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Using Computers: The Human Factors of Information Systems
A Bradford book.""Industry veteran Raymond Nickerson provides an extensive introduction to the information technology revolution that is transforming industrial society. He focuses particularly on the study of person-computer interaction, noting how computers are affecting their users and society as a whole, and describes a variety of ways in which information technology is expected to develop …
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 434 pages) :illustrations
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Strategies for Electronic Commerce and the Internet
A guide to help business managers better compete in the age of the internet and electronic commerce.This book offers a novel approach for analyzing and developing business strategies for the Internet and electronic commerce. The topics addressed include how to predict which firms will be successful, how a manager should respond to competitors who adopt the Internet and electronic commerce, and …
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- 9780262278614
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) :illustrations
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What's the use of race?: modern governance and the biology of difference
How race as a category-reinforced by new discoveries in genetics-is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262266017
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- 1 online resource (viii, 303 pages) :illustrations
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Strong Feelings: Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior
A Bradford book."The book is organized around parallel analyses of emotion and addiction in order to bring out similarities as well as differences. Elster's study sheds fresh light on the generation of human behavior, ultimately revealing how cognition, choice, and rationality are undermined by the physical processes that underlie strong emotions and cravings. This book will be of particular in…
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Structural Unemployment in Western Europe: Reasons and Remedies
Examines the different patterns and long-term trends behind persistent unemployment across Western Europe in light of the developments in labour market theory. This work explains the emergence and persistence of unemployment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285995
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- 1 online resource (viii, 350 pages) :illustrations.
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Structures Technology for Large Radio and Radar Telescope Systems
Co-sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."The contents of the papers can be grouped roughly as follows:1. Requirements and standards for supporting structures, tracking equipment, antennas, and radomes.2. Design and performance of existing systems.3. Theoretical analysis of the structures of supporting structures, antennas, and radomes. In some …
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- 9780262310833
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- 1 online resource (x, 538 pages) :illustrations
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Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change
Stories both practical and inspirational about environmental leadership on campus.These personal narratives of greening college campuses offer inspiration, motivation, and practical advice. Written by faculty, staff, administrators, and a student, from varying perspectives and reflecting divergent experiences, these stories also map the growing strength of a national movement toward environment…
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- 9780262267717
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- 1 online resource (viii, 327 pages) :illustrations.
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Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionarie…
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Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chip…
This collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, and how the machines and the knowledge that make up technical systems strengthen or reshape social, political, and cultural power. The authors suggest ways in which a more nuanced investigation of technology's complex history can enrich our understanding of the changing me…
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- 9780262267038
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- 1 online resource (xx, 339 pages) :illustrations
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Salvador Luria :an immigrant biologist in Cold War America
"Scientific biography of Salvador Luria, Nobel-prize-winning biologist, activist, and MIT professor"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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