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The tone of our times :sound, sense, economy, and ecology
Sound, tone, music, voice, and noise as forms of sonority through which our current economic and ecological crises can be understood.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262320580
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- 1 online resource.
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Voice :vocal aesthetics in digital arts and media
This work provides perspectives on the voice and technology from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance and sound poetry.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262289695
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- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 399 pages) :illustrations.
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The men in my life
Gornick on V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth and the intimate relationship between emotional damage and great literature.Vivian Gornick, one of our finest critics, tackled the theme of love and marriage in her last collection of essays, The End of the Novel of Love, a National B…
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- 9780262274104
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 194 pages).
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Why America is not a new Rome
An investigation of the America-Rome analogy that goes deeper than the facile comparisons made on talk shows and in glossy magazine articles.America's post-Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in protracted fighting in Iraq…
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- 9780262283885
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- 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Insatiable curiosity :innovation in a fragile future
An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity.Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science nee…
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- 9780262280761
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- 1 online resource (179 pages).
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Cogent science in context :the science wars, argumentation theory, and Habermas
This text is a proposal for an interdisciplinary context-sensitive framework for assessing the strength of scientific arguments that melds J?urgen Habermas's discourse theory and sociological contextualism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255318
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- 1 online resource (x, 345 pages) :illustrations.
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Living in a material world :economic sociology meets science and technology s…
This book draws on the tools of science and technology studies and economic sociology to reconceptualize the intersection of economy and technology, suggesting materiality - the idea that social existence involves not only actors and social relations but also objects - as the theoretical point of convergence.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281607
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- 1 online resource (vi, 403 pages) :illustrations.
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The road to democracy in Iran
A famous Iranian dissident calls for universal human rights and democracy based on our common humanity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273459
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- 1 online resource (113 pages).
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Scenario visualization :an evolutionary account of creative problem solving
An account of how humans evolved a conscious, vision-related ability unique to their species in order to solve nonroutine problems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262267373
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- 1 online resource (viii, 209 pages) :illustrations
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Food justice
The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table. In today's food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restaurants and liquor stores, food products emphasize convenience rather than wholesomeness, and the international reach of Americ…
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- 9780262289443
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- 1 online resource (vii, 290 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations.
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