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The state and the global ecological crisis
Countering the current view of many environmental activists that sovereign nations cannot provide effective environmental governance, The State and the Global Ecological Crisis offers analyses and case studies that explore the prospects for "reinstating the state" as a facilitator of progressive environmental change rather than a contributor to environmental destruction. The authors recognize t…
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- 9780262267830
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 307 pages)
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Starmaking :realism, anti-realism, and irrealism
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585021201
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- 1 online resource (xix, 218 pages) :1 illustration.
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The staircase :history and theories
John Templer has written the first theoretical, historical, and scientific analysis of one of the most basic and universal building elements: the stair. Together, these two volumes present a detailed study of stairs and ramps--the art and science of their design, their history, and their hazards.For the designer and the art and architectural historian, the first volume treats the fascinating hi…
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- 0262367807
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 185 pages :illustrations)
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The staircase :history and theories
John Templer has written the first theoretical, historical, and scientific analysis of one of the most basic and universal building elements: the stair. Together, these two volumes present a detailed study of stairs and ramps--the art and science of their design, their history, and their hazards.For the designer and the art and architectural historian, the first volume treats the fascinating hi…
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- 0262367807
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 185 pages :illustrations)
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Stability and robustness of multivariable feedback systems
Based on the author's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977, presented under title: Robustness and stability aspects of stochastic multivariable feedback system design."This book on stability theory and robustness will interest researchers and advanced graduate students in the area of feedback control engineering, circuits, and systems. It will also appeal to mathematicians who ar…
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- 0262256908
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- 1 online resource (xi, 171 pages) :illustrations.
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Spinning the semantic Web :bringing the World Wide Web to its full potential
As the World Wide Web continues to expand, it becomes increasingly difficult for users to obtain information efficiently. Because most search engines read format languages such as HTML or SGML, search results reflect formatting tags more than actual page content, which is expressed in natural language. Spinning the Semantic Web describes an exciting new type of hierarchy and standardization tha…
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- 9780262256131
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 479 pages) :illustrations
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Spectrum of belief :Joseph von Fraunhofer and the craft of precision optics
"In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief, Myles Jackson uses the career of the optician Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) to probe the relationship between science and society, and that between artisans and experimental natural philosophers, during this transformation."--Jacket.OCLC-l…
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- 9780262276160
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- 1 online resource (x, 284 pages) :illustrations
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Specificity and the macroeconomics of restructuring
A proposal that the notion of specificity-the idea that factors of production are not interchangeable-can provide a unified framework to analyze and understand a wide variety of macroeconomic phenomena stemming from the transactional environment and micro.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 128209856X
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- 1 online resource (xii, 331 pages) :illustrations.
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Species :new interdisciplinary essays
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585102708
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 325 pages) :illustrations
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Species of Mind :The Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive Ethology.
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- 9780262267021
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- 1 online resource (231 pages)
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