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NGO diplomacy :the influence of nongovernmental organizations in internationa…
Provides an analytical framework for assessing the impact of NGOs on intergovernmental negotiations on the environment and identifying the factors that determine the degree of NGO influence, with case studies that apply the framework to negotiations on cl.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268417
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 244 pages)
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Minimum wages
This is a comprehensive review of evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment, skills, wage and income distributions, and longer-term labour market outcomes, and concludes that the minimum wage is not a good policy tool.Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and developing. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 and has increas…
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- 9780262280563
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- 1 online resource (377 pages) :illustrations
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Big box reuse
What happens to the landscape, to community, and to the population when vacated big box stores are turned into community centers, churches, schools, and libraries? America is becoming a container landscape of big boxes connected by highways. When a big box store upsizes to an even bigger box "supercenter" down the road, it leaves behind more than the vacant shell of a retail operation; it leave…
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- 9780262270267
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- 1 online resource (viii, 231 pages) :illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
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New tech, new ties :how mobile communication is reshaping social cohesion
How cell phones and mobile communication may in many cases strengthen social cohesion.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278416
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages)
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Eye, retina, and visual system of the mouse
A comprehensive guide to current research, reflecting recent technical breakthroughs that have established the usefulness of the mouse model as part of a bilateral exchange between experimental and clinical research. Recent years have seen a burst of studies on the mouse eye and visual system, fueled in large part by the relatively recent ability to produce mice with precisely defined changes i…
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- 9780262270137
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- 1 online resource (xii, 754 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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Always already new :media, history and the data of culture
An analysis of the ways that new media are experienced and studied as the subjects of history, using the examples of early recorded sound and digital networks.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273893
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 205 pages) :illustrations
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AI in the 1980s and beyond :an MIT survey
Based on a conference held Jan. 21-23, 1986 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sponsored by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Laboratory for Computer Science, and the Seminar Office of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study, all at MIT.AI in the 1980s and Beyond provides an inside report on current applications, trends, and future opportunities in one of the world's majo…
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- 0262256266
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- 1 online resource (374 pages) :illustrations.
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Reinventing Los Angeles :nature and community in the global city
Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social movements are working to make a more livable and sustainable city.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274128
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- 1 online resource (viii, 430 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations.
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Beowulf cluster computing with Linux
Beowulf clusters, which exploit mass-market PC hardware and software in conjunction with cost-effective commercial network technology, are becoming the platform for many scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. With growing popularity has come growing complexity. Addressing that complexity, Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux and Beowulf Cluster Computing with Windows provide syst…
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- 9780262286770
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- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 496 pages) :illustrations.
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Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche :philosophy, culture, and agency
Are Hegel and Nietzsche philosophical opposites? Can twentieth-century Continental philosophers be categorized as either Hegelians or Nietzscheans? In this book Elliot Jurist places Hegel and Nietzsche in conversation with each other, reassessing their relationship in a way that affirms its complexity. Jurist examines Hegel's and Nietzsche's claim that philosophy and culture are linked and expl…
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- 0585442681
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- 1 online resource (xii, 355 pages).
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