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Taken for grantedness :the embedding of mobile communication into society
"Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net, the mobile phone is an instrument of a more intimate social sphere. The mobile phone provides a taken-for-granted link to the people to whom we are closest; when we are without it, social and domestic disarray…
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The native mind and the cultural construction of nature / The Native Mind and…
Surveys show that our growing concern over protecting the environment is accompanied by a diminishing sense of human contact with nature. Many people have little commonsense knowledge about nature - are unable, for example, to identify local plants and trees or describe how these plants and animals interact. Researchers report dwindling knowledge of nature even in smaller, nonindustrialized soc…
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Critical play : Radical Game Design
An examination of subversive games-games designed for political, aesthetic, and social critique.
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Cultivating science, harvesting power : Science and Industrial Agriculture in…
Christopher R. Henke reveals how agricultural scientists and growers in California have cooperated - and struggled - in shaping the state's multi-billion-dollar farm industry.
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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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Fascist pigs :technoscientific organisms and the history of fascism
How the breeding of new animals and plants was central to fascist regimes in Italy, Portugal, and Germany and to their imperial expansion.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Cognition in the wild
Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open-ocean racing sailor and navigator in this account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory to produce a new reading of cognitive science. His theoretical insights are grounded in an extended analysis of ship navigation - its computational basis, its historical roots, its social organization, and …
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 381 pages) :illustrations
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The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution
The introduction of a mathematical and computational framework within which to analyze the interplay between language learning and language evolution.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 482 pages) :illustrations.
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Deserting from the culture wars
Artists and writers consider a tactical desertion from the "culture wars"--a refusal to be distracted, an embrace of the emancipatory understanding of culture. Deserting from the Culture Wars reflects upon and intervenes in our current moment of ever-more polarizing ideological combat, often seen as the return of the "culture wars." How are these culture wars defined and waged Engaging in a the…
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Underground :the secret life of videocassettes in Iran
"First book length study of home video in Iran during the 1980s and 1990s, and the informal distribution infrastructure that developed in reaction to the ban on all video technology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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