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Helping women improve nutrition in the developing world : beating the zero sum game
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ISSN: 02537494 ISBN: 1280015756 9786610015757 0585328595 Year: 1990 Volume: no. 114 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,


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Population and development : implications for the World Bank.
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ISBN: 1280016876 9786610016877 0585184615 Year: 1994 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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This report was prepared for the International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo, Egypt, in September 1994. "The study explains why slowing population growth is still a high priority for the poorest countries, how population policy can be integrated with social policies, how population programs can provide the poor with appropriate services, why country-specific strategies are needed, and what other demographic issues are becoming more significant." Chapters are also included on population trends in developing countries, demand and supply factors in fertility transitions, integrated approaches to reproductive health, and implications for the World Bank. (Excerpt).


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Mental health and work
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ISBN: 9264178988 9264188746 Year: 2013 Publisher: Paris : OECD Pub.,

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Tackling mental ill-health of the working-age population is becoming a key issue for labour market and social policies in OECD countries. OECD governments increasingly recognise that policy has a major role to play in keeping people with mental ill-health in employment or bringing those outside of the labour market back to it, and in preventing mental illness. This report on Norway is the fourth in a series of reports looking at how the broader education, health, social and labour market policy challenges identified in Sick on the Job? Myths and Realities about Mental Health and Work (OECD, 2012) are being tackled in a number of OECD countries. It concludes that Norway faces a unique situation whereby a generous welfare system stimulates large-scale labour market exclusion and significant socio-economic inequalities of people with a mental disorder, and hindering better outcomes of its employment and vocational rehabilitation programmes.

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Social Issues/Migration/Health --- Employment --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Rehabilitation --- Health Services --- Salaries and Fringe Benefits --- Psychology, Industrial --- Disabled Persons --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Persons --- Psychology, Applied --- Personnel Management --- Income --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Therapeutics --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Named Groups --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Population Characteristics --- Health Care --- Organization and Administration --- Health Services Administration --- Absenteeism --- Rehabilitation, Vocational --- Sick Leave --- Mentally Disabled Persons --- Mental Health Services --- Employment, Supported --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Psychiatry --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Social Sciences --- Disabilities --- Psychiatric Disorders, Individual --- Norway --- People with mental disabilities --- Industrial psychiatry --- Mentally ill --- Services for --- Insane --- Mental illness --- Mental patients --- Mentally disordered --- Industrial mental health --- Occupational psychiatry --- Intellectually disabled persons --- Mental disabilities, People with --- Mentally deficient persons --- Mentally disabled persons --- Mentally disordered persons --- Mentally handicapped --- Mentally retarded persons --- People with intellectual disabilities --- Retarded persons --- Patients --- Sick --- Medicine, Industrial --- People with disabilities --- Intellectual disability

Health technologies and decision making.
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ISBN: 1280357568 9786610357567 9264016228 9264016201 Year: 2005 Publisher: Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development,

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Health technology has the tremendous potential to change our understanding of disease, transform the delivery of health-care services, and improve health outcomes. But using such technology comes at a price. Health Technologies and Decision Making analyses the barriers to, and facilitators of, evidence-based decision making in OECD health-care systems. It examines how countries can successfully manage the opportunities and challenges arising from health-related technology by optimising decision-making processes, recognising the value of innovation, dealing with uncertainty, and producing and co-ordinating health technology assessment. The book also considers the capacity of health systems to respond to the particular challenges of fast-developing health-related biotechnologies.

Building a better race : gender, sexuality, and eugenics from the turn of the century to the baby boom
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ISBN: 0520246748 0520225023 052093931X 1597345148 9780520939318 9780520225022 9780520246744 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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"Wendy Kline's lucid cultural history of eugenics in America emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with notions of gender and morality. Demonstrating that eugenic ideas were far more powerful in public discourse than other historians have indicated, Kline shows how eugenics could have seemed a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and sexuality, especially female sexuality, during the first half of the twentieth century. Its appeal to social conscience and shared desires to strengthen the family and civilization sparked popular as well as scientific interest."--Book jacket from 2001 ed.

