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Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Econ…
Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. This examination of ICT from a political economy perspective argues that innovation and economic growth require new approaches in global governance that will reconcile diverse interests and enable competition to flourish.
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Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution
At the close of the 19th century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. This book examines the construction of an urban-centred, industrial-based culture - an entirely new social reality based on science and technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology
Here, leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture. The contributors consider innovation in biological terms discussing epistemology, animal studies, systematics and phylogeny, phenotypic plasticity and evolvability, and much more.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xi, 284 pages) :illustrations.
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Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human Life
Why it matters that our relationship with nature is increasingly mediated and augmented by technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 230 pages) :illustrations
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Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America
An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history. In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change. The engineers were fighting to remake their profession, challenging their fellow engineers to embrace…
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 286 pages) :illustrations.
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Human Reasoning and Cognitive Science
"A Bradford book.""In Human Reasoning and Cognitive Science, Keith Stenning and Michiel van Lambalgen - a cognitive scientist and a logician - argue for the indispensability of modern mathematical logic to the study of human reasoning. Logic and cognition were once closely connected, they write, but were "divorced" in the past century; the psychology of deduction went from being central to the …
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- 1 online resource (xii, 407 pages) :illustrations
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Revolutionizing innovation :users, communities, and open innovation
The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process that emphasizes users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation approaches to solve important technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation, pioneered by the economist Eric von Hi…
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- 1 online resource (xv, 577 pages) :illustrations
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Addiction and responsibility
This volume offers a range of perspectives on addiction and responsibility and how the two are bound together. Distinguished contributors dicuss questions concerning whether or not we are responsible for our own addictions and what responsibilities others have to help.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) :illustrations.
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Logic in Games
This book draws on ideas from philosophical logic, computational logic, multi-agent systems, and game theory to offer a comprehensive account of logic and games viewed in two complementary ways. It examines the logic of games: the development of sophisticated modern dynamic logics that model information flow, communication, and interactive structures in games. It also examines logic as games: t…
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 547 pages) :illustrations
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Dynamic logic
Among the many approaches to formal reasoning about programs, Dynamic Logic enjoys the singular advantage of being strongly related to classical logic. Its variants constitute natural generalizations and extensions of classical formalisms. For example, Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL) can be described as a blend of three complementary classical ingredients: propositional calculus, modal logic,…
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