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"The Languages of Edison's Light "
"Charles Bazerman tells the story of the emergence of electric light as a story of symbols and communication. He examines how Edison and his colleagues represented light and power to themselves and to others as the technology was transformed from an idea to a daily fact of life. He looks at the rhetoric used to create meaning and value for the emergent technology in the laboratory, in patent of…
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Timing of Behavior: Neural, Psychological, and Computational Perspectives
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282567
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- 1 online resource (xii, 384 pages) :illustrations
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Comparative Political Economy: A Retrospective
The essays collected here reflect the author's shift in interests from foreign exchange to international trade, economic growth, and economic history, especially financial history. OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277143
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- 1 online resource (viii, 500 pages) :illustrations
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A History of East Asia
Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam - distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics or globalization. Yet, as an ancient civilization, the region had both an historical and cultural coherence. This shared past is at the hea…
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A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae
Charles Thomas Newton (1816–1894) was a British archaeologist specialising in Greek and Roman artefacts. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford before joining the British Museum. Newton left the Museum in 1852 to explore the coast of Asia Minor, and in 1856 he discovered the remains of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world. This study, first published in 1…
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- 9780511910302
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
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A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae
Charles Thomas Newton (1816–1894) was a British archaeologist specialising in Greek and Roman artefacts. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford before joining the British Museum. Newton left the Museum in 1852 to explore the coast of Asia Minor, and in 1856 he discovered the remains of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world. This study, first published in 1…
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
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A Constitution for the European Union
International economists and other scholars address the major issues that arise in writing a European constitution, including the evolution of federalism and the role of direct democracy.The leaders of European Union member states have declared that a European constitution should take "a clear, open, effective, democratically controlled Community approach." Their goal--that within the Union, "E…
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages) :illustrations.
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Internal combustion engine in theory and practice volume 1 : Thermodynamics, …
This revised edition of Taylor's classic work on the internal-combustion engine incorporates changes and additions in engine design and control that have been brought on by the world petroleum crisis, the subsequent emphasis on fuel economy, and the legal restraints on air pollution. The fundamentals and the topical organization, however, remain the same. The analytic rather than merely descrip…
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- 1 online resource (783 pages).
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The price of linguistic productivity :how children learn to break the rules o…
An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages."All languages have exceptions alongside overarching rules and regularities. How does a young child tease them apart within just a few years of language acquisition? In this book, drawing an economic analogy, Charles Yang argues that just as the price of goods is determined by the balance between supply and …
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Leadership as masterpiece creation :what business leaders can learn from the …
"An attempt to use the ancient wisdom of the humanities to argue for a moral and aesthetic vision of business leadership"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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