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Pseudoscience the conspiracy against science
"In a post-truth, fake news world, we are particularly susceptible to the claims of pseudoscience. When emotions and opinions are more widely disseminated than scientific findings, and self-proclaimed experts get their expertise from Google, how can the average person distinguish real science from fake? This book examines pseudoscience from a variety of perspectives, through case studies, analy…
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 510 pages) :illustrations
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SYMPATHY FOR THE TRAITOR a translation manifesto.
An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.0For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty -- summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment. In this nuanced and…
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- 9780262346702
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- 1 online resource (xv, 182 pages).
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Spatial Hearing: The Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization (Revised Edition)
The field of spatial hearing has exploded in the decade or so since Jens Blauert's classic work on acoustics was first published in English. This revised edition adds a new chapter that describes developments in such areas as auditory virtual reality (an important field of application that is based mainly on the physics of spatial hearing), binaural technology (modeling speech enhancement by bi…
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Knowledge for sale :the neoliberal takeover of higher education
How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this.A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and argue that the only knowledge worth pursuing is that with more or les…
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- First English language edition.
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- 9780262339452
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 155 pages cm.)
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Political cycles and the macroeconomy
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262266956
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- 1 online resource (xii, 302 pages)
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The political economy of Japanese monetary policy
The contributions in this book provide a unique view of its emergence and growth in a number of different national settings in an area of the Third World where the industry is most advanced. The motor vehicle industry has had a dramatic impact on industrialized societies, shaping the structure and productive processes of capitalist economies and defining consumer life styles. The industry's imp…
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- 9780262269889
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- 1 online resource (236 pages) :illustrations
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Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peer…
How lessons from kindergarten can help everyone develop the creative thinking skills needed to thrive in today's society. In kindergartens these days, children spend more time with math worksheets and phonics flashcards than building blocks and finger paint. Kindergarten is becoming more like the rest of school. In Lifelong Kindergarten , learning expert Mitchel Resnick argues for exactly the …
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- 9780262344340
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- 1 online resource (208 pages)
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The political future of social security in aging societies
Doubts about the ability of industrialized countries to continue to provide a sufficient level of retirement benefits to a growing number of retirees has fueled much recent debate and inspired a variety of recommendations for reform. Few major reforms, however, have actually been implemented. In The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies, Vincenzo Galasso argues that the success…
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- 9780262273374
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 257 pages) :illustrations
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Neighborhood as refuge : community reconstruction, place remaking, and enviro…
Environmental justice as studied in a variety of disciplines is most often associated with redressing disproportionate exposure to pollution, contimination, and toxic sites. In this book, Isabelle Anguelovski takes a broader view of environmental justice, examining wide-ranging comprehensive efforts at neighbourhood environmental revitalization that include parks, urban agriculture, fresh food …
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- 9780262322188
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Brain computation as hierarchical abstraction
The vast differences between the brain's neural circuitry and a computer's silicon circuitry might suggest that they have nothing in common. In fact, as Dana Ballard argues in this book, computational tools are essential for understanding brain function. Ballard shows that the hierarchical organisation of the brain has many parallels with the hierarchical organisation of computing; as in silico…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 440 pages).
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