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Riding the waves :a life in sound, science, and industry
The life and work of Renaissance man Leo Beranek: scientist, professor, engineer, business leader, inventor, entrepreneur, musician, television executive, philanthropist, and author.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268189
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- 1 online resource (x, 235 pages) :illustrations
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Dyslexia, learning, and the brain
An overview of research on dyslexia and an account of the underlying causes at cognitive brain, and neural system levels that provides a framework for significant progress in the understanding of dyslexia and other related learning disabilities.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262280662
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- 1 online resource (xx, 283 pages) :illustrations
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Evolution of communicative flexibility :complexity, creativity, and adaptabil…
Experts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including human language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281027
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- 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) :illustrations.
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Systematics as cyberscience :computers, change, and continuity in science
For all the use scientists make of computers in their work, we still know little about how computing affects their working methods and the knowledge they produce. Christine Hine explores these questions by examining the developing use of information technology in one discipline, systematics (the classification of organisims).OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275408
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- 1 online resource (x, 307 pages) :illustrations.
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The new political economy of Russia
This book was written by a team of researchers from CEFIR in Moscow.An analysis of the challenges facing Russia's economy ten years after the transition, based on recent research and data.Can Russia's recent burst of economic growth be sustained? Taking a comprehensive look at the economic and political regime shift from Yeltsin to Putin, this book explores the key challenges facing the Russian…
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- 9780262268240
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- 1 online resource (x, 168 pages) :illustrations
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The virtual community :homesteading on the electronic frontier
Howard Rheingold tours the "virtual community" of online networking. Howard Rheingold has been called the First Citizen of the Internet. In this book he tours the "virtual community" of online networking. He describes a community that is as real and as much a mixed bag as any physical community -- one where people talk, argue, seek information, organize politically, fall in love, and dupe other…
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- 026229141X
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- 1 online resource (480 pages).
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The Turing test :verbal behavior as the hallmark of intelligence
"A Bradford book.""The Turing Test is part of the vocabulary of popular culture - it has appeared in works ranging from the Broadway play Breaking the Code to the comic strip "Robotman." The writings collected for this book examine the profound philosophical issues surrounding the Turing Test as a criterion for intelligence. Alan Turing's idea, originally expressed in a 1950 paper titled "Compu…
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- 0262256975
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- 1 online resource (xi, 346 pages)
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Music and probability
Exploring the application of Bayesian probabilistic modeling techniques to musical issues, including the perception of key and meter.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262257077
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- 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) :illustrations, music
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Fundamental tax reform :issues, choices, and implications
Papers presented at a conference held at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, in Apr. 2006.In this work, experts on tax policy examine the complex issues involved in fundamental tax reform, including the relative merits of income-based and consumption-based taxation. Other papers consider topics such as the effect of tax reform on businesses, especially on thei…
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- 9780262271707
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- 1 online resource (xx, 546 pages) :illustrations
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Far-fetched facts :a parable of development aid
Translated from the German.This is a fictionalized ethnographic study of development aid in sub-Saharan Africa that focuses on technologies of inscription in the interactions of development banks, international experts and local managers.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255035
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- 1 online resource (xxvii, 235 pages) :illustrations.
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