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Reflections on Adaptive Behavior: Essays in Honor of J.E.R. Staddon
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 …
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- 1 online resource (vi, 394 pages) :illustrations
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Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism
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 …
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- 1 online resource (xi, 300 pages) :illustrations, maps
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The View from Above: The Science of Social Space
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 …
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The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
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.
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- 9780262280204
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 257 pages) :illustrations.
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Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care: An Institutional Compromise
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.
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- 9780262278720
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 345 pages).
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Voluntary Programs: A Club Theory Perspective
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.
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- 9780262259132
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- 1 online resource (x, 342 pages)
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Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics
A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255165
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Communications Under the Seas: The Evolving Cable Network and Its Implications
This title looks at the technology of undersea communications from stranded-wire telegraph cables in the 1850s to fibre-optic cables at the end of the 20th century, and its social political, economic impact.
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The Healthcare Fix: Universal Insurance for All Americans
A simple, straightforward, and foolproof proposal for universal health insurance from a noted economist.The shocking statistic is that forty-seven million Americans have no health insurance. When uninsured Americans go to the emergency room for treatment, however, they do receive care, and a bill. Many hospitals now require uninsured patients to put their treatment on a credit card which can sa…
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Our Own Minds: Sociocultural Grounds for Self-Consciousness
Here, Radu Bogdan takes a developmental perspective on consciousness and proposes that children's functional capacity for consciousness is assembled during development out of a variety of ontogenetic adaptations that respond mostly to sociocultural challenges specific to distinct stages of childhood.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xii, 210 pages).
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