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The Computer Revolution in Canada: Building National Technological Competence
Includes index.The forces that shaped Canada's digital innovations in the postwar period.After World War II, other major industrialized nations responded to the technological and industrial hegemony of the United States by developing their own design and manufacturing competence in digital electronic technology. In this book John Vardalas describes the quest for such competence in Canada, explo…
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- 9780262285469
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- 1 online resource (vi, 409 pages) :illustrations.
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Concurrent constraint programming
Concurrent Constraint Programming introduces a new and rich class of programming languages based on the notion of computing with partial information, or constraints, that synthesize and extend work on concurrent logic programming and that offer a promising approach for treating thorny issues in the semantics of concurrent, nondeterministic programming languages. Saraswat develops an elegant and…
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- 9780262290975
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- 1 online resource (xl, 486 pages) :illustrations.
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Connections and symbols
"Reprinted from Cognition ... volume 28 (1988)"--Title page verso."A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262315852
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- 1 online resource (255 pages) :illustrations.
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The digital multinational :navigating the new normal in global business
"A practical guide for business leaders for creating strategy that addresses the conflict between globalization made possible by digital technology and regionalization found on the ground"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262367547
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The bias that divides us :the science and politics of myside thinking
"An examination of a common, but underappreciated cognitive bias that permeates or social and political worlds, written by a leading researcher in the field of rationality"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262365243
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A mark of the mental :in defense of informational teleosemantics
Drawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space semantics, a theory of naturalized mental representation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262339865
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- 1 online resource (xv, 327 pages) :illustrations.
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Looking within :a sociocultural examination of fetoscopy
An ethnographic study of fetoscopy that considers both the broader cultural context of this high-risk obstetrical procedure and the patient's individual experience.In Looking Within, Deborah Blizzard examines the high-risk in utero surgery known as fetoscopy, considering it as both cutting-edge medical technology and as a sociocultural construction of patients, their social networks, and medica…
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- 9780262268745
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages).
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About face
"A Bradford book."What is special about the face, and what happens when neurological conditions make expression or comprehension of the face unavailable? Through a mix of science, autobiography, case studies, and speculation, Jonathan Cole shows the importance not only of facial expressions for communication among individuals but also of facial embodiment for our sense of self. Drawing on work …
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- 1 online resource (xii, 223 pages) :illustrations
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The meaning of proofs :mathematics as storytelling
Translation of: Matematica come narrazione : raccontare la matematica."This book introduces readers to the narrative structure of mathematical proofs and why mathematicians communicate that way, drawing examples from classic literature and employing metaphors and imagery"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Accessing and browsing information and communication
This book contends that accessing and browsing information and communication are multidimensional and consequential aspects of the information user's entire experience and of general human behavior. Problems in information creation, processing, transmittal, and use often arise from an incomplete conceptualization of the "information seeking" process, where information seeking is viewed as the i…
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