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The tales teeth tell :development, evolution, behavior
What teeth can tell us about human evolution, development, and behavior. Our teeth have intriguing stories to tell. These sophisticated time machines record growth, diet, and evolutionary history as clearly as tree rings map a redwood's lifespan. Each day of childhood is etched into tooth crowns and roots--capturing birth, nursing history, environmental clues, and illnesses. The study of ancien…
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- 9780262348928
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- 1 online resource (296 pages).
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Global Carbon PricingThe Path to Climate Cooperation
Why the traditional "pledge and review" climate agreements have failed, and how carbon pricing, based on trust and reciprocity, could succeed.After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a "pledge and review" approach: countries pledge (almost anything), subject to (unenforced) review. This approach ignores everything we know about human cooperation. In this book, le…
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- 9780262340380
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- 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages :)illustrations
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Spotify teardown :inside the black box of streaming music
An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of audio files into streamed experience. Spotify provides a streaming service that has been welcomed as disrupting the world of music. Yet such disruption always comes at a price. Spotify Teardown contests the tired claim that digital culture thrives on disruption. Borrowing the notion of "teardown" from…
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- 9780262349680
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- 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) :illustrations
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The globalization of clean energy technology :lessons from China
The development and deployment of cleaner energy technologies have become globalized phenomena. Yet despite the fact that energy-related goods account for more than ten percent of international trade, policy makers, academics, and the business community perceive barriers to the global diffusion of these emerging technologies. Experts point to problems including intellectual property concerns, t…
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- 0262322099
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- 1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) :illustrations.
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We used to wait :music videos and creative literacy
"Music videos were once something broadcast by MTV and received on our TV screens. Today, music videos are searched for, downloaded, and viewed on our computer screens -- or produced in our living rooms and uploaded to social media. In We Used to Wait, Rebecca Kinskey examines this shift. She investigates music video as a form, originally a product created by professionals to be consumed by non…
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- 9780262325479
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 99 pages) :illustrations.
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Aluminum dreams :the making of light modernity
Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and domestic products that ranged from airplanes and cars to designer chairs and artificial Christmas trees.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262321365
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Enjoying machines
The dominant feature of modern technology is not how productive it makes us, or how it has revolutionized the workplace, but how enjoyable it is. We take pleasure in our devices, from smartphones to personal computers to televisions. Whole classes of leisure activities rely on technology. How has technology become such an integral part of enjoyment? In this book, Barry Brown and Oskar Juhlin ex…
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- 9780262326896
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- 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages)illustrations.
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"Raw data" is an oxymoron
We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta- denotes a quadrillion, or a thousand trillion). Data collection is constant and even insidious, with every click and every "like" stored somewhere for something. This book reminds us that data is anything but "raw," that we shouldn't think of data as a natural reso…
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- 0262312328
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- 1 online resource (vi, 182 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Victor Papanek :designer for the real world
"A cultural geneaology of the influence of Victor Papanek on the world of transdisciplinary design"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262361590
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Making IT work :a history of the computer services industry
The evolution of the multi-billion-dollar computer services industry, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, with case studies of important companies.The computer services industry has worldwide annual revenues of nearly a trillion dollars and employs millions of workers, but is often overshadowed by the hardware and software products industries. In this book, Je…
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- 9780262342193
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- 1 online resource (x, 359 pages) :illustrations.
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