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Social engineering :how crowdmasters, phreaks, hackers, and trolls created a …
"From the phone phreaks of the 1970s to Anonymous, how how hackers deploy persuasion, helpfulness, manipulation, and deception to gain access to sensitive information"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262368927
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Cornucopia Limited: Design and Dissent on the Internet
Title from title screen."The network economy presents itself in the transactions of electronic commerce, finance, business, and communications. The network economy is also a social condition of discontinuity, indefinite limits, and in-between spaces. In Cornucopia Limited, Richard Coyne uses the liminality of design - its uneasy position between creativity and commerce - to explore the network …
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- 9780262255950
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Aligning modern business processes and legacy systems :a component-based pers…
Distributed business component computing--the assembling of business components into electronic business processes, which interact via the Internet--caters to a new breed of enterprise systems that are flexible, relatively easy to maintain and upgrade to accommodate new business processes, and relatively simple to integrate with other enterprise systems. Companies with unwieldy, large, and hete…
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- 9780262257138
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 206 pages) :illustrations.
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The hand, an organ of the mind :what the manual tells the mental
"Cartesian-inspired dualism enforces a theoretical distinction between the motor and the cognitive and locates the mental exclusively in the head. This collection, focusing on the hand, challenges this dichotomy, offering theoretical and empirical perspectives on the interconnectedness and interdependence of the manual and mental. The contributors explore the possibility that the hand, far from…
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- 9780262313537
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Marine Hydrodynamics
"Marine Hydrodynamics was specifically designed to meet the need for an ocean hydrodynamics text that is up-to-date in terms of both content and approach. The book is solidly based on fundamentals, but it also guides the student to an understanding of their engineering applications through its consideration of realistic configurations."
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Design Rules: The Power of Modularity
We live in a dynamic economic and commerical world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In many industries, changes in products and technologies have brought with them new kinds of firms and forms of organization. We are discovering news ways of structuring work, of bringing buyers and sellers together, and of creating and using market information. Although our fast-moving…
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- 9780262267649
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Designing with blends: conceptual foundations of human-computer interaction a…
How recent research in cognitive science offers new ways to understand the interaction of people and computers and develops a new literacy for well-informed, sensitive software design.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256407
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- 1 online resource (xi, 229 pages) :illustrations
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Truly human enhancement : a philosophical defense of limits
The transformative potential of genetic and cybernetic technologies to enhance human capabilities is most often either rejected on moral and prudential grounds or hailed as the future salvation of humanity. In this book, Nicholas Agar offers a more nuanced view, making a case for moderate human enhancement -- improvements to attributes and abilities that do not significantly exceed what is curr…
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- 9780262318976
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- 1 online resource (233 pages) :illustrations.
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A case for climate engineering
A leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technology to slow the pace of global warming."Climate engineering -- which could slow the pace of global warming by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere -- has emerged in recent years as an extremely controversial technology. And for good reason: it carries unknown risks and it may undermine comm…
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- 9781461943839
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Engineers and the making of the Francoist regime
In the 20th century, science and technology became central to territorial transformation and in turn to state building. This was no less true for the Francoist regime. Engineers were not just working 'under' the dictatorship, but became active participants within it. This book traces concrete material objects in their way from laboratories onto the Spanish landscape. The material history of the…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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