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Lee Kuan Yew : the grand master's insights on China, the United States, and t…
When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990 has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262312735
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A Grammar of Kham
First published in 2002, this is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a mirative system, and a rich class of derived adjecti…
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- 9780511486883
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From Web to Workplace: Designing Open Hypermedia Systems
In this book Kaj Gronbaek and Randall H. Trigg present a set of principles for the design of open hypermedia systems and provide concrete implications of these principles for issues ranging from data structures to architectures and system integration and for settings as diverse as the World Wide Web and the workplace.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274456
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 386 pages) :illustrations.
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Parenting on earth :a philosopher's guide to doing right by your kids-and eve…
"We raise our children in a fragile world. Climate change, pandemics, superbugs resistant to antibiotics. Extreme inequality, endemic poverty, institutionalized racism and sexism. What does it mean to be a "good parent" in the face of all this? This book is one woman's quest for an answer, as a philosopher and as a mother"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Mad by the millions :mental disorders in the age of world citizenship, expert…
"How mental disorders became comparable worldwide through the making of metrics, focussing on the WHO's first international social psychiatry project"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363013
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Epidemic illusions :on the coloniality of global public health
A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities. In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuatin…
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- 9780262362634
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Plagues and the paradox of progress :why the world is getting healthier in wo…
"A Council on Foreign Relations book."Why the news about the global decline of infectious diseases is not all good. Plagues and parasites have played a central role in world affairs, shaping the evolution of the modern state, the growth of cities, and the disparate fortunes of national economies. This book tells that story, but it is not about the resurgence of pestilence. It is the story of it…
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- 9780262348072
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- 1 online resource (259 pages) :illustrations, maps
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The archived web :doing history in the digital age
"How will the history of the present be written? As life continues to move online, the web becomes ever more important for an understanding of the past. This book offers an original theoretical framework for approaching the web of the past, both as a source and as an object of study in its own right"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262350112
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Digital methods
In Digital Methods, Richard Rogers proposes a methodological outlook for social and cultural scholarly research on the Web that seeks to move Internet research beyond the study of online culture. It is not a toolkit for Internet research, or operating instructions for a software package; it deals with broader questions. How can we study social media to learn something about society rather than …
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- 9781461931867
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- 1 online resource (274 pages) :illustrations
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Why America is not a new Rome
An investigation of the America-Rome analogy that goes deeper than the facile comparisons made on talk shows and in glossy magazine articles.America's post-Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in protracted fighting in Iraq…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) :illustrations, maps
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