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Capital At the Brink : Overcoming the Destructive Legacies of Neoliberalism
Capital at the Brink reveals the pervasiveness, destructiveness, and dominance of neoliberalism within American society and culture. The contributors to this collection also offer points of resistance to an ideology wherein, to borrow Henry Giroux’s comment, “everything either is for sale or is plundered for profit.” The first step in fighting neoliberalism is to make it visible. By discu…
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- 9781607853060
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- 300 LEO c
Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications
Legal, regulatory, and ethical perspectives on balancing social benefit and human autonomy in research using human biospecimens. Advances in medicine often depend on the effective collection, storage, research use, and sharing of human biological specimens and associated data. But what about the sources of such specimens? When a blood specimen is drawn from a vein in your arm, is that specimen …
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- 9780262339711
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- 1 online resource (440 pages).
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Hybrid Tribunals a Comparative Examination
This book examines hybrid tribunals created in Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Cambodia, East Timor, and Lebanon, in terms of their origins (the political and social forces that led to their creation), the legal regimes that they used, their various institutional structures, and the challenges that they faced during their operations. Through this study, the author looks at both their successes and their …
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- 978-1-4614-6638-3
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- XVIII, 206
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- 363.25 HYB
Emergent Trends in Robotics and Intelligent Systems Where is the Role of Int…
What is the Role of Intelligent Technologies in the Next Generation of Robots ? This monograph gives answers to this question and presents emergent trends of Intelligent Systems and Robotics. After an introductory chapter celebrating 70 year of publishing the McCulloch Pitts model the book consists of the 2 parts „Robotics“ and „Intelligent Systems“. The aim of the book is to contribute…
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- 978-3-319-10783-7
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- 160 b/w illustrations
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Embodied Social Cognition
This book clarifies the role and relevance of the body in social interaction and cognition from an embodied cognitive science perspective. Theories of embodied cognition have during the last decades offered a radical shift in explanations of the human mind, from traditional computationalism, to emphasizing the way cognition is shaped by the body and its sensorimotor interaction with the surroun…
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- 978-3-319-20315-7
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- 4 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
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Unboxed: Board Game Experience and Design
"Unboxed provides a deep understanding of the design, development, and experience of playing board games"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026237028X
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- 1 online resource.
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Meaningful stuff :design that lasts
"In a world suffocated by people and things, this book exposes why we throwaway things that still work, and shows how we can design products, services, and experiences that last"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363785
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- 1 online resource.
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Channel Coding Techniques for Wireless Communications
The book discusses modern channel coding techniques for wireless communications such as turbo codes, low parity check codes (LDPC), space-time coding, Reed Solomon (RS) codes and convolutional codes. Many illustrative examples are included in each chapter for easy understanding of the coding techniques. The text is integrated with MATLAB-based programs to enhance the understanding of the subjec…
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- 978-81-322-2292-7
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- 380
Trends in Ambient Intelligent Systems the Role of Computational Intelligence
This book demonstrates the success of Ambient Intelligence in providing possible solutions for the daily needs of humans. The book addresses implications of ambient intelligence in areas of domestic living, elderly care, robotics, communication, philosophy and others. The objective of this edited volume is to show that Ambient Intelligence is a boon to humanity with conceptual, philosophical, m…
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- 978-3-319-30184-6
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- p. 238
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- Studies in Computational Intelligence
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Elements of Quantum Computing History, Theories and Engineering Applications
A quantum computer is a computer based on a computational model which uses quantum mechanics, which is a subfield of physics to study phenomena at the micro level. There has been a growing interest on quantum computing in the 1990's and some quantum computers at the experimental level were recently implemented. Quantum computers enable super-speed computation and can solve some important proble…
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- 978-3-319-08284-4
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- 38 b/w illustrations
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