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The nature of the farm :contracts, risk, and organization in agriculture
The Nature of the Farm is a theoretical and empirical study of contracts and organization in agriculture based on the transaction cost framework. Transaction costs are important in agriculture because nature (for example, seasonality, weather, pests) plays such a critical role in determining output and limiting the ability of farmers to specialize. The book develops specific models and tests th…
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- 9780262267014
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- 1 online resource (viii, 258 pages)
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Lab coats in Hollywood: Science, scientists, and cinema
Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey", released in 1968, is perhaps the most scientifically accurate film ever produced. The film presented such a plausible, realistic vision of space flight that many moon hoax proponents believe that Kubrick staged the 1969 moon landing using the same studios and techniques. Kubrick's scientific verisimilitude in 2001 came courtesy of his science consultan…
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- 9780262295499
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) :illustrations
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Transient workspaces: Technologies of everyday innovation in Zimbabwe
"In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought in from outside, but is also something that ordinary people understand, make, and practice through their everyday innovations or creativities -- including things that few would even consider technological. Technology does not always originate in th…
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- 9780262326155
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- 1 online resource (xi, 296 pages) :illustrations.
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Nearest-neighbor methods in learning and vision :theory and practice
" ... held in Whistler, British Columbia ... annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) in December 2003"--Preface.Regression and classification methods based on similarity of the input to stored examples have not been widely used in applications involving very large sets of high-dimensional data. Recent advances in computational geometry and machine learning, however, ma…
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- 9780262256957
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- 1 online resource (vi, 252 pages) :illustrations.
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Borders as infrastructure :the technopolitics of border control
"Examines the European border-and the various actors and institutions involved behind the maintenance of a border--as an infrastructure, with particular attention to the refugee crisis of 2014-2016"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026236638X
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The network nation :human communication via computer
A visionary book when it was first published in the late 1970s, The Network Nation has become the defining document and standard reference for the field of computer mediated communication (CMC). This revised edition adds a substantial new chapter on "superconnectivity" (invented and defined in the unabridged edition of the Online Dictionary of the English Language, 2067) that reviews the develo…
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- 0262291150
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- 1 online resource (xxxi, 557 pages)
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Ways of hearing
A writer-musician examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time, space, love, money, and power. Our voices carry farther than ever before, thanks to digital media. But how are they being heard In this book, Damon Krukowski examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time, space, love, money, and power. In Ways of…
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- 9780262352154
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- 1 online resource (136 pages) :illustrations
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Creating good jobs :an industry-based strategy
Experts discuss improving job quality in low-wage industries including retail, residential construction, hospitals and long-term healthcare, restaurants, manufacturing, and long-haul trucking. Americans work harder and longer than our counterparts in other industrialized nations. Yet prosperity remains elusive to many. Workers in such low-wage industries as retail, restaurants, and home constru…
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- 9780262357364
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- 1 online resource (336 pages).
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Reflexive governance for global public goods
Governance challenges and solutions for the provision of global public goods in such areas as the environment, food security, and development.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301213
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages) :illustrations.
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Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future
An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity.Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science nee…
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