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The stack :on software and sovereignty
A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack -- an accidental megastructure -- is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262330183
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DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice
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- 9780262310604
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 414 pages) :illustrations.
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Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?
Continuing the debate over whether consciousness causes behaviour or plays no functional role in it, leading scholars discuss the question in terms of neuroscience, philosophy, law and public policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281690
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- 1 online resource (vi, 364 pages) :illustrations
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The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness
"A Bradford book."In this book, J. Allan Hobson offers a new understanding of altered states of consciousness based on knowledge of how our brain chemistry is balanced when we are awake and how that balance shifts when we fall asleep and dream. He draws on recent research that enables us to explain how psychedelic drugs work to disturb that balance and how similar imbalances may cause depressio…
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- 9780262275491
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- 1 online resource (xv, 333 pages) :illustrations, photographs.
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The Dream of the Factory-Made House: Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann
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- 9780262368018
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 407 pages :illustrations)
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Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind
Includes index.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. In this book J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling—and controversial—theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he calls it, is not a fixed identity but a dynamic balancing act between the chemical systems that regulate waking and dreaming.
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- 9780262287036
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 300 pages)
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Earth system analysis for sustainability
"Report of the 91st Dahlem Workshop on Earth System Analysis for Sustainabliity, Berlin, May 25-30, 2003"--Page [ii].Earth System Analysis for Sustainability uses an integrated systems approach to provide a panoramic view of planetary dynamics since the inception of life some four billion years ago and to identify principles for responsible management of the global environment in the future. Pe…
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- 9780262310635
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 454 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Lonely Ideas: Can Russia Compete?
When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled "Made in Russia"? Probably never. Russia, despite its epic intellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders' ambitions to create a knowledge economy, Russia is economically dependent on gas and o…
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- 9781461942979
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- 1 online resource (xi, 204 pages)
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Failed Promises: Evaluating the Federal Government's Response to Environmenta…
A systematic evaluation of the implementation of the federal government's environmental justice policies.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262327138
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 269 pages).
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The economics of the world trading system
World trade is governed by the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The WTO sets rules of conduct for the international trade of goods and services and for intellectual property rights, provides a forum for multinational negotiations to resolve trade problems, and has a formal mechanism for dispute settlement. It is the…
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- 9780262267540
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 224 pages) :illustrations
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