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Spontaneous venturing :an entrepreneurial approach to alleviating suffering i…
Identifying a new approach to disaster response: spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions to alleviate suffering. In Spontaneous Venturing , Dean Shepherd and Trenton Williams identify and describe a new approach for responding to disaster and suffering: the local organizing of spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions -- the rapid emergence of a compassionate venture. This app…
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- 1 online resource (248 pages).
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Methuselah's zoo :what nature can teach us about living longer, healthier lives
"A natural history of longevity in a wide variety of species along with an exploration of what we can learn from other species to preserve and extend human health"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026237059X
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Cellular :an economic and business history of the international mobile-phone …
"Technical, policy, economic, and business history of the global mobile phone industry over four decades"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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All data are local :thinking critically in a data-driven society
How to analyze data settings rather than data sets, acknowledging the meaning-making power of the local. In our data-driven society, it is too easy to assume the transparency of data. Instead, Yanni Loukissas argues in All Data Are Local , we should approach data sets with an awareness that data are created by humans and their dutiful machines, at a time, in a place, with the instruments at han…
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Making time on Mars
"Making Time on Mars is a book about people, robots, processes and intuitions working together to make time on Mars. In early 2004, for over ninety days NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers mission set their daily work activities on Earth according to "Mars time" clocks. Two local Mars times, one for each of the two Mars rovers, drove work timelines for all mission members. A successful mission that …
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The smart enough city :putting technology in Its place to reclaim our urban f…
Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be "smart enough," using technology to promote democracy and equity. Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. We are promised that apps, algorithms, and artificial intelligence will relieve congestion, restore democracy, prevent crime, and improve public services. In The Smar…
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- 1 online resource (240 pages) :illustrations.
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Choosing Down syndrome :ethics and new prenatal testing technologies
An argument that more people should have children with Down syndrome, written from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Virtual menageries :mediologies of animal representation
The close interdependency of animal emissaries and new media from early European colonial encounters with the exotic to today's proliferation of animals in digital networks. From cat videos to corporate logos, digital screens and spaces are crowded with animal bodies. In Virtual Menageries, Jody Berland examines the role of animals in the spread of global communications. Her richly illustrated …
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The cost-benefit revolution
Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on intuition, popular opinion, interest groups, and anecdotes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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A philosophy of madness :the experience of psychotic thinking
Translations of: Filosophie van de waanzin: Fundamentele en grensoverischrijdende inzichten, 2014."A groundbreaking, deeply personal, magnum opus on madness and philosophy from a psychotic patient turned philosopher"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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