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Balkan as metaphor :between globalization and fragmentation
Pioneering essays on the idea of the Balkan as a body of knowledge and a cultural metaphor.Balkan. Somewhere between a tragedy and a myth, a place and a condition, the term is perhaps best understood as a metaphor. It has been used and abused in academia by proponents of opposing political views. Multiculturalism has appropriated it, as have postmodernism and postcommunism. It is used pejorativ…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 382 pages)
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The Digital Youth Network: Cultivating Digital Media Citizenship in Urban Com…
An ambitious project to help economically disadvantaged students develop technical, creative, and analytical skills across a learning ecology that spans school, community, home, and online.
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Beowulf cluster computing with Windows
Beowulf clusters, which exploit mass-market PC hardware and software in conjunction with cost-effective commercial network technology, are becoming the platform for many scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. With growing popularity has come growing complexity. Addressing that complexity, Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux and Beowulf Cluster Computing with Windows provide syst…
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- 9780262286787
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- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 445 pages) :illustrations.
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Beyond late development :Taiwan's upgrading policies
A study of how latecomers catch up in high-tech industries and modern services, based on an in-depth analysis of Taiwan's premier enterprises and government policies.In this book Alice Amsden and Wan-wen Chu cover new ground by analyzing the phenomenon of high-end catch-up. They study how leading firms from the most advanced latecomer countries like Taiwan have increased their market share in m…
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- 9780262267106
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages) :illustrations
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Carbon coalitions :business, climate politics, and the rise of emissions trading
An examination of how a transnational coalition of firms and NGOs influenced the emergence of emissions trading as a central component of global climate governance.Over the past decade, carbon trading has emerged as the industrialized world's primary policy response to global climate change despite considerable controversy. With carbon markets worth $144 billion in 2009, carbon trading represen…
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- 1 online resource (x, 250 pages) :illustrations
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Norbert Wiener - A Life in Cybernetics :Ex-Prodigy: my childhood and youth an…
Includes bibliographical references and index.Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography, available for the first time in one volume.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Indra's net and the Midas touch :living sustainably in a connected world
An exploration of the impact of unintended consequences in an interdependent world and of the opportunities for creativity and community.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298858
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- 1 online resource (ix, 330 pages) :illustrations
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Data-parallel programming on MIMD computers
Data-Parallel Programming demonstrates that architecture-independent parallel programming is possible by describing in detail how programs written in a high-level SIMD programming language may be compiled and efficiently executed-on both shared-memory multiprocessors and distributed-memory multicomputers.MIMD computers are notoriously difficult to program. Data-Parallel Programming demonstrates…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages) :illustrations.
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Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain: The Science of Neuroeconomics
"A Bradford book."In this provocative book, Paul Glimcher argues that economic theory may provide an alternative to the classical Cartesian model of the brain and behavior. Glimcher argues that Cartesian dualism operates from the false premise that the reflex is able to describe behavior in the real world that animals inhabit. A mathematically rich cognitive theory, he claims, could solve the m…
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Beyond the desktop metaphor :designing integrated digital work environments
Leading developers and researchers report on what the next generation of digital work environments may look like, analyzing the theory and practice of designing "out of the box" to facilitate multitasking, collaboration, and multiple technologies.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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