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Victor Papanek :designer for the real world
"A cultural geneaology of the influence of Victor Papanek on the world of transdisciplinary design"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262361590
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Eat, cook, grow :mixing human-computer interactions with human-food interacti…
"Our contemporary concerns about food range from food security to agricultural sustainability to getting dinner on the table for family and friends. This book investigates food issues as they intersect with participatory Internet culture--blogs, wikis, online photo- and video-sharing platforms, and social networks--in efforts to bring about a healthy, socially inclusive, and sustainable food fu…
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- 9780262026857
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- 1 online resource (x, 303 pages) :illustrations
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Making IT work :a history of the computer services industry
The evolution of the multi-billion-dollar computer services industry, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, with case studies of important companies.The computer services industry has worldwide annual revenues of nearly a trillion dollars and employs millions of workers, but is often overshadowed by the hardware and software products industries. In this book, Je…
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- 9780262342193
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- 1 online resource (x, 359 pages) :illustrations.
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Free Innovation
Previously issued in print: 2016."In this book, Eric von Hippel, author of the influential Democratizing Innovation, integrates new theory and research findings into the framework of a "free innovation paradigm." Free innovation, as he defines it, involves innovations developed by consumers who are self-rewarded for their efforts, and who give their designs away "for free." It is an inherently …
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- 0262335468
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- 1 online resource (1 PDF (xi, 228 pages)) :illustrations
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The conceptual mind :new directions in the study of concepts
"The study of concepts has advanced dramatically in recent years, with exciting new findings and theoretical developments. Core concepts have been investigated in greater depth and new lines of inquiry have blossomed, with researchers from an ever broader range of disciplines making important contributions. In this volume, leading philosophers and cognitive scientists offer original essays that…
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- 0262326876
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 714 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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The new science of cities
A proposal for a new way to understand cities and their design not as artifacts but as systems composed of flows and networks.In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To understand space, he argues, we must understand flows, and to understand flows, we must understand netw…
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- 9781461950332
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- 1 online resource (xx, 496 pages)
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In 100 years :leading economists predict the future
In this book, ten prominent economists--including Nobel laureates and several likely laureates--offer their ideas about the world of the twenty-second century. In scenarios that range from the optimistic to the guardedly gloomy, these thinkers consider such topics as the transformation of work and wages, the continuing increase in inequality, the economic rise of China and India, the endlessly …
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- 9781461957805
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) :illustrations
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Developing scaffolds in evolution, culture, and cognition
'Scaffolding' is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common threads in diverse applications of scaffolding, including theoretical biology cognitive science, social theory, science and technology studies, and human development. Despite its widespread use, the concept of scaffolding is often given short shrift; the contributors to this volume offer a …
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- 9781461952367
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 426 pages) :illustrations.
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Signals and boundaries :building blocks for complex adaptive systems
Complex adaptive systems (cas), including ecosystems, governments, biological cells, and markets, are characterized by intricate hierarchical arrangements of boundaries and signals. In ecosystems, for example, niches act as semi-permeable boundaries, and smells and visual patterns serve as signals; governments have departmental hierarchies with memoranda acting as signals; and so it is with oth…
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- 0262305895
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- 1 online resource (viii, 308 pages) :illustrations
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The power brokers :the struggle to shape and control the electric power indus…
"For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States. Provision of an essential service to largely dependent consumers invited government oversight and ever more sophisticated market intervention. The industry has sought to manage, co-opt, and profit from government regula…
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- 0262330989
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 379 pages) :illustrations
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