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The bubble economy :is sustainable growth possible?
The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime mortgages, banks "too big to fail," financial regulation (or the lack of it), and the European debt crisis. Wall Street has discovered that it is more profitable to make money from other people's money than by investing in the real economy, which has limited ac…
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MATERIAL WITNESS: Media, Forensics, Evidence
The evidential role of matter--when media records trace evidence of violence--explored through a series of cases drawn from Kosovo, Japan, Vietnam, and elsewhere. In this book, Susan Schuppli introduces a new operative concept: material witness, an exploration of the evidential role of matter as both registering external events and exposing the practices and procedures that enable matter to bea…
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- 9780262357197
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- 1 online resource (392 pages).
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Making Games for Impact
"Squire draws on 15+ years of experience to describe how games are developed and deployed in the classroom"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366223
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Words, thoughts, and theories
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274098
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 268 pages).
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Working minimalism
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- 9780262272377
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Learnability and cognition : the acquisition of argument structure
Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human nature, he wrote several technical monographs on language acquisition that have become classics in cognitive science. Learnability and Cognition, first published in 1989, brought together two big topics: how do children learn their mother tongue, and how does the mind represent basic categories of meaning such as space, time, causalit…
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- 9780262314275
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- 1 online resource (xx, 488 pages) :illustrations.
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Civic Ecology: Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up
Stories of environmental stewardship in communities from New Orleans to Soweto accompany an interdisciplinary framework for understanding civic ecology as a global phenomenon.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262327169
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White Space Communication Advances, Developments and Engineering Challenges
This monograph presents a collection of major developments leading toward the implementation of white space technology - an emerging wireless standard for using wireless spectrum in locations where it is unused by licensed users. Some of the key research areas in the field are covered. These include emerging standards, technical insights from early pilots and simulations, software defined radio…
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- 978-3-319-08747-4
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Whistled Languages A Worldwide Inquiry on Human Whistled Speech
The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author’s unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience. The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms of languages are also explored, including the role of environmental constraints in the emergence of whistled speech, their phonetic and phonol…
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What If We Don't Die? The Morality of Immortality
This book deals with the very real possibility of earthly immortality and the human and societal implications of such immortality, including whether it is desirable. It looks at what makes immortality appear so attractive and at the possibility that we would be better served with longer lives and the freedom to terminate our lives at the time when life has given us all the joy, inspiration a…
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