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Reflections on Adaptive Behavior: Essays in Honor of J.E.R. Staddon
J. E. R. Staddon's colleagues and former students discuss Staddon's work as a "theoretical behaviorist" and his influence on their own research.John Staddon has devoted his long and distinguished career to the study of the adaptive function and mechanisms of learning. He did his graduate work at the famous Skinner Lab at Harvard in the early 1960s (supervised by Richard Herrnstein, who did his …
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Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe
Case studies from around the world and theoretical discussion show how the capacity to act collectively on local problems can be developed, strengthening democracy while changing social and economic outcomes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 374 pages) :illustrations, maps
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The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance
Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of cookies and spyware by Web sites, data mining and profiling, and many others. In The Privacy Advocates, Colin Bennett analyzes the people and groups ar…
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Metabolism of the anthroposphere: Analysis, evaluation, design
Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlements became urban cores, and these regional settlements became tightly connected through infrastructures transporting people, materials, and information. This global network of urban systems, including ecosystems, is the anthroposphere; the physical flows and stocks of matter and energy within it form its metabolis…
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- 9780262301329
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- 1 online resource (x, 392 pages) :illustrations, maps
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The indirect side of direct investment: Multinational company finance and tax…
Drawing on a unique data set (MiDi) on German multinationals provided by the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt, Mintz and Weichenrieder confirm the prevalence of indirect financing structures for both outbound and inbound German investment. They find evidence of "treaty shopping!' to avoid withholding taxes (using a third country with more favorable tax rates as a conduit through which to route …
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Measuring what matters most :choice-based assessments for the digital age
"If a fundamental goal of education is to prepare students to act independently in the world -- in other words, to make good choices -- an ideal educational assessment would measure how well we are preparing students to do so. Current assessments, however, focus almost exclusively on how much knowledge students have accrued and can retrieve. In Measuring What Matters Most, Daniel Schwartz and D…
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- 1 online resource (vi, 181 pages) :illustrations.
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Technoscience and environmental justice: Expert cultures in a grassroots move…
This book argues that the environmental justice movement has also begun to transform science and engineering. The chapters present case studies of technical experts' encounters with environmental justice and activists and issues.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The digital rights movement: The role of technology in subverting digital cop…
The evolution of activism against the expansion of copyright in the digital domain, with case studies of resistance including eBook and iTunes hacks.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Rethinking violence: States and non-state actors in conflict
"Foreword by Stathis N. Kalyvas."--Cover.Although major wars between sovereign states have become rare contemporary world politics has been rife with internal conflict, ethnic cleansing, and violence against civilians. This book asks how, why, and when states and non-state actors use violence against one another."States, nationalist movements, and ethnic groups in conflict with one another ofte…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 285 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Taking [a]part: The politics and aesthetics of participation in experience-ce…
Title appears as: Taking [a]part.In Taking [A]part, John McCarthy and Peter Wright consider a series of boundary-pushing research projects in human-computer interaction (HCI) in which the design of digital technology is used to inquire into participative experience. McCarthy and Wright view all of these projects -- which range from the public and performative to the private and interpersonal --…
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