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A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882–1982
Electrical engineering is a protean profession. Today the field embraces many disciplines that seem far removed from its roots in the telegraph, telephone, electric lamps, motors, and generators. To a remarkable extent, this chronicle of change and growth at a single institution is a capsule history of the discipline and profession of electrical engineering as it developed worldwide. Even when …
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Tritium on Ice: The Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power
The dangers of a United States government plan to abandon its fifty-year policy of keeping civilian and military uses of nuclear technology separate.In December 1998, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced that the U.S. planned to begin producing tritium for its nuclear weapons in commercial nuclear power plants. This decision overturned a fifty-year policy of keeping civilian and military …
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- 9780262268233
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- 1 online resource (x, 234 pages) :illustrations
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Lexical analysis :norms and exploitations
This study offers a wide-ranging empirical investigation of word use and meaning in language. It fills the need for a lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach that will help people understand how words go together in collocational patterns and constructions to make meanings. Such an approach is now possible, the book argues, because of the availability of new forms of evidence (corpo…
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Seeds, science, and struggle :the global politics of transgenic crops
An examination of how advocates for alternative agriculture confront "science-based" regulation of genetically engineered crops.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engin…
This study charts the origins and spread of the systems movement. It describes the major players - including RAND, MITRE, Ramo-Wooldrige (later TRW), and the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis - and examines applications in a wide variety of military, government, civil, and engineering settings. The book is international in scope, describing the spread of systems thinking in Fr…
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- 9780262275873
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- 1 online resource (vi, 513 pages) :illustrations.
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Girls coming to tech! :a history of American engineering education for women
"Engineering education in the United States was long regarded as masculine territory. For decades, women who studied or worked in engineering were popularly perceived as oddities, outcasts, unfeminine (or inappropriately feminine in a male world). In Girls Coming to Tech!, Amy Bix tells the story of how women gained entrance to the traditionally male field of engineering in American higher educ…
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- 9781461957249
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- 1 online resource (xii, 360 pages) :illustrations.
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The City in the city :architecture and change in London's financial district
"This book charts the development of London's financial district, the City of London, in the decades following the Second World War, investigating the relationship between economic and built change"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262375856
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The industrial practice of chemical process engineering
This volume of case studies serves as a guide and reference manual for the application of engineering science fundamentals in the solution of chemical development and process design problems. The introductory chapter describes a set of general principles relevant to the analysis of industrial design problems. An extensive bibliography is presented which provides a valuable theoretical and pract…
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- 9780262310758
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Information politics on the Web
Does the information on the Web offer many alternative accounts of reality, or does it subtly align with an official version? In Information Politics on the Web, Richard Rogers identifies the cultures, techniques, and devices that rank and recommend information on the Web, analyzing not only the political content of Web sites but the politics built into the Web's infrastructure. Addressing the …
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- 9780262256872
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- 1 online resource (xi, 200 pages) : illustrations
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Content
"Eichhorn's EKS book will unpack the idea of content, whose emergence reflects a major shift in the way cultural products are produced and consumed, with far-reaching implications for society"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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