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Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research
After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo -- only a tacit agreement to disagree -- but the debate now takes place in a context in which human stem cell research and related technologies already exist. In this book, Charis Thompson investigates the evolution of the controversy over human pluripotent …
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Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests
Here, Mathews describes Mexico's efforts over the past hundred years to manage its forests through forestry science and biodiversity conservation. He shows that transparent knowledge was produced by encounters between the relatively weak forestry bureaucracy and the indigenous people who manage and own the pine forests of Mexico.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298537
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- 1 online resource (xii, 304 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities
In Knowledge Machines, Eric Meyer and Ralph Schroeder argue that digital technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Meyer and Schroeder show that digital tools and data, used collectively and in distributed mode -- which they term e-research -- have transformed not just the consumption of knowledge but also the production of know…
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- 9780262328180
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- 1 online resource (x, 271 pages) :illustrations.
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Modernity and housing
Explores the social, cultural, and expressive history of housing during two periods: the large-scale developments in the 1920s, and the widespread modernist principles in the 1970s. A theoretical and historical inquiry, the text also aims to inspire the design of modern housing.
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Beyond the Triple Bottom Line Eight Steps toward a Sustainable Business Model
A pragmatic new business model for sustainability that outlines eight steps that range from exploring a mission to promoting innovation; with case studies.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262339070
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- 1 online resource (xx, 224 pages) :illustrations
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Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice
A young architect's search for new architectural values in a time of economic crisis. I paused at the stoop and thought this could be the basis of a good book. The story of a young man who went deep into the bowels of the academy in order to understand architecture and found it had been on his doorstep all along. This had an air of hokeyness about it, but it had been a tough couple of days a…
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The adventure
An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude or dupe them. To accept them, Giorgio Agamben suggests, is to live one's life as an adventure - not in the trivial sense of the term, with lightness and disenchantment, but with the understanding th…
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Carving Nature at Its Joints: Natural Kinds in Metaphysics and Science
"A Bradford book.""Contemporary discussions of the success of science often invoke an ancient metaphor from Plato's Phaedrus: successful theories should 'carve nature at its joints.' But is nature really 'jointed'? Are there natural kinds of things around which our theories cut? The essays in this volume offer reflections by a distinguished group of philosophers on a series of intertwined issue…
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A History of Bangladesh
Bangladesh is a new name for an old land whose history is little known to the wider world. A country chiefly famous in the West for media images of poverty, underdevelopment, and natural disasters, Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's history reveals the country's vibrant, colourful past and its diverse culture as it navigates the extraordinary twis…
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Winning together :the natural resource negotiation playbook
Strategies for transboundary natural resource management; winner of Harvard Law School's Raiffa Award for best research of the year in negotiation and conflict resolution.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262343633
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- 1 online resource (viii, 322 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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