Filter by
Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution
Closely linked essays examine distinctive national patterns of industrialization.This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon. The fifteen contributors go beyond the longstanding view of industrialization as a linear process marked by discrete stages. Instead, they examine a lengthy and creative period in the history of industrialization,…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262289504
- Collation
- 1 online resource (vi, 356 pages).
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Planetary improvement :cleantech entrepreneurship and the contradictions of g…
An examination of clean technology entrepreneurship finds that ""green capitalism"" is more capitalist than green.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262346139
- Collation
- 1 online resource
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
New Methuselahs :the ethics of life extension
An examination of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension, including its desirability, unequal access, and the threat of overpopulation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262347228
- Collation
- 1 online resource (ix, 354 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Markov Random Fields for Vision and Image Processing
State-of-the-art research on MRFs, successful MRF applications, and advanced topics for future study.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262298353
- Collation
- 1 online resource (vii, 463 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The synthetic age :outdesigning evolution, resurrecting species, and reengine…
Imagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering. We have all heard that there are no longer any places left on Earth untouched by humans. The significance of this goes beyond statistics documenting melting glaciers and shrinking species counts. It signals a new geological epoch. In The Syn…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262345293
- Collation
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Managing Institutional Complexity: Regime Interplay and Global Environmental …
"A Core Research Project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)."Here, experts investigate how states and other actors can improve inter-institutional synergy. They examine the complexity of over-lapping environmental governance structures.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262298346
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xvi, 353 pages) :illustrations.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The new economics :for industry, government, education
A new edition of a book that details the system of transformation underlying the 14 Points for Management presented in Deming's Out of the Crisis . It would be better if everyone would work together as a system, with the aim for everybody to win. What we need is cooperation and transformation to a new style of management." --from The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education In this boo…
- Edition
- Third edition
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262355445
- Collation
- 1 online resource (240 pages).
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Out of the crisis
Deming's classic work on management, based on his famous 14 Points for Management. " Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment." --from Out of the Crisis In his classic Out of the Crisis, W. Edwards Deming describes the fou…
- Edition
- [Reissue].
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262355438
- Collation
- 1 online resource (448 pages).
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order
"We are living beyond our means, running up debts both economic and ecological, consuming the planet's resources at rates not remotely sustainable. But it's hard to imagine a different way. How can we live without cheap goods and easy credit? How can we consume without consuming the systems that support life? How can we live well and live within our means? In Treading Softly, Thomas Princen hel…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262266079
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xi, 210 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Numbered lives :life and death in quantum media
A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities. Anglo-American culture has used media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical journal entries map the details of everyday life, while death registers put numbers to life's endings. Today we count our daily steps with fi…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262350174
- Collation
- 1 online resource (240 pages).
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography