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Manifesto of the new economy : institutions and business models of the digita…
The book describes the main directions for the development of the digital society. The author angles its book to those who are interested to know what would replace search engines, and how social networks would evolve; what profit can be made of different forms of informational collaboration (crowdsourcing, collaborative filtering). And, the main thing, how it will influence the structure of th…
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- 9783642212772
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- vi, 145p. : ill.
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- 330 DOL m
Optimizing HPC applications with intel cluster tools
Optimizing HPC Applications with Intel® Cluster Tools takes the reader on a tour of the fast-growing area of high performance computing and the optimization of hybrid programs. These programs typically combine distributed memory and shared memory programming models and use the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and OpenMP for multi-threading to achieve the ultimate goal of high performance at low…
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- 9781430264972
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- xxiv, 300p. : ill.
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- 004.11 OPT o
The State, business and education: public-private partnerships revisited
Businesses, philanthropies and non-profit entities are increasingly successful in capturing public funds to support private provision of schooling in developed and developing countries. Coupled with market-based reforms that include weak regulation, control over workforces, standardization of processes and economies of scale, private provision of schooling is often seen to be convenient for bot…
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- 9781788970327
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- 208 p.; 22 cm.
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- 650.07 STA s
Major trends in theoretical and applied Linguistics 3
In the three volumes of Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, the editors guide the reader through a well-selected compendium of works, presenting a fresh look at contemporary linguistics. Specialists will find chapters that contribute to their fields of interest, and the three-volume collection will provide useful reading for anyone interested in linguistics. The first volume ex…
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- 9788376560915
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- 470 p.; 22 cm.
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- Selected Papers from the 20th ISTAL
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- 418 MAJ m
Major trends in theoretical and applied linguistics 1 : selected papers from …
In the three volumes of Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, the editors guide the reader through a well-selected compendium of works, presenting a fresh look at contemporary linguistics. Specialists will find chapters that contribute to their fields of interest, and the three-volume collection will provide useful reading for anyone interested in linguistics. The first volume ex…
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- 9788376560762
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- 520 p.; 22 cm.
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- 418 MAJ m
Bioenergy crops for ecosystem health and sustainability
The growing of crops for bioenergy has been subject to much recent criticism, as taking away land which could be used for food production or biodiversity conservation. This book challenges some commonly-held ideas about biofuels, bioenergy and energy cropping, particularly that energy crops pose an inherent threat to ecosystems, which must be mitigated. The book recognises that certain energ…
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- 9781315733784
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- xi, 205p. : ill.
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- 333.9539 BAU b
Touring Pacific cultures
edited by Kalissa Alexeyeff and John Taylor.
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- 9781921862441
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- xix, 457 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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- 155 ALE t
Language between God and the poets : ma'ná in the eleventh century
How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the conceptual vocabulary they shared enabled them to create theory in lexicography, theology, logic, and poetics. Their ideas engaged God and poetry at t…
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- 9780520298019
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- xvi, 280p. : ill.
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- 181.92 KEY l
The Essence of mathematics through elementary problems
"It is increasingly clear that the shapes of reality – whether of the natural world, or of the built environment – are in some profound sense mathematical. Therefore it would benefit students and educated adults to understand what makes mathematics itself ‘tick’, and to appreciate why its shapes, patterns and formulae provide us with precisely the language we need to make sense of the w…
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- 9781783747016
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- 389 p.; 23 cm.
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- OBP Series in Mathematics, vol. 3
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- 510.01 BOR e
The Grammar of multilingualism
This volume investigates the nature of grammatical representations in speakers who master multiple languages. Since the early days of modern formal approaches to grammar, most work has been based on the language of monolingual humans. Less work has been conducted based on data from speakers who possess more than one language. Although important insights have been gained from a monolingual focus…
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- 9782889450121
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- 195 p.; 22 cm.
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- 401.43 ALE g
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