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Sound unbound :sampling digital music and culture
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists--from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby--describe their work.If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix--how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines between what an artist can do and what a composer can create. In Sound Unbound, Rhythm Science author Paul …
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Mechanical sound :technology, culture, and public problems of noise in the tw…
'Mechanical Sound' traces efforts to control unwanted sound - the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft - from the late 19th to the late 20th century. Karin Bijsterveld argues that a paradox of control has developed, in which only some forms of noise are regulated by experts and governments.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268547
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- 1 online resource (xii, 350 pages) :illustrations.
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Health and medicine on display :international expositions in the United State…
This work offers a book-length examination of how international expositions, through their exhibits and infrastructures, sought to demonstrate innovations in applied health and medical practice.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258630
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- 1 online resource (xi, 326 pages) :illustrations
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Strategic bargaining and cooperation in greenhouse gas mitigations :an integr…
A fresh approach to the economics of climate change that bridges integrated assessment modeling and game theoretic modeling.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286510
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- 1 online resource (x, 191 pages) :illustrations
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The design of climate policy
Leading international economists offer theoretical quantitative, and policy perspectives on climate policy in this text.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274500
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- 1 online resource (xii, 397 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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The cosmetic gaze :body modification and the construction of beauty
If the gaze can be understood to mark the disjuncture between how we see ourselves and how we want to be seen by others, the cosmetic gaze--in Bernadette Wegenstein's groundbreaking formulation--is one through which the act of looking at our bodies and those of others is already informed by the techniques, expectations, and strategies (often surgical) of bodily modification. It is, Wegenstein s…
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- 9780262301114
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- 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) :illustrations
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Digital media and democracy :tactics in hard times
Media scholars, artists, activists, and journalists discuss how the uses of the emerging "Social Web" redefine the public sphere and influence mainstream journalism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268974
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- 1 online resource (viii, 464 pages) :illustrations
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Racing the beam :the Atari video computer system
The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home video game market so completely that "Atari" became the generic term for a video game console. The Atari VCS was affordable and offered the flexibility of changeable cartridges. Nearly a thousand of these were created, the most significant of which established new techniques, mechanics, and even entire genres. This book offers a detailed and ac…
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- 9780262254939
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- 1 online resource (xii, 180 pages) :illustrations.
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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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- 1 online resource (viii, 190 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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