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The Atlas of New Librarianship
Includes 1 folded chart in pocket inside back cover.Some online versions lack accompanying media packaged with the printed version."Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and commi…
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- 0262300087
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- 1 online resource (xv, 408 pages) :illustrations (some color), color maps
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Access controlled :the shaping of power, rights, and rule in cyberspace
Report from the OpenNet Initiative.Internet filtering, censorship of Web content, and online surveillance are increasing in scale, scope, and sophistication around the world, in democratic countries as well as in authoritarian states. The first generation of Internet controls consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China's famous "Great Firewall of China" is one of the…
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- 9780262266031
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 617 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Wired for innovation :how information technology is reshaping the economy
Two experts on the information economy explore the true economic value of technology and innovation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258661
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 154 pages) :illustrations
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Cosmopolitan commons :sharing resources and risks across borders
"With the advent of modernity, the sharing of resources and infrastructures rapidly expanded beyond local communities into regional, national, and even transnational space -- nowhere as visibly as in Europe, with its small-scale political divisions. This volume views these shared resource spaces as the seedbeds of a new generation of technology-rich bureaucratic and transnational commons. Drawi…
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- 9781461931164
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Reinventing the automobile :personal urban mobility for the 21st century
This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They're well suited for conveying multiple passengers over long distances at high speeds, but inefficient for providing personal mobility wi…
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- 0262288559
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- 1 online resource (x, 227 pages) :color illustrations, color maps
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Surveillance or security? :the risks posed by new wiretapping technologies
In this book, the author argues that in embarking on an unprecedented effort to build surveillance capabilities deeply into communications infrastructure, the U.S. government is opting for short-term security and creating dangerous long-term risks. Landau describes what makes communications security hard, warrantless wiretapping and the role of electronic surveillance in the war on terror, the …
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- 9780262295581
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 383 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Causing human actions :new perspectives on the causal theory of action
"A Bradford book.""The causal theory of action (CTA) is widely recognized in the literature of the philosophy of action as the "standard story" of human action and agency - the nearest approximation in the field to a theoretical orthodoxy. This volume brings together leading figures working in action theory today to discuss issues relating to the CTA and its applications, which range from exper…
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- 9780262290340
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- 1 online resource (viii, 327 pages)
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The civic potential of video games
This report focuses on the civic aspects of video game play among youth. According to a 2006 survey, 58 percent of young people aged 15 to 25 were civically "disengaged," meaning that they participated in fewer than two types of either electoral activities (defined as voting, campaigning, etc.) or civic activities (for example, volunteering). Kahne and his coauthors are interested in what role …
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- 9780262258975
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 94 pages) :illustrations.
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Pastoral capitalism :a history of suburban corporate landscapes
"Mozingo distinguishes among three forms of corporate landscapes--the corporate campus, the corporate estate, and the office park--and examines suburban corporate landscapes built and inhabited by such companies as Bell Labs, General Motors, Deere & Company, and Microsoft. She also considers the globalization of pastoral capitalism in Europe and the developing world including Singapore, India, …
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- 9780262338271
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- 1 online resource (x, 315 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Your everyday art world
Over the past 20 years, the network has come to dominate the art world, affecting not just interaction among art professionals but the very makeup of the art object itself. The hierarchical and restrictive structure of the museum has been replaced by temporary projects scattered across the globe, staffed by free agents hired on short-term contracts, viewed by spectators defined by their predisp…
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