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Developing scaffolds in evolution, culture, and cognition
'Scaffolding' is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common threads in diverse applications of scaffolding, including theoretical biology cognitive science, social theory, science and technology studies, and human development. Despite its widespread use, the concept of scaffolding is often given short shrift; the contributors to this volume offer a …
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- 9781461952367
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 426 pages) :illustrations.
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Memes in digital culture
"In December 2012, the exuberant video 'Gangnam Style' became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video: 'Mitt Romney Style, ' 'NASA Johnson Style, ' 'Egyptian Style, ' and many others. 'Gangnam Style' (and its attendant parodies, imitations, and derivations) is one of the most fa…
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- 9781461947332
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- 1 online resource (x, 200 pages) :illustrations.
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The outsourcer :the story of India's IT revolution
Originally published as: The long revolution.A history of how India became a major player in the global technology industry, mapping technological, economic, and political transformations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026232833X
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 274 pages) :illustrations.
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Unlocking energy innovation :how America can build a low-cost, low-carbon ene…
"The authors outline three waves of energy innovation to reveal how America can speed up the introduction of new technologies and business models and accelerate deployment on a massive scale"--Publisher.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262300179
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages) :illustrations
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Constructing green :the social structures of sustainability
"Buildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energy is used for heating, cooling, lighting, and powering machines and devices in buildings. And despite decades of investment in green construction technologies, residential and commercial buildings remain stubbornly energy inefficient. This book looks beyond the technological and material aspects of green constr…
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- 9781461936404
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 399 pages) :illustrations.
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Functional Connections of Cortical Areas :a New View from the Thalamus
This study shows new ways of thinking about how the brain relates to the world, to cognition, and to behaviour. Based on foundations previously established it considers the implications of these ground rules for thalamic inputs, thalamocortical connections, and cortical outputs. The book argues that functional and structural analyses of pathways connecting thalamus and cortex point beyond these…
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- 9781461937111
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- 1 online resource (279 pages) :illustrations
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From X-rays to DNA :how engineering drives biology
"Engineering has been an essential collaborator in biological research and breakthroughs in biology are often enabled by technological advances. Decoding the double helix structure of DNA, for example, only became possible after significant advances in such technologies as X-ray diffraction and gel electrophoresis. Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis improved as new technologies -- includin…
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- 9781461952183
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- 1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) :illustrations
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Venture labor :work and the burden of risk in innovative industries
"Why employees of pioneering Internet companies chose to invest their time, energy, hopes, and human capital in start-up ventures."--Provided by publisher.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301305
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 195 pages) :illustrations.
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Progressive enlightenment :the origins of the gaslight industry, 1780-1820
An argument that the gas industry was the first integrated large-scale technological network and that it signaled a new wave of industrial innovation.In Progressive Enlightenment, Leslie Tomory examines the origins of the gaslight industry, from invention to consolidation as a large integrated urban network. Tomory argues that gas was the first integrated large-scale technological network, a de…
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- 9780262301244
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- 1 online resource (x, 348 pages).
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Pastoral capitalism :a history of suburban corporate landscapes
"Mozingo distinguishes among three forms of corporate landscapes--the corporate campus, the corporate estate, and the office park--and examines suburban corporate landscapes built and inhabited by such companies as Bell Labs, General Motors, Deere & Company, and Microsoft. She also considers the globalization of pastoral capitalism in Europe and the developing world including Singapore, India, …
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- 9780262338271
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- 1 online resource (x, 315 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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