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Human rights in the global information society
Papers originally presented at the World Summit on the Information Society, November 2005.International organizations, governments, academia, industry, and the media have all begun to grapple with the information society as a global policy issue. The first United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held in December 2003, recognized the connections between information technol…
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- 320 HUM
Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality
"This volume contributes to a current debate within the psychology of thought that has wide implications for our ideas about creativity, decision making, and economic behavior. The essays focus on the role of implicit, unconscious thinking in creativity and problem solving, the interaction of intuition and analytic thinking, and the relationship between communicative heuristics and thought. The…
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- 9780262335119
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 385 pages) :illustrations
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Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by Design
Dorst describes a new, innovation-centered approach to problem-solving in organizations: frame creation. It applies "design thinking," but it goes beyond the borrowed tricks and techniques that usually characterize that term. The strategies presented are drawn from the unique, sophisticated, multilayered practices of top designers, and from insights that have emerged from fifty years of design …
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- 9780262328845
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 204 pages) :illustrations.
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Unmanned Systems of World Wars I and II
"Foreword by Michael Toscano"--Cover."Military drones have recently been hailed as a revolutionary new technology that will forever change the conduct of war. And yet the United States and other countries have been deploying such unmanned military systems for more than a century. Written by a renowned authority in the field, this book documents the forgotten legacy of these pioneering efforts, …
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- 0262331772
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- 1 online resource (757 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon
Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262331942
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- 1 online resource (xx, 443 pages) :illustrations.
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The Sound of Innovation: Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution
How a team of musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists developed computer music as an academic field and ushered in the era of digital music. In the 1960s, a team of Stanford musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists used computing in an entirely novel way: to produce and manipulate sound and create the sonic basis of new musical compositions. This grou…
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- 9780262328814
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Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century
How xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages public. This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or "Xerox machine," became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper jams, mangled pages, and even fires made early versions…
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- 9780262334334
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 201 pages)
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Earth System Governance: World Politics in the Anthropocene
In an era of planet-wide transformation, we need a new model for planet-wide environmental politics. This book proposes 'earth system' governance as just such a new paradigm. It offers both analytical and normative perspectives. It provides detailed analysis of global environmental politics in terms of five dimensions of effective governance: agency, particularly agency beyond that of state act…
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- 9780262322928
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Ending the fossil fuel era
Not so long ago, people North and South had little reason to believe that wealth from oil, gas, and coal brought anything but great prosperity. But the presumption of net benefits from fossil fuels is eroding as widening circles of people rich and poor experience the downside. A positive transition to a post-fossil fuel era cannot wait for global agreement, a swap-in of renewables, a miracle te…
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- 9780262327077
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- 1 online resource (xii, 374 pages) :illustrations
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Categorizing Cognition: Toward Conceptual Coherence in the Foundations of Psy…
A proposal for a categorization of cognition based on core properties of the constituent processes that integrates theory and empirical findings across domains.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262320703
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 358 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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