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The enclave economy :foreign investment and sustainable development in Mexico…
Analyzes the extent to which foreign investment in Mexico's information technology sector brought economic, social, and environmental benefits to Guadalajara.Foreign investment has been widely perceived as a panacea for developing countries--as a way to reduce poverty and kick-start sustainable modern industries. The Enclave Economy calls this prescription into question, showing that Mexico's p…
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- 9780262273398
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- 1 online resource (x, 214 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The Chomsky effect :a radical works beyond the ivory tower
Noam Chomsky as political gadfly, groundbreaking scholar, and intellectual guru: key issues in Chomsky's career and the sometimes contentious reception to his ideas.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262267861
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 381 pages) :illustrations
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NGO diplomacy :the influence of nongovernmental organizations in internationa…
Provides an analytical framework for assessing the impact of NGOs on intergovernmental negotiations on the environment and identifying the factors that determine the degree of NGO influence, with case studies that apply the framework to negotiations on cl.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268417
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 244 pages)
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Coming clean :information disclosure and environmental performance
"Coming Clean is the first book to investigate the process of information disclosure as a policy strategy for environmental protection. This process, which requires that firms disclose information about their environmental performance, is part of an approach to environmental protection that eschews the conventional command-and-control regulatory apparatus, which sometimes leads government and i…
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- 0262295202
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 249 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Origins of human communication
"A Bradford book.""In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of human (as opposed to other primate) social interaction."--Inside jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285070
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 393 pages) :illustrations.
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Movies and the moral adventure of life
Films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262297035
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages).
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Scholarship in the digital age :information, infrastructure, and the Internet
Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and collaborative research. Although much attention has been paid to the new technologies making this possible, from digitized books to sensor networks, it is the underlying social and policy…
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- 9780262255783
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 336 pages) :illustrations
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Advances in neural information processing systems 19 :proceedings of the 2006…
The annual Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference is the flagship meeting on neural computation and machine learning. This volume contains the papers presented at the December 2006 meeting, held in Vancouver.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256919
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 1643 pages) :illustrations.
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The comingled code :open source and economic development
In this book, Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman, drawing on a new, large-scale database, show that open source and proprietary software interact in sometimes unexpected ways, and discuss the policy implications of these findings.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289573
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- 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) :illustrations
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Programmed visions :software and memory
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that cycles of obsolescence & renewal result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. In seeking to embody a future based on past data, new media becomes a metaphor for metaphor itself.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295215
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) :illustrations.
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