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How to be human in the digital economy
An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy. In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently, accurately, and inexpensively. But, Nicholas Agar warns in this provocative book, these developm…
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- 9780262349154
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- 1 online resource (232 pages).
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The contamination of the earth :a history of pollution in the industrial age
Translation of: La contamination du monde : une histoire des pollutions ?a l'?age industriel by ?Editions du Seuil in Paris, 2017."Once the source of circumscribed local nuisances, the effects of human activities on the environment have turned into global pollution. The climate is warming, the seas are acidifying, the species are disappearing, the bodies are altered: to give an account from a h…
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- 0262358131
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 459 pages) :illustrations (black and white).
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Lives of the laureates :thirty-two Nobel economists
"Lives of the Laureates compiles autobiographical essays by recipients of the Nobel Prize in the Economic Sciences who have presented lectures at Trinity University, describing the path that led them to the work honored with a Nobel. The seventh edition includes new essays from laureates Alvin Roth, Amartya Sen, Chris Sims, Michael Spence, Thomas Sargent, and Roger Myerson. James Heckman's chap…
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- Seventh edition.
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- 0262357992
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- 1 online resource.
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Riding the New York Subway :the invention of the modern passenger
A history of New York subway passengers as they navigated the system's constraints while striving for individuality, or at least a smooth ride. When the subway first opened with much fanfare on October 27, 1904, New York became a city of underground passengers almost overnight. In this book, Stefan Hohne examines how the experiences of subway passengers in New York City were intertwined with cu…
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- 9780262363259
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- 1 online resource (400 pages) :illustrations
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Downtime on the microgrid :architecture, electricity, and smart city islands
Something good about the smart city: a human-centered account of why the future of electricity is local. Resilience now matters most, and most resilience is local--even for that most universal, foundational modern resource: the electric power grid. Today that technological marvel is changing more rapidly than it has for a lifetime, and in our new grid awareness, community microgrids have become…
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- 9780262357005
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- 1 online resource (264 pages).
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Contraception :a concise history
"This book is a history of contraceptive technologies from the opening of the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam in 1882 to the present. It argues that tracing access to, research and development of, and use of contraceptive technologies is an outward measure of how a society values human selfhood and autonomy. It traces the research, development, manufacturing, distribution, and use of co…
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- 9780262357579
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Culture is not always popular :fifteen years of Design observer
Essays originally published in Design observer.Includes index.Founded in 2003, 'Design Observer' inscribes its mission on its homepage: Writings about Design and Culture. Since its inception, the site has consistently embraced a broader, more interdisciplinary, and circumspect view of design's value in the world-one not limited by materialism, trends, or the slipperiness of style. Dedicated to …
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- 9780262350334
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Interactive task learning :humans, robots, and agents acquiring new tasks thr…
Experts from a range of disciplines explore how humans and artificial agents can quickly learn completely new tasks through natural interactions with each other. Humans are not limited to a fixed set of innate or preprogrammed tasks. We learn quickly through language and other forms of natural interaction, and we improve our performance and teach others what we have learned. Understanding the m…
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- 9780262349420
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- 1 online resource (344 pages) :illustrations.
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Emergent brain dynamics :prebirth to adolescence
Experts explore the maturation of nonlinear brain dynamics from a developmental perspective and consider the relationship of neurodevelopmental disorders to early disruption in dynamic coordination.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262348591
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- 1 online resource (xi, 324 pages) :illustrations (chiefly color)
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Cooperating for the climate :learning from international partnerships in Chin…
"An accessible yet in-depth analysis of recent developments in US-China clean energy collaboration, the most important bilateral relationship in the world in terms of climate change"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262372640
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