"A book on how video games changed monsters, and how video game monsters shape our notions of otherness"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Among his extraordinary mathematical and philosophical achievements, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) invented binary arithmetic, the representational basis for today's world of digital computing and communications. This book will be the first to make a selection of his writings available in English. Strickland and Lewis provide an accessible introduction to Leibniz through some twenty mo…
"Building on the recent discovery that "the atom, that once we thought hard and impenetrable, and indivisible and final and - lifeless - lifeless, is really a reservoir of immense energy," Wells conjures a 1950s England in which clean, efficient atomic engines have transformed life for the better. Alas, a world war breaks out, in which atomic bombs wipe out the world's great cities. Worldwide c…
"Presents and discusses aesthetics as a theory of how design frames and conditions human experience"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A book describing surprising findings from a new dataset on startups in the US"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An argument for the inclusion of the human perspective within science and how it makes science possible"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This is a follow-up to Nye's 1994 MITP book American Technological Sublime. (American Technological Sublime continues the exploration of the social construction of technology that David Nye began in his award-winning book Electrifying America. Here Nye examines the continuing appeal of the "technological sublime"--a term coined by Perry Miller--as a key to the nation's history, using as exampl…
"Using the non-human construct of the cyborg, this book address the problems inherent in difference and oppression, like gender, race, class, disability, sexuality, human exceptionalism and global borders"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Academic, industry, and government experts provide a global survey of the financial services sector's transformation by AI, data science, and blockchain"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Garcia lays out tactics for researchers to fully engage in education policy by directly engaging with politicians -- at levels from local to national -- both before and after they are elected"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.