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Constructing green :the social structures of sustainability
"Buildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energy is used for heating, cooling, lighting, and powering machines and devices in buildings. And despite decades of investment in green construction technologies, residential and commercial buildings remain stubbornly energy inefficient. This book looks beyond the technological and material aspects of green constr…
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- 9781461936404
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 399 pages) :illustrations.
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The limits of inference without theory
This book examines the role of theory in inferential empirical work in economics and the social sciences in genera--that is, any research that uses raw data to go beyond the mere statement of fact or the tabulation of statistics. Considered in particular are the limits that eschewing the use of theory places on inference--Publisher.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262313677
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Functional Connections of Cortical Areas :a New View from the Thalamus
This study shows new ways of thinking about how the brain relates to the world, to cognition, and to behaviour. Based on foundations previously established it considers the implications of these ground rules for thalamic inputs, thalamocortical connections, and cortical outputs. The book argues that functional and structural analyses of pathways connecting thalamus and cortex point beyond these…
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- 9781461937111
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- 1 online resource (279 pages) :illustrations
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Virtual knowledge :experimenting in the humanities and the social sciences
Authority and expertise in new sites of knowledge production / Anne Beaulieu, Sarah de Rijcke and Bas van Heur -- Working in virtual knowledge : affective labor in scholarly collaboration / Smiljana Antonijevi?c, Stefan Dormans and Sally Wyatt -- Exploring uncertainty in knowledge representations : classifications, simulations and models of the world / Matthijs Kouw, Charles van den Heuvel and …
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- 0262305755
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- 1 online resource (VIII, 262 pages) :illustrations
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Digital methods
In Digital Methods, Richard Rogers proposes a methodological outlook for social and cultural scholarly research on the Web that seeks to move Internet research beyond the study of online culture. It is not a toolkit for Internet research, or operating instructions for a software package; it deals with broader questions. How can we study social media to learn something about society rather than …
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- 9781461931867
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- 1 online resource (274 pages) :illustrations
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Kids and credibility :an empirical examination of youth, digital media use, a…
Overview: How well do children navigate the ocean of information that is available online? The enormous variety of Web-based resources represents both opportunities and challenges for Internet-savvy kids, offering extraordinary potential for learning and social connection but little guidance on assessing the reliability of online information. This book reports on the first large-scale survey to…
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- 026226658X
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 135 pages) :illustrations.
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Confronting the challenges of participatory culture :media education for the …
Shifting the conversation about the "digital divide" from questions of technological access to questions about opportunities for being involved in participatory culture and acquiring the necessary skills.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258951
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- 1 online resource (xv, 129 pages).
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Progressive enlightenment :the origins of the gaslight industry, 1780-1820
An argument that the gas industry was the first integrated large-scale technological network and that it signaled a new wave of industrial innovation.In Progressive Enlightenment, Leslie Tomory examines the origins of the gaslight industry, from invention to consolidation as a large integrated urban network. Tomory argues that gas was the first integrated large-scale technological network, a de…
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- 9780262301244
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- 1 online resource (x, 348 pages).
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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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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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