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"When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term from information science for the first time. Should people be reassured that the NSA was "only" collecting metadata about phone calls -- information about the caller, the recipient, the time, the duration, the location -- a…
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- 9780262331197
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- 1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) :illustrations.
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Quodons in Mica; Nonlinear Localized Travelling Excitations in Crystals
Buku ini menyajikan pengetahuan terkini tentang eksitasi perjalanan lokal nonlinier dalam kristal. Eksitasi dapat berupa getaran, elektronik, magnetik, atau berbagai jenis lainnya, dalam berbagai jenis kristal, seperti silikat, semikonduktor, dan logam. Buku ini didedikasikan untuk ilmuwan Inggris FM Russell, yang baru saja berusia 80 tahun. Ia menemukan 50 tahun yang lalu bahwa mineral mika mu…
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- 978-3-319-21045-2
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- Materials Science
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- 539.7 ARC q
Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union
This is an examination of the awareness of environmental and social justice issues in the former Soviet republics - from the Western-style democracies of the Baltic region to the totalitarian regimes of Central Asia - and the resulting activism in those states.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255493
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- 1 online resource (vi, 296 pages) :illustrations.
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Ending the fossil fuel era
Not so long ago, people North and South had little reason to believe that wealth from oil, gas, and coal brought anything but great prosperity. But the presumption of net benefits from fossil fuels is eroding as widening circles of people rich and poor experience the downside. A positive transition to a post-fossil fuel era cannot wait for global agreement, a swap-in of renewables, a miracle te…
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- 9780262327077
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- 1 online resource (xii, 374 pages) :illustrations
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Indra's net and the Midas touch :living sustainably in a connected world
An exploration of the impact of unintended consequences in an interdependent world and of the opportunities for creativity and community.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298858
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- 1 online resource (ix, 330 pages) :illustrations
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Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders: Local Perspectives on Global Injus…
Case studies demonstrate the spatial disconnect between global consumption and production and its effects on local environmental quality and human rights.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295680
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- 1 online resource (vi, 303 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Fighting king coal :the challenges to micromobilization in central Appalachia
In the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining and coal-industry-related flooding, water contamination, and illness have led to the emergence of a grassroots, women-driven environmental justice movement. But the number of local activists is small relative to the affected population, and recruiting movement participants from within the region is an ongoing challenge.…
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A world to live in :an ecologist's vision for a plundered planet
A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater changes to the earth than any period in human history. The biosphere, the globe's life-giving envelope of air and climate, has been changed irreparably. In A World to Live In, the distinguished ecologist George Woodwell shows that the bio…
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 227 pages)
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#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice
How marginalized groups use Twitter to advance counter-narratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent. The power of hashtag activism became clear in 2011, when #IranElection served as an organizing tool for Iranians protesting a disputed election and offered a global audience a front-row seat to a nascent revolution. Since then, activists have used a variety of hashta…
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The secret life of data :navigating hype and uncertainty in the age of algori…
"How cultural and technological objects can reveal more information than their creators or sharers intended, or even imagined, when introduced into new contexts"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262377805
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