All day, every day, Americans seek information. We research major purchases. We check news and sports. We visit government Web sites for public information and turn to friends for advice about our everyday lives. Although the Internet influences our information-seeking behavior, we gather information from many sources: family and friends, television and radio, books and magazines, experts and c…
Here, Mathews describes Mexico's efforts over the past hundred years to manage its forests through forestry science and biodiversity conservation. He shows that transparent knowledge was produced by encounters between the relatively weak forestry bureaucracy and the indigenous people who manage and own the pine forests of Mexico.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990 has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The book discusses planthopper pests of rice. These insects are one of the most destructive pests, threatening food security around the world. The historical development of the rice planthopper problem shows that they are secondary pests and single-discipline control tactics or strategies were not able to manage them, and instead caused frequent resurgences. This book not only presents new appr…
Returning seven years later to their original pieces from this landmark book, over 20 leading scholars and activists revisit and reframe their rich contributions to a burgeoning scholarship on Whiteness. With new reflective writings for each chapter, and valuable sections on relevant readings and resources, this volume refreshes and enhances the first text to pay critical and sustained attentio…
Essays on computer art and its relation to more traditional art, by a pioneering practitioner and a philosopher of artificial intelligence. In From Fingers to Digits, a practicing artist and a philosopher examine computer art and how it has been both accepted and rejected by the mainstream art world. In a series of essays, Margaret Boden, a philosopher and expert in artificial intelligence, …
In Knowledge Machines, Eric Meyer and Ralph Schroeder argue that digital technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Meyer and Schroeder show that digital tools and data, used collectively and in distributed mode -- which they term e-research -- have transformed not just the consumption of knowledge but also the production of know…
In 1971 Canada was the first nation in the world to establish an official multiculturalism policy with an objective to assist cultural groups to overcome barriers to integrate into Canadian society while maintaining their heritage language and culture. Since then Canadas practice and policy of multiculturalism have endured and been deemed as successful by many Canadians. As well, Canadas mu…
Explores the social, cultural, and expressive history of housing during two periods: the large-scale developments in the 1920s, and the widespread modernist principles in the 1970s. A theoretical and historical inquiry, the text also aims to inspire the design of modern housing.
This work explores how the rise of globalization over the past two centuries helps explain the income gap between rich and poor countries today.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.