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Mood and mobility :navigating the emotional spaces of digital social networks
We are active with our mobile devices; we play games, watch films, listen to music, check social media, and tap screens and keyboards while we are on the move. In Mood and Mobility, Richard Coyne argues that not only do we communicate, process information, and entertain ourselves through devices and social media; we also receive, modify, intensify, and transmit moods. Designers, practitioners, …
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The genealogy of a gene :patents, HIV/AIDS, and race
In The Genealogy of a Gene, Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied "genealogy" of CCR5 -- intellectual property, natural selection, Big and Small Pharma, human diversity studies, personalized medicine, ancestry studies, and race and genomics -- Jackson links a myriad of diverse topics. The hi…
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- 9780262327190
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- 1 online resource (xii, 336 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Music and the Cultural Production of Scale
This open access book shows how geographical scales are made through music. Scales are sets of spatial frames, abstractions or categories that denote the size, proportion, level, extent or hierarchical relations of phenomena. They are neither natural nor neutral but actively produced, with real political effects. But what role do cultural practices play in the production of scale? Phil Do…
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- 978-3-031-36282-8
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- VIII, 108
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The Magic Spear, or, Camped with The Blacks : a tale of the early days
This little book has been written for young Australians. It isan attempt to interest our boys and girls in the aborigines - those dark skinned people whose ancestors wandered to and fro over the face of our great continent long before the first white men visited its shores. Very few of our boys and girls have ever visited a native camp - in fact, many of them have never seen a native; but we…
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Akademische Subjektivierung im Dispositiv neoliberaler Gouvernementalität
This open access volume offers valuable new perspectives on the question of how mobility, locatedness and immersion in the physical world can enhance second language teaching and learning. It does so through a diverse array of empirical studies of language, literacy, and culture learning in the linguistic landscape of visible and audible public discourse. Written from conceptually rich and disc…
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- 978-3-658-42746-7
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- XII, 248
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Cultural Policy is Local
This Open Access edited collection calls for a greater understanding of ‘the local’ within the ways the arts, culture and creative practices are governed, promoted, regulated, resourced and valued. Cultural policy studies tends to privilege the national (and international) as the primary site at which cultural policy is enacted, and focuses on the ‘local’ as a case study of practice, ra…
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- 978-3-031-32311-9
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- XIX, 267
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Global Environmental Change and Human Security
Experts discuss the risks global environmental change poses for the human security, including disaster and disease, violence, and increasing inequity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259057
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- 1 online resource (x, 327 pages) :illustrations
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Prudence and Pressure: Reproduction and Human Agency in Europe and Asia, 1700…
A study of human reproduction and social organization in preindustrial communities that reveals important similarities between Europe and Asia.This pioneering study reconceptualizes the impact of social organizations, economic conditions, and human agency on human reproduction in preindustrial communities in Europe and Asia. Unlike previous studies, in which Asia is measured by European standar…
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- 9780262326476
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 380 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology
Here, leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture. The contributors consider innovation in biological terms discussing epistemology, animal studies, systematics and phylogeny, phenotypic plasticity and evolvability, and much more.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259101
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- 1 online resource (xi, 284 pages) :illustrations.
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Ignorance and Surprise: Science, Society, and Ecological Design
In this work, Matthias Gross examines the relationship between ignorance and surprise, proposing a conceptual framework for handling the unexpected and offering case studies of ecological design that demonstrate the advantages of allowing for surprises and including ignorance in the design and negotiation processes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262265911
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- 1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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