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Expanding mindscapes :a global history of psychedelics
The first collection of its kind to explore the diverse and global history of psychedelics as they appealed to several generations of researchers and thinkers. Expanding Mindscapes offers a fascinatingly fluid and diverse history of psychedelics that stretches around the globe. While much of the literature to date has focused on the history of these drugs in the United States and Canada, editor…
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- 026237689X
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- 1 online resource (544 pages).
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Algorithms of resistance :the everyday fight against platform power
"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.
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- 9780262377485
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Artificial communication :how algorithms produce social intelligence
"Argues that what makes AI socially relevant and useful is not intelligence at all but something even more human: communication. If machines are going to improve their ability to address ever more important human issues, it will not be because they have learned to think like people, but because we have learned to communicate with them"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262368865
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The sounds of the cosmos :gravitational waves and the birth of multi-messenge…
Includes index."A comprehensive insider's account of the discovery of gravitational waves, including insights on the physics theory and the critical LIGO technology that made it possible"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262372794
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Design to live :everyday inventions from a refugee camp
The power of art and design to create a life worth living: designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. This book shows how refugees use art and design to transform their living environments, restoring humanity within circumstances that seem aimed at depriving them of it. Featuring more than twenty projects created by Syrian refugees at the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jord…
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- 9780262366359
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Times Square remade :the dynamics of urban change
"This is a story of profound urban change over decades of time in a symbolic space celebrated as a worldwide phenomenon. Drawing on the history, sociology, and political economy of the place, Times Square Remade examines, twenty years later, how the public-private transformation of 42nd Street at Times Square impacted the entertainment district and adjacent neighborhoods, particularly Hell's Ki…
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Hidden in plain sightthe history, science, and engineering of microfluidic te…
Stories behind essential microfluidic devices, from the inkjet printer to DNA sequencing chip.Often hidden from view, microfluidics underlies a variety of devices that are essential to our lives, from inkjet printers to glucometers for the monitoring of diabetes. Microfluidics--which refers to the technology of miniature fluidic devices and the study of fluids at submillimeter levels--is invisi…
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After eating :metabolizing the arts
"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.
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- 9780262374712
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Nordenholt's million
Previously published, 1923."Bacteria inimical to plant growth spread around the world, causing a blight, Jack Flint is invited to become director of operations at Nordernholt's survivalist colony in England's Clyde Valley"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Of one blood :or, the hidden self
"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.
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