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  • The Academic Librarian as Blended Professional

    Reassessing and Redefining the Role

    by Michael Perini ...
    The Academic Librarian as Blended Professional employs a model that allows for individual and managerial reconceptualization of the librarian's role, also helping to mitigate obstacles to professional development both internal and external to the library. Using traditional and personal narrative, the book extends Whitchurch's blended professional model, designed to consider the merging of ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD

  • Informed Urban Environments

    Data-Integrated Design for Human and Ecology-Centred Perspectives

    Edited by Ata Chokhachian, Michael U. Hensel, Katia Perini ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book collects ground-breaking works on the actual and potential impact of big data and data-integrated design for resilient urban environments, including human- and ecology-centred perspectives. Comprehending and designing for urban social, demographic and environmental change is a complex task. Big data, data structuring, data analysis (i.e. AI and ML) and data-integrated design can play a ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

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  • Harnessing Complexity

    Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier

    by Michael D Cohen, Robert Axelrod ...
    Recent advances in the study of complexity have given scientists profound new insights into how natural innovation occurs and how its power can be exploited. Now two pioneers in the field, Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen, provide leaders in business and government with a guide to complexity that will help them make effective decisions in a world of rapid change.Building on evolutionary biology ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Data-Centric Biology

    A Philosophical Study

    by Sabina Leonelli ...
    In recent decades, there has been a major shift in the way researchers process and understand scientific data. Digital access to data has revolutionized ways of doing science in the biological and biomedical fields, leading to a data-intensive approach to research that uses innovative methods to produce, store, distribute, and interpret huge amounts of data. In Data-Centric Biology, Sabina ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Data Journeys in the Sciences

    Edited by Sabina Leonelli, Niccolò Tempini ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This groundbreaking, open access volume analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases of data journeys. It brings together leading scholars in the philosophy, history and social studies of science to achieve two goals: tracking the travel of data across different spaces, times and domains of research practice; and documenting how such journeys ... Read more

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  • Quick Research Papers

    Writing Effective Research Papers, Proposals, and Reports

    by Clyde A. Warden, Judy F. Chen ...
    Build your research paper with over one thousand easy to use research sentences. Quick Research Papers helps the beginning research author and graduate student quickly get to work with practical template sentences. Each research paper part is introduced quickly, helping you understand the key goal, then quickly moves to template sentences. Each chapter focuses on one part of the research paper, ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • On the Origin of Products

    The Evolution of Product Innovation and Design

    by Arthur O. Eger, Huub Ehlhardt ...
    In this new work, Arthur O. Eger and Huub Ehlhardt present a 'Theory of Product Evolution'. They challenge the popular notion that we owe the availability of products solely to genius inventors. Instead, they present arguments that show that a process of variation, selection, and accumulation of 'know-how' (to make) and 'know-what' (function to realize) provide an explanation for the emergence of ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • Handbook of Human Computation

    Edited by Pietro Michelucci ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This volume addresses the emerging area of human computation, The chapters, written by leading international researchers, explore existing and future opportunities to combine the respective strengths of both humans and machines in order to create powerful problem-solving capabilities. The book bridges scientific communities, capturing and integrating the unique perspective and achievements of each ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Urban Informatics

    Edited by Wenzhong Shi, Michael F. Goodchild, Michael Batty, Mei-Po Kwan, Anshu Zhang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect of the city that involves its functioning, control, management, and future planning. It introduces new models and tools being developed to understand and implement these technologies that enable cities to function more efficiently – to become ‘smart’ and ... Read more

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  • The Science of Citizen Science

    Edited by Katrin Vohland, Anne Land-zandstra, Luigi Ceccaroni, Rob Lemmens, Josep Perelló, Marisa Ponti, Roeland Samson, Katherin Wagenknecht ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book discusses how the involvement of citizens into scientific endeavors is expected to contribute to solve the big challenges of our time, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities within and between societies, and the sustainability turn. The field of citizen science has been growing in recent decades. Many different stakeholders from scientists ... Read more

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  • Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions

    Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions

    Edited by Adriano Bisello, Daniele Vettorato, David Ludlow, Claudia Baranzelli ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, and explores the concept of smart and sustainable planning, including top contributions from academics, policy makers, consultants and other professionals.Innovation processes ... Read more

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  • Citizen Activities in Energy Transition

    User Innovation, New Communities, and the Shaping of a Sustainable Future

    by Sampsa Hyysalo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
    This book addresses the rapidly changing citizen roles in innovation, technology adoption, intermediation, market creation, and legitimacy building for low-carbon solutions. It links research in innovation studies, sustainability transitions, and science and technology studies, and builds a new approach for the study of user contributions to innovation and sociotechnical change.Citizen Activities ... Read more

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