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The social machine: Designs for living online
New ways to design spaces for online interaction—and how they will change society. Computers were first conceived as “thinking machines,” but in the twenty-first century they have become social machines, online places where people meet friends, play games, and collaborate on projects. In this book, Judith Donath argues persuasively that for social media to become truly sociable media, …
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- 9780262323482
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 418 pages) :color illustrations
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The big book of concepts
"A Bradford book."Concepts embody our knowledge of the kinds of things there are in the world. Tying our past experiences to our present interactions with the environment, they enable us to recognize and understand new objects and events. Concepts are also relevant to understanding domains such as social situations, personality types, and even artistic styles. Yet like other phenomenologically …
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- 9780262280358
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- 1 online resource (555 pages) :illustrations.
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Interconnecting the network of networks
This book describes the transformation of telecommunications from national network monopolies to a new system, the "network of networks," and the glue that holds it together, interconnection. By their very nature, monopoly-owned networks provided a small number of standardized, nationwide services. Over the past two decades, however, new forces in the world economy began to unravel this traditi…
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- 9780262280693
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- 1 online resource (ix, 318 pages) :i llustrations
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- 005 NOA i
Binocular rivalry.
Recent work on perceptual ambiguity and its implications for the correlation between neural events and perceptual experience. Researchers today in neuroscience and cognitive psychology increasingly turn their attention to binocular rivalry and other forms of perceptual ambiguity or bistability. The study of fluctuations in visual perception in the face of unchanging visual input offers a means …
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- 9780262316200
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Grammatical theory and bilingual codeswitching
Theoretically significant work on the grammar of codeswitching by the leading researchers in the field. Codeswitching is the alternate use of two or more languages among bilingual interlocutors. It is distinct from borrowing, which involves the phonological and morphological integration of a word from one language into another. Codeswitching involves the mixing of phonologically distinctive …
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- 9780262320351
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- 1 online resource (viii, 326 pages) :illustrations
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Interface strategies : optimal and costly computation
Taking Chomsky's hypothesis of optimal design as a starting point, repair strategies based on computing reference-sets apply in restricted areas of the interface-quantifier scope, focus, anaphora and implicatures.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282277
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- 1 online resource (x, 340 pages) : illustrations.
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- 150 REI i
Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography
An exploration of the modalities, affective intensities, and disturbing qualities of online pornography. Digital production tools and online networks have dramatically increased the general visibility, accessibility, and diversity of pornography. Porn can be accessed for free, anonymously, and in a seemingly endless range of niches, styles, and formats. In Carnal Resonance, Susanna Paasonen …
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- 9780262298810
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Unmaking the Bomb: A Fissile Material Approach to Nuclear Disarmament and Non…
The global stockpile, continued production and use of plutonium and highly enriched uranium facilitates proliferation, increases the risk of nuclear terrorism and is an obstacle to achieving irreversible nuclear disarmament. The book explains how these materials are used, describes the histories of fissile material production for weapons, provides an overview of the current global stockpile of …
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- 9780262319188
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- 1 online resource (x, 277 pages) :illustrations, map
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Internal combustion engine in theory and practice volume 1 : Thermodynamics, …
This revised edition of Taylor's classic work on the internal-combustion engine incorporates changes and additions in engine design and control that have been brought on by the world petroleum crisis, the subsequent emphasis on fuel economy, and the legal restraints on air pollution. The fundamentals and the topical organization, however, remain the same. The analytic rather than merely descrip…
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- Revised edition.
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- 0262311038
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- 1 online resource (783 pages).
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- 620 TAY i
Biomedical platforms :realigning the normal and the pathological in late-twen…
Since the end of World War II, biology and medicine have merged in remarkably productive ways. In this book Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio analyze the transformation of medicine into biomedicine and its consequences, ranging from the recasting of hospital architecture to the redefinition of the human body, disease, and therapeutic practices. To describe this new alignment between the norma…
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- 9780262276870
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 544 pages) :illustrations.
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