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Reality media :augmented and virtual reality
How augmented reality and virtual reality are taking their places in contemporary media culture alongside film and television. This book positions augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) firmly in contemporary media culture. The authors view AR and VR not as the latest hyped technologies but as media--the latest in a series of what they term "reality media," taking their places alongsid…
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- 9780262366250
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- 1 online resource (248 pages).
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Infinite playground :a player's guide to imagination
A play-centered invitation to experience the power and delight unlocked by imagination.Bernard De Koven (1941-2018) was a pioneering designer of games and theorist of fun. He studied games long before the field of game studies existed. For De Koven, games could not be reduced to artifacts and rules; they were about a sense of transcendent fun. This book, his last, is about the imagination: the …
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- 9780262358804
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Food
A consumer's guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices. Everybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least Instagram experts. But are we aware that the shrimp in our freezer may be farmed and frozen in Vietnam, the grapes in our fruit bowl shipped…
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- 9780262353779
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- 1 online resource (232 pages).
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The great Easter :ambulation
"The first-person account of what it is actually like to be what Deleuze & Guattari call a "schizo on a stroll.""--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262370585
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- 1 online resource.
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Bicycling science
"A new, updated edition of a popular book on the history, science, and engineering of bicycles. The bicycle is almost unique among human-powered machines in that it uses human muscles in a near-optimum way. This new edition of the bible of bicycle enthusiasts provides just about everything you could want to know about the history of bicycles, how human beings propel them, what makes them go fas…
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- Fourth edition.
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- 0262357534
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- 1 online resource.
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Garage
A secret history of the garage as a space of creativity, from its invention by Frank Lloyd Wright to its use by start-ups and garage bands. Frank Lloyd Wright invented the garage when he moved the automobile out of the stable into a room of its own. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (allegedly) started Apple Computer in a garage. Suburban men turned garages into man caves to escape from family life.…
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- 9780262347822
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- 1 online resource (224 pages).
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Deaccessioning and its discontents :a critical history
Museums often stir controversy when they deaccession works-formally remove objects from permanent collections-with some critics accusing them of betraying civic virtue and the public trust. In fact, Martin Gammon argues in Deaccessioning and Its Discontents, deaccession has been an essential component of the museum experiment for centuries. Gammon offers the first critical history of deaccessio…
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- 9780262345200
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 424 pages) :illustrations (chiefly color).
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Ever smaller :nature's elementary particles, from the atom to the neutrino an…
Originally published as: Le particelle elementari by il Saggiatore S.r.l., Milano, 2017.Includes index."This book is a thorough introduction to particle physics for the reader that has not been trained in mathematics and modern physics. This book is an excellent follow up to The Atom. It follows a similar model in terms of the history and the state-of-art in the research and the future, but it …
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- 0262358239
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Finding our place in the universe :how we discovered Laniakea, the Milky Way'…
How a team of researchers, led by the author, discovered our home galaxy's location in the universe. You are here: on Earth, which is part of the solar system, which is in the Milky Way galaxy, which itself is within the extragalactic supercluster Laniakea. And how can we pinpoint our location so precisely For twenty years, astrophysicist H?el?ne Courtois surfed the cosmos with an international…
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- 9780262353380
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- 1 online resource (208 pages).
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Writers in the secret garden :fanfiction, youth, and new forms of mentoring
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- 9780262355629
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- 1 online resource (168 pages) :illustrations.
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