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Eugenics --- Eugénisme --- History. --- Histoire --- United States --- Etats-Unis --- Moral conditions. --- Conditions morales --- History --- Moral conditions --- Eugenics. --- Eugenics-- United States-- History. --- United States - Moral conditions. --- Family --- Gender Identity --- Mentally Disabled Persons --- Morals --- Mentally Ill Persons --- Sterilization, Reproductive --- Sexuality --- African Americans --- Politics --- Social Values --- Women's Rights --- Sterilization, Involuntary --- Psychology, Social --- Social Sciences --- Identification (Psychology) --- Psychosexual Development --- Human Rights --- African Continental Ancestry Group --- Disabled Persons --- Ethnic Groups --- Contraception --- Sexual Behavior --- Reproductive Physiological Phenomena --- Ethics --- Urogenital Surgical Procedures --- Sociology --- Behavior --- Social Control, Formal --- Persons --- Humanities --- Surgical Procedures, Operative --- Continental Population Groups --- Population Groups --- Defense Mechanisms --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Psychoanalytic Theory --- Personality Development --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Philosophy --- Reproductive Techniques --- Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena --- Phenomena and Processes --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Named Groups --- Personality --- Psychological Theory --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Therapeutics --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Health Care --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Family & Marriage --- Sociology & Social History --- Eugénisme --- history --- E-books --- Woman's Rights --- Women's Status --- Women's Liberation --- Liberation, Women's --- Right, Woman's --- Right, Women's --- Rights, Woman's --- Rights, Women's --- Status, Women's --- Woman Rights --- Woman's Right --- Women Status --- Women's Right --- Gender --- Man's Role --- Men's Role --- Woman's Role --- Women's Role --- Gender Role --- Sex Role --- Gender Identities --- Gender Roles --- Identity, Gender --- Role, Man's --- Role, Men's --- Role, Sex --- Role, Woman's --- Role, Women's --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Men's --- Roles, Sex --- Roles, Woman's --- Roles, Women's --- Sex Roles --- Woman's Roles --- Women's Roles --- Transgender Persons --- Negative Eugenics --- Positive Eugenics --- Eugenics, Negative --- Eugenics, Positive --- Selective Breeding --- Genetic Counseling --- Genetics, Medical --- Eugenics - United States - History --- United States - Moral conditions

Preparing for an aging world : the case for cross-national research
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ISBN: 0309074215 0309502810 9780309074216 9780309502818 0305074215 0309170877 9780309170871 Year: 2001 Publisher: Washington National Academy Press

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Age group sociology --- Income --- United States --- Aging --- Older people --- Vieillissement --- Personnes âgées --- Research --- Economic conditions --- Health and hygiene --- Recherche --- Conditions économiques --- Santé et hygiène --- AA / International- internationaal --- 368.43 --- 332.832 --- 658.324 --- 311.94 --- 368.42 --- Ouderdomsverzekering. Voorbarige dood. Weduwen en wezen. --- Pensioen. Brugpensioen. --- Pensioenen. Verzekeringen. --- Verdeling van de bevolking naar leeftijd. Veroudering van de bevolking. --- Ziekte- en invaliditeitsverzekering. Ziekenfondsen. --- Aging -- Research. --- Older people -- Economic conditions. --- Older people -- Health and hygiene. --- Public Policy --- Research Design --- Population Dynamics --- Health Planning --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Demography --- Methods --- Legislation as Topic --- Social Control Policies --- Growth and Development --- Science --- Policy --- Physiological Processes --- Social Control, Formal --- Social Sciences --- Epidemiologic Measurements --- Health Care --- Population Characteristics --- Investigative Techniques --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Public Health --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Physiological Phenomena --- Sociology --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Environment and Public Health --- Phenomena and Processes --- Gerontology --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Research. --- Economic conditions. --- Health and hygiene. --- Personnes âgées --- Conditions économiques --- Santé et hygiène --- Age --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Physiological effect --- Geriatrics --- Developmental biology --- Longevity --- Age factors in disease --- Verdeling van de bevolking naar leeftijd. Veroudering van de bevolking --- Pensioen. Brugpensioen --- Ziekte- en invaliditeitsverzekering. Ziekenfondsen --- Ouderdomsverzekering. Voorbarige dood. Weduwen en wezen --- Pensioenen. Verzekeringen --- United States of America


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Obesity and the Economics of Prevention : Fit not Fat
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ISBN: 1282896601 9786612896606 926408486X 9264063676 Year: 2010 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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Before 1980, rates were generally well below 10%. They have since doubled or tripled in many countries, and in almost half of the OECD, 50% or more of the population is overweight.  A key risk factor for numerous chronic diseases, obesity is a major public health concern.    This book contributes to evidence-based policy making by exploring multiple dimensions of the obesity problem. It examines the scale and characteristics of the epidemic, the respective roles and influence of market forces and governments, and the impact of interventions. It outlines an economic approach to the prevention of chronic diseases that provides novel insights relative to a more traditional public health approach.  The analysis was undertaken by the OECD, partly in collaboration with the World Health Organization. The main chapters are complemented by special contributions from health and obesity experts, including Marc Suhrcke, Tim Lobstein, Donald Kenkel and Francesco Branca.  “a valuable set of results and suggestions about the best preventive interventions to reduce the burden of obesity.”   – Julio Frenk, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health   “The positive message of this book is that the obesity epidemic can be successfully addressed.”   – Ala Alwan, Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization   “innovative and well-researched”  – Martin McKee, Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine "A timely, valuable volume on a critical issue.  Highly recommended."-Choice, July 2011        

