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Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society
Previously published in French as: Trois le?cons sur la soci?et?e post-industrielle.A noted economist analyzes the upheavals caused by revolutions in technology, labor, culture, financial markets, and globalization.In this pithy and provocative book, noted economist Daniel Cohen offers his analysis of the global shift to a post-industrial era. If it was once natural to speak of industrial socie…
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- 9780262266659
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- 1 online resource (106 pages)
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The black rose and other poems
Introspection, carried too far, may wreck the soul of a man, but without it a poet is merely a versifier or an experimenter, dealing with the laboratory instead of with life. For him there must be no eternal verities except those he discovers and proves to himself. He can take nothing on trust. His life-work is to " stir the decent dust about the world " — his own world as well as that of oth…
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- 78512540
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- 24 p. ; 19 cm
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The magic casement : an anthology of fairy poetry
THE MAGIC CASEMENT A BOOK OF FAERY POEMS GIVING GLIMPSES OF THE WORLD BEYOND THE CASEMENT: SELECTED AND ARRANGED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ALFRED NOYES
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- 610832067
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- 391 p. : 20 cm
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Hymn to Venus : an anthology in miniature of poems
A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS VOU are a tulip seen to-day, •*• But, dearest, of so short a stay That where you grew scarce men can say. You are a lovely July-flower, Yet one rude wind or ruffling shower Will force you hence, and in an hour.
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- 23 p. : 19 cm
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Global justice and transnational politics : essays on the moral and political…
If globalization is to be a benefit and not a burden to humankind, it must be governed by global institutions that are perceived by all people to be democratic and just. But before we can create such institutions, we must imagine them, and that requires a rethinking and extension of normative political theory. Global Justice and Transnational Politics encourages and advances that work.The book'…
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- 9780262271325
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- 1 online resource (vi, 320 pages).
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- Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
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- 320 GLO
Global networks : computers and international communication
Global Networks takes up the host of issues raised by the new networking technology that now links individuals, groups, and organizations in different countries and on different continents. The twenty-one contributions focus on the implementation, application, and impact of computer-mediated communication in a global context. Previously limited to scientific research, global networks now have a…
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- 0585020361
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- 1 online resource (xii, 411 pages) :illustrations
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- 005 GLO
Global trade and conflicting national interests
Ralph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy.In this book Ralph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy. Trade today is dominated by manufactured goods, rapidly moving technology, and huge firms that benefit from economies of scale. This is very different from the largely agricultural world in which the class…
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- 9780262274050
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 199 pages) :illustrations.
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- Lionel Robbins Lectures
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Globalization and History : the Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Ec…
Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914-the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262294300
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- 1 online resource (346 pages)
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Globalization and the poor periphery before 1950
"In Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950 Jeffrey Williamson examines globalization through the lens of both the economist and the historian, analyzing its economic impact on industrially lagging poor countries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Williamson argues that industrialization in the core countries of northwest Europe and their overseas settlements, combined wi…
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- 9780262286329
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- 1 online resource (x, 189 pages) : illustrations
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- Ohlin Lectures
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- 362 WIL g
God & Golem, Inc : a comment on certain points where cybernetics impinges on …
The new and rapidly growing field of communication sciences owes as much to Norbert Wiener as to any one man. He coined the word for it--cybernetics. In God & Golem, Inc. , the author concerned himself with major points in cybernetics which are relevant to religious issues.The first point he considers is that of the machine which learns. While learning is a property almost exclusively ascribed …
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- 1 online resource (99 pages).
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- 001 WIE g
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