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Invented Edens :techno-cities of the twentieth century
Tracing the design of "techno-cities" that blend the technological and the pastoral. Industrialization created cities of Dickensian squalor that were crowded, smoky, dirty, and disease-ridden. By the beginning of the twentieth century, urban visionaries were looking for ways to improve both living and working conditions in industrial cities. In Invented Edens, Robert Kargon and Arthur Molella t…
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- 9780262276733
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- 1 online resource (viii, 190 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Instrumental community :probe microscopy and the path to nanotechnology
In this volume, the author argues that this technology-centric view does not explain how these microscopes helped to launch nanotechnology - and fails to acknowledge the agency of the microscopists in making the STM and its variants critically important tools.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298186
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) :illustrations.
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Cultivating science, harvesting power :science and industrial agriculture in …
Christopher R. Henke reveals how agricultural scientists and growers in California have cooperated - and struggled - in shaping the state's multi-billion-dollar farm industry.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275286
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- 1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Power struggles :scientific authority and the creation of practical electrici…
Laying the foundation for Thomas Edison, the first electric generators were built in the 1830s, the earliest commercial lighting systems before 1860, and the first commercial application of generator-powered light in the early 1860s. This book examines some of these early applications of electricity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283120
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- 1 online resource (xii, 420 pages) :illustrations
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Riding the waves :a life in sound, science, and industry
The life and work of Renaissance man Leo Beranek: scientist, professor, engineer, business leader, inventor, entrepreneur, musician, television executive, philanthropist, and author.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268189
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- 1 online resource (x, 235 pages) :illustrations
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Dyslexia, learning, and the brain
An overview of research on dyslexia and an account of the underlying causes at cognitive brain, and neural system levels that provides a framework for significant progress in the understanding of dyslexia and other related learning disabilities.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262280662
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- 1 online resource (xx, 283 pages) :illustrations
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Evolution of communicative flexibility :complexity, creativity, and adaptabil…
Experts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including human language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281027
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- 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) :illustrations.
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Systematics as cyberscience :computers, change, and continuity in science
For all the use scientists make of computers in their work, we still know little about how computing affects their working methods and the knowledge they produce. Christine Hine explores these questions by examining the developing use of information technology in one discipline, systematics (the classification of organisims).OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275408
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- 1 online resource (x, 307 pages) :illustrations.
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The new political economy of Russia
This book was written by a team of researchers from CEFIR in Moscow.An analysis of the challenges facing Russia's economy ten years after the transition, based on recent research and data.Can Russia's recent burst of economic growth be sustained? Taking a comprehensive look at the economic and political regime shift from Yeltsin to Putin, this book explores the key challenges facing the Russian…
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- 1 online resource (x, 168 pages) :illustrations
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The virtual community :homesteading on the electronic frontier
Howard Rheingold tours the "virtual community" of online networking. Howard Rheingold has been called the First Citizen of the Internet. In this book he tours the "virtual community" of online networking. He describes a community that is as real and as much a mixed bag as any physical community -- one where people talk, argue, seek information, organize politically, fall in love, and dupe other…
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- 026229141X
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- 1 online resource (480 pages).
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