The economic dynamics of environmental law

This text shows in detail how the concept of economic dynamics can reshape thinking about environmental law and policy. It argues that environmental policymaking in the US has been poorly served by the view of the relationship between environmental regulation and economy, technology and business.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Video Games Around the World

Thirty-nine essays explore the vast diversity of video game history and culture across all the world's continents.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Finite State Machines in Hardware: Theory and Design (with VHDL and SystemVer…

Modern, complex digital systems invariably include hardware-implemented finite state machines. The correct design of such parts is crucial for attaining proper system performance. This book offers detailed, comprehensive coverage of the theory and design for any category of hardware-implemented finite state machines. It describes crucial design problems that lead to incorrect or far from optima…

The economic effects of constitutions

"The authors of The Economic Effects of Constitutions use econometric tools to study what they call the "missing link" between constitutional systems and economic policy. Taking recent theoretical work as a point of departure, they ask which theoretical findings are supported and which are contradicted by the facts. The results are based on comparisons of political institutions across countries…

The picture of Dorian Gray

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Assembling Policy: Transantiago, Human Devices, and the Dream of a World-Clas…

An examination of how human beings are brought into the planning of complex infrastructure projects, through analysis of a controversial public transportation project.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Winged victory

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No Medium

In No Medium, Craig Dworkin looks at works that are blank, erased, clear or silent, writing critically and substantively about works for which there would seem to be not only nothing to see but nothing to say. Examined closely, these ostensibly contentless works of art, literature and music point to a new understanding of media and the limits of the artistic object. Dworkin considers works pred…

Agreement and Its Failures

This monograph shows that the typically obligatory nature of predicate-argument agreement in phi-features (phi-agreement) cannot be captured through 'derivational time-bombs' - elements of the initial representation that cannot be part of a well-formed, end-of-the-derivation structure, and which are eliminated by the application of phi-agreement itself. This includes, but is not limited to, the…

Word and Object

A new edition of Quine's most important work.Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when." As Patricia Smith Churchland notes in her foreword to this new edition, with Word and Object Quine challenged the tradition of conceptual analysis as …