The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as "new media" of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
How the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for the design and building of ships. In the 1800s, shipbuilding moved from sail and wood to steam, iron, and steel. The competitive pressure to achieve more predictable ocean transportation drove the industrialization of shipbuilding, as shipowners demanded ships that enabled tighter scheduling, improved…
"How new media forms can influence spatial design and placemaking"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A history of the arcade in British culture"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A look at technical debt in software that focuses on the practical implications of technical debt for the entire software lifecycle"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A much-needed synthesis of active inference, a theory of mind that addresses cognition, behavior, intelligence, & mental disorders and which can be extended to explain behavior in all living systems"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. Discard studies is an emerging field that looks at waste and wasting broadly construed. Rather than focusing on waste and trash as the primary objects of study, discard studies looks at wider systems of waste and wasting to explore how some materials, practices, regions, and…
"Digital entrepreneurship has often been viewed as a game changer for African development. Empowered by a single smartphone, the thinking goes, an individual entrepreneur can lay the groundwork for the next Amazon or Apple, and this will jumpstart economic progress on the entire continent. However, the realities of actual African digital entrepreneurship are much more modest. Yes, individual en…
"Introducing complex math concepts through the medium of seemingly unsolvable games"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An in-depth analysis of Amazon as a ubiquitous brand that has decisively shaped retail, both online and off, and normalized monpoly"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.