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Gaia in turmoil :climate change, biodepletion, and earth ethics in an age of …
Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258692
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 371 pages) :illustrations
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Equilibrium, Trade, and Growth :Selected Papers of Lionel W. McKenzie
Influential neoclassical economist Lionel McKenzie has made major contributions to postwar economic thought in the fields of equilibrium, trade, and capital accumulation. This selection of his papers traces the development of his thinking in these three crucial areas.McKenzie's early academic life took him to Duke, Princeton, Oxford, the University of Chicago, and the Cowles Commission. In 1957…
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- 9780262279536
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- 1 online resource (vii, 480 pages) :illustrations
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Code/space :software and everyday life
An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1283148056
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- 1 online resource (xi, 290 pages) :illustrations, map.
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On the camera arts and consecutive matters :the writings of Hollis Frampton
The collected writings of artist and filmmaker Hollis Frampton, including all the essays from the long-unavailable Circles of Confusion along with rare additional material.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262254913
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- 1 online resource (xx, 331 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Scenario visualization :an evolutionary account of creative problem solving
An account of how humans evolved a conscious, vision-related ability unique to their species in order to solve nonroutine problems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262267373
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- 1 online resource (viii, 209 pages) :illustrations
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Internet architecture and innovation
Today--following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemployment--the Internet remains the most reliable mechanism for fostering innovation and creating new wealth. The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. In this pathbreaking book, Barbara van Schewick argues that this explosion of innovation is not an accident, but a consequence of the Internet's architecture--a …
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- 9780262265867
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- 1 online resource (xii, 574 pages) :illustrations
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WMD terrorism :science and policy choices
Terrorism by means of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) has been studied for decades - since the Cold War and fears of secret agents with suitcase-sized atomic bombs. Although WMD research has accelerated since September 11, 2001, much of this scholarship is hard to find, forcing nonspecialists to fall back on gut instinct and Beltway clich?es. This book provides a review of what scientists and…
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- 9780262012980
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- 1 online resource (x, 608 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Global catastrophes and trends :the next 50 years
From the Publisher: Fundamental change occurs most often in one of two ways: as a "fatal discontinuity," a sudden catastrophic event that is potentially world changing, or as a persistent, gradual trend. Global catastrophes include volcanic eruptions, viral pandemics, wars, and large-scale terrorist attacks; trends are demographic, environmental, economic, and political shifts that unfold over …
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- 9780262283878
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- 1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Toward the healthy city :people, places, and the politics of urban planning
A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258685
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- 1 online resource (ix, 282 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The cosmetic gaze :body modification and the construction of beauty
If the gaze can be understood to mark the disjuncture between how we see ourselves and how we want to be seen by others, the cosmetic gaze--in Bernadette Wegenstein's groundbreaking formulation--is one through which the act of looking at our bodies and those of others is already informed by the techniques, expectations, and strategies (often surgical) of bodily modification. It is, Wegenstein s…
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- 9780262301114
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- 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) :illustrations
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