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Giving kids a fair chance
A top economist weighs in on one of the most urgent questions of our times: What is the source of inequality and what is the remedy?In Giving Kids a Fair Chance, Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman argues that the accident of birth is the greatest source of inequality in America today. Children born into disadvantage are, by the time they start kindergarten, already at risk of dropping …
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- 9781299443266
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- 1 online resource (137 pages).
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Action, Ethics, and Responsibility
Most philosophical explorations of responsibility discuss the topic solely in terms of metaphysics and the 'free will' problem. By contrast, these essays by leading philosophers view responsibility from a variety of perspectives - metaphysics ethics, action theory, and the philosophy of law.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289276
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- 1 online resource (vi, 307 pages).
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Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression
"In Phantasmal Media, D. Fox Harrell considers the expressive power of computational media. He argues, forcefully and persuasively, that the great expressive potential of computational media comes from the ability to construct and reveal phantasms -- blends of cultural ideas and sensory imagination. These ubiquitous and often-unseen phantasms -- cognitive phenomena that include sense of self, m…
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- 9781461952176
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- 1 online resource (xix, 420 pages) :illustrations
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Developments in Global Sourcing
Theoretical and empirical perspectives on the fragmentation of production processes across borders, shedding light on global sourcing decisions and their economic effects.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345170
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 390 pages).
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Chimeras and Consciousness: Evolution of the Sensory Self
This title begins the inquiry into the evolution of the collective sensitivities of life. Scientist-scholars from a range of fields - including biochemistry, cell biology, history of science, family therapy, genetics, microbial ecology, and primatology - trace the emergence and evolution of consciousness.
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 321 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
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Reforming Rules and Regulations: Laws, Institutions, and Implementation
Contributors examine how regulatory & institutional environments affect the functioning of markets & propose reforms, arguing that quantitative methods should be used to guide policy & to reform rules & regulations. These essays offer methodologies for the assessment of policy alternatives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289412
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- 1 online resource (x, 316 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The arid lands history power knowledge
An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262333535
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- 1 online resource (xx, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color), maps.
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Recycling Reconsidered: The Present Failure and Future Promise of Environment…
How the success and popularity of recycling has diverted attention from the steep environmental costs of manufacturing the goods we consume and discard.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298551
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- 1 online resource (xii, 303 pages).
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Laws, Mind, and Free Will
In this work, Steven Horst addresses the apparent dissonance between the picture of the natural world that arises from the sciences and our understanding of ourselves as agents who think and act.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295741
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research
After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo -- only a tacit agreement to disagree -- but the debate now takes place in a context in which human stem cell research and related technologies already exist. In this book, Charis Thompson investigates the evolution of the controversy over human pluripotent …
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