Social Sciences - Page 399

Why Elections Fail

Too often, elections around the globe are, unfortunately, deeply flawed or even fail. What triggers...

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Imagined Democracies: Necessary Political Fictions

This book proposes a revisionist approach to democratic politics. Yaron Ezrahi focuses on the creati...

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The Ancient Origins of Consciousness: How the Brain Created Experience

How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constit...

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The Not-Two: Logic and God in Lacan

In The Not-Two, Lorenzo Chiesa examines the treatment of logic and God in Lacans later work. Chiesa...

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Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics

A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the tw...

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The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable

Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of...

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The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation

The issues of mental causation, consciousness, and free will have vexed philosophers since Plato. In...

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The Technological Singularity

The idea that human history is approaching a singularitythat ordinary humans will someday be over...

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Vision: How it Works and What Can Go Wrong

Over the past fifty years, enormous progress has been made in understanding visual mechanisms and tr...

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Public Sector Economics and the Need for Reforms

The public sector has grown substantially in the last fifty years. In the euro area, for example, to...

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Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left

Karl Polanyi (1886–1964) was one of the twentieth century's most original interpreters of the market...

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Power of a Single Number: A Political History of GDP

Widely used since the mid-twentieth century, GDP (gross domestic product) has become the world's mos...

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We are All Cannibals: And Other Essays

On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of D...

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Discovering the Human Connectome

Crucial to understanding how the brain works is connectivity, and the centerpiece of brain connectiv...

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Networks of the Brain

Over the last decade, the study of complex networks has expanded across diverse scientific fields. I...

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