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Fire, Ice, and Physics
The Science of Game of Thrones
ISBN: 9780262539616
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 10, 2020
Exploring the science in George R. R. Martin's fantastical world, from the physics of an ice wall to the genetics of the Targaryens and Lannisters.
Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences
Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences
ISBN: 9780262036856
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 12, 2018
Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges.
The Beauty of Numbers in Nature
The Beauty of Numbers in Nature
Mathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural World
ISBN: 9780262534284
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
From a zebra's stripes to a spider's web: an engaging examination of patterns in nature and the mathematics that underlie them.
Social Neuroscience
People Thinking about Thinking People
ISBN: 9780262517270
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 13, 2012
Studies in the neurobiological underpinnings of social information processing by psychologists, neurobiologists, psychiatrists, radiologists, and neurologists, using methods that range from brain imaging techniques to comparative analyses.
Psychiatry in the Scientific Image
Psychiatry in the Scientific Image
ISBN: 9780262517447
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 13, 2012
An analysis of the understanding, classification, and explanation of mental disorders that proposes that psychiatry adopt the best practices of the cognitive sciences.
The Nature of Difference
Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics
ISBN: 9780262582759
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 23, 2009
A collection of wide-ranging primary source material that tracks the shifting relationships between race and science through two centuries of American history.
The Complementary Nature
ISBN: 9780262612227
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 25, 2008
Why do we divide our world into contraries? Why do we perceive and interpret so many of life's contraries as mutually exclusive, either/or dichotomies such as individual~collective, self~other, body~mind,...
The Harmonic Mind
From Neural Computation to Optimality-Theoretic Grammar Volume I: Cognitive Architecture Volume II: Linguistic and Philosophical Implications
ISBN: 9780262195287
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 27, 2006
Pain
New Essays on Its Nature and the Methodology of Its Study
ISBN: 9780262511889
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 23, 2005
What does feeling a sharp pain in one's hand have in common with seeing a red apple on the table? Some say not much, apart from the fact that they are both conscious experiences. To see an object is...
Evolution and Culture
A Fyssen Foundation Symposium
ISBN: 9780262621977
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 7, 2005
Biological and cultural processes have evolved together, in a symbiotic spiral; they are now indissolubly linked, with human survival unlikely without such culturally produced aids as clothing, cooked...
Fire, Ice, and Physics
The Science of Game of Thrones
ISBN: 9780262539616
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 10, 2020
Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences
Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences
ISBN: 9780262036856
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 12, 2018
The Beauty of Numbers in Nature
The Beauty of Numbers in Nature
Mathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural World
ISBN: 9780262534284
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
Social Neuroscience
People Thinking about Thinking People
ISBN: 9780262517270
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 13, 2012
Psychiatry in the Scientific Image
Psychiatry in the Scientific Image
ISBN: 9780262517447
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 13, 2012
The Nature of Difference
Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics
ISBN: 9780262582759
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 23, 2009
The Complementary Nature
ISBN: 9780262612227
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 25, 2008
The Harmonic Mind
From Neural Computation to Optimality-Theoretic Grammar Volume I: Cognitive Architecture Volume II: Linguistic and Philosophical Implications
ISBN: 9780262195287
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 27, 2006
Pain
New Essays on Its Nature and the Methodology of Its Study
ISBN: 9780262511889
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 23, 2005
Evolution and Culture
A Fyssen Foundation Symposium
ISBN: 9780262621977
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 7, 2005