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Balancing Green :When to Embrace Sustainability in a Business (and When Not To)
An expert on business strategy offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345750
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- 1 online resource
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Language in our brain :the origins of a uniquely human capacity
A comprehensive account of the neurobiological basis of language, arguing that species-specific brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262342964
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- 1 online resource
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Reasoning about uncertainty
Formal ways of representing uncertainty and various logics for reasoning about it; updated with new material on weighted probability measures, complexity-theoretic considerations, and other topics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- Second edition.
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- 9780262340496
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- 1 online resource (xv, 488 pages) :illustrations
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Email and the everyday :stories of disclosure, trust, and digital labor
"Email and the Everyday : Stories of Disclosure, Trust, and Digital Labor focuses on email in its own right as a standalone media form in order to examine its technical and material infrastructure, its iconography and GUI, its affordances, and its languages"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262362775
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- 1 online resource.
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Constructing green :the social structures of sustainability
"Buildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energy is used for heating, cooling, lighting, and powering machines and devices in buildings. And despite decades of investment in green construction technologies, residential and commercial buildings remain stubbornly energy inefficient. This book looks beyond the technological and material aspects of green constr…
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- 9781461936404
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 399 pages) :illustrations.
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Intervention in the brain :politics, policy, and ethics
The political and policy implications of recent developments in neuroscience, including new techniques in imaging and neurogenetics. New findings in neuroscience have given us unprecedented knowledge about the workings of the brain. Innovative research--much of it based on neuroimaging results--suggests not only treatments for neural disorders but also the possibility of increasingly precise an…
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- 0262313731
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- 1 online resource (370 pages).
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Food justice
The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table. In today's food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restaurants and liquor stores, food products emphasize convenience rather than wholesomeness, and the international reach of Americ…
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- 9780262289443
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- 1 online resource (vii, 290 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations.
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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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The configuration space method for kinematic design of mechanisms
A novel algorithmic approach to mechanism design based on a geometric representation of kinematic function called configuration space partitions."This book presents the configuration space method for computer-aided design of mechanisms with changing part contacts. Configuration space is a complete and compact geometric representation of part motions and part interactions that supports the core …
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- 9780262265874
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) :illustrations
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The enclave economy :foreign investment and sustainable development in Mexico…
Analyzes the extent to which foreign investment in Mexico's information technology sector brought economic, social, and environmental benefits to Guadalajara.Foreign investment has been widely perceived as a panacea for developing countries--as a way to reduce poverty and kick-start sustainable modern industries. The Enclave Economy calls this prescription into question, showing that Mexico's p…
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- 9780262273398
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- 1 online resource (x, 214 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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