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The bubble economy :is sustainable growth possible?
The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime mortgages, banks "too big to fail," financial regulation (or the lack of it), and the European debt crisis. Wall Street has discovered that it is more profitable to make money from other people's money than by investing in the real economy, which has limited ac…
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Benefaction of Medicinal Plant Uraria Picta
https://mts.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/benefaction-of-medicinal-plant-em-uraria-picta-em-Medicinal plants are very significant as they not only maintain the health and vitality but most importantly also cure the various ailments in humans and animals without causing any toxic side effects. These are readily available and cost effective therapeutic agents. Uraria picta was first proposed…
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Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia
Recent commentators on Russia's economic reforms have almost uniformly declared them a disappointing and avoidable—failure. In this book, two American scholars take a new and more balanced look at the country's attempts to build capitalism on the ruins of Soviet central planning. They show how and why the Russian reforms achieved remarkable breakthroughs in some areas but came undone in other…
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MATERIAL WITNESS: Media, Forensics, Evidence
The evidential role of matter--when media records trace evidence of violence--explored through a series of cases drawn from Kosovo, Japan, Vietnam, and elsewhere. In this book, Susan Schuppli introduces a new operative concept: material witness, an exploration of the evidential role of matter as both registering external events and exposing the practices and procedures that enable matter to bea…
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Without Justification
In the contentious debate among contemporary epistemologists and philosophers regarding justification, there is one consensus: justification is distinct from knowledge; there are justified beliefs that do not amount to knowledge, even if all instances of knowledge are instances of justified belief. In Without Justification, Jonathan Sutton forcefully opposes this claim. He proposes instead that…
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Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution
"The fish's streamlined shape reveals functional knowledge of the physical properties of water.... The deadly effectiveness of the cobra's venom shows useful knowledge of the physiology of its prey.... Indeed, knowledge itself may be broadly conceived as the fit of some aspect of an organism to some aspect of its environment, whether it be the fit of the butterfly's long siphon of a mouth to th…
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Wittgenstein and the Moral Life :Essays in Honor of Cora Diamond
A Bradford book."Essays by leading scholars that take as their point of departure Cora Diamond's work on the unity of Wittgenstein's thought and her writings on moral philosophy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (viii, 409 pages).
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Women and information technology :research on underrepresentation
Experts investigate the reasons for low female participation in computing and suggest strategies for moving toward parity through studies of middle and high school girls, female students and postsecondary computer science programs, and women in the information technology workforce.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 500 pages) :illustrations
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Women, Art, and Technology
Although women have been at the forefront of art and technology creation, no source has adequately documented their core contributions to the field. Women, Art, and Technology, which originated in a Leonardo journal project of the same name, is a compendium of the work of women artists who have played a central role in the development of new media practice.The book includes overviews of the his…
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Making Games for Impact
"Squire draws on 15+ years of experience to describe how games are developed and deployed in the classroom"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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