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Metabolism of the anthroposphere: Analysis, evaluation, design
Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlements became urban cores, and these regional settlements became tightly connected through infrastructures transporting people, materials, and information. This global network of urban systems, including ecosystems, is the anthroposphere; the physical flows and stocks of matter and energy within it form its metabolis…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262301329
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- 1 online resource (x, 392 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Spreadsheet implementation technology: Basics and extensions
"Spreadsheets are used daily by millions of people for tasks that range from organizing a list of addresses to carrying out complex economic simulations. Spreadsheet programs are easy to learn and convenient to use because they have a clear visual model and a simple efficient underlying computational model. Yet although the basic spreadsheet model could be extended, improved, or otherwise exper…
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- 0262326531
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 310 pages)
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Dream life: An experimental memoir
A pioneer in sleep and dream science surveys his life and work through the lens of dreaming and consciousness.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295598
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- 1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) :illustrations
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Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power, and Relational Practice at Work
Joyce Fletcher's research shows that emotional intelligence and relational behavior are often viewed as inappropriate because they collide with powerful, gender-linked images.This study of female design engineers has profound implications for attempts to change organizational culture. Joyce Fletcher's research shows that emotional intelligence and relational behavior are often viewed as inappro…
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- 9780262272827
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- 1 online resource (173 pages)
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The discovery of spoken language
"A Bradford book."The Discovery of Spoken Language marks one of the first efforts to integrate the field of infant speech perception research into the general study of language acquisition. It fills in a key part of the acquisition story by providing an extensive review of research on the acquisition of language during the first year of life, focusing primarily on how normally developing infant…
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- 9780262315869
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- 1 online resource (xii, 314 pages).
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Synthetic Biology and Morality: Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature
Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behaviour. The emergence of this new form of biotechnology, however, raises a variety of ethical questions - first and foremost, whether synthetic biology is intrinsically troubling in moral terms. Is it an egregious example of sc…
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- 9781461936398
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- 1 online resource (vi, 214 pages .).
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The Economics of Risk and Time
This book updates and advances the theory of expected utility as applied to risk analysis and financial decision making. Von Neumann and Morgenstern pioneered the use of expected utility theory in the 1940s, but most utility functions used in financial management are still relatively simplistic and assume a mean-variance world. Taking into account recent advances in the economics of risk and un…
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- 9780262274043
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- 1 online resource (xx, 445 pages) :illustrations
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The economics of the world trading system
World trade is governed by the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The WTO sets rules of conduct for the international trade of goods and services and for intellectual property rights, provides a forum for multinational negotiations to resolve trade problems, and has a formal mechanism for dispute settlement. It is the…
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- 9780262267540
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 224 pages) :illustrations
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What We Know About Climate Change (Second Edition)
An updated edition of a guide to the basic science of climate change, and a call to action.The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere--most dramatically since the 1970s. Yet global warming skeptics and ill-informed elected officials continue to dismiss this broad scientific consensus. In this updated edition of his au…
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- Updated edition [2018 edition].
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- 9780262349871
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- 1 online resource (88 pages)
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Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies
Emerging biotechnologies that manipulate human genetic material have drawn a chorus of objections from politicians, pundits, and scholars. In Humanity Enhanced, Russell Blackford examines them in the context of liberal thought, discussing the public policy issues they raise from legal and political perspectives. Some see the possibility of genetic choice as challenging the values of liberal dem…
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- 0262318539
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- 1 online resource (231 pages).
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