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Urban humanities :new practices for reimagining the city
Original, action-oriented humanist practices for interpreting and intervening in the city: a new methodology at the intersection of the humanities, design, and urban studies. Urban humanities is an emerging field at the intersection of the humanities, urban planning, and design. It offers a new approach not only for understanding cities in a global context but for intervening in them, interpret…
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- 1 online resource (336 pages).
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Disrupted economic relationships :disasters, sanctions, dissolutions
Empirical studies and theoretical analyses examine the causes and consequences of disruptions in cross-border economic relationships, including political conflict, economic sanctions, and institutional collapse. Cross-border economic relationships gradually strengthened in the decades after World War II; for most of the postwar period, international trade and investment have grown faster than o…
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- 9780262353083
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- 1 online resource (304 pages).
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Garage
A secret history of the garage as a space of creativity, from its invention by Frank Lloyd Wright to its use by start-ups and garage bands. Frank Lloyd Wright invented the garage when he moved the automobile out of the stable into a room of its own. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (allegedly) started Apple Computer in a garage. Suburban men turned garages into man caves to escape from family life.…
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- 1 online resource (224 pages).
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Reality media :augmented and virtual reality
How augmented reality and virtual reality are taking their places in contemporary media culture alongside film and television. This book positions augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) firmly in contemporary media culture. The authors view AR and VR not as the latest hyped technologies but as media--the latest in a series of what they term "reality media," taking their places alongsid…
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- 9780262366250
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- 1 online resource (248 pages).
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Global environmental governance and the accountability trap
An examination of whether accountability mechanisms in global environmental governance that focus on monitoring and enforcement necessarily lead to better governance and better environmental outcomes. The rapid development of global environmental governance has been accompanied by questions of accountability. Efforts to address what has been called "a culture of unaccountability" include greate…
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- 9780262351874
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- 1 online resource (280 pages).
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3D printing
An accessible introduction to 3D printing that outlines the additive manufacturing process, industrial and household markets, and emerging uses. The use of 3D printing--digitally controlled additive manufacturing -- is growing rapidly. Consumer models of 3D printers allow people to fabricate small plastic objects, from cabinet knobs to wedding cake toppers. Industrial uses are becoming widespre…
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- 9780262352413
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- 1 online resource (240 pages) :illustrations.
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Data feminism
A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask…
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- 9780262358521
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- 1 online resource (328 pages).
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Designing an internet
Why the Internet was designed to be the way it is, and how it could be different, now and in the future. How do you design an internet The architecture of the current Internet is the product of basic design decisions made early in its history. What would an internet look like if it were designed, today, from the ground up In this book, MIT computer scientist David Clark explains how the Interne…
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- 9780262348508
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- 1 online resource (432 pages).
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Trump and the media
The election of Donald Trump and the great disruption in the news and social media.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262346610
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- 1 online resource (x, 257 pages)
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Spontaneous venturing :an entrepreneurial approach to alleviating suffering i…
Identifying a new approach to disaster response: spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions to alleviate suffering. In Spontaneous Venturing , Dean Shepherd and Trenton Williams identify and describe a new approach for responding to disaster and suffering: the local organizing of spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions -- the rapid emergence of a compassionate venture. This app…
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