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American trip :set, setting, and the psychedelic experience in the Twentieth …
"Do drugs produce fixed, predictable effects or are their effects a product of society and culture? American Trip explores this question, presenting the most comprehensive description of mid-twentieth-century hallucinogenic drug research thus far. American Trip follows seven different mid-twentieth-century schools of psychedelic research including the military, the psychotherapeutic, the spirit…
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Gyorgy Kepes :undreaming the Bauhaus
How Gyorgy Kepes, the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, became the single most significant artist within a network of scientific experts and elites. Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001) was the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, an acolyte of Lszlo Moholy-Nagy and a self-styled revolutionary artist. But by midcentury, transplanted to America, Kepes found he was trapped in the military-industrial-aesthet…
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- 9780262352994
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- 1 online resource (480 pages) :illustrations
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Dependent, distracted, bored :affective formations in networked media
"Distracted, Frustrated, Bored explores the shifting relations, rhythms, and productivity of media technologies that are not mere instruments, but fundamental methods for making sense of the world"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363364
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How history gets things wrong :the neuroscience of our addiction to stories
Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired. To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong . Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, always wrong. It not just incomplete or i…
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- 9780262348416
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- 1 online resource (289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates) :illustrations (some color), maps
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Alice and Bob meet the wall of fire :the biggest ideas in science from Quanta
A collection of physics and biology stories from Quanta magazine.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262350518
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The prime number conspiracy :the biggest ideas in math from Quanta
Mathematics stories from Quanta Magazine.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262350532
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Peer pedagogies on digital platforms :learning with Minecraft Let's Play videos
"The author develops a model of peer pedagogy by examining the popular genre of Let's Play videos as a source of learning for Minecraft players"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262360748
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The joy of search :a Google insider's guide to going beyond the basics
"How to be a great online searcher, demonstrated with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions (for example, "Is that plant poisonous?"). We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb: we Google it--"Japan population" or "Nobel Peace Prize" or "poison ivy" …
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- 1 online resource (xii, 323 pages) :illustrations (chiefly color)
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Putting skill to work :how to create good jobs in uncertain times
"A policy proposal for increased collaboration between employers and workforce intermediaries to come together to create greater opportunities for worker skill development"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363151
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Animal beauty :on the evolution of biological aesthetics
An illustrated exploration of colors and patterns in the animal kingdom, what they communicate, and how they function in the social life of animals. Are animals able to appreciate what humans refer to as "beauty" The term scarcely ever appears nowadays in a scientific description of living things, but we humans may nonetheless find the colors, patterns, and songs of animals to be beautiful in a…
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