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Greening the ivory tower :improving the environmental track record of univers…
Universities can teach and demonstrate environmental principles and stewardship by taking action to understand and reduce the environmental impacts of their own activities. Greening the Ivory Tower, a motivational and how-to guide for staff, faculty, and students, offers detailed "greening" strategies for those who may have little experience with institutional change or with the latest environm…
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- 0585201307
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 337 pages) : illustrations.
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Group cognition :computer support for building collaborative knowledge
Innovative uses of global and local networks of linked computers make new ways of collaborative working, learning, and acting possible. In Group Cognition Gerry Stahl explores the technological and social reconfigurations that are needed to achieve computer-supported collaborative knowledge building--group cognition that transcends the limits of individual cognition. Computers can provide activ…
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- 9780262257022
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- 1 online resource (viii, 510 pages) : illustrations.
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- Acting with Technology
Growing artificial societies :social science from the bottom up
"A product of the 2050 Project, a collaborative effort of the Brookings Institution, the Santa Fe Institute and the World Resources Institute."How do social structures and group behaviors arise from the interaction of individuals? Growing Artificial Societies approaches this question with cutting-edge computer simulation techniques. Fundamental collective behaviors such as group formation, cult…
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- 9780262272360
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- 1 online resource (xv, 208 pages) : color illustrations.
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- Complex Adaptive Systems
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Growing smarter :achieving livable communities, environmental justice, and re…
Experts from academia, government, and nonprofit organizations offer an environmental justice perspective on Smart Growth, discussing equitable solutions to suburban sprawl and urban decay.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269537
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 407 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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- Urban and Industrial Environments
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Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics
This volume contains thirteen papers that were presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques, held on the campus of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. It contains rigorously reviewed modern scholarship on general topics in the history and philosoph…
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- 978-3-319-22258-5
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Research in Computational Molecular Biology
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, RECOMB 2015, held in Warsaw, Poland, in April 2015. The 36 extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 170 submissions. They report on original research in all areas of computational molecular biology and bioinformatics.
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- 978-3-319-16706-0
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California cuisine and just food
An account of the shift in focus to access and fairness among San Francisco Bay Area alternative food activists and advocates.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305853
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 354 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Digital research confidential :the secrets of studying behavior online
Behind-the-scenes stories of how Internet research projects actually get done.The realm of the digital offers both new methods of research and new objects of study. Because the digital environment for scholarship is constantly evolving, researchers must sometimes improvise, change their plans, and adapt. These details are often left out of research write-ups, leaving newcomers to the field frus…
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- 9780262331227
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- 1 online resource (xi, 271 pages) :illustrations
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Good Reception: Teens, Teachers, and Mobile Media in a Los Angeles High School
A year in the life of a ninth-grade English class shows how participatory culture and mobile devices can transform learning in schools.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262343480
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- 1 online resource (xii, 230 pages).
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Inborn Knowledge: The Mystery Within
"In this book, Colin McGinn presents a concise, clear, and compelling argument that the origins of knowledge are innate that nativism, not empiricism, is correct in its theory of how concepts are acquired. McGinn considers the particular case of sensible qualities ideas of color, shape, taste, and so on. He argues that these, which he once regarded as the strongest case for the empiricist posit…
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- 9780262334488
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- 1 online resource (x, 137 pages)
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