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Great Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: the Geoeconomics of…
This book asks some of the big questions of our time, above all the effect of technological change on social order and international relations. This ambitious and original study provides some of the answers, although it argues that we are only at the beginning of a period of fundamental and accelerating change to accustomed patterns of state-society relations, economics, geopolitics and, ultima…
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- 9780755607013
- Collation
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
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- 327.12 GLE g
Cybersecurity: geopolitics, law and policy
This book examines the legal and policy aspects of cyber-security. It takes a much needed look at cyber-security from a geopolitical perspective. Through this lens, it seeks to broaden the reader's understanding of the legal and political considerations of individuals, corporations, law enforcement and regulatory bodies and management of the complex relationships between them. In drawing on int…
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- 9781498729116
- Collation
- 170 pages ; 23 cm
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- 005.8 GUI c
The fourth industrial revolution
World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are …
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- First U.S. edition.
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- 9781524758868 (hbk)
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- viii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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- -
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- 338 SCH f
Bluetooth Security Attacks: Comparative Analysis, Attacks, and Countermeasures
Bluetooth technology has enjoyed tremendous success, and it's now employed in billions of devices for short-range wireless data and real-time audio or video transfer. In this book the authors provide an overview of Bluetooth security. They examine network vulnerabilities and provide a literature-review comparative analysis of recent security attacks. They analyze and explain related countermeas…
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- 1st ed. 2013.
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- 9783642406454
- Collation
- 1 online resource (VII, 93 pages 31 illustrations)
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- -
- Call Number
- 005.73 HAA b
Wireless personal area networks: performance, interconnections and security w…
Wireless Personal Area Networks provides an in-depth analysis of the recent IEEE 802.15.4 standard for low data rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPANs), including suggestions to improve performance and comparisons with the related 802.15.1 (Bluetooth) standard. It assesses the suitability of the standard for the development and deployment of wireless sensor networks as well as providing…
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- 9780470518472 (cloth
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- xxi, 313 p. ; 26 cm.
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- Wiley series on wireless communications and mobile computing
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- 621.384 MIS w
Oxford handbook of digital technology and society
This book is a guide into the increasingly interconnected domains of digital technology and society. It presents extensive reviews into several domains affected by digital technology and media, such as health, politics, and interpersonal relationships, which are developed from the findings of the "Ways of Being in a Digital Age" project commissioned by the UK Economic and Social Research Counci…
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- 9780190932596
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- xli, 756 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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- 303.4 YAT h
Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future
Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future is a collection of twelve papers that provides a state-of-the-art review of 21st century social informatics. Two papers review the history of social informatics, and show that its intellectual roots can be found in the late 1970s and early ’80s and that it emerged in several different locations around the world before it coalesced in the US in the …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781443858021
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- 1 online resource (229 pages)
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Understanding media: the extensions of man
This reissue marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of McLuhan's classic expose on the state of the then emerging phenomenon of mass media. Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how and what we communicate. There has been a notable r…
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- 1st.ed
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0262631598
- Collation
- xxiii, 365 p. ; 23 cm.
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- Call Number
- 302.23 McL U
Fundamentals of construction estimating
This comprehensive resource offers thorough instruction on the principles of construction estimating and helps readers develop the skills they need to become professional estimators. FUNDAMENTALS OF CONSTRUCTION ESTIMATING, Fourth Edition, presents estimating procedures in a straightforward and engaging way, clearly explaining key processes of estimating and costing construction work such as qu…
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- 4th.ed
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- 9781337399395
- Collation
- xii, 344 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 c
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- -
- Call Number
- 692.5 PRA f
Irrigation Engineering and Hydraulic Structures
This book is designed to give an existing state of knowledge in the field of hydrology, irrigation engineering, and hydraulic structures in a brief manner so that students can use it for their own reference from time to time. Compared to other voluminous books available on the subject, the author has tried to cover the important subject matter in an abridged manner in approximately 320 pages. B…
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- 9783031335525
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- Call Number
- 627 UKR i
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