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41 produkter
Transport For Humans
Are We Nearly There Yet?
Av Pete Dyson, Rory Sutherland
Häftad, 2021
227 kr
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Engineers plan transport systems, people use them. But the ways in which an engineer measures success - speed, journey time, efficiency - are often not the way that passengers think about a good trip. We are not cargo. We choose how and when to travel, influenced not only by speed and time but by …
Travel Fast or Smart?
A Manifesto for an Intelligent Transport Policy
Av David Metz
Häftad, 2016
250 kr
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Britain does not have a coherent transport policy, and conventional transport economics has reached a dead end. A transport policy should incorporate systematic thinking about the travel needs of society. However, in Britain, public investment in the transport system has been extraordinarily …
Good To Go?
Decarbonising Travel After the Pandemic
Av David Metz
Häftad, 2022
323 kr
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Travel is central to our lives, and the transport system brings us the goods and services that we need and allows us to access the experiences and opportunities that we seek. Yet our transport system has many problems: congestion and overcrowding, noise, air pollution and carbon emissions, deaths …
Geopolitical Aesthetic
Cinema and Space in the World System
Häftad, 1995
261 kr
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"The Geopolitical Aesthetic is a dazzling . . . distillation and application of the theoretical system he first presented in The Political Unconscious (1981)." —The San Francisco Bay GuardianTaking contemporary films from the United States, Russia, Taiwan, France, and the Philippines, The …
Too Soon To Tell
Essays for the End of The Computer Revolution
Häftad, 2009
525 kr
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Based on author David A. Grier's column "In Our Time," which runs monthly in Computer magazine, Too Soon To Tell presents a collection of essays skillfully written about the computer age, an era that began February 1946. Examining ideas that are both contemporary and timeless, these chronological …
When Computers Went to Sea
The Digitization of the United States Navy
Häftad, 2003
1030 kr
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When Computers Went to Sea explores the history of the United States Navy's secret development of code-breaking computers and their adaptation to solve a critical fleet radar data handling problem in the Navy's first seaborne digital computer system - that went to sea in 1962. This is the only book …
Gifted Myths: An Easy-to-Read Guide to Myths on the Gifted and Twice-Exceptional
Häftad, 2019
178 kr
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Boost: 12 Effective Ways to Lift Up Our Twice-Exceptional Children
Av Sarah J. Wilson, Kelly Hirt
Häftad, 2018
167 kr
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Microsoft Rising
...and other tales of Silicon Valley
Av Ted G. Lewis
Häftad, 2000
1059 kr
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Early History of Data Networks
Av Gerard J. Holzmann, Björn Pehrson
Häftad, 1994
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
1188 kr
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Netizens
On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet
Av Michael Hauben, Ronda Hauben
Inbunden, 1997
900 kr
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Housing
Where's the Plan?
Av Kate Barker
Häftad, 2014
222 kr
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Housing matters a great deal. The present housing market has worked well for many of us (who have enjoyed the steeply rising values of our homes) which is why change, especially new building, is resisted. But for increasing numbers it now works less well as home ownership is out of reach, and for …
Identity is the New Money
Av David Birch
Häftad, 2014
179 kr
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This book argues that identity is changing profoundly and that money is changing equally profoundly. Because of technological change the two trends are converging so that all that we need for transacting will be our identities captured in the unique record of our online social contacts. Social …
BRIC Road to Growth
Av Jim O'Neill
Häftad, 2013
178 kr
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The idea that Brazil, Russia, India and China (The 'BRICs') are the economic stars of our times is now widely accepted. Jim O'Neill now introduces us to four new rising stars in the economic firmament: the 'MINT' countries (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey). However, the struggling 'old' …
Reinventing London
Häftad, 2013
227 kr
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London has enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth in the past generation, symbolised by the towers of Canary Wharf built on the skeleton of the old docks. Finance had a lot to do with it, but its day is now over. The infrastructure-driven regeneration of Kings Cross and the Olympic boroughs show …
Rediscovering Growth
After the Crisis
Häftad, 2013
233 kr
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The difficult economic climate in Europe and the US is set to continue for many years, despite desperate efforts to stimulate growth. The long phase of expansion in western economies that lasted from the 1980s until 2008 was driven by easy money, cheap imports and confidence - all gone. And the …
Why Fight Poverty?
And Why it is So Hard
Av Julia Unwin
Häftad, 2013
220 kr
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Poverty, and calls to end it, date back centuries. Even in prosperous modern times, despite the huge transformation of society, poverty has persisted. The challenge is getting harder, not easier, because of more recent changes in society such as the social distance between people in poverty and …
Bad Habits, Hard Choices
Using the Tax System to Make Us Healthier
Av David Fell
Häftad, 2016
234 kr
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Consumers in Britain face a curious mix of taxes and duties that are messy, opaque and out of date. They are also unfair: the poorer you are, the more of your income goes to pay these taxes. At the same time, we are ceaselessly bombarded by marketing information that is very one-sided. The foods …
Better Politics
How Government Can Make Us Happier
Häftad, 2016
259 kr
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The aim of this book is to inspire a better politics: one that will enable future generations to be happier. Greater well-being and better health should be the goals - rather than wealth maximization. We need to value health-care more than hedge-funds, caring above careers, relationships more than …
Are Trams Socialist?
Why Britain Has No Transport Policy
Häftad, 2016
174 kr
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We all use some form of transport almost every day of our lives. It is one of the most important factors in determining the economic wellbeing of a town or city. And it is also one of the major sources of environmental damage to our planet. Yet, Britain has never had a coherent transport policy. …
Britain's Cities, Britain's Future
Häftad, 2017
250 kr
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Britain invented the modern industrial city in the nineteenth century. But by the late 20th century most British cities had become basket cases. Today London overshadows the rest of the country, as the UK's only 'world city'. No other large country is anything like as economically and politically …
Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin
From Money That We Understand to Money That Understands Us
Av David Birch
Inbunden, 2017
435 kr
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Money is changing, and this book looks at where the technology of money might be taking us in the future. Technology has moved our concept of money from physical things, to unseen bits of information. With the arrival of smart cards, mobile phones and Bitcoin, it has become easier than ever to …
Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin
From Money That We Understand to Money That Understands Us
Av David Birch
Häftad, 2019
267 kr
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Money is changing, and this book looks at where the technology of money might be taking us in the future. Technology has moved our concept of money from physical things, to unseen bits of information. With the arrival of smart cards, mobile phones and Bitcoin, it has become easier than ever to …
Technology Is Not Neutral
A Short Guide to Technology Ethics
Inbunden, 2022
334 kr
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It seems that just about every new technology that we bring to bear on improving our lives brings with it some downside, side effect or unintended consequence.These issues can pose very real and growing ethical problems for all of us. For example, automated facial recognition can make life easier …
Gaming Trade
Win–Win Strategies for the Digital Era
Av Rebecca Harding, Jack Harding
Häftad, 2019
289 kr
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Trade is no longer just the ships, planes and lorries that move the goods we buy around the world or the services we consume either physically or digitally. While trade still plays a fundamental role in achieving economic targets and promoting growth, it is also, in the modern era, an instrument of …
