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Seeds, science, and struggle :the global politics of transgenic crops
An examination of how advocates for alternative agriculture confront "science-based" regulation of genetically engineered crops.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305570
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Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engin…
This study charts the origins and spread of the systems movement. It describes the major players - including RAND, MITRE, Ramo-Wooldrige (later TRW), and the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis - and examines applications in a wide variety of military, government, civil, and engineering settings. The book is international in scope, describing the spread of systems thinking in Fr…
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- 9780262275873
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- 1 online resource (vi, 513 pages) :illustrations.
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Girls coming to tech! :a history of American engineering education for women
"Engineering education in the United States was long regarded as masculine territory. For decades, women who studied or worked in engineering were popularly perceived as oddities, outcasts, unfeminine (or inappropriately feminine in a male world). In Girls Coming to Tech!, Amy Bix tells the story of how women gained entrance to the traditionally male field of engineering in American higher educ…
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- 9781461957249
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- 1 online resource (xii, 360 pages) :illustrations.
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The industrial practice of chemical process engineering
This volume of case studies serves as a guide and reference manual for the application of engineering science fundamentals in the solution of chemical development and process design problems. The introductory chapter describes a set of general principles relevant to the analysis of industrial design problems. An extensive bibliography is presented which provides a valuable theoretical and pract…
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- 9780262310758
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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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- 1 online resource (xxx, 433 pages) :illustrations
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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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