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The withered heart
T. S. Arthur's The Withered Heart! is a romantic novel displaying high morals and filled with character-building lessons. His works are wholesome, inculcate morality and purify the feelings - by tastefully illustrating the beauties of virtue, and the iniquities of vice. "He had grown wiser through the elevation of his understanding as to the higher truths of spiritual wisdom; and she had grown …
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Metabolism of the anthroposphere: Analysis, evaluation, design
Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlements became urban cores, and these regional settlements became tightly connected through infrastructures transporting people, materials, and information. This global network of urban systems, including ecosystems, is the anthroposphere; the physical flows and stocks of matter and energy within it form its metabolis…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262301329
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- 1 online resource (x, 392 pages) :illustrations, maps
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The techno-human condition
A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295666
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- 1 online resource (xi, 222 pages) :illustrations
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Codename revolution: The Nintendo WII platform
The Nintendo Wii, introduced in 2006, helped usher in a moment of retro-reinvention in video game play. This hugely popular console system, codenamed Revolution during development, signaled a turn away from fully immersive, time-consuming MMORPGs or forty-hour FPS games and back toward family fun in the living room. Players using the wireless motion-sensitive controller (the Wii Remote, or "Wii…
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- 9780262301312
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- 1 online resource (x, 204 pages) :illustrations.
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The indirect side of direct investment: Multinational company finance and tax…
Drawing on a unique data set (MiDi) on German multinationals provided by the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt, Mintz and Weichenrieder confirm the prevalence of indirect financing structures for both outbound and inbound German investment. They find evidence of "treaty shopping!' to avoid withholding taxes (using a third country with more favorable tax rates as a conduit through which to route …
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- 9780262289658
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- 1 online resource (192 pages) :illustrations.
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ReCombinatorics :the algorithmics of ancestral recombination graphs and expli…
Combinatorial structure and algorithms for deducing genetic recombination history, represented by ancestral recombination graphs and other networks, and their role in the emerging field of phylogenetic networks.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262324472
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 580 pages)
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Rule of law, misrule of men
This book is a passionate call for citizen action to uphold the rule of law when government does not. Arguing that post-9/11 legislation and foreign policy severed the executive branch from the will of the people, Elaine Scarry in Rule of Law, Misrule of Men offers a fierce defense of the people's role as guarantor of our democracy. She begins with the groundswell of local resistance to the 200…
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- 9780262266116
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 191 pages).
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Cardinals: The syntax and semantics of cardinal-containing expressions
"This book provides a semantic and syntactic analysis of nominal expressions containing complex cardinals (e.g., two hundred and thirty-five books), and shows that this analysis accounts for the internal composition of cardinal-containing expressions cross-linguistically, as well as a range of related phenomena. While there is much prior linguistic literature on numerals, this literature has no…
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- 9780262349000
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Technoscience and environmental justice: Expert cultures in a grassroots move…
This book argues that the environmental justice movement has also begun to transform science and engineering. The chapters present case studies of technical experts' encounters with environmental justice and activists and issues.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298407
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- 1 online resource (viii, 298 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The digital rights movement: The role of technology in subverting digital cop…
The evolution of activism against the expansion of copyright in the digital domain, with case studies of resistance including eBook and iTunes hacks.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305334
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