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What is addiction?
"The image of the addict in popular culture combines victimhood and moral failure; we sympathize with addicts in films and novels because of their suffering and their hard-won knowledge. And yet actual scientific knowledge about addiction tends to undermine this cultural construct. In What Is Addiction? leading addiction researchers from neuroscience, psychology, genetics, philosophy, economics…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 448 pages) :illustrations
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Throughout: Art and culture emerging with ubiquitous computing
Leading media scholars consider the social and cultural changes that come with the contemporary development of ubiquitous computing. Ubiquitous computing and our cultural life promise to become completely interwoven: technical currents feed into our screen culture of digital television, video, home computers, movies, and high-resolution advertising displays. Technology has become at once larger…
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- 9780262305259
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- 1 online resource (664 pages).
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Neural correlates of consciousness :empirical and conceptual questions
"A Bradford book."This book brings together an international group of neuroscientists and philosophers who are investigating how the content of subjective experience is correlated with events in the brain. The fundamental methodological problem in consciousness research is the subjectivity of the target phenomenon--the fact that conscious experience, under standard conditions, is always tied to…
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- 9780262279734
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- 1 online resource (vi, 350 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Mental reality (Second Edition, With A New Appendix)
"A Bradford book.""In Mental reality, Galen Strawson argues that much contemporary philosophy of mind gives undue primacy of place to publicly observable phenomena, nonmental phenomena, and behavioral phenomena (understood as publicly observable phenomena) in its account of the nature of mind. It does so at the expense of the phenomena of conscious experience. Strawson describes an alternative …
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- 2nd ed., with a new appendix.
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- 9780262259224
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- 1 online resource (xx, 373 pages) :illustrations.
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Plastic water: The social and material life of bottled water
How did branded bottles of water insinuate themselves into our daily lives? Why did water become an economic good—no longer a common resource but a commercial product, in industry parlance a “fast moving consumer good,” or FMCG? Plastic Water examines the processes behind this transformation. It goes beyond the usual political and environmental critiques of bottled water to investigate it…
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- 9780262329521
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 260 pages) :illustrations
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Neural Transplantation :An Introduction.
Although there are many scientific and philosophical reasons to study the brain, for William J. Freed, "the most compelling reason to study the brain is to be able to repair the brains of individuals with nervous system injury or disease." Advances in repairing the nervous system, as well as new data on brain development, growth, and plasticity, have revolutionized the field of brain research a…
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- 9780262273145
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- 1 online resource (573 pages).
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Internet architecture and innovation
Today--following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemployment--the Internet remains the most reliable mechanism for fostering innovation and creating new wealth. The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. In this pathbreaking book, Barbara van Schewick argues that this explosion of innovation is not an accident, but a consequence of the Internet's architecture--a …
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- 1 online resource (xii, 574 pages) : illustrations
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Understanding the art of sound organization / the Art of Sound Organization
The first work to propose a comprehensive musicological framework to study sound-based music, a rapidly developing body of work that includes electroacoustic art music, turntable composition, and acoustic and digital sound installations.
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 303 pages)
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Embodied music cognition and mediation technology / Music Cognition and Media…
"Digital media handle music as encoded physical energy, but humans consider music in terms of beliefs, intentions, interpretations, experiences, evaluations, and significations. In this book, drawing on work in computer science, psychology, brain science, and musicology, Marc Leman proposes an embodied cognition approach to music research that will help bridge this gap. Assuming that the body p…
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- 1 online resource (xv, 297 pages) : illustrations, music
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Music and probability / Music and Probability
Exploring the application of Bayesian probabilistic modeling techniques to musical issues, including the perception of key and meter.
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