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... complex , it is less and less feasible for an autocrat or a group of oligarchs to understand the control system itself and where it is tending . Those who operate at middle and lower levels are also facing more complex instruments with ...
... complex , it is less and less feasible for an autocrat or a group of oligarchs to understand the control system itself and where it is tending . Those who operate at middle and lower levels are also facing more complex instruments with ...
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... complex , and " emergent vitalism , " which looks not for new substances but only for new modes of organization . The latter view is clearly prevailing today . Emer- gence requires the use of new concepts to deal with the new forms ...
... complex , and " emergent vitalism , " which looks not for new substances but only for new modes of organization . The latter view is clearly prevailing today . Emer- gence requires the use of new concepts to deal with the new forms ...
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... complex interpersonal invention known as violin music . Now my thesis is very simple — and to a reasonable psychologist , very shocking . If it is katydid nature to scrape , frog nature to croak , warbler nature to warble , it is human ...
... complex interpersonal invention known as violin music . Now my thesis is very simple — and to a reasonable psychologist , very shocking . If it is katydid nature to scrape , frog nature to croak , warbler nature to warble , it is human ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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