Filter by
The great recession :lessons for central bankers
Conference proceedings.Here, experts assess the role of central banks in responding to the recent financial crisis and in preventing future crises. The contributors focus on monetary policy, the new area of macroprudential policy, and issues of exchange rates, capital flows, and banking and financial markets.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781283938853
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xii, 380 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Networking peripheries :technological futures and the myth of digital univers…
In Networking Peripheries, Anita Chan shows how digital cultures flourish beyond Silicon Valley and other celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. The evolving digital cultures in the Global South vividly demonstrate that there are more ways than one to imagine what digital practice and global connection could look like. To explore these alternative developments, Cha…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0262319527
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 258 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Free Innovation
Previously issued in print: 2016."In this book, Eric von Hippel, author of the influential Democratizing Innovation, integrates new theory and research findings into the framework of a "free innovation paradigm." Free innovation, as he defines it, involves innovations developed by consumers who are self-rewarded for their efforts, and who give their designs away "for free." It is an inherently …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0262335468
- Collation
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (xi, 228 pages)) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The conceptual mind :new directions in the study of concepts
"The study of concepts has advanced dramatically in recent years, with exciting new findings and theoretical developments. Core concepts have been investigated in greater depth and new lines of inquiry have blossomed, with researchers from an ever broader range of disciplines making important contributions. In this volume, leading philosophers and cognitive scientists offer original essays that…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0262326876
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xiii, 714 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Birdsong, speech, and language :exploring the evolution of mind and brain
Scholars have long been captivated by the parallels between birdsong and human speech and language. In this book, leading scholars draw on the latest research to explore what birdsong can tell us about the biology of human speech and language and the consequences for evolutionary biology. They examine the cognitive and neural similarities between birdsong learning and speech and language acquis…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0262313820
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xiv, 542 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Literary gaming
A new analytical framework for understanding literary videogames, the literary-ludic spectrum, illustrated by close readings of selected works.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262322034
- Collation
- 1 online resource (x, 206 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Playing with sound :a theory of interacting with sound and music in video games
"In Playing with Sound, Karen Collins examines video game sound from the player's perspective. She explores the many ways that players interact with a game's sonic aspects, ambient sound, dialogue, and interface sounds -- both within and outside of the game. She investigates the ways that meaning is found, embodied, created, evoked, hacked, remixed, negotiated, and renegotiated by players in th…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0262312298
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xii, 185 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
"Raw data" is an oxymoron
We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta- denotes a quadrillion, or a thousand trillion). Data collection is constant and even insidious, with every click and every "like" stored somewhere for something. This book reminds us that data is anything but "raw," that we shouldn't think of data as a natural reso…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0262312328
- Collation
- 1 online resource (vi, 182 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The power brokers :the struggle to shape and control the electric power indus…
"For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States. Provision of an essential service to largely dependent consumers invited government oversight and ever more sophisticated market intervention. The industry has sought to manage, co-opt, and profit from government regula…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0262330989
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xiv, 379 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Monitoring movements in development aid :recursive partnerships and infrastru…
An examination of emerging information infrastructures that are intended to increase accountability and effectiveness in partnerships for development aid.In Monitoring Movements in Development Aid, Casper Jensen and Brit Winthereik consider the processes, social practices, and infrastructures that are emerging to monitor development aid, discussing both empirical phenomena and their methodologi…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781461942962
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xix, 192 pages) :illustrations.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography