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This major survey of mathematics, featuring the work of 18 outstanding Russian mathematicians and including material on both elementary and advanced levels, encompasses 20 prime subject areas in mathematics in terms of their simple origins and their subsequent sophisticated development.

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In this provocative study, Robert Cummins takes on philosophers, both old and new, who pursue the question of mental representation as an abstraction, apart from the constraints of any particular theory or framework.

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An acclaimed philosopher views the search for meaning in life as the search for a mode of creativity that will make our lives meaningful.

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An engaging introduction to the use of game theory to study lingistic meaning.

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Tracing efforts to control unwanted soundthe noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraftfrom the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.

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A new textual studies and archival approach to the investigation of works of new media and electronic literature that applies techniques of computer forensics to conduct media-specific readings of William Gibson's electronic poem Agrippa, Michael Joyce's Afternoon, and the interactive game Mystery House.

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A sociological approach to the history of proof, as applied to and performed by computer systems.

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A "dirty materialist" ride through the media cultures of pirate radio, photography, the Internet, media art, cultural evolution, and surveillance.

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A comprehensive analysis of medical malpractice from legal, medical, economic, and insurance perspectives that considers why past efforts at reform have not worked and offers recommendations for realistic, achievable policy changes.

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How the way we hold knowledge about the pastin books, in file folders, in databasesaffects the kind of stories we tell about the past.

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In this text the authors discuss how analogy works and how it can be used most effectively. This account of the diverse operations and applications of analogy includes problem-solving, decision-making, explanation and communication.

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An argument against neobehaviorism and for "naturalized Cartesianism," which couples a wholly materialist approach to the mind with a fully realist attitude to the phenomena of conscious experience.

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Experts discuss the wide variety of investigative tools available to cognitive neuroscience, including transcranial magnetic stimulation, neuroscience computation, fMRI, imaging genetics, and neuropharmacology, with particular emphasis on convergence of techniques and innovative uses.

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Bernard Salani studies situations where competitive markets fail to achieve a collective optimum and the interventions used to remedy these so-called market failures.

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Leading neuroscientists and architects explore how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-being.

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"A reassessment of the influence of John Dewey's mature work, especially "Experience and Nature" on recent trends in cognitive science"--

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A collection of readings on topics in cognitive science. The book presents approaches to cognitive science from the perspective that thinking consists of computational procedures on mental representations and also challenges the computational-representational understanding of the mind.

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An elementary description of the main theories and problems of cognitive science, accessible to readers with different interests and backgrounds.

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This text argues that specific neurocognitive mechanisms have evolved that result in "mindreading", an ability to interpret, for the most part unconsciously, non-verbal actions. It suggests that autistic children suffer from "mindblindness" due to selective developmental impairment in mindreading.

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