An ambitious vision for design based on the premise that data is material, not abstract.Data analysis and visualization are crucial tools in today's society, and digital representations have steadily become the default. Yet, more and more often, we find that citizen scientists, environmental activists, and forensic amateurs are using analog methods to present evidence of pollution, climate chan…
"This book offers an original, multifaceted view of physiognomy, which invites the reader to reflect on the mystery of the human face"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This expansive history of knowledge and its openness makes a strong and nuanced case for opening scholarly knowledge to the public"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Live Streaming Culture is an edited volume that explores the cultural implications of online live streaming, paying special attention to how live streaming is shifting issues of identity and power in digital spaces"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Presents a synthesis of specific properties of living organisms as they can be described by modern research in order to generate a coherent theory of life"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A practical guide for companies to engage in racial justice work"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
How the discovery of a harmless leak of radiation sparked a media firestorm, political grandstanding, and fearmongering that closed a vital scientific facility. In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was -- and is -- a world-class, Nobel Prize-winning lab, and its reactor was the cornerstone of US mat…
From the influential author of Dynamics in Action , how the concepts of constraints provide a way to rethink relationships, opening the way to intentional, meaningful causation . Grounding her work in the problem of causation, Alicia Juarrero challenges previously held beliefs that only forceful impacts are causes. Constraints, she claims, bring about effects as well, and they enable the emerge…
"In Age of Auto Electric, Eisler argues that electric vehicle revival was driven not by better batteries but by the interplay between changing environmental and socio-economic conditions, energy and environmental policies, systems of energy conversion and industrial production, and material practices of innovation"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This book is a personal, practical, and inspirational guide for scientists and other technically trained professionals who seek to be more effective and empathetic in their writings for professional and nontechnical audiences"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.