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Allocation in networks
A comprehensive overview of networks and economic design, presenting models and results drawn from economics, operations research, and computer science; with examples and exercises.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262348676
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 268 pages)
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Making Game an Essay on Hunting, Familiar Things, and the Strangeness of Bein…
Making Game is a mixed-genre composition in which the author reflects on the philosophical and ethical implications of hunting wild game. This engaging essay is informed by the author’s significant background of scholarly engagement with the phenomenological tradition in modern philosophy.
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- 9781897425282.01
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- 165 pages
What Is Thought?
Bradford Books.In What Is Thought? Eric Baum proposes a computational explanation of thought. Just as Erwin Schrodinger in his classic 1944 work What Is Life? argued ten years before the discovery of DNA that life must be explainable at a fundamental level by physics and chemistry, Baum contends that the present-day inability of computer science to explain thought and meaning is no reason to do…
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- 9780262310574
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- 1 online resource (495 pages)
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Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers During the …
How the complex interplay of academic, commercial, and military interests produced an intense period of scientific discovery and technological innovation in computing during the Cold War.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262266895
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- 1 online resource (ix, 427 pages) :illustrations.
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Alexius Meinong, the Shepherd of Non-Being
This book explores the thought of Alexius Meinong, a philosopher known for his unconventional theory of reference and predication. The chapters cover a natural progression of topics, beginning with the origins of Gegenstandstheorie, Meinong’s theory of objects, and his discovery of assumptions as a fourth category of mental states to supplement his teacher Franz Brentano’s references to pre…
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- 978-3-319-18075-5
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- XXXII, 434
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- Synthese Library
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- 111 JAC a
Charles Sanders Peirce : Pragmatism and Education
This book introduces a number of selected ideas from the work of Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of pragmatism. Peirce, pronounced ‘purse’, was born in America in 1839 and died in 1914. He published little in his own lifetime and he continually struggled to become recognised as a respected author with ideas that were highly creative, original and unique. The book begins with an examinat…
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- 978-94-017-7356-0
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31 the End of a Golden Era of British Music?
The creative industries, and particularly our UK Music industry, are perceived as healthy, resilient and strong. However, with the ongoing policy changes in secondary and higher education, as well as the continued cuts to council budgets and the ongoing lack of commitment to wealth distribution and even investment in the whole nation, this golden era of the creative industries in the UK may not…
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- 9781138498198
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What the Future Holds: Insights from Social Science
Social scientists from various disciplines discuss and offer predictions about the future.Predicting the future is notoriously difficult. But systematic analysis leads to clearer understanding and wiser decisions. Thinking about the future also makes social scientists focus their research into the past and present more fruitfully, with more attention to key predictors of change.This book consid…
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- 9780262270786
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- 1 online resource (285 pages)
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Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice
This volume provides an examination of how garbage reveals the relationships between the global and the local, the economic and the ecological, and the historical and the contemporary.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305693
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- 1 online resource (vi, 291 pages) :map.
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Global Metal Music and Culture: current directions in metal studies
This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and ethics, this volume offers new and innovative research on metal musicology, gl…
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- 9781317587248
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