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Alice and Bob meet the wall of fire :the biggest ideas in science from Quanta
A collection of physics and biology stories from Quanta magazine.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262350518
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The prime number conspiracy :the biggest ideas in math from Quanta
Mathematics stories from Quanta Magazine.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262350532
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How artifacts affordthe power and politics of everyday things
A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective. Technological affordances mediate between the features of a technology and the outcomes of engagement with that technology. The concept of affordances, which migrated from psychology to design with Donald Norman's influential 1988 book, The Design of…
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- 9780262358880
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Knowledge justice :disrupting library and information studies through critica…
"Contributors analyze and re-envision the field and profession of library and information science from the perspective of critical race theory"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363208
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Science fiction
"An overview of how science fiction has grappled with the ways that science and technology shape and change human lives, emphasizing the challenges of the 21st century"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363631
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Reassembling scholarly communications :histories, infrastructures, and global…
"Scholarly communication in the context of open access: how the imaginaries, practices, and infrastructures of 'openness' have been shaped"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363720
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Thermodynamic weirdness :from Fahrenheit to Clausius
An account of the concepts and intellectual structure of classical thermodynamics that reveals the subject's simplicity and coherence. Students of physics, chemistry, and engineering are taught classical thermodynamics through its methods--a "problems first" approach that neglects the subject's concepts and intellectual structure. In Thermodynamic Weirdness , Don Lemons fills this gap, offering…
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- 9780262351324
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- 1 online resource (192 pages).
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The contamination of the earth :a history of pollution in the industrial age
Translation of: La contamination du monde : une histoire des pollutions ?a l'?age industriel by ?Editions du Seuil in Paris, 2017."Once the source of circumscribed local nuisances, the effects of human activities on the environment have turned into global pollution. The climate is warming, the seas are acidifying, the species are disappearing, the bodies are altered: to give an account from a h…
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- 0262358131
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 459 pages) :illustrations (black and white).
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Hacker states
How hackers and hacking moved from being a target of the state to a key resource for the expression and deployment of state power. In this book, Luca Follis and Adam Fish examine the entanglements between hackers and the state, showing how hackers and hacking moved from being a target of state law enforcement to a key resource for the expression and deployment of state power. Follis and Fish tr…
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- 9780262357258
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- 1 online resource (264 pages).
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Democratizing our dataa manifesto
Why America's data system is broken, and how to fix it.Why, with data increasingly important, available, valuable and cheap, are the data produced by the American government getting worse and costing more' State and local governments rely on population data from the US Census Bureau; prospective college students and their parents can check data from the National Center for Education Statistics;…
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