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Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and G…
""In Prime Movers, Smil's passion for the Cinderellas of civilization focuses on the diesel engines and gas turbines that power ocean vessels and wide-body jets. These engines have made ocean shipping and intercontinental air travel so cheap that they have changed the face of our planet. Marshall McLuhan's dreams of a Global Village have become true in unimagined ways. Being an engineer myself,…
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New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and "Worked Examples" as O…
A proposal to move the academic area of digital media and learning toward more coherence. In this report, noted scholar James Paul Gee discusses the evolution of digital media and learning (DMAL) from its infancy as an “academic area” into a more organized field or coherent discipline. Distinguishing among academic areas, fields, disciplinary specializations, and thematic disciplines, Gee d…
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A hammer in their hands : a documentary history of technology and the African…
Scholars working at the intersection of African-American history and the history of technology are redefining the idea of technology to include the work of the skilled artisan and the ingenuity of the self-taught inventor. Although denied access through most of American history to many new technologies and to the privileged education of the engineer, African-Americans have been engaged with a r…
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- 0262162253
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 397 pages) : illustrations
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The heirs of Archimedes : science and the art of war through the Age of Enlig…
Essays analyze the connections between science and technology and military power in the late medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment periods.The integration of scientific knowledge and military power began long before the Manhattan Project. In the third century BC, Archimedes was renowned for his research in mechanics and mathematics as well as for his design and coordination of defensive sieg…
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- 9780262284226
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- 1 online resource (vi, 397 pages) : illustrations.
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- Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology
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The Gordian Knot :political gridlock on the information highway
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Perspectives on Defense Systems Analysis
"The Department of Defense and the military continually grapple with complex scientific, engineering, and technological problems. Defense systems analysis offers a way to reach a clearer understanding of how to approach and think about complex problems. It guides analysts in defining the question, capturing previous work in the area, assessing the principal issues, and understanding how they ar…
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Science and Technology in the Global Cold War
Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry's Ontological Implications
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Concordia University, 2011.3 Practices; Pioneers (Late Twentieth-Century Digital); Twenty-First-Century Digital Practice; 4 Softwares; What Is Software Studies?; Case Studies; 5 Futures; Summation; A Few Contexts; Speculations; What May Be; Appendices; The New Bucolic: Ekphrasis in the Digital Meadow; Dance Bones and Neural Ignition: The Dilemma of Defin…
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MOOCs
"Everything you always wanted to know about MOOCs: an account of massive open online courses and what they might mean for the future of higher education.""The New York Times declared 2012 to be "The Year of the MOOC" as millions of students enrolled in massive open online courses (known as MOOCs), millions of investment dollars flowed to the companies making them, and the media declared MOOCs t…
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Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star
Susan Leigh Star (1954--2010) was one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades. In her work, Star highlighted the messy practices of discovering science, asking hard questions about the marginalizing as well as the liberating powers of science and technology. In the landmark work Sorting Things Out, Star and Geoffrey Bowker revealed the social and ethical his…
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