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Harvesting the biosphere :what we have taken from nature
An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistoric hunting to modern energy production. The biosphere—the Earth's thin layer of life—dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none …
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- 9780262312264
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The Global Biopolitics of the IUD: How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users…
This is a biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD. The book illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298452
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 238 pages).
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Perspectives in space surveillance
The development of deep space surveillance technology and its later application to near-Earth surveillance, covering work at Lincoln Laboratory from 1970 to 2000.In the 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union raced to develop space-based intelligence gathering capability. The Soviets succeeded first, with SPUTNIK I in 1957. The United States began to monitor the growing Soviet space prese…
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- 9780262338608
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Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology
Providing an introduction to the field of applied ontology that is of particular relevance to biomedicine, this thorough book covers theoretical components of ontologies, best practices for ontology design, and examples of biomedical ontologies in use. --OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262329581
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American illuminations :urban lighting, 1800-1920
How Americans adapted European royal illuminations for patriotic celebrations, spectacular expositions, and intensely bright commercial lighting to create the world's most dazzling and glamorous cities.Illuminated ftes and civic celebrations began in Renaissance Italy and spread through the courts of Europe. Their fireworks, torches, lamps, and special effects glorified the monarch, marked the …
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- 9780262344784
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- 1 online resource (x, 280 pages)
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Provocative Syntax
After presenting the central proposal and showing its implementation in the analyses of familiar cases of syntactic movement, Branigan demonstrates the effects of provocation in a variety of inversion constructions, describes the details of chain formation and successive cyclic movement in a provocation model, and much more.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295673
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- 1 online resource (x, 176 pages) :illustrations.
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An introduction to lifted probabilistic inference
"The book presents an introduction to, and an authoritative guide, for anyone interested in the problem of probabilistic inference in the presence of symmetries/structured models"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262365596
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Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities …
How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262302708
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- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 211 pages) :illustrations.
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Squatters in the Capitalist City: Housing, Justice, and Urban Politics
To date, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the disperse research on the squatters’ movement in Europe. In Squatters in the Capitalist City, Miguel A. Martínez López presents a critical review of the current research on squatting and of the historical development of the movements in European cities according to their major social, political and spatial dimensions. Comparing citi…
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- 9781317514749
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Solar Calendar, and Other Ways of Marking Time
At the end of his life, Pierre Hadot was a professor at the Collège de France — a “professor’s professor” — and he helped Michel Foucault, most famously, conceptualize ethics. Hadot devoted his career to recovering the ancient conception of philosophy, according to which the discourses of universities are but a fragment of what philosophy is. His engagement with this theme helped Ben…
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