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Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union
This is an examination of the awareness of environmental and social justice issues in the former Soviet republics - from the Western-style democracies of the Baltic region to the totalitarian regimes of Central Asia - and the resulting activism in those states.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255493
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- 1 online resource (vi, 296 pages) :illustrations.
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World's Greatest Architect: Making, Meaning, and Network Culture
Function and meaning in architecture and elsewhere, from tongue-in-cheek instructions for creating a surveillance state to reflections on the architecture of the potato chip.World's Greatest Architect: Making, Meaning, and Network Culture Artifacts (including works of architecture) play dual roles; they simultaneously perform functions and carry meaning. Columns support roofs, but while the …
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- 9780262288217
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Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information H…
This is an examination of how the availability of low-end information and communication technology has provided a basis for the emergence of a working-class network society in China.
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Sexualized Brains: Scientific Modeling of Emotional Intelligence from a Cultu…
The cultural and political implications of research on emotions and recent studies of the "essential difference" in male and female brains and behaviors.The now-popular idea that emotions have an intelligent core (and the reverse, that intelligence has an emotional core) comes from the neurosciences and psychology. Similarly, the fundamental sexualization of the brain--the new interest in "esse…
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- 9780262276719
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 429 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Deposit Insurance around the World: Issues of Design and Implementation
Drawing on an original cross-country dataset on deposit insurance systems, this book provides an assessment of the impact of deposit insurance on banking outcomes and the policy implications for developing countries.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262271462
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- 1 online resource (x, 402 pages) :illustrations, map
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Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and …
"Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, a core research project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)."This overview of recent research on how institutions matter in tackling environmental problems reports the findings and policy implications of a decade-long international research project.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286589
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 373 pages) :illustrations
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Game Sound: An Introduction to the History, Theory, and Practice of Video Gam…
An examination of the many complex aspects of game audio, from the perspectives of both sound design and music composition. A distinguishing feature of video games is their interactivity, and sound plays an important role in this: a player's actions can trigger dialogue, sound effects, ambient sound, and music. And yet game sound has been neglected in the growing literature on game studies. …
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- 9780262270694
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Introducing Arguments
This compositional theory of verbal argument structures explores how 'noncore' arguments (i.e. arguments that are not introduced by verbal roots themselves) are introduced into argument structure, and examines cross-linguistic variation in introducing arguments.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281980
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 156 pages).
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A history of North and South America : including the celebrated work ... cont…
IN conformity with the plan of the NATIONAL LIBRARY, the present HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES is a careful Compilation from the Standard Authors on the subject; and it will be sufficient to say
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- cdl; americana
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The history of Scotland during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI …
The first ages of the Scottish History are dark and fabulous. Nation^, as well a'o men, arrive at maturity by degrees, and the events which happened during their infancy or early youth, cannot be recollected, and deserve not to be remembered.
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- v, 460 p. ; 22 cm,Includes preface to the eleventh edition dated 1787
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