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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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Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames
"In Cheating, Mia Consalvo investigates how players choose to play games and what happens when they can't always play the way they'd like. She explores a broad range of player behavior, including cheating (alone and in groups); examines the varying ways that players and industry define cheating; describes how the game industry itself has helped systematize cheating; and studies online cheating …
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- 9780262270748
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- 1 online resource (ix, 228 pages)
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China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development
Chinese production of automobiles rose from 42,000 cars per year in 1990 to 2.3 million in 2004; the number of passenger vehicles on the road doubled every two and a half years through the 1990s and continues to grow. In China Shifts Gears, Kelly Sims Gallagher identifies an unprecedented opportunity for China to "shift gears" and avoid the usual problems associated with the automobile industry…
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- 9780262273381
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- 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) :illustrations.
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Blowout in the Gulf :the BP oil spill disaster and the future of energy in Am…
Explains both the disaster and the decisions that led up to it and argues that for the future the emphasis needs to be on prevention and that risk-management policies be based on better understandings of humans and hardware.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262294126
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) :illustrations
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The U. S. Paper Industry and Sustainable Production: An Argument for Restruct…
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- 9780262283960
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- 1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) :illustrations.
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Taxation and Regulation of the Financial Sector
Analytical and empirical perspectives on the interplay of taxation and regulation in the financial sector.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262321099
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Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America
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- 9780262338189
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- 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) :illustrations.
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Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchl…
The history of a crucial decade in the early development of digital technology, focusing on both technical and business issues at two key firms.Between 1946 and 1957 computing went from a preliminary, developmental stage to more widespread use accompanied by the beginnings of the digital computer industry. During this crucial decade, spurred by rapid technological advances, the computer enterpr…
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- 9780262280723
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- 1 online resource (x, 347 pages) :illustrations.
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Distributed ledgers :design and regulation of financial infrastructure and pa…
"An exploration of the economic applications of distributed ledger technology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262361191
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Content
"Eichhorn's EKS book will unpack the idea of content, whose emergence reflects a major shift in the way cultural products are produced and consumed, with far-reaching implications for society"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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