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    • Lectures on Microeconomics: The Big Questions Approach 

      Pancs, Romans (MIT Press, 2018)
      You are fortunate to be holding this book, or any book. You are alive. What are the chances? If the world were poorer or less populous today, you might not have been born. Or, if born elsewhere or in an earlier epoch, you ...

    • Carbon Capture 

      Herzog, Howard J. (MIT Press, 2018)
      A concise overview of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a promising but overlooked climate change mitigation pathway. The burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide (CO2), and these CO2 emissions are a major ...

    • A mark of the mental : in defense of informational teleosemantics 

      Neander, Karen (MIT Press, 2018)
      How do thoughts get to be about the world, how do they refer to their contents? This work tackles the most tractable part of this ancient problem by offering a theory of original intentionality for (nonconceptual) ...

    • Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear 

      Ananny, Mike (MIT Press, 2018)
      Reimagining press freedom in a networked era: not just a journalist's right to speak but also a public's right to hear.In Networked Press Freedom, Mike Ananny offers a new way to think about freedom of the press in a time ...

    • AP Statistics, 2014-2015 Edition 

      Craine, William B.; Hinders, Duane Curtis (McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)
      Presents a study plan for the AP statistics examination, discussings study skills and strategies and providing a review of the core concepts and two practice exams with answers and explanations. Features a 5-step plan to ...

    • Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education 

      Karaganis, Joe (MIT Press, 2018)
      Examining the new ecosystems of access that are emerging in middle- and low-income countries as opportunities for higher education expand but funding for materials shrinks. Even as middle- and low-income countries expand ...

    • Translating Happiness : A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being 

      Lomas, Tim (MIT Press, 2018)
      How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being -- from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch -- can enrich our emotional understanding and experience.

    • Being Ecological 

      Morton, Timothy (MIT Press, 2018)
      Don't care about ecology? You think you don't, but you might all the same. Don't read ecology books? This book is for you. Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the time they hit you. ...

    • Globalizing Innovation: State Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Economies 

      Egan, Patrick J.W. (MIT Press, 2018)
      The impact of host country institutions and policy on innovation by multinational firms in emerging economies. In the past, multinational firms have looked to developing countries as sources of raw materials, markets, or ...

    • The Targeting System of Language 

      Talmy, Leonard (MIT Press, 2018)
      In this book, Leonard Talmy proposes that a single linguistic/cognitive system, targeting, underlies two domains of linguistic reference, those termed anaphora (for a referent that is an element of the current discourse) ...

    • Authors, Users, and Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity 

      Meese, James (MIT Press, 2018)
      An examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational framework. In current debates over copyright law, the author, the user, and the pirate are almost always invoked. ...

    • Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media 

      Wernimont, Jacqueline (MIT Press, 2019)
      Anglo-American culture has used media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical journal entries map the details of everyday life, while death registers put numbers to life's endings. Today we count our daily ...

    • Financial Accounting 

      Spiceland, J. David; Thomas, Wayne; Herrmann, Don (McGraw-Hill Education, 2010)
      Have you experienced those moments in your course when students became fully engaged? When the “Aha!” revelations are bursting like fireworks? David Spiceland, Wayne Thomas, and Don Herrmann have developed a unique textbook ...

    • Organizational Behaviour, Third CDN Edition 

      Kinicki,  Angelo (McGraw-Hill Education, 2010)
      Organizational behaviour (often abbreviated as OB) is a field of study that investigates how individuals, groups, and structure affect and are affected by behaviour within organizations. Behaviour refers to what people do ...

    • Japan’s Dietary Transition and Its Impacts 

      Smil, Vaclav; Kobayashi, Kazuhiko (MIT Press, 2012)
      In a little more than a century, the Japanese diet has undergone a dramatic transformation. In 1900, a plant-based, near-subsistence diet was prevalent, with virtually no consumption of animal protein. By the beginning of ...

    • Writing the AP English Essay 2014-2015 

      Murphy, Barbara L.; Rankin, Estelle M. (McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)
      Get ready for your AP exam with this straightforward and easy-to-follow study guide, updated for all the latest exam changes! 5 Steps to a 5: Writing the AP English Essay features an effective, 5-step plan to guide your ...

    • Leadership Communication 

      Barrett, Deborah (McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)
      Leadership Communication guides current and potential leaders in developing the communication capabilities needed to be transformational leaders. It brings together managerial communication and concepts of emotional ...

    • MICAI 2008: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Atizapán de Zaragoza, Mexico, October 27-31, 2008 Proceedings 

      Dermaku, Artan (Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2008)
      This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2008, held in Atizapán de Zaragoza, Mexico, in October 2008.The 96 revised full papers presented ...

    • MICAI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 6th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aguascalientes, Mexico, November 4-10, 2007. Proceedings 

      Guadarrama, Juan C. Acosta (Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2007)
      Artificial Intelligence is a branch of computer science that studies heuristic methods of solving complex problems. Historically the first such tasks modeled human intellectual activity: reasoning, learning, seeing and ...

    • Mechanizing Mathematical Reasoning: Essays in Honor of Jörg H. Siekmann on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday 

      Hutter, Dieter; Stephan, Werner (Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2005)
      By presenting state-of-the-art results in logical reasoning and formal methods in the context of artificial intelligence and AI applications, this book commemorates the 60th birthday of Jörg H. Siekmann.The 30 revised ...