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Slaves of the machine :the quickening of computer technology
"A Bradford book."Includes index.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282123
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- 1 online resource (x, 160 pages)
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Shaping the network society :the new role of civil society in cyberspace
"An outgrowth of the Seventh DIAC symposium held in Seattle in 2000"--Introduction.Information and computer technologies are used every day by real people with real needs. The authors contributing to Shaping the Network Society describe how technology can be used effectively by communities, activists, and citizens to meet society's challenges. In their vision, computer professionals are concern…
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- 9780262283250
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- 1 online resource (x, 433 pages) :maps
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Social empiricism
"A Bradford book."For the last forty years, two claims have been at the core of disputes about scientific change: that scientists reason rationally and that science is progressive. For most of this time discussions were polarized between philosophers, who defended traditional Enlightenment ideas about rationality and progress, and sociologists, who espoused relativism and constructivism. Recent…
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- 9780262284028
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- 1 online resource (xi, 175 pages)
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State-space models with regime switching :classical and Gibbs-sampling approa…
"Both state-space models and Markov-switching models have been highly productive paths for empirical research in macroeconomics and finance. This book presents recent advances in econometric methods that make feasible the estimation of models that have both features. One approach, in the classical framework, approximates the likelihood function; the other, in the Bayesian framework, uses Gibbs-…
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- 9780585087160
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- 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) :illustrations
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Social dynamics
Economists have traditionally studied aggregate behavior as the outcome of individual decisions made interactively, while sociologists have focused on the role of social influences on individual behavior. Over the past decade, however, the barriers between the disciplines have broken down, resulting in the new area of social economics. Social economics is based on the assumption that individual…
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- 0262272059
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- 1 online resource (256 pages).
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Spaces speak, are you listening? :experiencing aural architecture
How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268714
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- 1 online resource (xi, 437 pages) :illustrations, music
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Ships and science :the birth of naval architecture in the scientific revoluti…
"In Ships and Science, Ferreiro argues that the birth of naval architecture formed an integral part of the scientific revolution. Using Bouguer's work [Trait?e du navire - Treatise of the ship] as a cornerstone, Ferreiro traces the intriguing and often unexpected development of this new discipline and describes its practical application to ship design in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…
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- 9780262272582
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 441 pages) :illustrations.
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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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Sites of vision :the discursive construction of sight in the history of philo…
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- [Pbk. ed., 1999].
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- 9780262287913
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- 1 online resource (viii, 512 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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