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Convergent evolution in stone-tool technology
Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262346160
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- 1 online resource (x, 294 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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A philosophy of madness :the experience of psychotic thinking
Translations of: Filosophie van de waanzin: Fundamentele en grensoverischrijdende inzichten, 2014."A groundbreaking, deeply personal, magnum opus on madness and philosophy from a psychotic patient turned philosopher"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262359634
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Balancing Green :When to Embrace Sustainability in a Business (and When Not To)
An expert on business strategy offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345750
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Digital suffragists :women, the web, and the future of democracy
"The book considers the rates and conditions of women's participation in the public sphere and explores the implications for politics, democracy, and society"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366509
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Shadow libraries :access to educational materials in global higher education
This collection looks at how university students in Russia, Argentina, South Africa, Poland, Brazil, India, and Uruguay get the books and articles they need for their education. The death of Aaron Swartz and the more recent controversy around the SciHub and Libgen repositories have drawn attention to the question of access to knowledge, particularly for students facing financial and other const…
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- 9780262345699
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- 1 online resource (313 pages) :illustrations
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Laboratory lifestyles :the construction of scientific fictions
"The past decade has seen an extraordinary laboratory-building boom. This new crop of laboratories features spectacular architecture and resort-like amenities. The buildings sprawl luxuriously on verdant campuses or sit sleekly in expensive urban neighborhoods. Designed to attract venture capital, generous philanthropy, and star scientists, these laboratories are meant to create the ideal condi…
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- 9780262349741
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 274 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Global Carbon PricingThe Path to Climate Cooperation
Why the traditional "pledge and review" climate agreements have failed, and how carbon pricing, based on trust and reciprocity, could succeed.After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a "pledge and review" approach: countries pledge (almost anything), subject to (unenforced) review. This approach ignores everything we know about human cooperation. In this book, le…
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- 9780262340380
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- 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages :)illustrations
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Information and society
We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related and of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. Using information in its everyday, nonspecialized sense, …
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- 9780262339544
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 217 pages) :illustrations.
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Natura urbana :ecological constellations in urban space
A study of urban nature that draws together different strands of urban ecology as well as insights derived from feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thought.Postindustrial transitions and changing cultures of nature have produced an unprecedented degree of fascination with urban biodiversity. The other nature that flourishes in marginal urban spaces, at one remove from the controlled contours …
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- 0262367467
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 416 pages) :illustrations, maps
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The globalization of clean energy technology :lessons from China
The development and deployment of cleaner energy technologies have become globalized phenomena. Yet despite the fact that energy-related goods account for more than ten percent of international trade, policy makers, academics, and the business community perceive barriers to the global diffusion of these emerging technologies. Experts point to problems including intellectual property concerns, t…
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- 0262322099
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- 1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) :illustrations.
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