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The globalization of clean energy technology :lessons from China
The development and deployment of cleaner energy technologies have become globalized phenomena. Yet despite the fact that energy-related goods account for more than ten percent of international trade, policy makers, academics, and the business community perceive barriers to the global diffusion of these emerging technologies. Experts point to problems including intellectual property concerns, t…
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- 0262322099
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- 1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) :illustrations.
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The greenest nation? :a new history of German environmentalism
This study provides an overview of the development of German environmentalism from the late nineteenth century to the present. Looking at Germany in an international context, it discusses the full range of environmental issues and how it evolved from a concern about pollution and natural monuments to global warming and biodiversity. It defines environmentalism broadly and looks at civic activis…
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- 9780262322409
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Traversing digital Babel :information, e-government, and exchange
Alon Peled offers a groundbreaking approach for enabling information sharing among public sector agencies: using selective incentives to 'nudge' agencies to exchange information assets.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262319861
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DIY citizenship :critical making and social media
Includes index.How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262321211
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- 1 online resource (461 pages) :illustrations, photographs
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Stealth assessment :measuring and supporting learning in video games
An approach to performance-based assessments that embeds assessments in digital games in order to measure how students are progressing toward targeted goals.To succeed in today's interconnected and complex world, workers need to be able to think systemically, creatively, and critically. Equipping K-16 students with these twenty-first-century competencies requires new thinking not only about wha…
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- 0262315211
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- 1 online resource (vi, 244 pages) :illustrations.
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Aesthetics of interaction in digital art
"Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator have received extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks using digital media still present a challenge for academic art history. In this book, Katja Kwastek argues that the particular aesthetic experience enabled by these new media works can open up new perspectives for our understanding of art and media ali…
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- 9781461944423
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 357 pages) :illustrations
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We used to wait :music videos and creative literacy
"Music videos were once something broadcast by MTV and received on our TV screens. Today, music videos are searched for, downloaded, and viewed on our computer screens -- or produced in our living rooms and uploaded to social media. In We Used to Wait, Rebecca Kinskey examines this shift. She investigates music video as a form, originally a product created by professionals to be consumed by non…
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- 9780262325479
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 99 pages) :illustrations.
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From geometry to behavior :an introduction to spatial cognition
"This book book explains the biological mechanisms of dealing with space, from the perception of visual space to the constructions of large space representations, i.e. the "cognitive map." It combines evidence from simple behavior in animals with more complex behaviors found in humans"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Geometry of meaning :semantics based on conceptual spaces
In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter G?ardenfors proposes a theory of semantics that bridges cognitive science and linguistics and shows how theories of cognitive processes, in particular concept formation, can be exploited in a general semantic model. He argues that our minds organize the information involved in communicative acts in a format that can be modeled in geometric or topological terms …
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- 0262319586
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- 1 online resource (xii, 343 pages) :illustrations
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Monitoring movements in development aid :recursive partnerships and infrastru…
An examination of emerging information infrastructures that are intended to increase accountability and effectiveness in partnerships for development aid.In Monitoring Movements in Development Aid, Casper Jensen and Brit Winthereik consider the processes, social practices, and infrastructures that are emerging to monitor development aid, discussing both empirical phenomena and their methodologi…
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- 9781461942962
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- 1 online resource (xix, 192 pages) :illustrations.
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