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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"Zickzack (German for Zig-zag) is an examination of six locations around the German-speaking area of Europe, ranging from the Baltic in the north, to the Tyrollean and French border territories in the south. The texts themselves are each a mixture of small essays, narration, conversations, lists, descriptions of places, and cover a wide range of subject matter - politics, architecture, literatu…
"An architectural, social and cultural history of the city of Marseille"--"Originally published in 2010 by Architectural Association"--Colophon.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.