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Desire: its role in practical reason and the explanation of action
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- 9780262283243
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- 1 online resource (xi, 223 pages)
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Development and evolution: complexity and change in biology
Development and Evolution surveys and illuminates the key themes of rapidly changing fields and areas of controversy that are redefining the theory and philosophy of biology. It continues Stanley Salthe's investigation of evolutionary theory, begun in his influential book Evolving Hierarchical Systems, while negating the implicit philosophical mechanisms of much of that work. Here Salthe attemp…
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- 9780262282895
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 357 pages) :illustrations
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Development, Geography, and Economic Theory
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- 9780262277686
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- 1 online resource (ix, 117 pages) :illustrations
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Digital halftoning
Along with text and graphics, images are fast becoming a generic data type for general-purpose computer systems. This poses new problems for the systems designer, who must be able to preprocess digital image data for a wide variety of video and hard copy displays. Digital halftoning, the method by which the illusion of continuous-tone images are created through the arrangement of binary picture…
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- 0262291029
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 362 pages) :illustrations
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Who's asking? : Native science, Western science, and science education
"The answers to scientific questions depend on who's asking, because the questions asked and the answers sought reflect the cultural values and orientations of the questioner. These values and orientations are most often those of Western science. In Who's Asking?, Douglas Medin and Megan Bang argue that despite the widely held view that science is objective, value-neutral, and acultural, scient…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) :illustrations
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Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture
Differences brings together ten essays written over the past decade by the distinguished Spanish architect and theorist Ignasi de Solà-Morales. Differences brings together ten essays written over the past decade by the distinguished Spanish architect and theorist Ignasi de Sola-Morales. Many of the essays have never previously been translated, and the author has provided a new introduction …
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Distributed morphology today : morphemes for Morris Halle
"This festschrift honors Morris Halle, on the occasion of his 90th birthday, for his many foundational and lasting contributions to our understanding of morphology."This book offers a snapshot of current research in distributed morphology, highlighting the lasting influence of Morris Halle, a pioneer in generative linguistics. Distributed morphology, which integrates the morphological with the …
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- 9781461935650
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 262 pages)
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The well-played game : a player's philosophy
"In The Well-Played Game, games guru Bernard De Koven explores the interaction of play and games, offering players -- as well as game designers, educators, and scholars -- a guide to how games work. De Koven's classic treatise on how human beings play together, first published in 1978, investigates many issues newly resonant in the era of video and computer games, including social gameplay and …
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- 9781461939450
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Dolphin communication and cognition : past, present, and future
"Dolphin researchers have collected an impressive amount of data over the last twenty years, thanks to advances in technology for monitoring, recording, and analyzing dolphin behavior as well as increasing interest in exploring and modeling dolphins' cognitive capacities. This volume offers a comprehensive reference to the latest research on dolphin communication and cognition, reporting on fin…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) :illustrations
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Interface
In this book, Branden Hookway considers the interface not as technology but as a form of relationship with technology. The interface, Hookway proposes, is at once ubiquitous and hidden from view. It is both the bottleneck through which our relationship to technology must pass and a productive encounter embedded within the use of technology. It is a site of contestation -- between human and mach…
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