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Behavioral insights
An accessible introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems. Our behavior is strongly influenced by factors that lie outside our conscious awareness, although we tend to underestimate the power of this "automatic" side of our behavior. As a result, governments make ineffective policies, businesses create bad products, and ind…
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Free-to-play :mobile video games, bias, and norms
"Paul charts the appeal of free-to-play games and examines how they challenge dominant game industry norms"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262360519
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- 1 online resource.
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Art and tradition in a time of uprisings
Examining radical reinventions of traditional practices, ranging from a queer reclamation of the Jewish festival of Purim to an Indigenous remixing of musical traditions. Supposedly outmoded modes of doing and making--from music and religious rituals to crafting and cooking--are flourishing, both artistically and politically, in the digital age. In this book, Gabriel Levine examines collective …
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- 9780262357166
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- 1 online resource (352 pages).
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Installing automobility :emerging politics of mobility and streets in Indian …
An examination of the process of prioritizing private motorized transportation in Bengaluru, a rapidly growing megacity of the Global South. Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South. Streets, once crowded with pedestrians, pushcarts, vendors, and bicyclists, are now choked w…
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- 9780262358545
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- 1 online resource (304 pages).
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Sulphuric utopias :a history of maritime fumigation
"Sulphuric Utopias presents the comprehensive history of fumigation in early-twentieth-century global health. It tells the story of a technology that transformed global practices of maritime quarantine through the combination of chemical and engineering innovation. Fumigation combined chemical and industrial engineering so as to apply gases like sulphur dioxide and sulphuric acid to the task of…
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- 9780262358194
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Trusted data :a new framework for identity and data sharing
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- Revised and expanded edition.
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- 9780262356053
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- 1 online resource (288 pages).
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Discard studies :wasting, systems, and power
An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. Discard studies is an emerging field that looks at waste and wasting broadly construed. Rather than focusing on waste and trash as the primary objects of study, discard studies looks at wider systems of waste and wasting to explore how some materials, practices, regions, and…
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- 9780262369503
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- 1 online resource (216 pages).
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The space between look and read :designing complementary meaning
"The Space between Look and Read explores how text, image, and typeface overlap and influence each other"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262374309
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A generative theory of tonal music
A search for a grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics.This work, which has become a classic in music theory since its original publication in 1983, models music understanding from the perspective of cognitive science.The point of departure is a search for the grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics.The theory, which is illustrated with numerous examples from Wes…
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- 9780262278164
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages) :illustrations.
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From the basement to the dome :how MIT's unique culture created a thriving en…
"A history of entrepreneurship at MIT, and how it evolved from ad-hoc efforts by students and alumni to a formally recognized piece of MIT's official program"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262367009
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