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Re-Emergence: Locating Conscious Properties in a Material World
Revisiting and defending a key doctrine of the once widely accepted school of philosophy known as emergentism, Gerald Vision proposes that conscious states are emergents, although they depend for their exsitence on their material bases.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298599
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- 1 online resource (xi, 246 pages)
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Power in a warming world :the new global politics of climate change and the r…
After nearly a quarter century of international negotiations on climate change, we stand at a crossroads. A new set of agreements is likely to fail to prevent the global climate's destabilization. Islands and coastlines face inundation, and widespread drought, flooding, and famine are expected to worsen in the poorest and most vulnerable countries. How did we arrive at an entirely inequitable a…
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- 9780262330039
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Production in the innovation economy
This title emerges from several years of interdisciplinary research at MIT on the links between manufacturing and innovation in the United States and the world economy. Authors from political science, economics, business, employment and operations research, aeronautics and astronautics, mechanical engineering, and nuclear engineering come together to explore the extent to which manufacturing is…
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- 9780262319126
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- 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) :illustrations
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Making in America : from innovation to market
"America is the world leader in innovation, but many of the innovative ideas that are hatched in American start-ups, labs, and companies end up going abroad to reach commercial scale. Apple, the superstar of innovation, locates its production in China (yet still reaps most of its profits in the United States). When innovation does not find the capital, skills, and expertise it needs to come to …
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- 9780262316835
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Super power, spoony bards, and silverware : the Super Nintendo Entertainment …
"While there have been a great many triumphs written about video games (the first game developed jointly by MIT and Harvard; the wild success of Pong at a rather seedy bar in Sunnyvale, CA; the Golden Age of Videogames; and the growing prominence of video games over screen-based entertainment mediums), there of course had to be failures and the Nintendo SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System…
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- 9780262341509
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- 1 online resource (x, 226 pages) :illustrations.
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The Consciousness Paradox: Consciousness, Concepts, and Higher-Order Thoughts
"A Bradford Book."This publication presents a defense of a version of the higher-order thought (HOT) theory of consciousness with special attention to such topics as concepts and animal consciousness.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298582
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- 1 online resource (x, 378 pages).
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Saving Global Fisheries: Reducing Fishing Capacity to Promote Sustainability
A proposal for a new global approach for fisheries focused on reducing fishing capacity and providing incentives for long-term sustainability.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262312769
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- 1 online resource (x, 276 pages)
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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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