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Design to live :everyday inventions from a refugee camp
The power of art and design to create a life worth living: designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. This book shows how refugees use art and design to transform their living environments, restoring humanity within circumstances that seem aimed at depriving them of it. Featuring more than twenty projects created by Syrian refugees at the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jord…
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Cloud empires :how digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can …
"Companies like Amazon, Upwork, Apple's App Store, and Ebay are shaping the world and the prospects of millions of people who depend on them for their livelihoods. This book explores the implications of this power and shows how it compares with traditional statecraft"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Fascination with science :60 encounters with pioneering researchers of our time
Translation of: Faszination Wissenschaft : 60 Begegnungen mit wegweisenden Forschern unserer Zeit."A renowned German photographer combines portraits of and interviews with the world's leading scientists that look back at the personal experiences, successes and setbacks on their way to the very top"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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After eating :metabolizing the arts
"After Eating explores the emerging field of metabolic arts, practices which engage the materials and methodologies of not only food and ingestion but also digestion and metabolism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Feminist designer :on the personal and the political in design
"Applies feminist theory to design in a meaningful/accessible way; establishes new ways to design for complex social, political & environmental problems; defines guiding principles & values; proposes practical methods for practicing feminist design; demonstrates positive impact of feminist design through case studies and interviews"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Of one blood :or, the hidden self
"Reuel, an African American man passing as white so that he can attend Harvard Medical School, is drawn into a fantastical adventure when he revives a woman's life through mesmerism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Parenting on earth :a philosopher's guide to doing right by your kids-and eve…
"We raise our children in a fragile world. Climate change, pandemics, superbugs resistant to antibiotics. Extreme inequality, endemic poverty, institutionalized racism and sexism. What does it mean to be a "good parent" in the face of all this? This book is one woman's quest for an answer, as a philosopher and as a mother"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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?Alerta! :engineering on shaky ground
"The author builds on insights developed from observations of Mexico's earthquake early warning system, Sistema de Alerta S?ismica Mexicano, to show how particular social and physical conditions animate the design, maintenance, and use of environmental monitoring technologies, and how they shape where, when, and for whom these technologies manage risk"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Algorithms of resistance :the everyday fight against platform power
"Bonini and Trere explore how people all around the world use different tactics to interfere with the algorithms behind the platforms they use to work, entertain, and inform themselves"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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On the trail of blackbody radiation :Max Planck and the physics of his era
"A concise historical study of On the trail of blackbody radiation, intended to provide insight into the process of scientific discovery"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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