plans, and adapt. These details are often left out of research write-ups, leaving newcomers to the field frus…
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- 9780262331227
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- 1 online resource (xi, 271 pages) :illustrations
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Being amoral :psychopathy and moral incapacity
"Psychopathy has been the subject of investigations in both philosophy and psychiatry and yet the conceptual issues remain largely unresolved. This volume approaches psychopathy by considering the question of what psychopaths lack. The contributors investigate specific moral dysfunctions or deficits, shedding light on the capacities people need to be moral by examining cases of real people who …
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- 9780262320382
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- 1 online resource (vi, 335 pages) :1 illustration.
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Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star
Susan Leigh Star (1954--2010) was one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades. In her work, Star highlighted the messy practices of discovering science, asking hard questions about the marginalizing as well as the liberating powers of science and technology. In the landmark work Sorting Things Out, Star and Geoffrey Bowker revealed the social and ethical his…
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- 9780262331012
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- 1 online resource (1 PDF (ix, 548 pages)).
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Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century
How xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages public. This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or "Xerox machine," became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper jams, mangled pages, and even fires made early versions…
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- 9780262334334
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 201 pages)
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How the mind explains behavior : folk explanations, meaning, and social inter…
"A Bradford book."In this provocative monograph, Bertram Malle describes behavior explanations as having a dual nature -- as being both cognitive and social acts -- and proposes a comprehensive theoretical model that integrates the two aspects. When people try to understand puzzling human behavior, they construct behavior explanations, which are a fundamental tool of social cognition. But, Mall…
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- 9780262278935
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- 1 online resource (viii, 314 pages).
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- 150 MAL h
Social perception :detection and interpretation of animacy, agency, and inten…
Rutherford and Kuhlmeier present current research in the interdisciplinary field of social perception, including the perception of biological motion, the perception of animacy, attributions of intentionality, and the development of these psychological processes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9781461943280
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- 1 online resource (vi, 415 pages)
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The social brain :a developmental perspective
"This new volume brings together a range of empirical and theoretical views from both developmental psychology and developmental neuroscience, and cover a core set of questions and topics that concern the development of the social mind. The basic topics about the origins, development, and biological bases of the human social mind include, but are not limited to, face and voice recognition, atta…
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- 0262358964
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- 1 online resource (xii, 426 pages) :illustrations (black and white).
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After America's midlife crisis
A longtime community organizer outlines a way to reverse the fifty-year decline in social mobility and economic progress. Michael Gecan, a longtime community organizer, offers in this book a disturbing conclusion: the kinds of problems that began to afflict large cities in the 1970s have now spread to the suburbs and beyond. The institutional cornerstones of American life are on an extended …
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- 9780262258791
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- 1 online resource (128 pages).
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