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Wittgenstein's artillery :philosophy as poetry
"Original interpretation of Wittgenstein's life and work. Argues that W's military experience in WWI subtly influenced his conception of how philosophy should be understood and practiced"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262365545
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- 1 online resource.
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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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- 9780262368216
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- 1 online resource.
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Institutional interaction in global environmental governance : synergy and co…
Annotation This systematic investigation of the interaction among international and European institutions provides both a theoretical framework for analysis and the first broad overview of this largely uncharted field of research. By offering detailed case studies and a systematic analysis of results, the book examines the effects of institutional interaction on environmental governance and exp…
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- 9780262280945
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- 1 online resource (xix, 405 pages) : illustrations.
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- Global Environmental Accord: Strategies For Sustainability And Institutional Innovation
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Institutional investors
One of the most important recent developments in financial markets is the institutionalization of saving associated with the growth of pension funds, life insurance companies, and mutual funds. An increasing proportion of household saving is now managed by professional portfolio managers instead of being directly invested in the securities markets or held in the form of bank deposits. With the …
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- 0262041928
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- 1 online resource (xxxi, 524 pages)
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Institutions, development, and economic growth
Annotation The determinants of economic growth and development are hotly debated among economists. Financial crises and failed transition experiments have highlighted the fact that functioning institutions are fundamental to the goal of achieving economic growth. The growth literature has seen an abundance of empirical studies on the influence of institutions and the mechanisms by which institu…
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- 9780262272223
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) : illustrations
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- CESifo Seminar Series
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Accessing and browsing information and communication
This book contends that accessing and browsing information and communication are multidimensional and consequential aspects of the information user's entire experience and of general human behavior. Problems in information creation, processing, transmittal, and use often arise from an incomplete conceptualization of the "information seeking" process, where information seeking is viewed as the i…
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- 9780262256865
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 357 pages) :illustrations
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Acid rain science and politics in Japan :a history of knowledge and action to…
Acid Rain Science and Politics in Japan is a pioneering work in environmental and Asian history as well as an in-depth analysis of the influence of science on domestic and international environmental politics. Kenneth Wilkening's study also illuminates the global struggle to create sustainable societies.The Meiji Restoration of 1868 ended Japan's era of isolation- created self-sufficiency and s…
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- 9780262286220
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- 1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) :illustrations.
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The acquisition of the lexicon
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1st MIT Press ed.
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- 9780262286688
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- 1 online resource (vi, 492 pages) :illustrations
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Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms: Parsing and Type Inference for Natural a…
Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms provides the first rigorous mathematical and computational basis for this important area. Constraint-based theories of grammar and grammar formalisms are becoming an increasingly widespread area of research in computational linguistics. Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms provides the first rigorous mathematical and computational basis for this important area…
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- 9780262283519
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- 1 online resource (xi, 183 pages) :illustrations
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Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
"How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Intern…
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- 9780262288583
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