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Access denied :the practice and policy of global Internet filtering
Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens--most often about politics, but sometimes relating to sexuality, culture, or religion. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in more than three dozen countries, offering the first rigorously conducted study of an accelerat…
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- 9780262255998
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- 1 online resource (xv, 449 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The letters of George Santayana.
Letters from the last years of Santayana's life, written as he completed Dominations and Powers, the final volume of his autobiography, and the one-volume abridgement of his early five-part masterwork, The Life of Reason.This final volume of Santayana's letters spans the last five years of the philosopher's life. Despite the increasing infirmities of age and illness, Santayana continued to be r…
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- Santayana ed.
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- 9780262283014
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- 1 online resource (1 volume) :illustrations.
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Medical malpractice
Economist Frank Sloan and lawyer Lindsey Chepke examine the U.S. medical malpractice process from legal, medical, economic & insurance perspectives, analyse past efforts at reform, & offer policy recommendations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283809
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- 1 online resource (viii, 458 pages) :illustrations
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The mechanical mind in history
"A Bradford book."The idea of intelligent machines has become part of popular culture. Tracing the history of the actual science of machine intelligence reveals a rich network of cross-disciplinary contributions, and the origins of ideas now central to artifical intelligence, artificial life, cognitive science and neuroscience.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256384
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- 1 online resource (458 pages)
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Liberating voices :a pattern language for communication revolution
"In recent decades we have witnessed the creation of a communication system that promises unparalleled connectedness. And yet the optimistic dreams of Internet-enabled engagement and empowerment have faded in the face of widespread Internet commercialization. In Liberating Voices, Douglas Schuler urges us to unleash our collective creativity--social as well as technological--and develop the com…
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- 9780262283267
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 604 pages) :illustrations
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Governing global electronic networks :international perspectives on policy an…
In this volume, experts analyze the global governance of electronic networks, emphasizing international power dynamics and the concerns of nondominant actors. Each chapter concludes with a set of policy recommendations for the promotion of an open, dynamic and more equitable networld order.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262271936
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 664 pages) :illustrations.
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Invented Edens :techno-cities of the twentieth century
Tracing the design of "techno-cities" that blend the technological and the pastoral. Industrialization created cities of Dickensian squalor that were crowded, smoky, dirty, and disease-ridden. By the beginning of the twentieth century, urban visionaries were looking for ways to improve both living and working conditions in industrial cities. In Invented Edens, Robert Kargon and Arthur Molella t…
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- 9780262276733
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- 1 online resource (viii, 190 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Instrumental community :probe microscopy and the path to nanotechnology
In this volume, the author argues that this technology-centric view does not explain how these microscopes helped to launch nanotechnology - and fails to acknowledge the agency of the microscopists in making the STM and its variants critically important tools.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298186
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) :illustrations.
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Cultivating science, harvesting power :science and industrial agriculture in …
Christopher R. Henke reveals how agricultural scientists and growers in California have cooperated - and struggled - in shaping the state's multi-billion-dollar farm industry.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275286
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- 1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Power struggles :scientific authority and the creation of practical electrici…
Laying the foundation for Thomas Edison, the first electric generators were built in the 1830s, the earliest commercial lighting systems before 1860, and the first commercial application of generator-powered light in the early 1860s. This book examines some of these early applications of electricity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xii, 420 pages) :illustrations
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