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A collection of classic and contemporary writings on democracy, suitable for use in a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses.

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The second edition of a comprehensive textbook that introduces turbomachinery and gas turbines through design methods and examples.

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How developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital mindsintelligent machines equal to or greater in power than the human brain.

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Interpreting the myths of the digital age: why we believed in the power of cyberspace to open up a new world.

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An expert in management takes on the conventional wisdom about disruption, looking at companies that proved resilient and offering managers tools for survival.

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An investigation into the brain's chemistry and the mechanisms of chemically altered states of consciousness.

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A comprehensive overview of Earth's biosphere, written with scientific rigor and essay-like flair.

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An exploration of games as systems in which young people participate as gamers, producers, and learners.

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An examination of collusive behavior: what it is, why it is profitable, how it is implemented, and how it might be detected.

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A concise introduction to the theory of contracts, emphasizing basic tools that allow the reader to understand the main theoretical models; revised and updated throughout for this edition.

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As Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board in the late 1970s, Alfred E. Kahn presided over the deregulation of the airlines and his book, published earlier in that decade, presented the first comprehensive integration of the economic theory and institutional practice of economic regulation.

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Written in a highly readable, irreverent style, The Elm and the Expert provides a lively discussion of semantic issues about mental representation, with special attention to issues raised by Frege's problem, Twin cases, and the putative indeterminacy of reference.

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Basic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection of brain and culture.

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The problem of how to estimate probabilities has interested philosophers, statisticians, actuaries, and mathematicians for a long time. It is currently of interest for automatic recognition, medical diagnosis, and artificial intelligence in general. This monograph reviews existing methods, including those that are new or have not been written up in a connected manner.

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The Evolution of Central Banks employs a wide range of historical evidence and reassesses current monetary analysis to argue that the development of non-profit-maximizing and noncompetitive central banks to supervise and regulate the commercial banking system fulfils a necessary and natural function.

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A consideration of whether the human capacity to make moral judgments is innate and, if so, what implications follow; combines philosophical discussion with the latest findings from the empirical sciences.

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A new theory of the evolution of human cognition and human social life that emphasizes the role of information sharing across generations.

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A noted economist argues that the ubiquity of regulation can be explained by its greater efficiency when compared to litigation.

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A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to issues in affective science.

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The Final Foucault is devoted to his last published (and some as yet unpublished) work and includes a translation of one of his last interviews, a comprehensive bibliography of his publications, and a biographical chronology.

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An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages.