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Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and …
"Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, a core research project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)."This overview of recent research on how institutions matter in tackling environmental problems reports the findings and policy implications of a decade-long international research project.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 373 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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- 9780262331524
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- 1 online resource (xv, 577 pages) :illustrations
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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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- 1 online resource (192 pages) :illustrations.
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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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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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Why have children?: The ethical debate
"In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more careful justification and reasoning than the choice not to. Arguing that the choice to have children i…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages) :illustrations.
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The Ethical Treatment of Depression: Autonomy Through Psychotherapy
Is there is a moral imperative on physicians to refer patients with mental depression for psychotherapy rather that treating the ailment with drugs? Psychotherapy, in particular cognitive behavior therapy, promotes autonomy & it is the loss of autonomy, argues Paul Biegler, that is at the heart of depression.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (x, 213 pages) :illustrations.
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Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and proce…
"David Marr's posthumously published Vision (1982) influenced a generation of brain and cognitive scientists, inspiring many to enter the field. In Vision, Marr describes a general framework for understanding visual perception and touches on broader questions about how the brain and its functions can be studied and understood. Researchers from a range of brain and cognitive sciences have long v…
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