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Playful visions :optical toys and the emergence of children's media culture
The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as "new media" of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262358040
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- 1 online resource (288 pages).
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Arcade Britannia :a social history of the British amusement arcade
"A history of the arcade in British culture"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262372350
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The raven's hat :fallen pictures, rising sequences, and other mathematical ga…
"Introducing complex math concepts through the medium of seemingly unsolvable games"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363623
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Buy now :how Amazon branded convenience and normalized monopoly
"An in-depth analysis of Amazon as a ubiquitous brand that has decisively shaped retail, both online and off, and normalized monpoly"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262368391
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Activists under surveillance :the FBI files
Selections from FBI files on political activists including Betty Friedan, Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King, Aaron Swartz, and Malcolm X. The FBI has always kept tabs on political activists. During the directorship of J. Edgar Hoover, it was a Bureau-wide obsession. Did you see that guy who didn't quite look like a journalist, taking pictures at a demonstration He was probably FBI. Did you say …
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- 9780262356381
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- 1 online resource (392 pages).
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Dubcon :fanfiction, power, and sexual consent
"This book examines the treatment of issues of sexual consent in erotic fanfiction as a form of cultural activism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366010
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The matter of facts :skepticism, persuasion, and evidence in science
How biases, the desire for a good narrative, reliance on citation metrics, and other problems undermine confidence in modern science. Modern science is built on experimental evidence, yet scientists are often very selective in deciding what evidence to use and often disagree about how to interpret it. In The Matter of Facts, Gareth and Rhodri Leng explore how scientists produce and use evidence…
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- 9780262358279
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- 1 online resource (376 pages).
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A tale of two towers :gigantism in architecture and digital culture
A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center. The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from excessively tall skyscrapers to globe-spanning digital networks. In this book, Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel map and critique the trajectory of gigantism in architecture and digital culture--the conver…
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- 9780262358330
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- 1 online resource (248 pages).
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Critical code studies :initial methods
"Critical Code Studies (CCS) names a set of methodologies for the exploration of computer source code using the hermeneutics of the humanities. Like 10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10, Mark Marino's Critical Code Studies treats code not as merely functional but as a text, one that can be read, and misinterpreted, by non-programmers. As the author notes, code's "meaning is not determined…
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Think tank aesthetics :midcentury modernism, the Cold War, and the neoliberal…
How the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics--paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism. In Think Tank Aesthetics , Pamela Lee traces the complex encounters between Cold War think tanks and the art of that era. Lee shows how the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operations research,…
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