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The Transformation of the Liberal International Order
This open access book aims to emphasize the potential for Japan, Europe and Indo-Pacific countries including the US to respond to shared domestic and international challenges on finding joint ways to uphold and develop the liberal international order (LIO) in the Asian Pacific region and the world. It explores how these countries and the region (the EU) can work together to promote solidarity a…
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- 978-981-99-4729-4
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- XII, 132
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Safe Performance in a World of Global Networks
This open access book provides an analytical and critical outlook, by leading scholars, of the impact of various trends in the quality of collaboration and resulting safety outcomes that arise from the evolution of traditional integrated production within a single firm into a complex web of partnerships and supply chains. In the face of increasing fragmentation within industrial production and …
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- 978-3-031-35163-1
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- V, 106
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The Changing World of Mobile Communications
This open access book from the world’s first 6G Flagship research program at the University of Oulu, Finland, provides a multi-disciplinary and insightful overview of the subject, with contributions from experts in the field. Today’s fourth generation of mobile connectivity services (4G) are available everywhere, and adoption of fifth generation (5G) networks is well underway. Compared to 4…
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- 978-3-031-33191-6
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- XXXIII, 331
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A City Cannot Be a Work of Art
This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs is a legend in the field of urbanism and famous for challenging and profoundly influencing urban planning and design, her theoretical contributions – although central to her criticisms of and proposals for public policy – are frequently overlooked even by her most…
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- 978-981-99-5362-2
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- XXV, 400
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Cryopolitics :frozen life in a melting world
The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262338691
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- 1 online resource (vi, 362 pages) :illustrations
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Photo forensics
The first comprehensive and detailed presentation of techniques for authenticating digital images. Photographs have been doctored since photography was invented. Dictators have erased people from photographs and from history. Politicians have manipulated photos for short-term political gain. Altering photographs in the predigital era required time-consuming darkroom work. Today, powerful and lo…
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- 9780262355452
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- 1 online resource (336 pages).
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The subject's matter :self-consciousness and the body
The body may be the object we know the best. It is the only object from which we constantly receive a flow of information through sight and touch; and it is the only object we can experience from the inside, through our proprioceptive, vestibular, and visceral senses. Yet there have been very few books that have attempted to consolidate our understanding of the body as it figures in our experie…
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- 9780262342599
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 402 pages) :illustrations.
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The regulation of international trade.
A detailed examination of WTO agreements regulating trade in goods, discussing legal context, policy background, economic rationale, and case law.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262333894
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- 1 online resource :illustrations
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Elbow room :the varieties of free will worth wanting
"A Bradford Book.""In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, 'saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will, while jettisoning the impediments.' In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of free will worth wanting--those that underwrite mora…
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- New edition.
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- 9780262332026
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages)
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The long arm of Moore's law :microelectronics and American science
How, beginning in the mid 1960s, the US semiconductor industry helped shape changes in American science, including a new orientation to the short-term and the commercial. Since the mid 1960s, American science has undergone significant changes in the way it is organized, funded, and practiced. These changes include the decline of basic research by corporations; a new orientation toward the short…
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- 9780262341400
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- 1 online resource.
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