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Regulating code: good governance and better regulation in the information age
Internet use has become ubiquitous in the past two decades, but governments, legislators, and their regulatory agencies have struggled to keep up with the rapidly changing Internet technologies and uses. In this groundbreaking collaboration, regulatory lawyer Christopher Marsden and computer scientist Ian Brown analyze the regulatory shaping of "code" -- the technological environment of the Int…
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- 9780262018821
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- xix, 267 p. ; 24 cm.
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- Information revolution and global politics
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- [POL-LIB-402]
The social, political and historical contours of deportation
In recent years states across the world have boosted their legal and institutional capacity to deport noncitizens residing on their territory, including failed asylum seekers, “illegal” migrants, and convicted criminals. Scholars have analyzed this development primarily through the lens of immigration control. Deportation has been viewed as one amongst a range of measures designed to contro…
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- 9781461458630
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- vi, 161 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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- Immigrants and minorities, politics and policy
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- [POL-LIB-401]
Spatial politics: essays for Doreen Massey
This critical engagement with Doreen Massey’s ground-breaking work in geographic theory and its relationship to politics features specially commissioned essays from former students and colleagues, as well as the artists, political figures and activists whose thinking she has helped to shape. It seeks to mark and take forward her compelling contributions to geographical theorizing and politica…
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- 9781444338300
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- xxi, 300 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- [POL-LIB-400]
FAILURES IN CONCRETE STRUCTURES Case Studies in Reinforced and Prestressed Co…
Some lessons are only learned from mistakes but, it’s much cheaper to learn from someone else’s mistakes than to have to do so from your own. Drawing on over fifty years of working with concrete structures, Robin Whittle examines the problems which he has seen occur and shows how they could have been avoided. The first and largest part of the book tells the stories of a number of cases …
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- 9780203861271
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- 148 p.
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- [TSI-LIB-74]
Handbook of signal processing systems
Handbook of Signal Processing Systems is organized in three parts. The first part motivates representative applications that drive and apply state-of-the art methods for design and implementation of signal processing systems the second part discusses architectures for implementing these applications the third part focuses on compilers and simulation tools, describes models of computation and …
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- 9781461468585
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- [TIF-LIB-44]
Why not preempt? : security, law, norms and anticipatory military activities
Anticipatory military activities, both preemptive and preventive, are at the centre of American strategic doctrine. Rachel Bzostek puts forward a full understanding of why states have or have not undertaken such activities in the past in order to comprehend why states have rarely used this method.
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- 9780754670575
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- 1 online resource (viii, 258 p.)
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- Justice, international law and global security
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- [POL-SSS-73]
Weapons of terror : freeing the world of nuclear, biological and chemical arms
On 1 June 2006, the WMDC Chairman Dr. Hans Blix presented the Commission report "Weapons of Terror" to the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York. The report contains sixty concrete proposals on how the world could be freed of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. The report was also handed over to Sweden's Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson, also president of the United Nations…
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- 9138225824
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- 227 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-72]
Weapons of mass deception : the uses of propaganda in Bush's war on Iraq
This book reveals: how the Iraq war was sold to the American public through professional P.R. strategies; lies that were told related to the Iraq war; euphemisms and jargon related to the war, e.g. "shock and awe," "Operation Iraqi Freedom," "axis of evil," "coalition of the willing," etc.; how the war on terrorism and the war on Iraq have been used as marketing hooks to sell products and polic…
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- 0786545925
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- viii, 248 p. ; 21 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-71]
Weapons of choice : the development of precision guided munitions
“A significant addition to the field, for there are not many books specifically devoted to PGMs and still fewer that attempt to relate that technology to military and national security strategy.”—David R. Mets, author of The Long Search for a Surgical Strike: Precision Munitions and the Revolution in Military Affairs
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- 9780817315320
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- 1 online resource (xii, 218 p.) : ill.
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- [POL-SSS-70]
Weapons for peace, weapons for war : the effect of arms transfers on war outb…
Using innovative techniques, this book has the potential to change the way analysts weigh the impact of weapons sales.
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- 0415922585
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- 1 online resource (viii, 182 p.) : ill.
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- [POL-SSS-69]
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