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Handbook of mobile communication studies
This volume offers a view of the cultural, interpersonal and family consequences of mobile communication across the globe. The contributors analyse the effects of moble communications on all aspects of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of phones, to the use of ringtones as a form of social exchange.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262276818
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- 1 online resource (ix, 472 pages) :illustrations, map
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Advances in neural information processing systems 19 :proceedings of the 2006…
The annual Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference is the flagship meeting on neural computation and machine learning. This volume contains the papers presented at the December 2006 meeting, held in Vancouver.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256919
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 1643 pages) :illustrations.
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Things and places :how the mind connects with the world
"A Bradford book."Problems in linking representation and perceived things in the world are discussed in light of the role played by a preconceptual indexing mechanism that functions to identify, reidentify, and track objects.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282000
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages) :illustrations.
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The really hard problem :meaning in a material world
"A Bradford book."A noted philosopher proposes a naturalistic (rather than supernaturalistic) way to solve the "really hard problem": how to live a life that really matters-even as a finite material being living in a material world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262272803
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages) :illustrations
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Water, place, and equity
Many predict that by the end of the 21st century water will dominate world natural resource politics as oil does today. At present, much of the world's water is misallocated, wasted or polluted. This book argues that fairness in the allocation of water could be the cornerstone to a more secure future for mankind.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286107
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- 1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Disjunctivism :contemporary readings
This reader collects in one volume classic texts that define and react to disjunctivism. These include an excerpt from a book by the late J.M. Hinton.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255219
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 334 pages).
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Tax policy and the economy.
Recent academic research findings on topics relating to taxation and social insurance policy, including the implicit tax imposed by Medicaid on private long-term care insurance benefits, an alternative system of unemployment insurance, and federal energy tax policy.This NBER series presents current academic research findings in the areas of taxation and government spending. The papers included …
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- 9780262281867
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 184 pages) :illustrations.
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The comingled code :open source and economic development
In this book, Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman, drawing on a new, large-scale database, show that open source and proprietary software interact in sometimes unexpected ways, and discuss the policy implications of these findings.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289573
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- 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) :illustrations
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Scholarship in the digital age :information, infrastructure, and the Internet
Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and collaborative research. Although much attention has been paid to the new technologies making this possible, from digitized books to sensor networks, it is the underlying social and policy…
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- 9780262255783
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 336 pages) :illustrations
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Distributed cognition and the will :individual volition and social context
"A Bradford book."Philosophers and behavioral scientists discuss what, if anything, of the traditional concept of individual conscious will can survive recent scientific discoveries that human decision-making is distributed across different brain processes and through the social environment.Recent scientific findings about human decision making would seem to threaten the traditional concept of …
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- 9780262282635
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- 1 online resource (ix, 369 pages) :illustrations
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