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Optimizing play :why theorycrafting breaks games and how to fix it
"A thoughtful account of how optimization (also known as theorycrafting or the "moneyballing effect") has changed the way we play games from World of Warcraft to soccer"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262378338
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Going big :a scientist's guide to large projects and collaborations
"This book addresses the need for scientists to understand the framework and approach in large science projects, both from the technical project management side as well as the sociology and governance of large science collaborations"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262378482
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Productive tensions :how every leader can tackle innovation's toughest trade-…
How leaders can recast innovation's toughest trade-offs--efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose--as productive tensions. Why is leading innovation in today's dynamic business environment so distressingly hit-or-miss More than 90 percent of high-potential ventures don't reach their projected targets. Surveys show that 80 percent of executives consider innovation c…
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- 9780262369909
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Real life in real time :live streaming culture
"Live Streaming Culture is an edited volume that explores the cultural implications of online live streaming, paying special attention to how live streaming is shifting issues of identity and power in digital spaces"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262374750
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Tenacious beasts :animals back from the brink
"Conventional wisdom is that wild animals are being wiped out. But conventional wisdom skips some important details. Wildlife is rebounding. Not everywhere. Not every species. But a handful of wildlife populations have reached numbers unimaginable in a century. Red deer in Europe, bison in North America, humpback whales in the Atlantic. They have all seen their populations explode. They are bac…
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The age of prediction :algorithms, AI, and the shifting shadows of risk
The power of the ever-increasing tools and algorithms for prediction and their paradoxical effects on risk. The Age of Prediction is about two powerful, and symbiotic, trends: the rapid development and use of artificial intelligence and big data to enhance prediction, as well as the often paradoxical effects of these better predictions on our understanding of risk and the ways we live. Beginnin…
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- 9780262373203
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- 1 online resource (208 pages).
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Free-to-play :mobile video games, bias, and norms
"Paul charts the appeal of free-to-play games and examines how they challenge dominant game industry norms"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262360519
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The next 500 years :engineering life to reach new worlds
"Driven by a vision of colonizing other planets, Mason reveals unique insights into how the human body is altered during long-duration spaceflight & how genetic engineering can protect cells in space"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262360055
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Farm fresh broadband :the politics of rural connectivity
"This study of the political economy of rural broadband combines critical policy analysis with stories of rural Americans and offers solutions for solving the rural-urban digital divide"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262367076
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Embodying design :an applied science of radical embodied cognition
"This book sets the agenda for how we think about human activity that arises from embedding manipulated information in our action and embodied cognition"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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