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Making Use: Scenario-Based Design of Human-Computer Interactions
"Difficult to learn and awkward to use, today's information systems often change our activities in ways that we do not need or want. The problem lies in the software development process. In this book John Carroll shows how a pervasive but underused element of design practice, the scenario, can transform information systems design.Traditional textbook approaches manage the complexity of the desi…
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Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future
The MIT Sloan School of Management perspective on future management challenges.The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by the legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical resources of MIT and approach the problems of management with the rigorous research practices for which MIT was famous. Fifty years later, the Sloan Sc…
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A History of Agriculture and Prices in England
Since early times, agriculture has been pivotal to England's economy. This is the fifth in a magisterial seven-volume, eight-piece compilation by the economist James E. Thorold Rogers (1823–90), which represents the most complete record of produce costs in England between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing on a variety of sources including college archives and the Public Record …
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- 9781139094818
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- Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, General
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Beyond the desktop metaphor :designing integrated digital work environments
Leading developers and researchers report on what the next generation of digital work environments may look like, analyzing the theory and practice of designing "out of the box" to facilitate multitasking, collaboration, and multiple technologies.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (vi, 360 pages) :illustrations
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The Deleuze connections
The first book to present Gilles Deleuze's philosophy in language the nonphilosopher can understand.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282031
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Beyond Webcams :an introduction to online robots
The design, function, and challenges of online telerobotic systems.Remote-controlled robots were first developed in the 1940s to handle radioactive materials. Trained experts now use them to explore deep in sea and space, to defuse bombs, and to clean up hazardous spills. Today robots can be controlled by anyone on the Internet. Such robots include cameras that not only allow us to look, but al…
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 331 pages) :illustrations
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Bicycle transportation :a handbook for cycling transportation engineers
Revised edition of: Cycling transportation engineering. 1977.This new edition of John Forester's handbook for transportation policy makers and bicycling advocates has been completely rewritten to reflect changes of the last decade. It includes new chapters on European bikeway engineering, city planning, integration with mass transit and long-distance carriers, "traffic calming," and the art of …
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- 9780262310666
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- 1 online resource (xi, 346 pages) :illustrations
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Managing European Union Enlargement
Leading international economists assess the effects of the 2004 expansion of the European Union.In May 2004 the European Union will undergo the largest expansion in its history when ten countries--Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia--become members. The number of new members and their diversity make this "big bang" enlargement p…
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Marine Hydrodynamics
"Marine Hydrodynamics was specifically designed to meet the need for an ocean hydrodynamics text that is up-to-date in terms of both content and approach. The book is solidly based on fundamentals, but it also guides the student to an understanding of their engineering applications through its consideration of realistic configurations."
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Democracy across borders: from Demos to Demoi
An innovative conception of democracy for an era of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the nation-state: rule by peoples across borders rather than by "the people" within a fixed jurisdiction.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages).
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