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This title provides an account of the sensations associated with being entangled with wireless technologies that draws on the philosophical techniques of William James's radical empiricism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
NE Sunday evening in October, the English congregation were pouring out of the room which served them as a church, outside the Porta del Popolo. The English season at Rome had just begun. A long file of carriages was waiting, and they successively came up to the door, and drove off, either to various residences, or to the Pincian Hill. The walkers turned into the gardens of Villa Borghese, the …
It feels since Ive taken the letters I wrote to Cett and Surd and what I wrote to you to be printed that Im reaching nearer a place where I shall be able to make things reach you more by ways that arent through spoken or written words than before, but Im not sure of that, and I cant understand it clearly with my mind, I can understand theyre often only like a trail or scent, perhaps theyre alwa…
J. E. R. Staddon's colleagues and former students discuss Staddon's work as a "theoretical behaviorist" and his influence on their own research.John Staddon has devoted his long and distinguished career to the study of the adaptive function and mechanisms of learning. He did his graduate work at the famous Skinner Lab at Harvard in the early 1960s (supervised by Richard Herrnstein, who did his …
How do radical religious sects run such deadly terrorist organizations? Hezbollah, Hamas, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Taliban all began as religious groups dedicated to piety and charity. Yet once they turned to violence, they became horribly potent, executing campaigns of terrorism deadlier than those of their secular rivals. In Radical, Religious, and Violent, Eli Berman approaches the question …
The role of aerial photography in the evolution of the concept of social space”and its impact on French urban planning in the mid-twentieth century. In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social space” (l'espace social)—the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked—emerged in a variety of social science disciplines. Taken up by the French New Left, it also …
This text is an exploration of what research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences can reveal about the constraints on the apparently chaotic variation in human languages.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Holly Fernandez Lynch presents a balanced proposal that protects both a patient's access to care and a physician's ability to refuse to provide certain services for reasons of conscience.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Discusses which voluntary business organizations succeed in their socially responsible aims and why by focusing mostly on the rules of the organization.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.