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Raising the Stakes :E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming
"Competitive video and computer game play is nothing new: the documentary King of Kong memorably portrays a Donkey Kong player's attempts to achieve the all-time highest score; the television show Starcade (1982--1984) featured competitions among arcade game players; and first-person shooter games of the 1990s became multiplayer through network play. A new development in the world of digital ga…
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- 9780262301268
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- 1 online resource (viii, 323 pages) :illustrations
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Global warming and the sweetness of life :a tar sands tale
Seeking new definitions of ecology in the tar sands of northern Alberta and searching for the sweetness of life in the face of planetary crises. Confounded by global warming and in search of an affirmative politics that links ecology with social change, Matt Hern and Am Johal set off on a series of road trips to the tar sands of northern Alberta--perhaps the world's largest industrial site, ded…
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- 9780262345460
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- 1 online resource (232 pages).
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Green grades :can information save the earth?
A comprehensive assessment and analysis of the validity, trustworthiness, and effectiveness, of such environmental ratings as ENERGY STAR, LEED, and USDA Organic.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262340984
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Sustainable Urban Metabolism
A unified framework for analyzing urban sustainability in terms of cities' inflows and outflows of matter and energy. Urbanization and globalization have shaped the last hundred years. These two dominant trends are mutually reinforcing: globalization links countries through the networked communications of urban hubs. The urban population now generates more than eighty percent of global GDP. Cit…
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- 9780262316958
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 244 pages) :illustrations
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Taming uncertainty
An examination of the cognitive tools that the mind uses to grapple with uncertainty in the real world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026235313X
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- 1 online resource (488 pages).
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Renewables :the politics of a global energy transition
A comprehensive political analysis of the rapid growth in renewable wind and solar power, mapping an energy transition through theory, case studies, and policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262344609
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Reassembling rubbish :worlding electronic waste
An examination of the global trade and traffic in discarded electronics that reframes the question of the "right" thing to do with e-waste. The prevailing storyline about the problem of electronic waste frames e-waste as generated by consumers in developed countries and dumped on people and places in developing countries. In Reassembling Rubbish , Josh Lepawsky offers a different view. In an in…
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- 9780262346375
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- 1 online resource (240 pages)
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Migration and the Welfare State: Political-Economy Policy Formation
This title presents a unified formal framework for studying how social benefits-immigration conflicts are resolved in a range of policy regimes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298377
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- 1 online resource (xii, 168 pages) :illustrations
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Tap :unlocking the mobile economy
"Consumers create a data trail by tapping their phones; businesses can tap into this trail to harness the power of the more than three trillion dollar mobile economy. According to Anindya Ghose, a global authority on the mobile economy, this two-way exchange can benefit both customers and businesses. In Tap, Ghose welcomes us to the mobile economy of smartphones, smarter companies, and value-se…
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- 9780262340427
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- 1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) :illustrations
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Wine economics
"An interdisciplinary exploration of the economics of wine, drawing on a variety of academic literatures"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262361027
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