"A policy proposal for increased collaboration between employers and workforce intermediaries to come together to create greater opportunities for worker skill development"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A comprehensive account of the neurobiological basis of language, arguing that species-specific brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Our contemporary concerns about food range from food security to agricultural sustainability to getting dinner on the table for family and friends. This book investigates food issues as they intersect with participatory Internet culture--blogs, wikis, online photo- and video-sharing platforms, and social networks--in efforts to bring about a healthy, socially inclusive, and sustainable food fu…
Project teams can improve results by recognizing that the future is inevitably uncertain and that by creating flexible designs they can adapt to eventualities. This approach enables them to take advantage of new opportunities and avoid harmful losses. Designers of complex, long-lasting projects--such as communication networks, power plants, or hospitals--must learn to abandon fixed specificatio…
An examination of the ways cyberspace is changing both the theory and the practice of international relations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
How technology and bureaucracy shape collaborative scientific research projects: an empirical study of multiorganizational collaboration in the physical sciences. Collaboration among organizations is rapidly becoming common in scientific research as globalization and new communication technologies make it possible for researchers from different locations and institutions to work together on com…
Analogy has been the focus of extensive research in cognitive science over the past two decades. Through analogy, novel situations and problems can be understood in terms of familiar ones. Indeed, a case can be made for analogical processing as the very core of cognition. This is the first book to span the full range of disciplines concerned with analogy. Its contributors represent cognitive, d…
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"The MIT Sloan School of Management: 50th anniversary."The MIT Sloan School of Management perspective on future management challenges.The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by the legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical resources of MIT and approach the problems of management with the rigorous research practices fo…
Outgrowth of a conference held in Nijmegen, the Netherlands under the joint sponsorship of the Max-Planck-Institut f?ur Psycholinguistik and the Interfacultaire Werkgroep Taal en Spraakgedrag of the University of Nijmegen."A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.