The elimination of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) in 1995 came during a storm of budget cutting and partisan conflict. Offering perspectives from... Læs mere
How do we extend the 'conservation ethic' to include the cultural links between local populations and their physical... Læs mere
As the 21st century approaches, the need to put principles of sustainable living and ecosystem management into practice has never been so urgent
Based on course notes of SIGGRAPH course teaching techniques for real-time rendering of volumetric data and effects; covers both applications in scientific visualization and... Læs mere
This book explores the fundamental digital audio concepts at a deeper level and explains music theory. It discusses creating, recording, processing and analyzing many forms of sound and music, and presents opportunities to improve the audio experience where sound already exists.
From the IntroductionThis book is mostly structured around first-person interviews with nationally and locally recognized experts who have been in hazardous materials response for a number of years
Aiming to explain many Russians' ambivalence to recent changes, this work examines the unequal... Læs mere
A reader on American government and the economy. It contains wide-ranging articles by people such as Richard Musgrave, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, and Alan Greenspan.
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This is the story of a dedicated group of foreign and Chinese reformers who tried, but failed, to solve China's intractable industrial problems over the three... Læs mere
A case study of a company that exemplified the 80s.
This text sets Russia's current economic transformation in the context of... Læs mere