Unconscionable crimes :how norms explain and constrain mass atrocities

"An original argument for the role of social norms in the explaining and preventing the rise of genocide and mass atrocity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Hunting :a cultural history

"Historical, cultural, environmental, political, global treatment of hunting for the Essential Knowledge series"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Memoirs of a space traveler

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Hospital of the transfiguration

Originally published as Czas nieutracony: Szpital przemienienia ?1955 by Stanis?aw Lem."The Hospital of the Transfiguration is a very early novel by Lem. it was written in 1948, but supppressed by Polish censors, and was not published until 1955. The book appeared in an English translation in 1988. The censorship of this early realist novel is partly what drove Lem to write in the vein of scien…

Return from the stars

"Originally published in 1961, Return from the Stars recounts the experiences of Hal Bregg, an astronaut who returns from an exploratory mission of ten years. Due to time dilation 127 years have passed on Earth. Bregg returns to a society that he hardly recognizes, one where danger has been eradicated. Children are 'betrizated' to remove all aggression and violence, but this also removes all im…

Highcastle :a remembrance

Originally published as Wysoki Zamek ?1966 by Stanis?aw Lem."In this charming memoir of his childhood between world wars, Lem investigates the nature of memory and the impossibility of a 'pure' remembrance. Witty, playful and self-deprecating, Lem recalls his 'monstrous' younger self, his early passion for pointless destruction, and his fascination with his father's medical books and instrument…

An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe

In the beginning was the Big Bang: an unimaginably hot fire almost fourteen billion years ago in which the first elements were forged. The physical theory of the hot nascent universe—the Big Bang—was one of the most consequential developments in twentieth-century science. And yet it leaves many questions unanswered: Why is the universe so big? Why is it so old? What is the origin of structu…

Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a …

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The institutional dimensions of environmental change : fit, interplay, and scale

Researchers studying the role institutions play in causing and confronting environmental change use a variety of concepts and methods that make it difficult to compare their findings. Seeking to remedy this problem, Oran Young takes the analytic themes identified in the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) Science Plan as cutting-edge research concerns and develops th…

Mechanisms :new media and the forensic imagination

"In Mechanisms, Matthew Kirschenbaum examines new media and electronic writing against the textual and technological primitives that govern writing, inscription, and textual transmission in all media: erasure, variability, repeatability, and survivability. Mechanisms is the first book in its field to devote significant attention to storage--the hard drive in particular--arguing that understandi…