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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.

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This volume on neural network learning algorithms, focuses on neural network learning algorithms that do not require an explicit teacher. These algorithms provide insights into the development of the cerebral cortex and implicit learning in humans.

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A guide to advanced features of MPI, reflecting the latest version of the MPI standard, that takes an example-driven, tutorial approach.

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A guide to the most recent, advanced features of the widely used OpenMP parallel programming model, with coverage of major features in OpenMP 4.5.

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A comprehensive overview of important and contested issues in vaccination ethics and policy by experts from history, science, policy, law, and ethics.

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The phenomenon of vagueness poses a fundamental challenge to classical logic and semantics, which assumes that propositions are either true or false and that extensions are determinate. This anthology collects papers which represent current work on the logic and semantics of vagueness.

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A theoretical and practical guide to integrating human values into the conception and design of digital games.

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Valuing the Earth collects more than twenty classic and recent essays that broaden economic thinking by setting the economy in its proper ecological and ethical context.

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How the various things that are said to have meaning--purpose, natural signs, linguistic signs, perceptions, and thoughts--are related to one another.

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Why employees of pioneering Internet companies chose to invest their time, energy, hopes, and human capital in start-up ventures.

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An argument that video is not merely an intermediate stage between analog and digital but a medium in its own right; traces the theoretical genealogy of video and examines the different concepts of video seen in works by Vito Acconci, Ulrike Rosenbach, Steina and Woody Vasulka, and others.

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Focusing on the Alpine region to look at climate change's regional manifestations.

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How the basic concepts of economicsincluding markets, institutions, and moneycan be used to create and analyze economies based on virtual goods.

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An exploration of Cope's experimentation in artificial musical creativity; includes a CD containing performances of music discussed in the text.

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An engaging introduction to the science of vision that offers a coherent account of vision based on general information processing principles

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A collection of works, many of them classics, on the orthodox view of visual perception.

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The second edition of the classic book on visual agnosia, updated to include disorders of semantic knowledge and topographic recognition, and integrating perspectives from functional neuroimaging throughout.

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A groundbreaking book exploring the discovery of sameness in otherness.

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In this imaginative and generously illustrated book, Tadahiko Higuchi applies a methodology to landscape that is similar to that developed by Kevin Lynch for investigating the extent to which urban settings are legible and "imageable" to their inhabitants.

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These essays tackle some of the central issues in visual cognition, presenting experimental techniques from cognitive psychology, new ways of modeling cognitive processes on computers from artificial intelligence, and new ways of studying brain organization from neuropsychology.