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Obesity -- Economic aspects. --- Obesity -- Prevention. --- Obesity --- Overnutrition --- Overweight --- Body Weight --- Nutrition Disorders --- Body Size --- Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases --- Signs and Symptoms --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Body Weights and Measures --- Diseases --- Body Constitution --- Physical Examination --- Physiological Phenomena --- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures --- Phenomena and Processes --- Diagnosis --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Diagnostic Technics and Procedures --- Technics and Procedures, Diagnostic --- Techniques and Procedures, Diagnostic --- Physiological Concepts --- Physiological Phenomenon --- Physiological Process --- Physiological Processes --- Concept, Physiological --- Concepts, Physiological --- Phenomena, Physiological --- Phenomenas, Physiological --- Phenomenon, Physiological --- Physiological Concept --- Process, Physiological --- Processes, Physiological --- Antemortem Diagnosis --- Diagnoses and Examinations --- Examinations and Diagnoses --- Postmortem Diagnosis --- Antemortem Diagnoses --- Diagnoses --- Diagnoses, Antemortem --- Diagnoses, Postmortem --- Diagnosis, Antemortem --- Diagnosis, Postmortem --- Postmortem Diagnoses --- Disease --- Examination, Physical --- Physical Examinations and Diagnoses --- Examinations, Physical --- Physical Examinations --- Body Constitutions --- Constitution, Body --- Constitutions, Body --- Body Measures --- Body Measure --- Measure, Body --- Measures, Body --- Symptoms and General Pathology --- Symptoms and Signs --- Body Sizes --- Size, Body --- Sizes, Body --- Nutritional Disorders --- Nutrition Disorder --- Nutritional Disorder --- Body Weights --- Weight, Body --- Weights, Body --- Hypernutrition --- methods --- diagnosis --- Sensitivity and Specificity --- Surgical Clearance --- Independent Medical Evaluation --- Anthropometry --- Nutritional Physiological Phenomena --- Hyperphagia --- Obesity Management --- Weight Gain --- Bariatrics --- Physical Exam --- Exam, Physical --- Exams, Physical --- Physical Exams --- Diagnostic Testing --- Testing, Diagnostic --- Diagnose


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Hunger
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ISBN: 1584659262 1584659505 128387511X 9781584659501 9781584659266 Year: 2010 Publisher: Hanover Dartmouth College Press

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A timely and provocative look at the role political developments and the biology of nutrition play in world famine

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Environment. --- Famines. --- Human Rights. --- Hunger. --- Malnutrition. --- Politics. --- Socioeconomic Factors. --- Starvation. --- Famines --- Hunger --- Malnutrition --- Starvation --- Ecological and Environmental Phenomena --- Environment and Public Health --- Population Characteristics --- Drive --- Sociology --- Social Control, Formal --- Social Sciences --- Nutritional Physiological Phenomena --- Digestive System Physiological Phenomena --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Motivation --- Health Care --- Physiological Phenomena --- Nutrition Disorders --- Biological Phenomena --- Digestive System and Oral Physiological Phenomena --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Phenomena and Processes --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases --- Diseases --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Environment --- Human Rights --- Politics --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Famine --- Fasting --- Nutrition disorders --- Nutrition --- Appetite --- Food supply --- Conservatism --- Decentralization --- Liberalism --- Political Factors --- Voting --- Political Activity --- Activities, Political --- Activity, Political --- Factor, Political --- Factors, Political --- Political Activities --- Political Factor --- Dissent and Disputes --- Factors, Socioeconomic --- High-Income Population --- Inequalities --- Land Tenure --- Standard of Living --- Factor, Socioeconomic --- High Income Population --- High-Income Populations --- Inequality --- Living Standard --- Living Standards --- Population, High-Income --- Populations, High-Income --- Socioeconomic Factor --- Tenure, Land --- Economics --- Food Deprivation --- Environmental Impact --- Environmental Impacts --- Impact, Environmental --- Impacts, Environmental --- Environments --- Environmental Health --- Equal Rights --- Equal Right --- Human Right --- Right, Equal --- Right, Human --- Rights, Equal --- Rights, Human --- Social Justice --- Human Rights Abuses --- Starvations --- E-books --- Collective Human Rights --- Linguistic Rights --- Right to Housing and Shelter --- Rights of Indigenous Peoples --- Human Rights, Collective --- Indigenous Peoples Rights --- Rights, Collective Human --- Rights, Linguistic --- Social Inequalities --- Social Inequality --- Inequalities, Social --- Inequality, Social


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Climate change, disaster risk, and the urban poor : cities building resilience for a changing world
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ISBN: 0821388452 9786613581839 0821389602 1280486600 Year: 2012 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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Poor people living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable lands within cities, typically areas that are deemed undesirable by others and are thus affordable. Residents are exposed to the impacts of landslides, sea-level rise, flooding, and other hazards. Exposure to risk is exacerbated by overcrowded living conditions, lack of adequate infrastructure and services, unsafe housing, inadequate nutrition, and poor health. These conditions can turn a natural hazard or change in climate into a disaster, and resu

