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Disclosing the world :on the phenomenology of language
A phenomenological conception of language, drawing on Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Wittgenstein, with implications for both the philosophy of language and current cognitive science.In this book, Andrew Inkpin considers the disclosive function of language--what language does in revealing or disclosing the world. His approach to this question is a phenomenological one, centering on the need to a…
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Between preservation and exploitation :transnational advocacy networks and co…
"In the late 2000s, ordinary citizens in Jamaica and Mexico demanded that government put a stop to lucrative but environmentally harmful economic development activities -- bauxite mining in Jamaica and large-scale tourism and overfishing on the eastern coast of the Yucat?an Peninsula. In each case, the catalyst for the campaign was information gathered and disseminated by transnational advocacy…
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- 9780262333924
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- 1 online resource (xl, 301 pages).
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Translational neuroscience :toward new therapies
Today, translational neuroscience faces significant challenges. Available therapies to treat brain and nervous system disorders are extremely limited and dated, and further development has effectively ceased. Disinvestment by the private sector occurred just as promising new technologies in genomics, stem cell biology, and neuroscience emerged to offer new possibilities. In this volume, experts…
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New earth politics :essays from the Anthropocene
Prominent scholars and practitioners in the field of global environmental politics consider the ecological and political realities of life on the new earth, and probe the field's deepest and most enduring questions at a time of increasing environmental stress. Arranged in complementary pairs, included are - reflections on environmental pedagogy, analysis of new geopolitical realities, reflectio…
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- 9780262332132
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Trace metals and infectious diseases
Experts explore the influence of trace metals on the pathogenesis of infectious diseases.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262327619
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- 1 online resource (xii, 488 pages) :illustrations.
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Why are we waiting? :the logic, urgency, and promise of tackling climate change
An urgent case for climate change action that forcefully sets out, in economic, ethical, and political terms, the dangers of delay and the benefits of action.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262329200
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- 1 online resource (xxxv, 406 pages) :illustrations
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Vivarium :experimental, quantitative, and theoretical biology at Vienna's Bio…
The scientific achievements and forgotten legacy of a major Austrian research institute, from its founding in 1902 to its wartime destruction in 1945.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262342049
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The knowledge capital of nations :education and the economics of growth
A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related in the long run to the skills of its population.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262329170
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- 1 online resource (xii, 262 pages) :illustrations.
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Evolving enactivism :basic minds meet content
Evolving Enactivism" argues that cognitive phenomena - perceiving, imagining, remembering -- can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition. Building on their earlier book Radicalizing Enactivism, which proposes that there can be forms of cognition without content, Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin demonstrate the unique explanatory advantag…
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- 9780262339773
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 328 pages).
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Emissions trading as a policy instrument :evaluation and prospects
Empirical and theoretical perspectives on the first two phases of the European Emissions Trading Scheme, the largest cap-and-trade market established so far.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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