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The foundations of cognitive archaeology
In The Foundations of Cognitive Archaeology, Marc Abramiuk proposes a multidisciplinary basis for the study of the mind in the past, arguing that archaeology and the cognitive sciences have much to offer one another. Abramiuk draws on relevant topics from philosophy, biological anthropology, cognitive psychology, cognitive anthropology, and archaeology to establish theoretically founded and emp…
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- 9780262305273
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- 1 online resource (xi, 316 pages) :illustrations
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Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City
Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social movements are working to make a more livable and sustainable city. Los Angeles—the place without a sense of place, famous for sprawl and overdevelopment and defined by its car-clogged freeways—might seem inhospitable to ideas about connecting with nature a…
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Practical applications of sparse modeling
"Sparse modeling is a rapidly developing area at the intersection of statistical learning and signal processing, motivated by the age-old statistical problem of selecting a small number of predictive variables in high-dimensional datasets. This collection describes key approaches in sparse modeling, focusing on its applications in fields including neuroscience, computational biology, and comput…
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- 9780262325325
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- 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages).
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Ethics, sexual orientation, and choices about children
Parents routinely turn to prenatal testing to screen for genetic or chromosomal disorders or to learn their child's sex. What if they could use similar prenatal interventions to learn (or change) their child's sexual orientation? Bioethicists have debated the moral implications of this still-hypothetical possibility for several decades. Some commentators fear that any scientific efforts to unde…
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- 9780262305822
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Moving without a body :digital philosophy and choreographic thoughts
Digital technologies offer the possibility of capturing, storing, and manipulating movement, abstracting it from the body and transforming it into numerical information. In Moving without a Body, Stamatia Portanova considers what really happens when the physicality of movement is translated into a numerical code by a technological system. Drawing on the radical empiricism of Gilles Deleuze and …
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- 9780262313858
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- 1 online resource (x, 179 pages) :illustrations.
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Maintenance architecture
An inventive examination of a crucial but neglected aspect of architecture, by an architect writing to architects.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262335355
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- 1 online resource (xi, 192 pages)
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Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility :the New Language of Global B…
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 11, 2012)."'Human dignity' has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties with dignity. And yet human dignity is a term--like love, hope, and justice--that is intuitively grasped but never clea…
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- 9780262305815
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 349 pages) :illustrations.
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Broken movement :the neurobiology of motor recovery after stroke
An account of the neurobiology of motor recovery in the arm and hand after stroke by two experts in the field.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262343961
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Gameworld interfaces
Digital games tend to follow one of two trends when presenting game information to the player. The game may present game information in a naturalistic way as part of the imaginary universe presented by the game, avoiding symbolic or abstract representations that seem alien to the fictional world. Alternatively, the game may use graphical augmentations such as superimposed information, menus, an…
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Toward a minor architecture
A major proposal for a minor architecture, and for the making of spaces out of the already built.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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