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City planning -- Environmental aspects -- Developing countries. --- Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on -- Developing countries. --- Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Developing countries. --- Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Developing countries. --- Urban health -- Developing countries. --- Urban policy -- Developing countries. --- Urban poor -- Developing countries. --- Urban poor --- Climatic changes --- City planning --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urban health --- Urban policy --- Organization and Administration --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Population --- Climatic Processes --- Financial Management --- International Cooperation --- Social Problems --- Disasters --- Internationality --- Environment --- Sociology --- Population Characteristics --- Ecological and Environmental Processes --- Health Services Administration --- Economics --- Social Sciences --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Care --- Ecological and Environmental Phenomena --- Biological Phenomena --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Phenomena and Processes --- Climate Change --- Risk Management --- Developing Countries --- Disaster Planning --- Poverty --- Urban Population --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Welfare & Social Work - General --- Social aspects --- Effect of human beings on --- Environmental aspects --- City health --- Urban public health --- Urbanization --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Health aspects --- Planning --- Government policy --- Management --- Public health --- Land use --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban renewal --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Global environmental change

In search of the person : philosophical explorations in cognitive science
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ISBN: 0870234994 0870235001 058508307X 1122052022 9780585083070 9780870234996 9780870235009 9781122052023 Year: 1985 Publisher: Amherst University of Massachusetts press

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Artificial intelligence --- Cognition --- Neuropsychology --- Intelligence artificielle --- Neuropsychologie --- Cognitive science --- Artificial intelligence. --- Cognition. --- Neuropsychology. --- Artificial Intelligence --- Consciousness --- Mental Processes --- Psychophysiology --- Computing Methodologies --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Physiology --- Information Science --- Behavioral Sciences --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Biological Science Disciplines --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Computer Science --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computational Intelligence --- AI (Artificial Intelligence) --- Computer Reasoning --- Computer Vision Systems --- Knowledge Acquisition (Computer) --- Knowledge Representation (Computer) --- Machine Intelligence --- Acquisition, Knowledge (Computer) --- Computer Vision System --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligence, Computational --- Intelligence, Machine --- Knowledge Representations (Computer) --- Reasoning, Computer --- Representation, Knowledge (Computer) --- System, Computer Vision --- Systems, Computer Vision --- Vision System, Computer --- Vision Systems, Computer --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Cognitive Function --- Cognitions --- Cognitive Functions --- Function, Cognitive --- Functions, Cognitive --- Neuropsychologies --- Natural Sciences --- Physical Sciences --- Discipline, Natural Science --- Disciplines, Natural Science --- Natural Science --- Natural Science Discipline --- Physical Science --- Science, Natural --- Science, Physical --- Sciences, Natural --- Sciences, Physical --- Biologic Sciences --- Biological Science --- Science, Biological --- Sciences, Biological --- Biological Sciences --- Life Sciences --- Biologic Science --- Biological Science Discipline --- Discipline, Biological Science --- Disciplines, Biological Science --- Life Science --- Science Discipline, Biological --- Science Disciplines, Biological --- Science, Biologic --- Science, Life --- Sciences, Biologic --- Sciences, Life --- Proxemics --- Behavioral Science --- Proxemic --- Science, Behavioral --- Sciences, Behavioral --- Information Sciences --- Science, Information --- Sciences, Information --- Psychologic Processes and Principles --- High Performance Computing --- Methodologies, Computing --- Computing Methodology --- Computing, High Performance --- Methodology, Computing --- Performance Computing, High --- Mind-Body Relationship (Physiology) --- Physiologic Psychology --- Physiological Psychology --- Psychology, Physiologic --- Mind-Body Relations (Physiology) --- Psychology, Physiological --- Mind Body Relations (Physiology) --- Mind Body Relationship (Physiology) --- Mind-Body Relation (Physiology) --- Mind-Body Relationships (Physiology) --- Physiologic Psychologies --- Psychologies, Physiologic --- Relation, Mind-Body (Physiology) --- Relations, Mind-Body (Physiology) --- Relationship, Mind-Body (Physiology) --- Relationships, Mind-Body (Physiology) --- Human Information Processing --- Information Processing, Human --- Consciousnesses --- Heuristics --- Neurophysiology --- Psychology --- Bionics --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Neuropsychiatry --- Psychologic Processes --- Psychological Processes --- Phenomena, Psychological --- Processes, Psychologic --- Processes, Psychological --- Psychological Phenomenas --- Psychological Processe --- Psychosomatic Medicine --- Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical --- Science --- Philosophy of mind --- E-books

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