Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of…

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Race and Entrepreneurial Success: Black-, Asian-, and White-Owned Businesses …

A comprehensive analysis of racial disparities and the determinants of entrepreneurial performance--in particular, why Asian-owned businesses on average perform relatively well and why black-owned businesses typically do not.Thirteen million people in the United States--roughly one in ten workers--own a business. And yet rates of business ownership among African Americans are much lower and hav…

At Your Service: Service-Oriented Computing from an EU Perspective

Presents results of collaborative research projects of the European Community's Information Society Technologies Programme about service-oriented computing.Service-Oriented Applications and Architectures (SOAs) have captured the interest of industry as a way to support business-to-business interaction, and the SOA market grew by $4.9 billion in 2005. SOAs and in particular service-oriented comp…

Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union

This is an examination of the awareness of environmental and social justice issues in the former Soviet republics - from the Western-style democracies of the Baltic region to the totalitarian regimes of Central Asia - and the resulting activism in those states.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

World's Greatest Architect: Making, Meaning, and Network Culture

Function and meaning in architecture and elsewhere, from tongue-in-cheek instructions for creating a surveillance state to reflections on the architecture of the potato chip.World's Greatest Architect: Making, Meaning, and Network Culture Artifacts (including works of architecture) play dual roles; they simultaneously perform functions and carry meaning. Columns support roofs, but while the …

Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information H…

This is an examination of how the availability of low-end information and communication technology has provided a basis for the emergence of a working-class network society in China.

Sexualized Brains: Scientific Modeling of Emotional Intelligence from a Cultu…

The cultural and political implications of research on emotions and recent studies of the "essential difference" in male and female brains and behaviors.The now-popular idea that emotions have an intelligent core (and the reverse, that intelligence has an emotional core) comes from the neurosciences and psychology. Similarly, the fundamental sexualization of the brain--the new interest in "esse…

Deposit Insurance around the World: Issues of Design and Implementation

Drawing on an original cross-country dataset on deposit insurance systems, this book provides an assessment of the impact of deposit insurance on banking outcomes and the policy implications for developing countries.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and …

"Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, a core research project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)."This overview of recent research on how institutions matter in tackling environmental problems reports the findings and policy implications of a decade-long international research project.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Game Sound: An Introduction to the History, Theory, and Practice of Video Gam…

An examination of the many complex aspects of game audio, from the perspectives of both sound design and music composition. A distinguishing feature of video games is their interactivity, and sound plays an important role in this: a player's actions can trigger dialogue, sound effects, ambient sound, and music. And yet game sound has been neglected in the growing literature on game studies. …