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Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance
In recent years, Earth systems science has advanced rapidly, helping to transform climate change and other planetary risks into major political issues. Changing the Atmosphere strengthens our understanding of this important link between expert knowledge and environmental governance. In so doing, it illustrates how the emerging field of science and technology studies can inform our understanding…
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- 9780262279819
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- 1 online resource (xii, 385 pages) :illustrations.
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Children with Specific Language Impairment (Second Edition)
"A Bradford book.""The first edition of this work established Children with Specific Language Impairment as the landmark reference on this condition, considering not only the disorder's history, possible origins, and treatment but also what SLI might tell us about language organization and development in general. This second edition offers a complete update of the earlier volume. Much of the se…
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- Second edition.
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- 9780262324021
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- 1 online resource (480 pages) :illustrations.
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Lexical analysis :norms and exploitations
This study offers a wide-ranging empirical investigation of word use and meaning in language. It fills the need for a lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach that will help people understand how words go together in collocational patterns and constructions to make meanings. Such an approach is now possible, the book argues, because of the availability of new forms of evidence (corpo…
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- 9780262312851
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Open minds :the social making of agency and intentionality
A novel proposal that the cognitive architecture for volition and cognition arises from particular kinds of social interaction and communication.In Open Minds, Wolfgang Prinz offers the novel claim that agency and intentionality are first perceived and understood in others, and that it is only through practices and discourses of social mirroring that individuals come to apply these features to …
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- 9780262301695
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 341 pages)
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Greening Berlin :the co-production of science, politics, and urban nature
How plant and animal species conservation became part of urban planning in Berlin, and how the science of ecology contributed to this change.Although nature conservation has traditionally focused on the countryside, issues of biodiversity protection also appear on the political agendas of many cities. One of the emblematic examples of this now worldwide trend has been the German city of Berlin,…
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- 9780262312424
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Innovation, dual use, and security :managing the risks of emerging biological…
Recent advances in disciplines such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, and neuropharmacology entail a "dual-use dilemma" because they promise benefits for human health and welfare yet pose the risk of misuse for hostile purposes. The emerging field of synthetic genomics, for example, can produce custom DNA molecules for life-saving drugs but also makes possible the creation of deadly viral agent…
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- 9780262301640
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- 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) :illustrations
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The neural architecture of grammar
"A comprehensive, neurally based theory of language function that draws on principles of neuroanatomy, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, and parallel distributed processing."--Provided by publisher.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301619
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 204 pages) :illustrations
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The Color of Credit: Mortgage Discrimination, Research Methodology, and Fair-…
An analysis of current findings on mortgage-lending discrimination and suggestions for new procedures to improve its detection.In 2000, homeownership in the United States stood at an all-time high of 67.4 percent, but the homeownership rate was more than 50 percent higher for non-Hispanic whites than for blacks or Hispanics. Homeownership is the most common method for wealth accumulation and is…
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- 9780262282604
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- 1 online resource (viii, 459 pages) :illustrations
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The science of bureaucracy :risk decision making and the US Environmental Pro…
How the US Environmental Protection Agency designed the governance of risk and forged its legitimacy over the course of four decades. The US Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 to protect the public health and environment, administering and enforcing a range of statutes and programs. Over four decades, the EPA has been a risk bureaucracy, formalizing many of the methods of t…
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- 9780262356671
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- 1 online resource (452 pages).
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Object-oriented programming :the CLOS perspective
To date, books on object-oriented programming have focused either on the methodology of the object-oriented paradigm or on teaching the details of a particular programming language. This collection takes a different approach, examining one object-oriented programming language - the Common-Lisp Object System (CLOS) - as a modern programming tool. The fourteen contributions examine CLOS from a va…
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- 9780262256759
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- 1 online resource (viii, 352 pages) :illustrations
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