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Social cognition :making sense of people
-- Neal Roese, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585077827
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- 1 online resource (xi, 602 pages) :illustrations.
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Social capital and information technology
A selection of revised papers from a workshop organized by the editors and held in Amsterdam on 21-22 May 2002, with the addition of some invited papers by social researchers.A multidisciplinary examination of the interplay between social capital-the value derived from social ties-and information technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256391
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- 1 online resource (ix, 416 pages) :illustrations
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Smokestack diplomacy :cooperation and conflict in East-West environmental pol…
Many environmental problems cross national boundaries and can be addressed only through international cooperation. In this book Robert Darst examines transnational efforts to promote environmental protection in the USSR and in five of its successor states--Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania--from the late 1960s to the present. The core of the book is a c…
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- 9780262271196
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- 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages).
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Sketches of landscapes :philosophy by example
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262284516
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages)
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The size of nations
The authors of this timely and provocative book use the tools of economic analysis to examine the formation and change of political borders. They argue that while these issues have always been at the core of historical analysis, international economists have tended to regard the size of a country as "exogenous," or no more subject to explanation than the location of a mountain range or the cour…
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- 9780262266963
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- 1 online resource (x, 261 pages)
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Silent spill :the organization of an industrial crisis
In the Guadalupe Dunes, 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of San Francisco, an oil spill persisted unattended for 38 years. Over the period 1990-1996, the national press devoted 504 stories to the Exxon Valdez accident and a mere nine to the Guadalupe spill -- even though the latter is most likely the nation's largest recorded oil spill. Although it was known to oil workers in …
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- 0585442568
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- 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) :illustrations.
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Shape :talking about seeing and doing
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- 9780262316330
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- 1 online resource (422 pages) :illustrations
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Technology and privacy :the new landscape
Annotation Privacy is the capacity to negotiate social relationships by controlling access to personal information. As laws, policies, and technological design increasingly structure people's relationships with social institutions, individual privacy faces new threats and new opportunities. Over the last several years, the realm of technology and privacy has been transformed, creating a landsca…
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- 0585003262
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- 1 online resource (vi, 325 pages) :illustrations
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Truth in context :an essay on pluralism and objectivity
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- 9780262278713
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- 1 online resource (x, 184 pages).
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The working landscape :founding, preservation, and the politics of place
Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis, Harvard University, 2000.In America today we see rampant development, unsustainable resource exploitation, and commodification ruin both natural and built landscapes, disconnecting us from our surroundings and threatening our fundamental sense of place. Meanwhile, preservationists often respond with a counterproductive stance that rejects virtually any chang…
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- 9780262269803
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 425 pages).
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