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 Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American DebatesOn any given night cable TV news will tell us how polarized American politics is: Republicans are from Mars, Democrats are from Canada. But in fact, writes Peter Wenz in Beyond Red and Blue, Americans do not divide neatly into two ideological camps of red/blue, Republican/Democrat, right/left. If they did, what could explain Republicans... | | The Crucible of Consciousness: An Integrated Theory of Mind and BrainThere are lots of books on consciousness being published these days, and I end up skimming most of them and reading a few of them. Reading somebody else’s take on the whole set of issues is often frustrating and depressing: they just don’t get it. Other times it is tantalizing; they start on the right foot, in other words, where I... | | The Ethics of Computer GamesDespite the emergence of computer games as a dominant cultural industry (and the accompanying emergence of computer games as the subject of scholarly research), we know little or nothing about the ethics of computer games. Considerations of the morality of computer games seldom go beyond intermittent portrayals of them in the mass media as training... |
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The Application of Programmable DSPs in Mobile CommunicationsThis book is about two technologies that have had, and will increasingly have, a significant impact on the way we all live, learn and play: personal wireless communications and signal processing. When it comes to both markets, history has shown that reality has often surprised the most optimistic forecasters.
We draw on the experience of... | | Scratch Programming for TeensWelcome to Scratch Programming for Teens! Scratch is a programming language developed by the MIT Media Lab for the purpose of teaching programming to teens and other first-time programmers. Scratch is a new programming language, initially released in May 2007. Scratch supports the development of computer games, interactive stories, graphic artwork... | | Electromagnetic Fields and EnergyWe are fortunate that electromagnetic aspects of engineering systems are accurately
described by remarkably concise and general laws. Yet, a price paid for the generality of Maxwell's equations is the effort required to make these laws of practical use to the engineer who is not only analyzing, but synthesizing and inventing. Key to the... |
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Mastering Revit Architecture 2010As Autodesk's fastest-growing software package, Revit Architecture offers a new version that will require Revit users of all areas of expertise—architects, project managers, designers, contractors, and building owners—to learn new skills. As the only complete tutorial and reference for the newest version of Revit software, this book... | | Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness (Jean Nicod Lectures)Physicalism is the idea that if everything that goes on in the universe is physical, our consciousness and feelings must also be physical. Ever since Descartes formulated the mind-body problem, a long line of philosophers has found the physicalist view to be preposterous. According to John Perry, the history of the mind-body problem is, in part,... | | |
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