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Death and dying
"A short, accessible book on issues of death and dying from the perspective of the medical professions"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363860
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The science of bureaucracy :risk decision making and the US Environmental Pro…
How the US Environmental Protection Agency designed the governance of risk and forged its legitimacy over the course of four decades. The US Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 to protect the public health and environment, administering and enforcing a range of statutes and programs. Over four decades, the EPA has been a risk bureaucracy, formalizing many of the methods of t…
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- 9780262356671
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- 1 online resource (452 pages).
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The architectural model :histories of the miniature and the prototype, the ex…
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- 9780262354233
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- 1 online resource (344 pages).
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Design justice :community-led practices to build the worlds we need
An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival. What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice "Design justice" is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims expilcitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities…
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- 9780262356862
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- 1 online resource (360 pages).
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Language vs. reality :why language is good for lawyers and bad for scientists
"Argues that the primary function of language is not to describe the physical world but to manage the social one. Aimed at a general readership"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262368766
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- 1 online resource (ix, 298 pages) :illustrations
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Data action :using data for public good
"Data Action will offer a model for reading, collecting, visualizing, and putting data to work on civic change. Using arresting graphics and influential case studies, as well as incorporating cultural and historical context, Data Action presents a helpful corrective to standard practice. Historically, data has been used and manipulated to make policy decisions without input from the general pub…
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- 0262359146
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Power of position :classification and the biodiversity sciences
How biodiversity classification, with its ranking of species, has social and political implications as well as implications for the field of information studies. The idea that species live in nature as pure and clear-cut named individuals is a fiction, as scientists well know. According to Robert D. Montoya, classifications are powerful mechanisms and we must better attend to the machinations o…
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- 9780262369961
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- 1 online resource (272 pages).
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Teaching machines
"Teaching Machines traces the development of education technology from roughly the 1920s through the end of the 1990s, shaping our ideas of standardization and individualism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363747
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Against nature
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest controversies over gay marriage and cloning, natural orders have been enli…
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- 9780262353809
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- 1 online resource (96 pages) :illustrations.
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Giving bodies back to data :image-makers, bricolage, and reinvention in magne…
"Giving Bodies Back to Data focuses on the entanglement between the history and practice of data visualization across disciplines and cultures, focusing on the invention of MRI"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262366168
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