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Once upon an algorithm how stories explain computing
How Hansel and Gretel, Sherlock Holmes, the movie Groundhog Day, Harry Potter, and other familiar stories illustrate the concepts of computing.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262341691
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Mindmade politics the cognitive roots of international climate governance
How integrating cognitive theories and international relations scholarship can yield valuable insights into the effectiveness of climate negotiations. Mindmade Politics takes a novel, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the complex and contentious dynamics of global climate politics. Manjana Milkoreit argues that integrating cognitive theories and international relations scholarship can…
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- 9780262340588
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Models of innovation the history of an idea
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- 9780262338806
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- 1 online resource (324 pages) :illustrations.
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The mind body problem
An introduction to the mind--body problem, covering all the proposed solutions and offering a powerful new one.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262335683
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- 1 online resource (xv, 220 pages).
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Composing questions
An investigation of the syntax and semantics of wh-questions through the lens of intervention effects, offering a new proposal on overt and covert wh -movement. In this book, Hadas Kotek investigates the syntax and semantics of wh-questions, offering a new solution to a central question in the study of interrogatives: given that overt wh-movement is cross-linguistically common, is syntactic mov…
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- 9780262351065
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Academic Star Wars: Excellence Initiatives in Global Perspective
Academic excellence initiatives (AEIs)—special government-sponsored programs to improve research universities—have provided billions of dollars to top universities and represent perhaps the most significant effort in the past half-century to jump-start academic research. The contributors to Academic Star Wars, superbly edited by Maria Yudkevich, Philip G. Altbach, and Jamil Salmi, analyze A…
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Persuasive games :the expressive power of videogames
An exploration of the way videogames mount arguments and make expressive statements about the world that analyzes their unique persuasive power in terms of their computational properties.Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. In this inn…
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A social history of engineering (Second Edition)
How social and economic conditions have precipitated advances in engineering. A Social History of Engineering shows how social and economic conditions in each age have precipitated advances in engineering. There are, in short, economic, political, and philosophical implications in changing technologies. While the book begins with the Stone Age, the Greeks, and the Romans, the bulk of the vol…
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- 9780262310932
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Demystifying the Academic Research Enterprise: Becoming a Successful Scholar …
What next-generation scholars need to know in order to thrive, and how they can actively participate in shaping the academic research enterprise. The academic research enterprise is highly complex, involving multiple sectors of society and a vast array of approaches. In Demystifying the Academic Research Enterprise, Kelvin K. Droegemeier shows next-generation scholars across all disciplines …
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Bureaucratic landscapes :interagency cooperation and the preservation of biod…
Political scientists have long been concerned about the tension between institutional fragmentation and policy coordination in the U.S. bureaucracy. The literature is rife with examples of agencies competing with each other or asserting their independence, while cooperation is relatively rare. This is of particular importance in policy areas such as biodiversity, where species, habitats, and ec…
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