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Laboratory lifestyles :the construction of scientific fictions
"The past decade has seen an extraordinary laboratory-building boom. This new crop of laboratories features spectacular architecture and resort-like amenities. The buildings sprawl luxuriously on verdant campuses or sit sleekly in expensive urban neighborhoods. Designed to attract venture capital, generous philanthropy, and star scientists, these laboratories are meant to create the ideal condi…
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- 9780262349741
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 274 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Quantum language and the migration of scientific concepts
"This book looks at the use of language in science and in the circulation of scienctific concepts in society at large. More precisely, the book looks at the difficulties physicists faced regarding the use of language while creating quantum mechanics, with the use of quantum concepts in literary criticism and in literature, and with the use of these concepts by the New Age and Post New Age incli…
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- 9780262345118
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- 1 online resource (328 pages)
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What is sex?
Consider sublimation -- conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from sex from talking (or writing, painting, praying, or other activities)? The point is not to explain the satisfaction from talking by pointing to its sexual origin, but that the satisfaction from tal…
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- 9780262341905
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- 1 online resource (viii, 154 pages) :illustrations.
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Our selfish tax laws :toward tax reform that mirrors our better selves
Most of us think of tax as a pocketbook issue: how much we owe, how much we'll get back, how much we can deduct. In Our Selfish Tax Laws, Anthony Infanti takes a broader view, considering not just how taxes affect us individually but how the tax system reflects our culture and society. He finds that American tax laws validate and benefit those who already possess power and privilege while stark…
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Energy tax and regulatory policy in Europe :reform priorities
Concise introductions to the main issues in energy policy and their interaction with environmental policies in the EU. The European Union (EU) faces critical challenges in energy policy making, the most pressing of which are how to achieve the deep greenhouse gas reductions promised at the December 2015 UN Conference of the Parties in Paris, and how this effort can be coordinated with already e…
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- 9780262340892
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- 1 online resource (408 pages)
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The age of electroacoustics :transforming science and sound
"At the end of the nineteenth century, acoustics was a science of musical sounds; the musically trained ear was the ultimate reference. Just a few decades into the twentieth century, acoustics had undergone a transformation from a scientific field based on the understanding of classical music to one guided by electrical engineering, with industrial and military applications. In this book, Rolan…
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- 9780262336529
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- 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages).
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Development of linguistic linked open data resources for collaborative data-i…
Making diverse data in linguistics and the language sciences open, distributed, and accessible: perspectives from language/language acquistiion researchers and technical LOD (linked open data) researchers. This volume examines the challenges inherent in making diverse data in linguistics and the language sciences open, distributed, integrated, and accessible, thus fostering wide data sharing an…
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- 9780262357210
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- 1 online resource (272 pages).
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Your computer is on fire
"Collection of arguments about STEM fields' blind spots in computing and a deliberately provocative underscoring of humanists' appeals for a "wake up call" in computing culture"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262360772
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The evolution of the sensitive soul :learning and the origins of consciousness
"A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition from organisms that lacked consciousness to those with consciousness--to minimal subjective experiencing, or, as Aristotle described it, "the sensitive soul" In this book, Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka prop…
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- 9780262351096
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 646 pages).
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GPS
GPS mapping is standard equipment in many new cars and geolocation services are embedded in smart phones. GPS makes Uber and Lyft possible; driverless cars won't be able to drive without it. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Paul Ceruzzi offers a concise history of GPS, explaining how a once-obscure space technology became an invisible piece of our infrastructure, as e…
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- 9780262350082
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- 1 online resource (218 pages) :illustrations.
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