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Labor, Credit, and Goods Markets: The Macroeconomics of Search and Unemployment
Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau
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• Author(s): Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Labor - GeneralAn integrated framework to study the theoretical and quantitative properties of economies with frictions in labor, financia...
View full detailsThe Fabric of Interface: Mobile Media, Design, and Gender
Stephen Monteiro
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• Author(s): Stephen Monteiro • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesTracing the genealogy of our physical interaction with mobile devices back to textile and needlecraft culture.For many of our intera...
View full detailsProgramming for the Puzzled: Learn to Program While Solving Puzzles
Srini Devadas
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• Author(s): Srini Devadas • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceLearning programming with one of “the coolest applications around”: algorithmic puzzles ranging from scheduling selfie time to verif...
View full detailsThe Economics of Continuous-Time Finance
Bernard Dumas
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• Author(s): Bernard Dumas • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Finance - Financial EngineeringAn introduction to economic applications of the theory of continuous-time finance that strikes a balance between math...
View full detailsDemographic Change and Long-Run Development
Matteo Cervellati
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• Author(s): Matteo Cervellati • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Economic ConditionsRecent approaches to economic demography, investigating the effect of the transition to low mortality and low fertility on ec...
View full detailsThe Cultural Nature of Attachment: Contextualizing Relationships and Development
Heidi Keller
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• Author(s): Heidi Keller • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Social PsychologyMultidisciplinary perspectives on the cultural and evolutionary foundations of children's attachment relationships and on the conseq...
View full detailsPlay Matters
Miguel Sicart
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• Author(s): Miguel Sicart • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralWhy play is a productive, expressive way of being human, a form of understanding, and a fundamental part of our well-being.What do we think a...
View full detailsHow Games Move Us: Emotion by Design
Katherine Isbister
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• Author(s): Katherine Isbister • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Video & MobileAn engaging examination of how video game design can create strong, positive emotional experiences for players—with examples ...
View full detailsTechnologies of Vision: The War Between Data and Images
Steve F Anderson
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• Author(s): Steve F Anderson • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesAn investigation of the computational turn in visual culture, centered on the entangled politics and pleasures of data and images.If...
View full detailsBark
Georges Didi-Huberman
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• Author(s): Georges Didi-Huberman • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralA noted French thinker's poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.On a visit to Auschwitz-B...
View full detailsModernizing America's Electricity Infrastructure
Mason Willrich
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• Author(s): Mason Willrich • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Industries - EnergyA comprehensive, coherent strategy for modernizing America's electricity infrastructure while ensuring affordable, reliable, sec...
View full detailsElements of Ethics for Physical Scientists
Sandra C. Greer
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• Author(s): Sandra C. Greer • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Physics - GeneralA guide to the everyday decisions about right and wrong faced by physical scientists and research engineers.This book offers the ...
View full detailsVivarium: Experimental, Quantitative, and Theoretical Biology at Vienna's Biologische Versuchsanstalt
Gerd B. Muller
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• Author(s): Gerd B. Muller • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryThe scientific achievements and forgotten legacy of a major Austrian research institute, from its founding in 1902 to its wartime destructio...
View full detailsBeyond Austerity: Reforming the Greek Economy
Costas Meghir
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• Author(s): Costas Meghir • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - MacroeconomicsProminent economists present detailed analyses of the conditions that made Greece vulnerable to economic crisis and offer ...
View full detailsMaking It Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry
Jeffrey R. Yost
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• Author(s): Jeffrey R. Yost • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryThe evolution of the multi-billion-dollar computer services industry, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing...
View full detailsAll and Nothing: A Digital Apocalypse
Martin Burckhardt
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• Author(s): Martin Burckhardt • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesWhy 1 = presence and 0 = absence and the digital world formula is x = xn: an exploration of meaning in a universe of infinite repli...
View full detailsBreaking Convention: Psychedelic Pharmacology for the 21st Century
Ben Sessa
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• Author(s): Ben Sessa • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: PharmacologyInterdisciplinary essays on psychedelic consciousness.Presenting an interdisciplinary selection of twenty-five essays first delive...
View full detailsIt Strategy for Non-It Managers: Becoming an Engaged Contributor to Corporate It Decisions
Amrit Tiwana
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• Author(s): Amrit Tiwana • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralHow non-IT managers can turn IT from an expensive liability into a cost-effective competitive tool.Firms spend more on informatio...
View full detailsWanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017
Rachel Adams
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• Author(s): Rachel Adams • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyArtists as voyagers who leave their studios to make art, including Nancy Holt, Vito Acconci, Sophie Calle, and Richa...
