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Demographic change and long-run development
Recent approaches to economic demography, investigating the effect of the transition to low mortality and low fertility on economic development.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262341660
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- 1 online resource (vi, 354 pages).
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Pretense Design: Surface Over Substance
How some design appears to be something that it is not--by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving. Pretense design pretends to be something that it is not. Pretense design includes all kinds of designed objects: a pair of glasses that looks like a fashion accessory rather than a medical necessity, a hotel in Las Vegas that simulates a Venetian ambience complete with canals and gondola…
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- 9780262351577
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- 1 online resource (224 pages).
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Governing Complex Systems: Social Capital for the Anthropocene
An exploration of the need for innovative mechanisms of governance in an era when human actions are major drivers of environmental change.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262338899
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages).
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Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice
While many commentators have pointed to the lack of compassion and empathy in medicine, their critiques, for the most part, have not considered seriously the deeper philosophical, psychological, and ontological reasons why clinicians and medical students might choose to conceive of medicine as an endeavor concerned solely with the biological workings of the body. Thus, this book examines why it…
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- 9780262344968
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Twelve Tomorrows
Twelve visions of the future -- by turns hilarious, frightening, and relevant -- from new and established voices in science fiction. In this book, new and established voices in science fiction come together to offer original stories of the future. Ken Liu writes about a virtual currency that hijacks our empathy; Elizabeth Bear shows us a smart home tricked into kidnapping its owner; Clifford V.…
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- 9780262346931
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- 1 online resource (276 pages).
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Incontinence of the Void: Economico-Philosophical Spandrels
The ""formidably brilliant"" Zizek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262342520
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The Walls Have the Floor: Mural Journal, May '68
The graffiti of the French student and worker uprising of May 1968, capturing participatory politics in action."Fifty years ago, in 1968, barricades were erected in the streets of Paris for the first time since the Paris Commune of nearly one hundred years before. The events of May 1968 began with student protests against the Vietnam War and American imperialism but quickly expanded to rebellio…
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- 9780262346795
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 202 pages) :illustration
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Wittgenstein in Exile
Klagge draws on the full range of evidence, including Wittgenstein's published work, correspondence, lectures, and conversations to place Wittgenstein's work in a broad context along a trajectory of thought that includes Job, Goethe, and Dostoyevsky.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262300117
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- 1 online resource (x, 249 pages) :illustrations
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Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content
Hutto and Myin promote the cause of a radically enactive, embodied approach to cognition which holds that some kinds of minds - basic minds - are neither best explained by processes involving the manipulation of contents nor inherently contentful. It opposes the widely endorsed thesis that cognition always and everywhere involves content. The authors defend the counter-thesis that there can be …
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- 0262312174
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