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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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- 9780262298711
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- 1 online resource (xxvii, 488 pages) :illustrations
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Digital Libraries
The emergence of the Internet and the wide availability of affordable computing equipment have created tremendous interest in digital libraries and electronic publishing. This book is the first to provide an integrated overview of the field, including a historical perspective, a survey of the state of the art, and an examination of current research.
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- 9780262255653
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Classifying Psychopathology: Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds
Scholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagnosis, treatment, and research of mental disorders and offer suggestions for improvement. In this volume, leading philosophers of psychiatry examine psychiatric classification systems, including the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), asking whether current systems ar…
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- 9780262322430
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- 1 online resource.
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Sensorimotor Cognition and Natural Language Syntax
A proposal that the syntactic structure of a sentence reporting a concrete episode in the world can be interpreted as a description of the sensorimotor processes involved in experiencing that episode.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1283707527
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- 1 online resource (xi, 392 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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- 9780262280020
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Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability
Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262300216
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 389 pages).
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From Groups to Individuals: Evolution and Emerging Individuality
The biological and philosophical implications of the emergence of new collective individuals from associations of living beings.Our intuitive assumption that only organisms are the real individuals in the natural world is at odds with developments in cell biology, ecology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and other fields. Although organisms have served for centuries as nature's paradigmatic ind…
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- 9780262313445
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Industrial Policy for National Champions
In this text prominent economists present the pros and cons of government support for national champions of industry over political governance.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298650
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- 1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) :illustrations.
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Reforming U.S. financial markets :reflections before and beyond Dodd-Frank
Papers and discussions presented at the fifth Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy, held at Harvard University on April 30, 2009."Over the last few years, the financial sector has experienced its worst crisis since the 1930s. The collapse of major firms, the decline in asset values, the interruption of credit flows, the loss of confidence in firms and credit market instruments, the intervent…
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- 9780262295956
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 152 pages)
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Financial innovation :too much or too little?
This text, which includes two contributions from Robert Shiller as well as a discussion of Shiller's 'MacroMarkets' tool, considers the key ingredients of financial innovation from both academia and industry; the postive potential but also the risks of financial innovation and the influence of producers on consumers.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305495
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 252 pages) :illustrations
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