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What is special about the face, and what happens when neurological conditions make expression or comprehension of the face unavailable

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Advancing the understanding of parallel computation.

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An introduction to the work of Alois Riegel (1858-1905), one of the founders of art history as a discipline.

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An analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, SARS, and Mad Cow Disease.

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Creative Cognition combines original experiments with existing work in cognitive psychology to provide the first explicit account of the cognitive processes and structures that contribute to creative thinking and discovery.

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This book is about a most important topic: the systematic evaluation of policies, plans, and programs before they are implemented.

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This text provides an introduction to the field of truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages. It integrates semantic theory into the modern Chomskyan programme in linguistic theory and connects linguistic semantics to research elsewhere in cognitive psychology and philosophy.

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A lively and accessible introduction to the perception of music and speech events.

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Brings together papers which attempt to capture the phenomena of loneliness with case materials that illuminate the descriptive and theoretical accounts.

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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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This text presents a wide range of applications for molecular engineering, otherwise known as nanotechnology. The capacity to manipulate matter with atomic precision may change the economic, ecological and cultural fabric of modern life and such implications are discussed

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Intended for use in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, this text presents a wide survey of methodological procedures and theoretical positions.

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In this first extended treatment of Kurt Godel's life and work, Hao Wang brings out the full subtlety of Godel's ideas and their connection with grand themes in the history of mathematics and philosophy.

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A humanistic account of the changing role of technology in society, by a historian and a former Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT.

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This text offers an understanding of how Darwinian processes could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, using shuffled memories similar to jumbled dreams, but evolving into something of quality, such as a sentence to speak aloud.

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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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From cathedrals to star wars, Arnold Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the last thousand years and uses that survey to argue for a more humane form of future technological development.

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A proposal by two eminent biological scientists for a mechanism whereby mind becomes manifest from the operations of brain tissue.