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Sustainability in higher education :stories and strategies for transformation
In colleges and universities across the United States, students, faculty, and staff are forging new paths to sustainability. From private liberal arts colleges to major research institutions to community colleges, sustainability concerns are being integrated into curricula, policies, and programs. New divisions, degree programs, and courses of study cross traditional disciplinary boundaries; Su…
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- 9780262316682
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The 360? gaze :immersions in media, society, and culture
"A history of Immersion from Plato's cave to the Oculus Rift"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363310
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Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and G…
""In Prime Movers, Smil's passion for the Cinderellas of civilization focuses on the diesel engines and gas turbines that power ocean vessels and wide-body jets. These engines have made ocean shipping and intercontinental air travel so cheap that they have changed the face of our planet. Marshall McLuhan's dreams of a Global Village have become true in unimagined ways. Being an engineer myself,…
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- 9780262289771
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- 1 online resource (261 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Korea's Online Gaming Empire
Dal Yong Jin examines the rapid growth of the Korean online game industry from the perspective of political economy, discussing it in social, cultural & economic contexts.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289511
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- 1 online resource (195 pages) :illustrations
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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Mind: A Tribute to Michael S. Gazzaniga
These essays on a range of topics in the cognitive neurosciences report on the progress in the field over the twenty years of its existence and reflect the many groundbreaking scientific contributions and enduring influence of Michael Gazzaniga, 'the godfather of cognitive neuroscience'.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262266055
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- 1 online resource (ix, 240 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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Beyond resource wars: Scarcity, environmental degradation, and international …
Common wisdom holds that the Earth's dwindling natural resources and increasing environmental degradation will inevitably lead to inter-state conflict, and possibly even set off 'resource wars'. This book offers a different perspective on the links between environmental problems and inter-state conflict.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295505
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- 1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) :illustrations.
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Open for business :conservatives' opposition to environmental regulation
A detailed analysis of the policy effects of conservatives' decades-long effort to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection.Since the 1970s, conservative activists have invoked free markets and distrust of the federal government as part of a concerted effort to roll back environmental regulations. They have promoted a powerful antiregulatory storyline to counter e…
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- 9780262305297
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Handbook of functional neuroimaging of cognition
A new edition of the essential resource on using functional neuroimaging techniques to study the neural basis of cognition, revised with the student in mind; thoroughly updated, with new chapters on fMRI physics, skill learning, emotion and social cognition, and other topics. This essential resource on neuroimaging provides an accessible and user-friendly introduction to the field written by le…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262316323
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- 1 online resource (x, 492 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).
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- Cognitive Neuroscience
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- 610 HAN
Health and economic growth : findings and policy implications
While human capital is a clear determinant of economic growth, only recently has health's role in this process become a focus of serious academic inquiry. By marrying the separate fields of health economics and growth theory, this groundbreaking book explores the explicit mechanisms by which a population's individual and collective health status affects a nation's economic development and perfo…
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- 9780262290586
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- 1 online resource (x, 385 pages) : illustrations
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- 330 HEA
Helping children left behind : state aid and the pursuit of educational equity
Federal reform legislation declares, through its title, that no child should be left behind. Despite this, the sad truth is that many children are being left behind, particularly in large, poor, urban school districts. Because of this inequity, state supreme courts have thrown out the education finance systems in eighteen states, and many states have implemented major education finance reforms.…
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- 9780262286534
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- 1 online resource (ix, 404 pages) : illustrations
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- 370 HEL
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