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Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China
Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities - in financial, political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global emergence of these urban areas and compare their responses to a set of six urban environmental issues. These cities have different patterns of develo…
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- 9780262338868
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 447 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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MPI -- the Complete Reference.
This volume presents a complete specification of the MPI-2 Standard. It is annotated with comments that clarify complicated issues, including why certain design choices were made, how users are intended to use the interface, and how they should construct their version of MPI.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262287548
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- 1 online resource (363 pages).
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Global Meat: Social and Environmental Consequences of the Expanding Meat Indu…
Global meat production and consumption have risen sharply and steadily over the past five decades, with per capita meat consumption almost doubling since 1960. The expanding global meat industry, meanwhile, driven by new trade policies and fueled by government subsidies, is dominated by just a few corporate giants. Industrial farming—the intensive production of animals and fish—has spread a…
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The Manifesto for Teaching Online
In 2011, a group of scholars associated with the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh released “The Manifesto for Teaching Online,” a series of provocative statements intended to articulate their pedagogical philosophy. In the original manifesto and a 2016 update, the authors counter both the “impoverished” vision of education being advanced by corpora…
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- 9780262361064
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Cognition in the wild
Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open-ocean racing sailor and navigator in this account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory to produce a new reading of cognitive science. His theoretical insights are grounded in an extended analysis of ship navigation - its computational basis, its historical roots, its social organization, and …
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- 9780262275972
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 381 pages) :illustrations
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Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear W…
Despite approval by Congress and the Bush administration and over seven billion dollars already spent, the Yucca Mountain, Nevada, site for disposal of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel is not yet in operation. The reasons for the delay lie not only in citizen and activist opposition to the project but also in the numerous scientific and technical issues that remain unresolved. Although man…
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- 9780262278782
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 431 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Understanding Language Understanding: Computational Models of Reading
A Bradford book."The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of reading, with contributions from computer science, psychology, and philosophy. This book highlights cutting-edge research relevant to the building of a computational model of reading comprehension, as in the processing and understanding of a natural language text or story. A distinguishing feature of the book is its e…
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- 9780262282055
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 499 pages) :illustrations.
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Using MPI-2 : Advanced Features of the Message-Passing Interface
Using MPI is a completely up-to-date version of the authors' 1994 introduction to the core functions of MPI. It adds material onthe new C++ and Fortran 90 bindings for MPI throughout the book.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262288040
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- 1 online resource (407 pages).
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Command and persuade :crime, law, and the state across history
"This history of crime and punishment spans 3000 years and multiple continents to reveal the larger patterns in how the state has maintained order and enforced law over the centuries"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262361507
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A History of Classical Scholarship
Sir John Edwin Sandys (1844–1922) was a leading Cambridge classicist and a Fellow of St. John's College. His most famous work is this three-volume History of Classical Scholarship, published between 1903 and 1908, which remains the only large-scale work on the subject to span the entire period from the sixth century BCE to the end of the nineteenth century. The history of classical studies wa…
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
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