View full detailsTales from the Embassy: Communiqués from the Guild of Transcultural Studies, 1976-1991
Dave Tomlin
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• Author(s): Dave Tomlin • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismVignettes of a peculiar occupation: the Guild of Transcultural Studies in the abandoned Cambodian embassy.O...
View full detailsThe Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on Ai, Robots, and Ethics
David J. Gunkel
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• Author(s): David J. Gunkel • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyAn investigation into the assignment of moral responsibilities and rights to intelligent and autonomous machines of o...
View full detailsSigmar Polke: Girlfriends
Stefan Gronert
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• Author(s): Stefan Gronert • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Afterall Books • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsAn illustrated exploration of Girlfriends (1965/66), one of Sigmar Polke's important early paintings.The artist Sig...
View full detailsWe Can't Stop Thinking about the Future
Aleksandra Mir
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• Author(s): Aleksandra Mir • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - GeneralThe story of Alexandra Mir's Space Tapestry: Faraway Missions, with reproductions of the fini...
View full detailsUndead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and The Zombie Complex
John Cussans
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• Author(s): John Cussans • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: Caribbean & West Indies - GeneralTracking the zombie from Hollywood back to its origins in the voodoo folklore of Haiti.There are zombi...
View full detailsThings That Keep Us Busy: The Elements of Interaction
Lars-Erik Janlert
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• Author(s): Lars-Erik Janlert • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralAn investigation of interactivity, interfaces and their design, and the webs of complex interactions that result.We are surrounded by int...
View full detailsMaking Design Theory
Johan Redstrom
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• Author(s): Johan Redstrom • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: History & CriticismA new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through de...
View full detailsSuper Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware: The Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Dominic Arsenault
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• Author(s): Dominic Arsenault • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Video & MobileHow the Super Nintendo Entertainment System embodied Nintendo's resistance to innovation and took the company from industry le...
View full detailsStochastic Methods in Asset Pricing
Andrew Lyasoff
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• Author(s): Andrew Lyasoff • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralA comprehensive overview of the theory of stochastic processes and its connections to asset pricing, accompanied by some concrete ...
View full detailsLiving as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011
Nato Thompson
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• Author(s): Nato Thompson • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Group ShowsA monumental, lavishly illustrated book that offers the first global portrait of a complex and defin...
View full detailsDestruction
Sven Spieker
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• Author(s): Sven Spieker • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyEssays explore contemporary artists' engagement with destruction, and how it has disrupted the perceived integrity o...
View full detailsPhilosophical Provocations: 55 Short Essays
Colin Mcginn
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• Author(s): Colin Mcginn • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyPithy, direct, and bold: essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.In Philoso...
View full detailsWork
Friederike Sigler
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• Author(s): Friederike Sigler • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyWork's meaning both within art and in its wider economic and social context: the complexities of being an art w...
View full detailsA Composer's Guide to Game Music
Winifred Phillips
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• Author(s): Winifred Phillips • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Instruction & Study - TheoryA comprehensive, practical guide to composing video game music, from acquiring the necessary skills to finding w...
View full detailsUpdating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
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• Author(s): Wendy Hui Kyong Chun • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsWhat it means when media moves from the new to the habitual—when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, st...
View full detailsScientific Programming and Computer Architecture
Divakar Viswanath
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• Author(s): Divakar Viswanath • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Programming - GeneralA variety of programming models relevant to scientists explained, with an emphasis on how programming constructs map to par...
View full detailsInternational Currency Exposure
Yin-Wong Cheung
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• Author(s): Yin-Wong Cheung • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: International - Economics & TradeIssues in debates about foreign currency exposure—the denomination of liabilities or assets in foreign curren...
View full details'And': Conjunction Reduction Redux
Barry Schein
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• Author(s): Barry Schein • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsA bold argument that “and” always means “&,” the truth-functional sentential connective.In this book, Barry Schein argues ...
View full detailsThe Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
Edward Jones-Imhotep
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• Author(s): Edward Jones-Imhotep • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryAn examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.Throughout the modern period, nat...
View full detailsPower Lines: Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882-1952
Jennifer L. Lieberman
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• Author(s): Jennifer L. Lieberman • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: United States - GeneralHow electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Elli...
View full detailsThe Good People
Patrick Harpur
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• Author(s): Patrick Harpur • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: Occult & SupernaturalTwo women see something uncanny in the skies over west London in the summer of 1989.It's the summer of 1989, a t...
View full detailsAtlantic Island
Tony Duvert
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• Author(s): Tony Duvert • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: LiteraryA forgotten gem of French literature, Duvert's version of The Lord of the Flies: an indictment against the violence embedded in a middle-class ...
