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Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity
A leading philosopher of technology calls for the democratic coordination of technical rationality with everyday experience.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262265959
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 257 pages).
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A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s
Lawrence Badash traces the rise & fall of the concept of 'nuclear winter', played out in research activity, public relations & Reagan-era politics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258531
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 403 pages).
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Global Environmental Change and Human Security
Experts discuss the risks global environmental change poses for the human security, including disaster and disease, violence, and increasing inequity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259057
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- 1 online resource (x, 327 pages) :illustrations
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Simulation and Its Discontents
How the simulation and visualization technologies so pervasive in science, engineering, and design have changed our way of seeing the world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262254847
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 217 pages).
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America Identified: Biometric Technology and Society
An examination of the public perception of biometric identification technology in the context of privacy, security & civil liberties.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289689
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- 1 online resource (viii, 258 pages) :illustrations
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Uttering Trees
Here, Richards investigates the conditions imposed upon syntax by the need to create syntactic objects that can be interpreted by phonology - that is, objects that can be pronounced.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282369
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- 1 online resource (x, 233 pages) :illustrations.
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Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States
The stories of residents of low-income communities across the country who took action when pollution from heavy industry contaminated their towns.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289580
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- 1 online resource (363 pages)
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The first violin : a novel
He looked surprised, and still continued to urge me in a manner which roused a deep inner feeling of indignation within me, for it seemed to say that he understood me to be overwhelmed with the honor he proposed to confer upon me, and humored my timidity about accepting it. There was no doubt in his manner, not the shadow of a suspicion that I could be in earnest. There was something that turne…
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- 1744010660
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- cdl; americana
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- srlf_ucla:LAGE-1472027
Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence: Deliberative Environmental Law
A proposal for a philosophical foundation and a realistic deliberative mechanism for creating a transnational common law for the environment.In Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence, Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett explore the necessary characteristics of a meaningful global jurisprudence, a jurisprudence that would underpin international environmental law. Arguing that theories of po…
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- 9780262258524
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- 1 online resource (xi, 224 pages)
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Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Econ…
Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. This examination of ICT from a political economy perspective argues that innovation and economic growth require new approaches in global governance that will reconcile diverse interests and enable competition to flourish.
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