Weather by the numbers : by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology

The history of the growth and professionalization of American meteorology and its transformation into a physics- and mathematics-based scientific discipline.

Movies and the moral adventure of life

Films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities.

Romance in the ivory tower The Rights and Liberty of Conscience

Should the choice to engage in a faculty-student romance be protected or precluded? An argument that the right to choose a romantic partner is a fundamental right of conscience, protected by the U.S Constitution.Allen Ginsberg once declared that "the best teaching is done in bed," but most university administrators would presumably disagree. Many universities prohibit romantic relationships bet…

Handbook of mobile communication studies / of Mobile Communication Studies

This volume offers a view of the cultural, interpersonal and family consequences of mobile communication across the globe. The contributors analyse the effects of moble communications on all aspects of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of phones, to the use of ringtones as a form of social exchange.

Children without a state: A global human rights challenge

Children are among the most vulnerable citizens of the world, with a special need for the protections, rights, and services offered by states. And yet children are particularly at risk from statelessness. Thirty-six percent of all births in the world are not registered, leaving more than forty-eight million children under the age of five with no legal identity and no formal claim on any state. …

Austere realism Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology

This work presents a provocative ontological-cum-semantic position stating that the right ontology is austere in its exclusion of numerous common-sense and scientific posits and that many statements employing such posits are nonetheless true.

In praise of reason / In Praise of Reason:

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Mining the biomedical literature / Structured Data

A concise introduction to fundamental methods for finding and extracting relevant information from the ever-increasing amounts of biomedical text available.

Nurturing dreams : Collected Essays on Architecture and the City

Unavailable as a collection until now, these essays document both the intellectual journey of one of the world's leading architects and a critical period in the evolution of architectural thought.Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko Maki brings to his writings on architecture a…

Contagious architecture : Computation, Aesthetics, and Space

In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis is that algorithmic computation is not simply an abstract mathematical tool but constitutes a mode of thought in its own right, in that its operation extends into forms of abstraction that lie beyond direct human cognition and control. Th…