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Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
"In Curious Minds: The Power of Connection, the authors explore what curiosity is and what it can do. Traipsing across the fields of philosophy and neuroscience, literature and network science, they discover that current definitions of curiosity are remarkably limited. Rather than think of curiosity as a drive to acquire new bits of information, they argue that curiosity is a practice of connec…
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Protecting Children Online?: Cyberbullying Policies of Social Media Companies…
This book investigates regulatory and social pressures that social media companies face in the aftermath of high profile cyberbullying incidents. The author's research evaluates the policies companies develop to protect themselves and users. This includes interviews with NGO and social media company reps in the US and the EU. She triangulates these findings against news, policy reports, evaluat…
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- 9780262344098
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- 1 online resource (xv, 280 pages).
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The Visual World of Shadows
How the perception of shadows, studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system. In The Visual World of Shadows , Roberto Casati and Patrick Cavanagh examine how the perception of shadows, as studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system. Shadows are at once a massive problem for vision--which mus…
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- 9780262351942
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- 1 online resource (408 pages).
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The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul: Learning and the Origins of Consciousness
A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition from organisms that lacked consciousness to those with consciousness—to minimal subjective experiencing, or, as Aristotle described it, “the sensitive soul”? In this book, Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablo…
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On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud
How the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, transgression, and healing. The peculiar arrangement of the psychoanalyst's office for an analytic session seems inexplicable. The analyst sits in a chair out of sight while the patient lies on a couch facing away. It has been this way since Freud, although, as Nathan Kravis points out in On the C…
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- 9780262341639
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- 1 online resource (224 pages)
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Overgrown: Practices between Landscape Architecture and Gardening
A call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden. Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape architect. With Overgrown, Julian Raxworthy offers a watershed work in the tradition of Ian McHarg, Anne Whiston Spirn, Kevin Lynch, and J. B. J…
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- 9780262348263
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- 1 online resource (392 pages).
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Technically Together: Reconstructing Community in a Networked World
Why we should not accept ""networked individualism"" as the inevitable future of community.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262340861
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The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity
How developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital minds -- intelligent machines equal to or greater in power than the human brain.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262338394
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 317 pages) :illustrations.
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Design Structure Matrix Methods and Applications
An introduction to a powerful and flexible network modeling tool for developing and understanding complex systems, with many examples from a range of industries.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301428
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- 1 online resource (xii, 334 pages) :color illustrations.
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From X-rays to DNA: How Engineering Drives Biology
An argument that technology accelerates biological discovery, with case studies ranging from chromosome discovery with early microscopes to how DNA replicates using radioisotope labels. Engineering has been an essential collaborator in biological research and breakthroughs in biology are often enabled by technological advances. Decoding the double helix structure of DNA, for example, only be…
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