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Putting skill to work :how to create good jobs in uncertain times
"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.
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- 0262363151
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- 1 online resource.
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Animal beauty :on the evolution of biological aesthetics
An illustrated exploration of colors and patterns in the animal kingdom, what they communicate, and how they function in the social life of animals. Are animals able to appreciate what humans refer to as "beauty" The term scarcely ever appears nowadays in a scientific description of living things, but we humans may nonetheless find the colors, patterns, and songs of animals to be beautiful in a…
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- 9780262353359
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- 1 online resource (128 pages) :illustrations
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Monetary policy and macroprudential regulation with financial frictions
"A monograph that accounts for financial frictions in some of the most-used macroeconomic models. An attempt to bring practical reality into macroeconomic theory"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026235943X
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We are not usersdialogues, diversity, and design
A call to reclaim and rethink the field of designing as a liberal art where diverse voices come together to shape the material world. We live in a material world of designed artifacts, both digital and analog. We think of ourselves as users; the platforms, devices, or objects provide a service that we can use. But is this really the case We Are Not Users argues that people cannot be reduced to …
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- 9780262356473
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- 1 online resource (200 pages).
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The contamination of the earth :a history of pollution in the industrial age
Translation of: La contamination du monde : une histoire des pollutions ?a l'?age industriel by ?Editions du Seuil in Paris, 2017."Once the source of circumscribed local nuisances, the effects of human activities on the environment have turned into global pollution. The climate is warming, the seas are acidifying, the species are disappearing, the bodies are altered: to give an account from a h…
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- 0262358131
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 459 pages) :illustrations (black and white).
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Lives of the laureates :thirty-two Nobel economists
"Lives of the Laureates compiles autobiographical essays by recipients of the Nobel Prize in the Economic Sciences who have presented lectures at Trinity University, describing the path that led them to the work honored with a Nobel. The seventh edition includes new essays from laureates Alvin Roth, Amartya Sen, Chris Sims, Michael Spence, Thomas Sargent, and Roger Myerson. James Heckman's chap…
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- Seventh edition.
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- 0262357992
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Riding the New York Subway :the invention of the modern passenger
A history of New York subway passengers as they navigated the system's constraints while striving for individuality, or at least a smooth ride. When the subway first opened with much fanfare on October 27, 1904, New York became a city of underground passengers almost overnight. In this book, Stefan Hohne examines how the experiences of subway passengers in New York City were intertwined with cu…
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- 9780262363259
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- 1 online resource (400 pages) :illustrations
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Downtime on the microgrid :architecture, electricity, and smart city islands
Something good about the smart city: a human-centered account of why the future of electricity is local. Resilience now matters most, and most resilience is local--even for that most universal, foundational modern resource: the electric power grid. Today that technological marvel is changing more rapidly than it has for a lifetime, and in our new grid awareness, community microgrids have become…
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- 9780262357005
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- 1 online resource (264 pages).
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Contraception :a concise history
"This book is a history of contraceptive technologies from the opening of the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam in 1882 to the present. It argues that tracing access to, research and development of, and use of contraceptive technologies is an outward measure of how a society values human selfhood and autonomy. It traces the research, development, manufacturing, distribution, and use of co…
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- 9780262357579
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Culture is not always popular :fifteen years of Design observer
Essays originally published in Design observer.Includes index.Founded in 2003, 'Design Observer' inscribes its mission on its homepage: Writings about Design and Culture. Since its inception, the site has consistently embraced a broader, more interdisciplinary, and circumspect view of design's value in the world-one not limited by materialism, trends, or the slipperiness of style. Dedicated to …
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- 9780262350334
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