View full detailsEnvironmental Governance Reconsidered, Second Edition: Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities
Robert F. Durant
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• Author(s): Robert F. Durant • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyKey topics in the ongoing evolution of environmental governance, with new and updated material.This survey of...
View full detailsMapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge
Jess Bier
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• Author(s): Jess Bier • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: CartographyDigital practices in social and political landscapes: Why two researchers can look at the same feature and see different things.Maps are wide...
View full detailsWalled States, Waning Sovereignty
Wendy Brown
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• Author(s): Wendy Brown • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Zone Books • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralA prize-winning examination of why nation-states wall themselves off despite widespread proclamations of globa...
View full detailsCloud Computing for Machine Learning and Cognitive Applications
Kai Hwang
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• Author(s): Kai Hwang • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Distributed Systems - Cloud ComputingThe first textbook to teach students how to build data analytic solutions on large data sets using cloud-based tech...
View full detailsA Mark of the Mental: In Defense of Informational Teleosemantics
Karen Neander
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• Author(s): Karen Neander • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyDrawing on insights from causal theories of reference, teleosemantics, and state space semantics, a theory of naturalized mental repr...
View full detailsMobile Microrobotics
Metin Sitti
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• Author(s): Metin Sitti • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsThe first textbook on micron-scale mobile robotics, introducing the fundamentals of design, analysis, fabrication, and control, and drawing on...
View full detailsLiberalism in Neoliberal Times: Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits
Alejandro Abraham-Hamanoiel
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• Author(s): Alejandro Abraham-Hamanoiel • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Goldsmiths Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Conservatism & LiberalismAn exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of lib...
View full detailsPrinciples of Neural Design
Peter Sterling
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• Author(s): Peter Sterling • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceTwo distinguished neuroscientists distil general principles from more than a century of scientific study, “reverse engi...
View full detailsThe Death of Public Knowledge?: How Free Markets Destroy the General Intellect
Aeron Davis
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• Author(s): Aeron Davis • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Goldsmiths Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Communication PolicyA collection of short, sharp essays exploring the value of shared and accessible public knowledge in the face o...
View full detailsTaxing Ourselves, Fifth Edition: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate Over Taxes
Joel Slemrod
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• Author(s): Joel Slemrod • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Taxation - GeneralThe new edition of a popular guide to the key issues in tax reform, presented in a clear, nontechnical, and unbiased way.To follow ...
View full detailsMonetary Theory and Policy, Fourth Edition
Carl E. Walsh
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• Author(s): Carl E. Walsh • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Money & Monetary PolicyThe new edition of a comprehensive treatment of monetary economics, including the first extensive coverage of the effecti...
View full detailsSifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism
Alice Twemlow
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• Author(s): Alice Twemlow • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: History & CriticismHow product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill.Product design cri...
View full detailsReordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution
Stephen Hilgartner
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• Author(s): Stephen Hilgartner • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryHow the regimes governing biological research changed during the genomics revolution, focusing on the Human Genome Project.The rise of g...
View full detailsFundamental Proof Methods in Computer Science: A Computer-Based Approach
Konstantine Arkoudas
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• Author(s): Konstantine Arkoudas • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Programming - GeneralA textbook that teaches students to read and write proofs using Athena.Proof is the primary vehicle for knowledge genera...
View full detailsClimate of Capitulation: An Insider's Account of State Power in a Coal Nation
Vivian E. Thomson
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• Author(s): Vivian E. Thomson • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyHow power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level, and how to redress the ingrained fav...
View full detailsGlobal Health Informatics: Principles of Ehealth and Mhealth to Improve Quality of Care
Leo Anthony G. Celi
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• Author(s): Leo Anthony G. Celi • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Public HealthKey concepts, frameworks, examples, and lessons learned in designing and implementing health information and communication techno...
View full detailsThe Human Advantage: How Our Brains Became Remarkable
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
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• Author(s): Suzana Herculano-Houzel • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceWhy our human brains are awesome, and how we left our cousins, the great apes, behind: a tale of neurons and c...
View full detailsDigital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community
Jessa Lingel
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• Author(s): Jessa Lingel • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Internet - Social MediaHow countercultural communities have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms of digital technology us...
View full detailsCarbon Capture and Storage: Efficient Legal Policies for Risk Governance and Compensation
Michael Gebert Faure
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• Author(s): Michael Gebert Faure • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental - GeneralA theoretical and practical analysis of the complex liability issues raised by carbon capture and storage systems for ...
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