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Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chip…
This collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, and how the machines and the knowledge that make up technical systems strengthen or reshape social, political, and cultural power. The authors suggest ways in which a more nuanced investigation of technology's complex history can enrich our understanding of the changing me…
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"Laws of Seeing "
"This classic 1936 work in vision science, written by a leading figure in Germany's Gestalt movement in psychology and appearing in English for the first time, addresses topics that remain of major interest to vision researchers today. Wolfgang Metzger's main argument, drawn from Gestalt theory, is that the objects we perceive in visual experience are not the objects themselves but perceptual e…
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Life, death, and other inconvenient truths :a realist's view of the human con…
"Short essays that touch many topics-anxiety, consciousness, death, happiness, morality, stupidity, & truth-that make the case for realism & help set expectations with regard to the human condition"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape
Over the last several years, the realm of technology and privacy has been transformed, creating a landscape that is both dangerous and encouraging. Significant changes include large increases in communications bandwidths; the widespread adoption of computer networking and public-key cryptography; mathematical innovations that promise a vast family of protocols for protecting identity in complex…
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Salvador Luria :an immigrant biologist in Cold War America
"Scientific biography of Salvador Luria, Nobel-prize-winning biologist, activist, and MIT professor"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information
An accessible explanation of the hidden patterns found within the seemingly chaotic World Wide Web.Despite its haphazard growth, the Web hides powerful underlying regularities--from the organization of its links to the patterns found in its use by millions of users. Many of these regularities have been predicted on the basis of theoretical models based on a field of physics--statistical mechani…
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Technology and the New Economy
Lectures ... originally delivered ... at the University of Hong Kong in 2001-2002 in celebration of its 90th birthday"--Introduction.Essays on the effects of information technology on the economy.One of the most important forces driving economic performance in the United States and other countries during the 1990s was the rise of information technology. The new technology has had such a signifi…
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Picture research :the work of intermediation from pre-photography to post-dig…
"Reveals the invisible work that made it possible for pictures to circulate in print and online from the 1830s to the 2010s"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Technology as Experience
How to understand our interactions with technology: considering the emotional, intellectual, and sensual aspects of the user experience.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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There's nothing micro about a billion women :making finance work for women
"The full financial inclusion of women will lead to significant advances in global economic development"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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