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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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Re-reasoning ethics :the rationality of deliberation and judgment in ethics
How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrated with many real examples.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345637
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 296 pages).
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Efficient cognition :the evolution of representational decision making
An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345262
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Managing equity portfolios : a behavioural approach to improving skills and i…
A groundbreaking framework for improving portfolio performance that goes beyond traditional analytics, offering new ways to understand investment skills, process, and behaviors.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262323017
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 277 pages) :illustrations
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A History of Chilean Literature
This book covers the full range and diversity of Chilean literature from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. By emphasizing transnational, hemispheric, and global approaches to Chilean literature, it reflects the relevance of themes such as neoliberalism, migration and exile, as well as subfields like ethnic studies, and gender and sexuality studies. It showcases the diversity of …
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- 9781108766616
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Hanan al-cinema : affections for the moving image
An examination of experimental cinema and media art from the Arabic-speaking world that explores filmmakers' creative and philosophical inventiveness in trying times.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262331074
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- 1 online resource (xii, 400 pages) :illustrations.
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Post-crisis fiscal policy
Fiscal policy makers have faced an extraordinarily challenging environment over the last few years. At the outset of the global financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the first time advocated a fiscal expansion across all countries able to afford it, a seeming departure from the long-held consensus among economists that monetary policy rather than fiscal policy was the appr…
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- 9780262324113
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- 1 online resource (vii, 562 pages) :illustrations
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Intelligence emerging : adaptivity and search in evolving neural systems
"Emergence--the formation of global patterns from solely local interactions--is a frequent and fascinating theme in the scientific literature both popular and academic. In this book, Keith Downing undertakes a systematic investigation of the widespread (if often vague) claim that intelligence is an emergent phenomenon. Downing focuses on neural networks, both natural and artificial, and how the…
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 475 pages) :illustrations
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Engineers and the making of the Francoist regime
In the 20th century, science and technology became central to territorial transformation and in turn to state building. This was no less true for the Francoist regime. Engineers were not just working 'under' the dictatorship, but became active participants within it. This book traces concrete material objects in their way from laboratories onto the Spanish landscape. The material history of the…
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- 9780262323222
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Cultural evolution : society, technology, language, and religion
Over the past few decades, a growing body of research has emerged from a variety of disciplines to highlight the importance of cultural evolution in understanding human behavior. Wider application of these insights, however, has been hampered by traditional disciplinary boundaries. To remedy this, in this volume leading researchers from theoretical biology, developmental and cognitive psycholog…
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- 9781461950356
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- 1 online resource (xi, 485 pages) :illustrations.
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