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Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression
Speaking Code begins by invoking the "Hello World" convention used by programmers when learning a new language, helping to establish the interplay of text and code that runs through the book. Interweaving the voice of critical writing from the humanities with the tradition of computing and software development, in Speaking Code Geoff Cox formulates an argument that aims to undermine the distinc…
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- 9780262305228
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- 1 online resource (xv, 149 pages) :illustrations.
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Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety
A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques. Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineering techniques applied in safety and reliability engineering, created in a simpler, analog world, have changed very little over the years. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leveson p…
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- 9780262298247
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- 620 LEV e
Consciousness Revisited: Materialism without Phenomenal Concepts
We are material beings in a material world, but we are also beings who have experiences and feelings. How can these subjective states be just a matter of matter? This book looks at this question and much more.
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- 9780262255172
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Nanoscale: Visualizing an Invisible World
The world is made up of structures too small to see with the naked eye, too small to see even with an electron microscope. Einstein established the reality of atoms and molecules in the early 1900s. How can we see a world measured in fractions of nanometers? (Most atoms are less than one nanometer, less than one-billionth of a meter, in diameter.) This beautiful and fascinating book gives us a …
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Offshoring of American jobs: What response from U.S. economic policy?
Two leading economists discuss a range of issues relating to the "offshoring" of American jobs, from free trade to unemployment levels.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258579
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 141 pages) :illustrations.
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The Monumental Challenge of Preservation: The Past in a Volatile World
The enormous task of preserving the world's heritage in the face of war, natural disaster, vandalism, neglect, and technical obsolescence. The monuments—movable, immovable, tangible, and intangible—of the world's shared cultural heritage are at risk. War, terrorism, natural disaster, vandalism, and neglect make the work of preservation a greater challenge than it has been since World War II…
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Prudence and Pressure: Reproduction and Human Agency in Europe and Asia, 1700…
A study of human reproduction and social organization in preindustrial communities that reveals important similarities between Europe and Asia.This pioneering study reconceptualizes the impact of social organizations, economic conditions, and human agency on human reproduction in preindustrial communities in Europe and Asia. Unlike previous studies, in which Asia is measured by European standar…
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- 9780262326476
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 380 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The historical souvenir and literary cabinet
The present volume lays claim to notice for these two reasons ; — first, its contents, — secondly, its plates. Its contents have been so formed as to suit it in a pre-eminent degree as a present for youth. Its sketches are those of places and events which have peculiar interest— whether the gorgeous scene, with forest and mountain and river, or the mighty castle, or the tented battle-f…
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- 899260960
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- cdl; americana
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- nrlf_ucb:GLAD-50552613
The history of the origins of Christianity
The first book of our History of the Origins of Christianity brought us down to the death, and burial of Jesus ; and we must now resume the subject at the point where we left it — that is to say, on Saturday, the fourth of April, in the year 33. The work will be for some time yet a sort of continuation of the life of Jesus. Next to the months of joyful raptiu-e, during which the great Founder…
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- 432616584
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- Princeton; americana
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The future of Spain : Spanish Carlism before the world
It is evident to us, Spaiiisli Carlists, that the foreign public opinion is erroneously informed about our history, our program and our deeds. We know we have been victims of an evil-minded propaganda, based on falsehood and confusion; the Black Legend that throws upon Spain, our Countrj', the whole responsibility of obscurantism and tyranny is even darker, gloomier, where our Party is conce…
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- 78889761
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- cdl; americana
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- SRLF:LAGE-1489432
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