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Digital capitalism: networking the global market system
Schiller traces the transformation of the Internet from government, military, and educational tool to agent of "digital capitalism" through three critically important and interlinked realms.The networks that comprise cyberspace were originally created at the behest of government agencies, military contractors, and allied educational institutions. Over the past generation or so, however, a growi…
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- 9780262283137
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 294 pages)
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The design of high-efficiency turbomachinery and gas turbines
"This comprehensive textbook is unique in its design-focused approach to turbomachinery and gas turbines. It offers students and practicing engineers methods for configuring these machines to perform with the highest possible efficiency. Examples and problems are based on the actual design of turbomachinery and turbines. After an introductory chapter that outlines the goals of the book and prov…
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- Second edition, with a new preface.
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- 0262325802
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 593 pages) :illustrations
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Dolphin communication and cognition : past, present, and future
"Dolphin researchers have collected an impressive amount of data over the last twenty years, thanks to advances in technology for monitoring, recording, and analyzing dolphin behavior as well as increasing interest in exploring and modeling dolphins' cognitive capacities. This volume offers a comprehensive reference to the latest research on dolphin communication and cognition, reporting on fin…
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- 9780262331852
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) :illustrations
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Situated design methods
All design is situated -- carried out from an embedded position. Design involves many participants and encompasses a range of interactions and interdependencies among designers, designs, design methods, and users. Design is also multidisciplinary, extending beyond the traditional design professions into such domains as health, culture, education, and transportation. This book presents eighteen …
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- 0262321009
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- 1 online resource (xi, 400 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The measure of madness : philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience, and delu…
This title offers a novel explanation of delusion. Over the last two decades, philosophers and cognitive scientists have investigated explanations of delusion that interweave philosophical questions about the nature of belief and rationality with findings from cognitive science and neurobiology. The book argues that once we fully describe the computational and neural mechanisms that produce del…
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 274 pages).
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Understanding global crises : an emerging paradigm
This book offers a review of an emerging paradigm that is consistent with the key features of recent global financial crises. This paradigm presents in a transparent way basic analytical elements of the theories of financial and monetary crises and how these elements fit together in macroeconomic analysis of global crises. Razin surveys the credit implosion that led to a severe banking crisis i…
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- 9780262327701
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The digital dialectic: new essays on new media
The Digital Diolectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms. Unlike purely academic texts on new media, the book includes contributions by scholars, artists, and entrepreneurs, who combine theoretical investigations with hands-on analysis of the possibilities (and limitations) of new technology. …
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- 9780262278645
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 298 pages) :illustrations.
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Digital mantras: the languages of abstract and virtual worlds
Holtzman synthesizes ideas from music, computing, art, and philosophy with biographical and historical anecdotes and a thread of mysticism to arrive at a new philosophy of creativity for the digital age.
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- 0262291169
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- 1 online resource (x, 321 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Analytical methods for dynamics modelers
"Simulation modeling is increasingly integrated into research and policy analysis of complex sociotechnical systems in a variety of domains. Model-based analysis and policy design inform a range of applications in fields from economics to engineering to health care. This book offers a hands-on introduction to key analytical methods for dynamic modeling. Bringing together tools and methodologies…
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- 0262331446
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 416 pages) :illustrations
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A case for climate engineering
A leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technology to slow the pace of global warming."Climate engineering -- which could slow the pace of global warming by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere -- has emerged in recent years as an extremely controversial technology. And for good reason: it carries unknown risks and it may undermine comm…
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- 9781461943839
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 194 pages).
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