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Rethinking international trade
Over the past decade, a small group of economists has challenged traditional wisdom about international trade. Rethinking International Trade provides a coherent account of this research program and traces the key steps in an exciting new trade theory that offers, among other possibilities, new arguments against free trade. Over the past decade a small group of economists has challenged traditi…
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- 0585343926
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- 1 online resource (viii, 282 pages) :illustrations
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Relativism and the foundations of philosophy
"A Bradford book."A defense of the view that philosophical propositions are true in some perspectives and false in others, arguing that the rationalist, intuition-driven method of acquiring basic beliefs favored by analytic philosophy is not epistemically superior to such alternate belief-acquiring methods as religious revelation and the ritual use of hallucinogens. The grand and sweeping claim…
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- 9780262274746
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- 1 online resource (x, 216 pages)
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Service to country :personnel policy and the transformation of Western milita…
Motivated, able, and well-trained military personnel are essential to the success of any military, and personnel policies are crucial to getting and keeping qualified servicemen and women. The transformation of personnel policies is an important element of the broader transformation occurring in Western militaries. Across Europe and North America, nations are embracing plans to change military …
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- 9780262273848
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 499 pages) :illustrations.
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Semi-supervised learning
A comprehensive review of an area of machine learning that deals with the use of unlabeled data in classification problems, this text looks at state-of-the-art algorithms, applications benchmark experiments, and directions for future research.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255899
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- 1 online resource (x, 508 pages) :illustrations.
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Self-stabilization
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 058523986X
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- 1 online resource (197 pages) :illustrations
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The seasoned Schemer
The notion that "thinking about computing is one of the most exciting things the human mind can do" sets both The Little Schemer (formerly known as The Little LISPer ) and its new companion volume, The Seasoned Schemer , apart from other books on LISP. The authors' enthusiasm for their subject is compelling as they present abstract concepts in a humorous and easy-to-grasp fashion. Together, the…
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- 9780262287883
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- 1 online resource (224 pages).
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The reasoned schemer
Includes index."The goal of The Reasoned Schemer is to help the functional programmer think logically and the logic programmer think functionally. The authors of The Reasoned Schemer believe that logic programming is a natural extension of functional programming, and they demonstrate this by extending the functional language Scheme with logical constructs - thereby combining the benefits of bot…
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- 0262256177
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- 1 online resource (x, 169 pages) :illustrations
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Scientists debate Gaia :the next century
The Gaia hypothesis holds that the Earth's physical and biological processes are linked to form a complex self-regulating system, and that life has affected this over time. This title examines both this theory, as well as other Gaian processes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283182
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 377 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Scalable input/output :achieving system balance
As we enter the "decade of data," the disparity between the vast amount of data storage capacity (measurable in terabytes and petabytes) and the bandwidth available for accessing it has created an input/output bottleneck that is proving to be a major constraint on the effective use of scientific data for research. Scalable Input/Output is a summary of the major research results of the Scalable …
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- 9780262287869
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- 1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) :illustrations.
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The role of annuity markets in financing retirement
Annuity insurance products help protect retirees against outliving their incomes.Dramatic advances in life expectancy mean that today's retirees must plan on living into their eighties, their nineties, and even beyond. Longer life expectancies are the symbol of a prosperous society, but this progress also means that some retirees will need to plan conservatively and cut back substantially on th…
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- 9780262269377
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