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America's Food: What You Don't Know About What You Eat
We don't think much about how food gets to our tables, or what had to happen to fill our supermarket's produce section with perfectly round red tomatoes and its meat counter with slabs of beautifully marbled steak. We don't realize that the meat in one fast-food hamburger may come from many different cattle raised in several different countries. In fact, most of us have a fairly abstract unders…
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- 9780262268653
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- 1 online resource (ix, 336 pages) :illustrations, map
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The Future of the automobile : the report of MIT's International Automobile P…
"A new shape for the world auto industry emerges from this far-ranging study, which reveals a path of development quite different from those widely forecast and leaves no doubt that the changes ahead will be dramatic.Cited by Business Week as one of 1984's ten best books on business and economics, The Future of the Automobile is the most comprehensive assessment ever conducted of the world's la…
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- 0262310643
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- 1 online resource (xi, 321 pages) : illustrations
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- 620 ALT f
Garbage wars : the struggle for environmental justice in Chicago
A study of the struggle for environmental justice, focusing on conflicts over solid waste and pollution in Chicago.In Garbage Wars, the sociologist David Pellow describes the politics of garbage in Chicago. He shows how garbage affects residents in vulnerable communities and poses health risks to those who dispose of it. He follows the trash, the pollution, the hazards, and the people who encou…
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- 9780262281355
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- 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) : illustrations.
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- 340 PEL g
Gaussian processes for machine learning
"Gaussian processes (GPs) provide a principled, practical, probabilistic approach to learning in kernel machines. GPs have received increased attention in the machine-learning community over the past decade, and this book provides a long-needed systematic and unified treatment of theoretical and practical aspects of GPs in machine learning. The treatment is comprehensive and self-contained, tar…
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- 9780262256834
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages) : illustrations.
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- 510 RAS g
A ghost's memoir : the making of Alfred P. Sloan's "My years with General Mot…
Includes index.The story of the ghostwriting of Alfred P. Sloan's best-selling memoir, General Motor's attempts to block the book's publication, and the author's eventual triumph over the corporation.Published in 1964, My Years with General Motors was an immediate best-seller and today is considered one of the few classic books on management. The book is the ghostwritten memoir of Alfred P. Slo…
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- 9780262279420
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 202 pages)
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- 620 MCD
Global E-Commerce Strategies for Small Businesses
Small companies account for a surprising one-third of U.S. exports, and their market share is growing. The Internet has played a major role in helping these companies develop an increasingly powerful international presence. Global E-Commerce Strategies for Small Businesses describes the export opportunities e-commerce holds for small-to-medium size enterprises (SMEs) all over the world. The boo…
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- 0262262398
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- 650 DAC g
R for Marketing Research and Analytics
Buku ini merupakan pengantar lengkap tentang kekuatan R bagi para praktisi riset pemasaran. Teks ini menjelaskan model statistik dari sudut pandang konseptual dengan sedikit matematika, dengan asumsi hanya memiliki pengetahuan dasar tentang statistik. Bab-bab praktis mempercepat kurva pembelajaran dengan meminta pembaca berinteraksi dengan R sejak awal. Topik inti meliputi bahasa R, statistik d…
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- 978-3-319-14436-8
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- Use R!
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- 658.8 CHA r
Political Theory and Global Climate Change
Political theorists consider the challenge of global climate change from a range of perspectives, including conceptual analysis, critical theory, critical legal studies, and neo-Marxism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285445
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 228 pages)
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Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear
"Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread - to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the "psychoacoustic correction" aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or "sound bombs") over the Gaza Strip, and high-frequency rat repellants used again…
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- 9780262258838
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- 1 online resource (xx, 270 pages).
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Democracy's Arsenal: Creating a Twenty-First-Century Defense Industry
The author describes the transformations needed in government and industry to achieve a new, more effective system of national defense.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295260
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 432 pages) :illustrations
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