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Curious Visions of Modernity: Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred
Haunted by a secret knowledge and a repressed enchantment, Western rationality is not what it seems. Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the neat facade of a rational world. In Cu…
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Imposters :a study of pronominal agreement
In this work, the authors study the interactions of imposters with a range of grammatical phenomena, including pronominal agreement, coordinate structures, Principle C phenomena epithets, fake indexicals, and a property of pronominal agreement they call homogeneity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Science and the production of ignorance :when the quest for knowledge is thwa…
An introduction to the new area of ignorance studies that examines how science produces ignorance--both actively and passively, intentionally and unintentionally. We may think of science as our foremost producer of knowledge, but for the past decade, science has also been studied as an important source of ignorance. The historian of science Robert Proctor has coined the term agnotology to refer…
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Designed for digital :how to architect your business for sustained success
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Public opinion and the political economy of education policy around the world
Comparative analyses of public opinion on education policy in developed countries.Although research has suggested a variety of changes to education policy that have the potential to improve educational outcomes, politicians are often reluctant to implement such evidence-based reforms. Public opinion and pressure by interest groups would seem to have a greater role in shaping education policy th…
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Industrial organization and the digital economy
Theoretical and factual studies of ways that the rapidly evolving digital economy has changed the structure of different industries, focusing on the software and music industries.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations
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Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with N…
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out, first published in 2009, has become a foundational text in the field of digital media and learning. Reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people live and learn with new media in varied settings—at home, in after-school programs, and in online spaces—it presents a flexible and useful framework for understa…
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Documenting and Assessing Learning in Informal and Media-Rich Environments
Today educational activities take place not only in school but also in after-school programs, community centers, museums, and online communities and forums. The success and expansion of these out-of-school initiatives depends on our ability to document and assess what works and what doesn't in informal learning, but learning outcomes in these settings are often unpredictable. Goals are open-end…
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Whiteness
"A brief introduction to "whiteness"-as a concept, as a phenomenon, as a field of scholarly inquiry-providing a bridge between the world of academic "whiteness studies" and public and activist spaces"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Dynamic faces: Insights from experiments and computation
The recognition of faces is a fundamental visual function with importance for social interaction and communication. This volume offers a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary overview of recent work on dynamic faces from both biological and computational perspectives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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