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Bandwagon effects in high-technology industries
Economists use the term "bandwagon effect" to describe the benefit a consumer enjoys as a result of others' using the same product or service. The history of videocassettes offers a striking example of the power of bandwagon effects. Originally there were two technical standards for videocassettes in the United States: Beta and VHS. Beta was widely regarded to have better picture quality, but V…
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- 9780262256889
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages) :illustrations
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Borders in cyberspace :information policy and the global information infrastr…
Borders in Cyberspace investigates issues arising from national differences in law, public policy, and social and cultural values in light of the emerging global information infrastructure. The contributions include detailed analyses of some of the most visible issues, including intellectual property, security, privacy, and censorship.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 058500286X
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- 1 online resource (xi, 374 pages) :illustrations.
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Artificial life :an overview
"A Bradford book."Artificial life, a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, has great potential, both for unlocking the secrets of life and for raising a host of disturbing issues -- scientific and technical as well as philosophical and ethical. This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of th…
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- 0585036152
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- 1 online resource (xi, 340 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Bicycling science
Revised edition of: Bicycling science / Frank Rowland Whitt. 2nd ed. c1982.The bicycle is almost unique among human-powered machines in that it uses human muscles in a near-optimum way. This new edition of the bible of bicycle builders and bicyclists provides just about everything you could want to know about the history of bicycles, how human beings propel them, what makes them go faster, and …
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- 0262310686
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- 1 online resource (viii, 477 pages) :illustrations
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Architecture, ceremonial, and power :the Topkapi Palace in the fifteenth and …
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University, 1986.Glru Necipoglu brings together largely unpublished sources, both written and visual, along with information derived from the architectural remains to uncover the processes through which the meaning of the palace was once produced, before it came to represent a stereotyped microcosm of oriental despotism imbued with the exotic …
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- 0262368056
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- 1 online resource (vi, 336 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Architecture, poetry, and number in the royal palace at Caserta
Although Vanvitelli was one of the most notable architects of his century, as Caserta was one of its major buildings, this study by a leading scholar of Baroque and Neapolitan architecture is the first book in English on the architect and his masterpiece.The great palace of Caserta, near Naples, probably the largest building erected in Europe in the eighteenth century, became an archetypal expr…
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- 0262368110
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- 1 online resource (318 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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The Computer age :a twenty-year view
Gathered from twenty leading authorities in computer science, the chapters of The Computer Age range across a broad spectrum of topics -- from technological trends and needs to social questions, such as the changing economics of information, ownership principles, regulation, the range of potential computer uses, from science and business to the home.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 491 pages) :illustrations.
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Survey of architectural history in Cambridge.
Cambridge, Massachusetts is a rich mixture of closely mingled examples of architectural periods; 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th century, with the 21st century already near the drawing board and before the planning board. Yet implicit in the city is a continuity overruling what might be chaos. The Cambridge Historical Commission was established not to piously preserve a static past, but to make mani…
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- Revised edition.
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- 9780262368032
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- 1 online resource (volumes <1->) :illustrations, maps.
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Comrades no more :the seeds of political change in Eastern Europe
In 1989, Soviet control over Eastern Europe ended when the communist regimes of the Warsaw Pact collapsed. These momentous and largely bloodless events set the stage for the end of the Cold War and ushered in a new era in international politics. Why did communism collapse relatively peacefully in Eastern Europe? Why did these changes occur in 1989, after more than four decades of communist rule…
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- 9780262271349
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- 1 online resource (x, 305 pages) :1 map.
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Cyber rights :defending free speech in the digital age
Lawyer and writer Mike Godwin has been at the forefront of the struggle to preserve freedom of speech on the Internet. In Cyber Rights he recounts the major cases and issues in which he was involved and offers his views on free speech and other constitutional rights in the digital age. Godwin shows how the law and the Constitution apply, or should apply, in cyberspace and defends the Net agains…
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- 9780262286978
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 402 pages)
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