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This title investigates an often overlooked factor in the development of today's interoperable world - the evolution of copyright law. The book examines the debates surrounding the use of copyright law to prevent competition and interoperability in the global software industry in the last 15 years.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295543
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- 1 online resource (x, 233 pages).
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Fun, taste, & games :an aesthetics of the idle, unproductive, and otherwise p…
Reclaiming fun as a meaningful concept for understanding games and play. "Fun" is somewhat ambiguous. If something is fun, is it pleasant Entertaining Silly A way to trick students into learning Fun also has baggage--it seems inconsequential, embarrassing, child's play. In Fun, Taste, & Games , John Sharp and David Thomas reclaim fun as a productive and meaningful tool for understanding and app…
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- 9780262351249
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 239 pages) :illustrations.
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Big is beautiful :debunking the myth of small business
"Why small business is not the basis of American prosperity, not the foundation of American democracy, and not the champion of job creation. In this provocative book, Robert Atkinson and Michael Lind argue that small business is not, as is widely claimed, the basis of American prosperity. Small business is not responsible for most of the country's job creation and innovation. American democracy…
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- 9780262345668
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- 1 online resource
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Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution
Closely linked essays examine distinctive national patterns of industrialization.This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon. The fifteen contributors go beyond the longstanding view of industrialization as a linear process marked by discrete stages. Instead, they examine a lengthy and creative period in the history of industrialization,…
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- 9780262289504
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- 1 online resource (vi, 356 pages).
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Designing with the body :somaesthetic interaction design
Interaction design that entails a qualitative shift from a symbolic, language-oriented stance to an experiential stance that encompasses the entire design and use cycle. With the rise of ubiquitous technology, data-driven design, and the Internet of Things, our interactions and interfaces with technology are about to change dramatically, incorporating such emerging technologies as shape-changin…
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- 9780262348324
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- 1 online resource.
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Planetary improvement :cleantech entrepreneurship and the contradictions of g…
An examination of clean technology entrepreneurship finds that ""green capitalism"" is more capitalist than green.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262346139
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- 1 online resource
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Altered states of consciousness :experiences out of time and self
"What altered states of consciousness--the dissolution of feelings of time and self--can tell us about the mystery of consciousness. During extraordinary moments of consciousness--shock, meditative states and sudden mystical revelations, out-of-body experiences, or drug intoxication--our senses of time and self are altered; we may even feel time and self dissolving. These experiences have long …
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- 9780262347730
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 176 pages) :illustrations
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The new economics :for industry, government, education
A new edition of a book that details the system of transformation underlying the 14 Points for Management presented in Deming's Out of the Crisis . It would be better if everyone would work together as a system, with the aim for everybody to win. What we need is cooperation and transformation to a new style of management." --from The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education In this boo…
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- Third edition
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- 9780262355445
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- 1 online resource (240 pages).
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Out of the crisis
Deming's classic work on management, based on his famous 14 Points for Management. " Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment." --from Out of the Crisis In his classic Out of the Crisis, W. Edwards Deming describes the fou…
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- [Reissue].
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- 9780262355438
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- 1 online resource (448 pages).
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Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order
"We are living beyond our means, running up debts both economic and ecological, consuming the planet's resources at rates not remotely sustainable. But it's hard to imagine a different way. How can we live without cheap goods and easy credit? How can we consume without consuming the systems that support life? How can we live well and live within our means? In Treading Softly, Thomas Princen hel…
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- 9780262266079
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- 1 online resource (xi, 210 pages)
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