Guns and Butter: The Economic Causes and Consequences of Conflict

This work provides insights into war and domestic insecurity terrorism, and the costs of war and peace from new research that takes the political economy perspective on conflict.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking, and…

Changing Climates in North American Politics offers analysis of climate change policy innovations across North America at transnational, federal, state & local levels, involving public private & civic actors.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds

Changing Climates in North American Politics offers analysis of climate change policy innovations across North America at transnational, federal, state & local levels, involving public private & civic actors.

The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Tech…

"This book provides the most holistic approach to the history of the development of programming and computer systems so far written. By embedding this history in a sociological and political context, Ensmenger has added hugely to our understanding of how the world of computing and its work practices came to be." Martin Campbell-Kelly, Professor of Computer Science, Warwick University.;"The Comp…

War Games: A History of War on Paper

The convergence of military strategy and mathematics in war games, from medieval to modern times.For centuries, both mathematical and military thinkers have used game-like scenarios to test their visions of mastering a complex world through symbolic operations. By the end of World War I, mathematical and military discourse in Germany simultaneously discovered the game as a productive concept. M…

At Your Service: Service-Oriented Computing from an EU Perspective

Presents results of collaborative research projects of the European Community's Information Society Technologies Programme about service-oriented computing.Service-Oriented Applications and Architectures (SOAs) have captured the interest of industry as a way to support business-to-business interaction, and the SOA market grew by $4.9 billion in 2005. SOAs and in particular service-oriented comp…

Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software

How the influential industry that produced such popular games as Oregon Trail and KidPix emerged from experimental efforts to use computers as tools in child-centered learning.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Alabama secedes from the Union; an address

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Our Own Minds: Sociocultural Grounds for Self-Consciousness

Here, Radu Bogdan takes a developmental perspective on consciousness and proposes that children's functional capacity for consciousness is assembled during development out of a variety of ontogenetic adaptations that respond mostly to sociocultural challenges specific to distinct stages of childhood.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Rule of law, misrule of men

This book is a passionate call for citizen action to uphold the rule of law when government does not. Arguing that post-9/11 legislation and foreign policy severed the executive branch from the will of the people, Elaine Scarry in Rule of Law, Misrule of Men offers a fierce defense of the people's role as guarantor of our democracy. She begins with the groundswell of local resistance to the 200…