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English Language Education for Graduate Employability in Vietnam
This open access book examines the teaching and learning of English for employability in Vietnamese higher education. Its content is framed within one country to better examine the research issues within the influence of contextual factors. This book investigates how English can contribute to the development of students' employability capitals, particularly in the aspects of human capital, soci…
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- 978-981-99-4337-1
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Manual of Argumentation, for High Schools and Academies
The increasing interest taken in debate by the larger high schools and academies has prompted the preparation of this Manual of Argumentation. There has seemed to be need of a book that would present in a clear and simple way the elements of debate to that large class of students who are not advanced enough to master the rather difficult college text-books on the subject, but who are deeply int…
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Lonely Ideas: Can Russia Compete?
When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled "Made in Russia"? Probably never. Russia, despite its epic intellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders' ambitions to create a knowledge economy, Russia is economically dependent on gas and o…
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- 9781461942979
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- 1 online resource (xi, 204 pages)
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Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to Present
Leading economists and economic historians offer case studies and theoretical perspectives that fill a longstanding gap in the existing literature on technology-driven industrial development, discussing the interaction of finance and technological innovat.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277884
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- 1 online resource (1 volume)
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From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Informatio…
"Will the emerging global information infrastructure (GII) create a revolution in communications equivalent to that wrought by Gutenberg, or will the result be simply the evolutionary adaptation of existing behavior and institutions to new media? Will the GII improve access to information for all? Will it replace libraries and publishers? How can computers and information systems be made easier…
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- 9780262255776
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 324 pages).
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Building the intentional university :Minerva and the future of higher education
Includes index."We start with a simple question: If you could reinvent higher education for the 21st century, what should it look like? We began by taking a hard look at problems in traditional higher education, and innovated in many ways to address these problems head-on: We have created a new curriculum, focusing on what we call "practical knowledge"; we have developed new pedagogy, based on …
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- 9780262343695
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Robot-proof :higher education in the age of artificial intelligence
"How to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover--filling needs that even the most sophisticated robot cannot. Driverless cars are hitting the road, powered by artificial intelligence. Robots can climb stairs, open doors, win Jeopardy, analyze stocks, work in factories, find parking spaces, advise oncologists. In the past, automation was considered a…
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- 9780262344319
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 187 pages)
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High-Performance Big Data Computing
"This book explores how to achieve high performance and scalability for big data middleware and applications"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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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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The enclave economy : Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexic…
Analyzes the extent to which foreign investment in Mexico's information technology sector brought economic, social, and environmental benefits to Guadalajara.Foreign investment has been widely perceived as a panacea for developing countries--as a way to reduce poverty and kick-start sustainable modern industries. The Enclave Economy calls this prescription into question, showing that Mexico's p…
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