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Natura urbana :ecological constellations in urban space
A study of urban nature that draws together different strands of urban ecology as well as insights derived from feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thought.Postindustrial transitions and changing cultures of nature have produced an unprecedented degree of fascination with urban biodiversity. The other nature that flourishes in marginal urban spaces, at one remove from the controlled contours …
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- 0262367467
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 416 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Digital youth with disabilities
An examination of media and technology use by school-aged youth with disabilities, with an emphasis on media use at home.Most research on media use by young people with disabilities focuses on the therapeutic and rehabilitative uses of technology; less attention has been paid to their day-to-day encounters with media and technology--the mundane, sometimes pleasurable and sometimes frustrating e…
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- 9780262323789
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- 1 online resource (117 pages).
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Email and the everyday :stories of disclosure, trust, and digital labor
"Email and the Everyday : Stories of Disclosure, Trust, and Digital Labor focuses on email in its own right as a standalone media form in order to examine its technical and material infrastructure, its iconography and GUI, its affordances, and its languages"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262362775
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The mobility of students and the highly skilled :implications for education f…
Analyses of the interrelated mobility of students and the highly skilled that consider its implications for fiscal policy, higher education financing, and economic development.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262326018
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- 1 online resource (vi, 346 pages) :illustrations.
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The globalization of clean energy technology :lessons from China
The development and deployment of cleaner energy technologies have become globalized phenomena. Yet despite the fact that energy-related goods account for more than ten percent of international trade, policy makers, academics, and the business community perceive barriers to the global diffusion of these emerging technologies. Experts point to problems including intellectual property concerns, t…
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- 0262322099
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- 1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) :illustrations.
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The greenest nation? :a new history of German environmentalism
This study provides an overview of the development of German environmentalism from the late nineteenth century to the present. Looking at Germany in an international context, it discusses the full range of environmental issues and how it evolved from a concern about pollution and natural monuments to global warming and biodiversity. It defines environmentalism broadly and looks at civic activis…
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- 9780262322409
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- 1 online resource.
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Why architects still draw :two lectures on architectural drawing
"Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi offers an elegant and ardent defense of drawing by hand as a way of thinking. Belardi is no Luddite; he doesn't urge architects to give up digital devices for watercolors and a measuring tape. R…
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- 9780262321426
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- 1 online resource (133 pages)
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The news gap :when the information preferences of the media and the public di…
"The websites of major media organizations -- CNN, USA Today, the Guardian, and others -- provide the public with much of the online news they consume. But although a large proportion of the top stories these sites disseminate cover politics, international relations, and economics, users of these sites show a preference (as evidenced by the most viewed stories) for news about sports, crime, ent…
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- 9781461947981
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- 1 online resource (xii, 302 pages) :illustrations
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Geometry of meaning :semantics based on conceptual spaces
In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter G?ardenfors proposes a theory of semantics that bridges cognitive science and linguistics and shows how theories of cognitive processes, in particular concept formation, can be exploited in a general semantic model. He argues that our minds organize the information involved in communicative acts in a format that can be modeled in geometric or topological terms …
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- 0262319586
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- 1 online resource (xii, 343 pages) :illustrations
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We used to wait :music videos and creative literacy
"Music videos were once something broadcast by MTV and received on our TV screens. Today, music videos are searched for, downloaded, and viewed on our computer screens -- or produced in our living rooms and uploaded to social media. In We Used to Wait, Rebecca Kinskey examines this shift. She investigates music video as a form, originally a product created by professionals to be consumed by non…
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- 9780262325479
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 99 pages) :illustrations.
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