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Consciousness demystified
"Demystifying consciousness: how subjective experience can be explained by natural brain and evolutionary processes. Consciousness is often considered a mystery. How can the seemingly immaterial experience of consciousness be explained by the material neurons of the brain? There seems to be an unbridgeable gap between understanding the brain as an objectively observed biological organ and accou…
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- 9780262349390
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- 1 online resource (viii, 199 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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Cellular :an economic and business history of the international mobile-phone …
"Technical, policy, economic, and business history of the global mobile phone industry over four decades"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262370011
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- 1 online resource.
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Balancing Green :When to Embrace Sustainability in a Business (and When Not To)
An expert on business strategy offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345750
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- 1 online resource
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The genius checklist :nine paradoxical tips on how you can become a creative …
What it takes to be a genius: nine essential and contradictory ingredients.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262347167
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- 1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) :illustrations
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Faster, smarter, greener :the future of the car and urban mobility
A call to redefine mobility so that it is connected, heterogeneous, intelligent, and personalized, as well as sustainable, adaptable, and city-friendly.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262341875
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 326 pages)
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The age of electroacoustics :transforming science and sound
"At the end of the nineteenth century, acoustics was a science of musical sounds; the musically trained ear was the ultimate reference. Just a few decades into the twentieth century, acoustics had undergone a transformation from a scientific field based on the understanding of classical music to one guided by electrical engineering, with industrial and military applications. In this book, Rolan…
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- 9780262336529
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- 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages).
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The evolution of the sensitive soul :learning and the origins of consciousness
"A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition from organisms that lacked consciousness to those with consciousness--to minimal subjective experiencing, or, as Aristotle described it, "the sensitive soul" In this book, Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka prop…
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- 9780262351096
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 646 pages).
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Machineries of oil :an infrastructural history of BP in Iran
This book rethinks the politics of the Middle East through a study of the British-controlled oil industry in Iran between 1901 and 1954. Based on research in governmental and business archives in Iran, the United Kingdom, and the United States, it examines a series of disputes concerning petroleum exploration, property rights, the organization of labor, geological knowledge, accounting methods,…
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- 9780262344845
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- 1 online resource.
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Polyphonic minds :music, science, and expression
An exploration of polyphony and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262342902
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Digital countercultures and the struggle for community
Whether by accidental keystroke or deliberate tinkering, technology is often used in ways that are unintended and unimagined by its designers and inventors. Jessa Lingel offers an account of digital technology use that looks beyond Silicon Valley and college dropouts-turned-entrepreneurs. Instead, Lingel tells stories from the margins of countercultural communities that have made the Internet m…
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- 9780262340151
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- 1 online resource (viii, 178 pages) :illustrations.
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