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Competitive Strategy: Options and Games
The authors describe a new approach to balancing flexibility and commitment in management strategy through the amalgamation of real options and game theory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xxvii, 488 pages) :illustrations
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The Continuing Evolution of Europe
Here, economists address key challenges facing the EU, including financial instability, welfare state reform, inadequate institutional framework, and global economic integration.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301466
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- 1 online resource (173 pages) :illustrations.
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Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City
"With Me++ the author of City of Bits and e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. William Mitchell describes the transformation of wireless technology in the hundred years since Marconi: the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception. He examines the effects of wireless linkage…
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Mechanics of Robotic Manipulation
""Manipulation" refers to a variety of physical changes made to the world around us. Mechanics of Robotic Manipulation addresses one form of robotic manipulation, moving objects, and the various processes involved--grasping, carrying, pushing, dropping, throwing, and so on. Unlike most books on the subject, it focuses on manipulation rather than manipulators. This attention to processes rather …
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Reframing Rights: Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age
Legal texts have been with us since the dawn of human history. Beginning in 1953, life too became textual. The discovery of the structure of DNA made it possible to represent the basic matter of life with permutations and combinations of four letters of the alphabet, A, T, C, and G. Since then, the biological and legal conceptions of life have been in constant, mutually constitutive interplay -…
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- 9780262298667
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- 1 online resource (x, 310 pages).
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The Prosperity of Vice: A Worried View of Economics
How violence, rather than peace, has historically accompanied prosperity; and why emerging nations seem poised to repeat the tragic history of the industrialized world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262301431
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- 1 online resource (xx, 216 pages)
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Inside jokes :using humor to reverse-engineer the mind
An evolutionary and cognitive account of the addictive mind candy that is humor. Some things are funny—jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed—but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Da…
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- 9780262303552
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 359 pages) :illustrations
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Bringing the biosphere home :learning to perceive global environmental change
A guide for understanding the ecological and existential aspects of global environmental change.This book shows how to make global environmental problems more tangible, so that they become an integral part of everyday awareness. At its core is a simple assumption: that the best way to learn to perceive the biosphere is to pay close attention to our immediate surroundings. Through local natural …
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- 9780262284899
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The future was here :the Commodore Amiga
Exploring the often-overlooked history and technological innovations of the world's first true multimedia computer. Long ago, in 1985, personal computers came in two general categories: the friendly, childish game machine used for fun (exemplified by Atari and Commodore products); and the boring, beige adult box used for business (exemplified by products from IBM). The game machines became f…
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- 9780262301510
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- 1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) :illustrations.
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Computational Thinking Education in K–12: Artificial Intelligence Literacy …
A guide to computational thinking education, with a focus on artificial intelligence literacy and the integration of computing and physical objects. Computing has become an essential part of today's primary and secondary school curricula. In recent years, K–12 computer education has shifted from computer science itself to the broader perspective of computational thinking (CT), which is les…
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