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Now the Chips Are Down: The BBC Micro
The story of a pioneering microcomputer: its beginnings as part of a national Computer Literary Project, its innovative hardware, and its creative uses.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The natural resources trap :private investment without public commitment
Volatility in commodity prices has been accompanied by perpetual renegotiation of contracts between private investors in natural resource production and the governments of states with mineral and energy wealth. When prices skyrocket, governments want a larger share of revenues, sometimes to the point of nationalization or expropriation; when prices fall, larger state participation becomes a bur…
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- 9780262275538
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A widening sphere: evolving cultures at MIT
How MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a small technical school into a major research university.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Is Human Nature Obsolete?: Genetics, Bioengineering, and the Future of the Hu…
As our scientific and technical abilities expand at breathtaking speeds, concern that modern genetics and bioengineering are leading us to a posthuman future is growing. Is Human Nature Obsolete? poses the overarching question of what it is to be human against the background of these current advances in biotechnology. Its perspective is philosophical and interdisciplinary rather than technical;…
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Islamic science and the making of the European Renaissance
"The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and in general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations - the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations…
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Keep Calm and Log On: Your Handbook for Surviving the Digital Revolution
Feeling overwhelmed by an avalanche of online content? Anxious about identity theft? Unsettled by the proliferation of fake news? Welcome to the digital revolution. Wait—wasn't the digital revolution supposed to make our lives better? It was going to be fun and put the world at our fingertips. What happened? Keep Calm and Log On is a survival handbook that will help you achieve online mindful…
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"Kinetics of High-Temperature Processes "
Modern machine learning techniques are proving to be extremely valuable for the analysis of data in computational biology problems. One branch of machine learning, kernel methods, lends itself particularly well to the difficult aspects of biological data, which include high dimensionality (as in microarray measurements), representation as discrete and structured data (as in DNA or amino acid se…
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Logic Programming: The 12th International Conference
"13-16 June 1995, Tokyo, Japan ICLP, which is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming, is one of two major annual international conferences reporting recent research results in logic programming. Logic programming originates from the discovery that a subset of predicate logic could be given a procedural interpretation which was first embodied in the programming language, Prolog. The …
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The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Ce…
"In this book environmentalist and lawyer William Shutkin describes a new kind of environmental and social activism spreading across the nation, one that joins the pursuit of environmental quality with that of civic health and sustainable local economies. In the face of challenges posed by often corrosive market forces and widespread social disaffection, this civic environmentalism is creating …
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https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/3117.001.0001?locatt=mode:legacy;http://www.…
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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