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Living in denial: Climate change, emotions, and everyday life
Global warming is the most significant environmental issue of our time, yet public response in Western nations has been meager. Why have so few taken any action? In this book sociologist Kari Norgaard searches for answers to this question.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295772
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- 1 online resource (xix, 279 pages) :illustrations
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Spreadsheet implementation technology: Basics and extensions
"Spreadsheets are used daily by millions of people for tasks that range from organizing a list of addresses to carrying out complex economic simulations. Spreadsheet programs are easy to learn and convenient to use because they have a clear visual model and a simple efficient underlying computational model. Yet although the basic spreadsheet model could be extended, improved, or otherwise exper…
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- 0262326531
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 310 pages)
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The end of energy: The unmaking of America's environment, security, and indep…
"Americans take for granted that when we flip a switch the light will go on, when we turn up the thermostat the room will get warm, and when we pull up to the pump gas will be plentiful and relatively cheap. In The End of Energy, Michael Graetz shows us that we have been living an energy delusion for forty years. Until the 1970s, we produced domestically all the oil we needed to run our power p…
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- 9780262295611
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- 1 online resource (x, 369 pages) :illustrations
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Biological learning and control: How the brain builds representations, predic…
In this work, the authors present a theoretical framework for understanding the regularity of the brain's perceptions, its reactions to sensory stimuli, and its control of movements.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301282
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- 1 online resource (385 pages) :illustrations.
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Majority judgment: Measuring, ranking, and electing
This title provides an account of a new theory and method of voting, judging and ranking, 'majority judgement', shown to be superior to all other known methods.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295604
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- 1 online resource (xv, 414 pages) :illustrations
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Make it new: The history of Silicon Valley design
Drawing on unprecedented access to a vast array of primary sources and interviews with nearly every influential design leader, this thought provoking book reveals design to be the missing link in Silicon Valley's ecosystem of innovation. --OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262330923
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 253 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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A primer on auction design, management, and strategy
A guide to modeling and analyzing auctions, with the applications of game theory and auction theory to real-world auction decision making.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262321823
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Dream life: An experimental memoir
A pioneer in sleep and dream science surveys his life and work through the lens of dreaming and consciousness.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295598
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- 1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) :illustrations
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The evolved apprentice: How evolution made humans unique
"A Bradford book."Kim Sterelny develops a novel account of the speed and extent of human evolutionary divergence from the great ape stock. The book does not explain human uniqueness by positing a critical adaptive breakthrough (episodic memory; advanced theory of mind; planning and causal reasoning; language). Rather, it identifies a series of positive feedback loops between initially minor adv…
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- 9780262302814
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 242 pages).
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Bilingual competence and bilingual proficiency in child development
In this volume, Norbert Francis examines the development of bilingual proficiency and the different kinds of competence that come together in making up its component parts.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298384
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 394 pages)
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