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  • BSZ  (4)
  • English  (4)
  • Chater, Nick  (2)
  • Williams, Rosalind H.  (2)
  • Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press  (4)
  • London : Kogan Page
  • Electronic books  (4)
  • 1
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    Notes on the underground : an essay on technology, society, and the imagination (2008)
    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
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    ISBN: 9780262288194 , 0262288192 , 9781435651906 , 1435651901
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 283 p.) , ill.
    Edition: New ed.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Notes on the underground
    DDC: 303.483
    Keywords: Underground areas ; Underground utility lines ; Underground utility lines ; Underground areas ; SCIENCE ; Philosophy & Social Aspects ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Social Aspects ; Underground areas ; Underground utility lines ; Civil & Environmental Engineering ; Engineering & Applied Sciences ; Civil Engineering ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "In Notes on the Underground, Rosalind Williams takes us inside a critical historical moment, giving equal coverage to actual and imaginary undergrounds. She looks at the real-life invasions of the underground that occurred as modern urban infrastructures of sewers and subways were laid, and at the simultaneous archaeological excavations that were unearthing both human history and the planet's deep past. She also examines the subterranean stories of Verne, Wells, Forster, Hugo, Bulwer-Lytton, and other writers who proposed alternative visions of the coming technological civilization." "Williams argues that these imagined and real underground environments provide models of human life in a world dominated by human presence and offer a prophetic look at today's technology-dominated society."--Jacket
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    Perspectives on imitation : from neuroscience to social science; Volume 2. Imitation, human development, and culture (2005)
    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
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    ISBN: 9780262275958 , 0262275953 , 1423750101 , 9781423750109
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (1 v.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Perspectives on imitation
    DDC: 302
    Keywords: Imitation ; Learning in animals ; Social psychology ; Imitation ; Social psychology ; Learning in animals ; Imitative Behavior ; Behavior, Animal ; Human Development ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology ; Imitation ; Learning in animals ; Social psychology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 16 Common Misunderstandings of Memes (and Genes): The Promise and the Limits of the Genetic Analogy to Cultural Transmission Processes17 Goals versus Memes: Explanation in the Theory of Cultural Evolution; 18 Mendelian and Darwinian Views of Memes and Cultural Change; 19 Commentary and Discussion on Imitation and Culture; Bibliography; Contributors; Index to Volume 1; Index to Volume 2
    Abstract: 8 Commentary and Discussion on Imitation and Human DevelopmentII Imitation and Culture; 9 Why We Are Social Animals: The High Road to Imitation as Social Glue; 10 Deceptive Mimicry in Humans; 11 What Effects Does the Treatment of Violence in the Mass Media Have on People's Conduct? A Controversy Reconsidered; 12 Imitation and the Effects of Observing Media Violence on Behavior; 13 Imitation and Moral Development; 14 Imitation and Mimesis; 15 Imitation and Rationality
    Abstract: A state-of-the-art view of imitation from leading researchers in neuroscience and brain imaging, animal and developmental psychology, primatology, ethology, philosophy, anthropology, media studies, economics, sociology, education, and law.Leading researchers across a range of disciplines provide a state-of-the-art view of imitation, integrating the latest findings and theories with reviews of seminal work, and revealing why imitation is a topic of such intense current scientific interest
    Abstract: Introduction: The Importance of Imitation; I Imitation and Human Development; 1 Imitation and Other Minds: The ''Like Me'' Hypothesis; 2 Imitation, Mind Reading, and Simulation; 3 Intentional Agents Like Myself; 4 No Compelling Evidence to Dispute Piaget's Timetable of the Development of Representational Imitation in Infancy; 5 Intention Reading and Imitative Learning; 6 On Learning What Not to Do: The Emergence of Selective Imitation in Tool Use by Young Children; 7 Imitation as Entrainment: Brain Mechanisms and Social Consequences
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    Perspectives on imitation : from neuroscience to social science; Volume 1. Mechanisms of imitation and imitation in animals (2005)
    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
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    ISBN: 9780262275941 , 0262275945 , 1423750209 , 9781423750208
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Former Title: From neuroscience to social science
    DDC: 302
    Keywords: Imitation ; Learning in animals ; Social psychology ; Learning in animals ; Social psychology ; Imitation ; Behavior, Animal ; Human Development ; Imitative Behavior ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology ; Imitation ; Learning in animals ; Social psychology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 9 Detecting, Understanding, and Explaining Imitation by Animals -- 10 Insights into Vocal Imitation in African Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus) -- 11 Selective Imitation in Child and Chimpanzee: A Window on the Construal of Others' Actions -- 12 Commentary and Discussion on Imitation in Animals -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index to Volume 1 -- Index to Volume 2.
    Abstract: A state-of-the-art view of imitation from leading researchers in neuroscience and brain imaging, animal and developmental psychology, primatology, ethology, philosophy, anthropology, media studies, economics, sociology, education, and law. Leading researchers across a range of disciplines provide a state-of-the-art view of imitation, integrating the latest findings and theories with reviews of seminal work, and revealing why imitation is a topic of such intense current scientific interest
    Abstract: Introduction: The Importance of Imitation -- 1 The Mirror Neuron System and Imitation -- 2 Understanding Others: Imitation, Language, and Empathy -- 3 ''Being Like Me'': Self-Other Identity, Mirror Neurons, and Empathy Vittorio Gallese -- 4 The Neurophysiology of Imitation and Intersubjectivity -- 5 An Ideomotor Approach to Imitation -- 6 Imitation by Association -- 7 The Shared Circuits Hypothesis: A Unified Functional Architecture for Control, Imitation, and Simulation -- 8 Commentary and Discussion on Mechanisms of Imitation.
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    Retooling : a historian confronts technological change (2002)
    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
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    ISBN: 9780262286299 , 0262286297 , 058543722X , 9780585437224
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xv, 252 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Retooling
    DDC: 303.4830973
    Keywords: Technology History ; United States ; Technological innovations History ; United States ; United States ; Technology History ; Technological innovations History ; Technology History ; Technological innovations History ; SCIENCE ; Philosophy & Social Aspects ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Social Aspects ; Technological innovations ; Technology ; History ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: 1. Living in a Technological World -- 2. The Expansive Disintegration of Engineering -- 3. Technology and Business -- 4. Technology and Community -- 5. Men and Women in a Technological World -- 6. Coda: Living in a Historical World.
    Abstract: 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.When Warren Kendall Lewis left Spring Garden Farm in Delaware in 1901 to enter MIT, he had no idea that he was becoming part of a profession that would bring untold good to his country but would also contribute to the death of his family's farm. In this book written a century later, Professor Lewis's granddaughter, a cultural historian who has served in the administration of MIT, uses her grandfather's and her own experience to make sense of the rapidly changing role of technology in contemporary life.Rosalind Williams served as Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT from 1995 through 2000. From this vantage point, she watched a wave of changes, some planned and some unexpected, transform many aspects of social and working life--from how students are taught to how research and accounting are done--at this major site of technological innovation. In Retooling, she uses this local knowledge to draw more general insights into contemporary society's obsession with technology.Today technology-driven change defines human desires, anxieties, memories, imagination, and experiences of time and space in unprecedented ways. But technology, and specifically information technology, does not simply influence culture and society; it is itself inherently cultural and social. If there is to be any reconciliation between technological change and community, Williams argues, it will come from connecting technological and social innovation--a connection demonstrated in the history that unfolds in this absorbing book
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