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Cybernetic revolutionaries: Technology and politics in Allende's Chile
In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was Chile's experiment with peaceful socialist change under Salvador Allende; the second was the simultaneous attempt to build a computer system that would manage Chile's economy. Neither vision was fully realized—Allende's government ended with a vi…
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- 9780262298292
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 326 pages) :illustrations
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Oil, illiberalism, and war: An analysis of energy and US foreign policy
The United States is addicted to crude oil. In this book, Andrew Price-Smith argues that this addiction has distorted the conduct of American foreign policy in profound and malign ways, resulting in interventionism, exploitation, and other illiberal behaviors that hide behind a facade of liberal internationalism. The symbiotic relationship between the state and the oil industry has produced dev…
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- 9780262327527
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- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 210 pages) :map
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Strategic bargaining and cooperation in greenhouse gas mitigations : An Integ…
A fresh approach to the economics of climate change that bridges integrated assessment modeling and game theoretic modeling.
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Internal Combustion Engine in Theory and Practice: Combustion, Fuels, Materia…
"This revised edition of Taylor's classic work on the internal-combustion engine incorporates changes and additions in engine design and control that have been brought on by the world petroleum crisis, the subsequent emphasis on fuel economy, and the legal restraints on air pollution. The fundamentals and the topical organization, however, remain the same. The analytic rather than merely descri…
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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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- 1 online resource (xiv, 265 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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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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Ten Problems of Consciousness: A Representational Theory of the Phenomenal Mind
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285322
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 248 pages) :illustrations.
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Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse
This is a collection of theoretical and practical perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of using digital media in research, preservation, management, interpretation, and representation of cultural heritage.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269742
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- 1 online resource (x, 465 pages) :illustrations.
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Thinking Strategically: The Major Powers, Kazakhstan, and the Central Asian N…
More than ten years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, none of the major powers, including Russia, has developed a cohesive geopolitical strategy for dealing with the countries and regions that once made up the USSR. Even after September 11 and the sudden importance of Central Asia in the struggle against global terrorism, the United States continues to deal with the region in fragmented an…
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