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Crowdsourced health :how what you do on the Internet will improve medicine
Most of us have gone online to search for information about health. What are the symptoms of a migraine? How effective is this drug? Where can I find more resources for cancer patients? Could I have an STD? Am I fat? A Pew survey reports more than 80 percent of American internet users have logged on to ask questions like these. But what if the digital traces left by our searches could show doct…
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- 9780262334808
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- 1 online resource (144 pages)
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Preterm babies, fetal patients, and childbearing choices
The United States has one of the highest rates of premature birth of any industrialized nation: 11.5%, nearly twice the rate of many European countries. In this book, John Lantos and Diane Lauderdale examine why the rate of preterm birth in the United States remains high--even though more women have access to prenatal care now than three decades ago. They also analyze a puzzling paradox: why, e…
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- 9780262330800
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- 1 online resource (x, 215 pages).
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The economics of infrastructure provisioning :the changing role of the state
The complexities of financing, installing, implementing, and regulating public infrastructures, including empirical research, analytical models, and theoretical insights.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262330831
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- 1 online resource (vii, 516 pages).
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Dirty gold :how activism transformed the jewelry industry
The response from the jewelry industry to a campaign for ethically sourced gold as a case study in the power of business in global environmental politics. Gold mining can be a dirty business. It creates immense amounts of toxic materials that are difficult to dispose of. Mines are often developed without community consent, and working conditions for miners can be poor. Income from gold has fund…
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- 9780262337960
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- 1 online resource (272 pages).
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Evolving enactivism :basic minds meet content
Evolving Enactivism" argues that cognitive phenomena - perceiving, imagining, remembering -- can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving forms of cognition. Building on their earlier book Radicalizing Enactivism, which proposes that there can be forms of cognition without content, Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin demonstrate the unique explanatory advantag…
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- 9780262339773
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 328 pages).
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The federal estate tax :history, law, and economics
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- 9780262353991
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- 1 online resource (216 pages).
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Emissions trading as a policy instrument :evaluation and prospects
Empirical and theoretical perspectives on the first two phases of the European Emissions Trading Scheme, the largest cap-and-trade market established so far.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262330435
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- 1 online resource :illustrations.
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Mood and mobility :navigating the emotional spaces of digital social networks
We are active with our mobile devices; we play games, watch films, listen to music, check social media, and tap screens and keyboards while we are on the move. In Mood and Mobility, Richard Coyne argues that not only do we communicate, process information, and entertain ourselves through devices and social media; we also receive, modify, intensify, and transmit moods. Designers, practitioners, …
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- 9780262330893
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- 1 online resource (x, 378 pages)
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Cultural code :video games and Latin America
How culture uses games and how games use culture: an examination of Latin America's gaming practices and the representation of the region's cultures in games.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262334914
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Fracking the neighborhood :reluctant activists and natural gas drilling
When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of a back yard fence and diesel trucks clog a quiet two-lane residential street. Children seem to be having more than the usual number of nosebleeds. There are so many local cases of cancer that the elementary school starts a cancer support group. In this book, Jessi…
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- 9780262329798
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