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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.

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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.

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Uncaging Animal Spirits collects all of Landau's major papers from the last thirty years, covering his scientific discoveries, his views on innovation and entrepreneurship, his reflections on his own field of chemical engineering, and his research on the global marketplace, and on the relation of technology, innovation, and the economy.

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Looking at knowledge as a shared resource: experts discuss how to define, protect, and build the knowledge commons in the digital age.

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An expert explores the nature of pain: why it hurts and why some pain is good and some pain is bad.

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The first work to propose a comprehensive musicological framework to study sound-based music, a rapidly developing body of work that includes electroacoustic art music, turntable composition, and acoustic and digital sound installations.

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Examines the digital economy in terms of macroeconomic assessment, organizational change, small business, access, market structure and competition, and employment and the workforce.

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A theoretical integration of science and technology studies and social movement studies that finds both common ground and undone research.

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A critical approach that marries literary theory and information technology, reading digital and cultural artifacts--whether videogames, literature, or film--as configurative systems of interlocking units of meaning.

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A new approach to nuclear disarmament, nonproliferation, and the prevention of nuclear terrorism that focuses on controlling the production and stockpiling of nuclear materials.