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Peace parks :conservation and conflict resolution
An analysis of the potential for environmental cooperation in multijurisdictional conservation zones to contribute to political conflict resolution; includes case studies of existing parks and proposals for new ones.Although the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Kenyan environmentalist, few have considered whether environmental conservation can contribute to peace-building in conflict zon…
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- 9780262266970
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- 1 online resource (xx, 406 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Service-oriented computing
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) promises a world of cooperating services loosely connected, creating dynamic business processes and agile applications that span organizations and platforms. As a computing paradigm, it utilizes services as fundamental elements to support rapid, low-cost development of distributed applications in heterogeneous environments. Realizing the SOC promise requires the…
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- 9780262273671
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- 1 online resource (vi, 378 pages) :illustrations.
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Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought
Within cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate the problem of modeling representations. The symbolic approach views cognition as computation involving symbolic manipulation. Connectionism, a special case of associationism, models associations using artificial neuron networks. Peter Gärdenfors offers his theory of conceptual representations as a bridge between the symbolic and conn…
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- 9780262273558
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- 1 online resource (x, 307 pages) :illustrations
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Playing at a distance :borderlands of video game aesthetic
"This book goes beyond dualisms and surpasses the pivotal paradigm of (inter)activity, searching for other forms of playful aesthetic expression and perception facilitated within the digital realm"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262372190
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Underground :the secret life of videocassettes in Iran
"First book length study of home video in Iran during the 1980s and 1990s, and the informal distribution infrastructure that developed in reaction to the ban on all video technology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366088
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- 1 online resource.
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Innovation policy and the economy Volume 7
The economic importance of innovative activity brings with it an active debate on public policy's effect on the innovation process. This annual series, sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, brings the work of leading academic researchers to the broader policy community. Volume 6 considers such topics as the diversity of patent protection and the implications of weak patents for…
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- 9780262276191
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- 1 online resource (xv, 215 pages) : illustrations.
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- 660 INN
Innovation policy and the economy volume 4
The rapid pace of technological change brings with it an active debate about appropriate economic policies regarding research, innovation, and the commercialization of new technology. This annual series, sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, provides a forum to bring the work of leading academic researchers to an audience of policymakers and those interested in the interaction …
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- 9780262276221
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- 1 online resource (xv, 187 pages) : illustrations
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- NBER Innovation Policy And The Economy
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- 660 INN
Confronting consumption
Essays that offer ecological, social, and political perspectives on the problem of overconsumption.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281928
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- 1 online resource (x, 382 pages)
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Insights of genius : imagery and creativity in science and art
Originally published: New York : Copernicus, ?1996."How can new knowledge be created from already existing knowledge? Insights of Genius shows how seeing in all it's many forms - insight, revelation, a distinctive point of view - is central to the greatest advances of the human intellect. Artists and scientists alike rely on visual representations of worlds both visible and invisible"--Page 4 o…
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- 1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
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- 9780262287340
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 482 pages) :i llustrations
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- 500 MIL i
Worn out :how retailers surveil and exploit workers in the digital age and ho…
"Worn Out connects scholarship on digital capitalism and surveillance to the specific setting of retail work in fast fashion"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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