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Managing European Union enlargement
Leading international economists assess the effects of the 2004 expansion of the European Union.In May 2004 the European Union will undergo the largest expansion in its history when ten countries--Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia--become members. The number of new members and their diversity make this "big bang" enlargement p…
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- 9780262268202
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- 1 online resource (vi, 313 pages) :illustrations.
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Management :inventing and delivering its future
"The MIT Sloan School of Management: 50th anniversary."The MIT Sloan School of Management perspective on future management challenges.The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by the legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical resources of MIT and approach the problems of management with the rigorous research practices fo…
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- 9780262277334
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 309 pages) :illustrations
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Making space :the development of spatial representation and reasoning
"A Bradford book."Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To understand human cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the locations of things, how they navigate in the world, and how they represent and mentally manipulate spatial information. Until recently three approaches have dominated thinking about spatial development. Followers of Piaget claim that in…
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- 9780262280594
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- 1 online resource (xii, 262 pages) :illustrations.
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Making Silicon Valley :innovation and the growth of high tech, 1930-1970
In Making Silicon Valley, Christophe Lecuyer shows that the explosive growth of the personal computer industry in Silicon Valley was the culmination of decades of growth and innovation in the San Francisco-area electronics industry. Using the tools of science and technology studies, he explores the formation of Silicon Valley as an industrial district, from its beginnings as the home of a few r…
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- 9780262322591
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- 1 online resource (407 pages) :illustrations.
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The making of economic policy :a transaction-cost politics perspective
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585028923
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 192 pages).
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Making microchips :policy, globalization, and economic restructuring in the s…
In Making Microchips, Jan Mazurek examines the environmental and economic implications of the computer microchip industry's exodus from California's Silicon Valley to New Mexico, Virginia, Ireland, and Taiwan. Globalization, economic restructuring, and changing manufacturing processes in this rapidly growing industry present difficult new questions for environmental policy. Mazurek challenges t…
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- 0585002797
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 245 pages) :illustrations.
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Making medical decisions for the profoundly mentally disabled
A legal and moral analysis of medical decision making on behalf of those with such severe cognitive impairments that they cannot exercise self-determination.In this book, Norman Cantor analyzes the legal and moral status of people with profound mental disabilities--those with extreme cognitive impairments that prevent their exercise of medical self-determination. He proposes a legal and moral f…
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- 9780262269810
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- 1 online resource (vi, 307 pages).
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Making a middle landscape
Today's suburban metropolitan development of single-family homes, shopping centers, corporate offices, and roadway systems constitute what Peter Rowe calls a ""middle landscape"" between the city and the country. Looking closely at suburban America in terms of design and physical planning, Rowe builds a case for a new way of seeing and building suburbia - complete with theoretical underpinnings…
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- 0262367947
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- 1 online resource (325 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Magnetohydrodynamic shock waves
"The MIT Press.""Studies based on the Rankine-Hugoniot relations have classified MHO shock waves as fast, switch-on, intermediate, switch-off, and slow. Any waves found in nature must also: (a) possess steady-state structures and (b) be stable in the presence of small-flow disturbances. In this monograph, Dr. Anderson examines these criteria in relation to plane shocks for which the collision f…
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Magnetic circuits and transformers :a first course for power and communicatio…
"The MIT Press.""When originally published in the early 1940s, this series was hailed in the New York Times because it emphasizes "method of thought, and not mere acquisition of facts." This volume extends the circuit theory begun in the first volume into the field of magnetic circuits, and covers both heavy-current power and light-current control, measurement, and communication applications of…
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