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Greening the ivory tower :improving the environmental track record of univers…
Universities can teach and demonstrate environmental principles and stewardship by taking action to understand and reduce the environmental impacts of their own activities. Greening the Ivory Tower, a motivational and how-to guide for staff, faculty, and students, offers detailed "greening" strategies for those who may have little experience with institutional change or with the latest environm…
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- 0585201307
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 337 pages) : illustrations.
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Growing smarter :achieving livable communities, environmental justice, and re…
Experts from academia, government, and nonprofit organizations offer an environmental justice perspective on Smart Growth, discussing equitable solutions to suburban sprawl and urban decay.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269537
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 407 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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- Urban and Industrial Environments
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California cuisine and just food
An account of the shift in focus to access and fairness among San Francisco Bay Area alternative food activists and advocates.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305853
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 354 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Perspectives on Defense Systems Analysis
"The Department of Defense and the military continually grapple with complex scientific, engineering, and technological problems. Defense systems analysis offers a way to reach a clearer understanding of how to approach and think about complex problems. It guides analysts in defining the question, capturing previous work in the area, assessing the principal issues, and understanding how they ar…
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Innovating :a doer's manifesto for starting from a hunch, prototyping problem…
Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there's very little out there about how you actually innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not one and the same, although aspiring innovators often think of them that way. They are told to get an idea and a team and to build a show-and-tell for potential investors. In Innovating, Luis Perez-Breva describes another approach --…
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- 9780262336680
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 396 pages) :illustrations
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The stubborn system of moral responsibility
"The philosophical commitment to moral responsibility seems unshakable. But, argues Bruce Waller, the philosophical belief in moral responsibility is much stronger than the philosophical arguments in favor of it. Philosophers have tried to make sense of moral responsibility for centuries, with mixed results. Most contemporary philosophers insist that even conclusive proof of determinism would n…
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Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some comments are off-topic, or even topic-less. In this book, Joseph Reagle urges us to read the comments. Conversations "on the bottom half of the Internet," he argues, can tell us much about human nature and social behavior. Reagle visits communiti…
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Dynamic Allocation and Pricing: A Mechanism Design Approach
A new approach to dynamic allocation and pricing that blends dynamic paradigms from the operations research and management science literature with classical mechanism design methods.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262327732
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Changing lanes :visions and histories of urban freeways
The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation.Urban freeways often cut through the heart of a city, destroying neighborhoods, displacing residents, and reconfiguring street maps. These massive infrastructure projects, costing billions of dollars in transportation funds, have been s…
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- 0262312387
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 361 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry's Ontological Implications
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Concordia University, 2011.3 Practices; Pioneers (Late Twentieth-Century Digital); Twenty-First-Century Digital Practice; 4 Softwares; What Is Software Studies?; Case Studies; 5 Futures; Summation; A Few Contexts; Speculations; What May Be; Appendices; The New Bucolic: Ekphrasis in the Digital Meadow; Dance Bones and Neural Ignition: The Dilemma of Defin…
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- 9780262334396
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