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The outsourcer :the story of India's IT revolution
Originally published as: The long revolution.A history of how India became a major player in the global technology industry, mapping technological, economic, and political transformations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026232833X
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 274 pages) :illustrations.
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Making IT work :a history of the computer services industry
The evolution of the multi-billion-dollar computer services industry, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, with case studies of important companies.The computer services industry has worldwide annual revenues of nearly a trillion dollars and employs millions of workers, but is often overshadowed by the hardware and software products industries. In this book, Je…
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- 9780262342193
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- 1 online resource (x, 359 pages) :illustrations.
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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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Food justice
The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table. In today's food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restaurants and liquor stores, food products emphasize convenience rather than wholesomeness, and the international reach of Americ…
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- 9780262289443
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- 1 online resource (vii, 290 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations.
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Confronting the coffee crisis :fair trade, sustainable livelihoods and ecosys…
'Confronting the Coffee Crisis' explores small-scale farming the political economy of the global coffee industry, & initiatives that claim to promote more sustainable rural development in coffee-producing communities.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262267526
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- 1 online resource (xii, 390 pages) :illustrations.
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Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat :new perspectives on gender and gaming
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- 9780262322553
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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The Internet and American business
When we think of the Internet, we generally think of Amazon, Google, Hotmail, Napster, MySpace, and other sites for buying products, searching for information, downloading entertainment, chatting with friends, or posting photographs. In the academic literature about the Internet, however, these uses are rarely covered. The Internet and American Businessfills this gap, picking up where most scho…
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- 9780262255677
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- 1 online resource (viii, 596 pages) :illustrations.
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The Microsoft antitrust cases :competition policy for the twenty-first century
A comprehensive account of the decades-long, multiple antitrust actions against Microsoft and an assessment of the effectiveness of antitrust law in the digital age.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262319218
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Building IBM :shaping an industry and its technology
No company of the twentieth century achieved greater success and engendered more admiration, respect, envy, fear, and hatred than IBM. Building IBM tells the story of that company, how it was formed, how it grew, and how it shaped and dominated the information processing industry. Emerson Pugh presents substantial new material about the company in the period before 1945 as well as a new interpr…
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- 0585353468
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 405 pages) :illustrations.
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Making microchips :policy, globalization, and economic restructuring in the s…
In Making Microchips, Jan Mazurek examines the environmental and economic implications of the computer microchip industry's exodus from California's Silicon Valley to New Mexico, Virginia, Ireland, and Taiwan. Globalization, economic restructuring, and changing manufacturing processes in this rapidly growing industry present difficult new questions for environmental policy. Mazurek challenges t…
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- 0585002797
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 245 pages) :illustrations.
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