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This book documents Szilard's energetic attempts to influence public policy on arms control and disarmament issues, both through open political processes and statements and through behindthe-scenes contacts with Washington power sources and a remarkable exercise in personal diplomacy with Nikita Khrushchev.

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Artificial life embodies a recent and important conceptual step in modem science: asserting that the core of intelligence and cognitive abilities is the same as the capacity for living.

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A new edition with new and updated case studies and analysis that demonstrate the trend in U.S. environmental policy toward sustainability at local and regional levels.

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A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.

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A sociocultural study of workers' ad hoc genre innovations and their significance for information design.

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This sequel to Market Structure and Foreign Trade examines the new international trade's applied side.

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A genuine Copernican turn in Kantian and Marxist theory and practice.

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A reappraisal of Lamarckismits historical impact and contemporary significance.

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An account of technology in Africa from an African perspective, examining hunting in Zimbabwe as an example of an innovative mobile workspace.

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How embracing untranslatable terms for well-beingfrom the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish menschcan enrich our emotional understanding and experience.

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A critical assessment of whether transparency is a broadly transformative force in global environmental governance or plays a more limited role.

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A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings.

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The election of Donald Trump and the great disruption in the news and social media.

(Paperback, revised and expanded edition)

How to create an Internet of Trusted Data in which insights from data can be extracted without collecting, holding, or revealing the underlying data.

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The world of computation according to Turing, an interactive tutoring program, as told to star-crossed lovers: a novel.

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Turtle Geometry presents an innovative program of mathematical discovery that demonstrates how the effective use of personal computers can profoundly change the nature of a student's contact with mathematics.

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This text examines the concept of decentralization and its effects in everday culture. It considers the reasons behind resistance to decentralization, and describes computational methods - such as modelling and simulation - and activities that can help develop new perspectives on decentralization.

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A critical approach to interactive fiction, as literature and game.

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Based on an introductory course on natural-language semantics, this book provides an introduction to type-logical grammar and the range of linguistic phenomena that can be handled in categorial grammar. It also contains work on categorial grammar and its application to natural-language semantics.

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Besides providing extensive support for David Perlmutter's hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically represented but semantically determined, this monograph contributes significantly to the development of a theory of lexical semantic representation and to the elucidation of the mapping from lexical semantics to syntax.

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Applying the tools of STS to explore why the "unbuilding of cities"--the reconfiguration and redesign of existing urban structures--becomes a contested and time-consuming process.