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Disaggregating international regimes :a new approach to evaluation and compar…
"Evaluating the effectiveness of international regimes presents challenges that are both general and specific. What are the best methodologies for assessment within a governance area and do they enable comparison across areas? In this book, Olav Schram Stokke connects the general to the specific, developing new tools for assessing international regime effectiveness and then applying them to a p…
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- 026230578X
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- 1 online resource (xi, 348 pages) :illustrations, map.
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The Curie Society
"An action-adventure original graphic novel, following a team of young women recruited by an elite secret society--originally founded by Marie Curie--with the mission of supporting the most brilliant female scientists in the world. The heroines of the Curie Society use their smarts, gumption, and cutting-edge technology to protect the world from rogue scientists with nefarious plans. Follow rec…
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- 0262371758
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- 1 online resource (163 pages) :color illustrations.
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Money, exchange rates, and output
Guillermo Calvo, who foresaw the financial crisis that followed the devaluation of Mexico's peso, has spent much of his career thinking beyond the conventional wisdom. In a quiet and understated way, Calvo has made seminal contributions to several major research areas in macroeconomics, particularly monetary policy, exchange rates, public debt, and stabilization in Latin America and post-commun…
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- 9780262269735
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 510 pages) :illustrations
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Natural particulars :nature and the disciplines in Renaissance Europe
This volume examines the transformation in ways of studying naturethat took place in Western Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenthcenturies. This volume examines the transformation in ways of studying nature that took place in Western Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Some of the essays trace particular textual traditions, while others follow the development of scholarly…
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- 9780262274210
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- 1 online resource (xi, 426 pages) :illustrations.
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Naturalistic realism and the antirealist challenge
"A Bradford book."In this important book, Drew Khlentzos explains the antirealist argument from a realist perspective. He defends naturalistic realism against the antirealist challenge, and he considers the consequences of his defense for our understanding of realism and truth. Khlentzos argues that the naturalistic realist view that the world exists independently of the mind must take into con…
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- 9780262277068
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- 1 online resource (viii, 408 pages) :illustrations.
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Nature by design :people, natural process, and ecological restoration
Ecological restoration is the process of repairing human damage to ecosystems. It involves reintroducing missing plants and animals, rebuilding soils, eliminating hazardous substances, ripping up roads, and returning natural processes such as fire and flooding to places that thrive on their regular occurrence. Thousands of restoration projects take place in North America every year. In Nature b…
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- 9780262275378
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- 1 online resource (xv, 341 pages) :illustrations, maps
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The nature of cognition
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262284363
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- 1 online resource (x, 736 pages) :illustrations
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The nature of the farm :contracts, risk, and organization in agriculture
The Nature of the Farm is a theoretical and empirical study of contracts and organization in agriculture based on the transaction cost framework. Transaction costs are important in agriculture because nature (for example, seasonality, weather, pests) plays such a critical role in determining output and limiting the ability of farmers to specialize. The book develops specific models and tests th…
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- 9780262267014
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- 1 online resource (viii, 258 pages)
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Lab coats in Hollywood: Science, scientists, and cinema
Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey", released in 1968, is perhaps the most scientifically accurate film ever produced. The film presented such a plausible, realistic vision of space flight that many moon hoax proponents believe that Kubrick staged the 1969 moon landing using the same studios and techniques. Kubrick's scientific verisimilitude in 2001 came courtesy of his science consultan…
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- 9780262295499
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) :illustrations
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Transient workspaces: Technologies of everyday innovation in Zimbabwe
"In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought in from outside, but is also something that ordinary people understand, make, and practice through their everyday innovations or creativities -- including things that few would even consider technological. Technology does not always originate in th…
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- 9780262326155
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- 1 online resource (xi, 296 pages) :illustrations.
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