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We live in an "Information Age" of overabundant data and lightning-fasttransmission. Yet although information and knowledge represent key factors in most economicdecisions, we often forget that data,
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Collaborative approaches are increasingly common across a range of governance andpolicy areas. Single-issue, single-organization solutions often prove ineffective for complex,contentious, and diffuse
Collaborative approaches are increasingly common across a range of governance andpolicy areas. Single-issue, single-organization solutions often prove ineffective for complex,contentious, and diffuse
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This popular introductory linguistics text is unique for its integration of themes. Rather than treat morphology, phonetics, phonology, syntax, and semantics as completely separate fields, the book s
In ThermoPoetics, Barri Gold sets out to show us how analogous, intertwined, and mutually productive poetry and physics may be. Charting the simultaneous emergence of the laws of thermodynamics in li
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Artists have often taken rational, material existence as a starting point forengagement with metaphysics and mysticism, but no book until now has traced a similar strategy onthe part of curators. In
Computational systems biology unifies the mechanistic approach of systems biologywith the data-driven approach of computational biology. Computational systems biology aims todevelop algorithms that un
Bioethics has become increasingly politicized over the past decade. Conservative voices dominated the debate at first, but the recent resurgence of progressivism and the
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Historians of mathematics have devoted considerable attention to Isaac Newton's work on algebra, series, fluxions, quadratures, and geometry. In Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method, Nic
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