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Philosophy for passengers
A philosophical guide to passengerhood, with reflections on time, space, existence, boredom, our sense of self, and our sense of the senses. While there are entire bookstore sections--and even entire bookstores--devoted to travel, there have been few books on the universal experience of being a passenger. With this book, philosopher Michael Marder fills the gap, offering a philosophical guide t…
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- 1 online resource (216 pages).
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Memo for Nemo
"Originally published in 2016 by Architectural Association.""An architectural, social, and cultural history of the undersea, using Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and more especially his charasmatic villain Captain Nemo, as his prompt"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262370486
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Media ruins :Cambodian postwar infrastructural reconstruction and the geopoli…
"Looks at the role of media in post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation, with Cambodia as the central case study"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262374095
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Seed activism :patent politics and litigation in the global south
"Seed Activism is an ethnography of court challenges to corporate intellectual property (IP) rights and practices in Brazil and India. Based on a wealth of interviews with a diverse range of actors-from farmers and plant breeders to corporate lawyers-the book offers the first detailed ethnographic account of the legal disputes that have arisen in the past decade around patents and royalties on …
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- 9780262372237
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Resigned activism :living with pollution in rural China
"An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response, revised from the original 2017 edition with a new preface"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- Revised edition.
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- 9780262365321
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- 1 online resource.
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They knew :the US federal government's fifty-year role in causing the climate…
"In 2015, a group of 21 young people came together to sue the federal government for violating their constitutional rights by promoting the climate catastrophe that has already begun to deprive them of life, liberty and property without due process of law. The path breaking litigation, Juliana v United States, has had more success in the courts than many expected, but the federal government has…
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- 0262366800
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A selectional theory of adjunct control
"A new theory on adjunct control from a leading linguistics researcher"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026236610X
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- 1 online resource.
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The work of the future :building better jobs in an age of intelligent machines
"A trade book based on the final report of MIT's Work of the Future Task Force"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262367750
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Distant viewing :computational exploration of digital images
"The authors construct theories and methods for "distant viewing" as a method for analyzing collections of digitized visual materials with computer vision"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262375160
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Memory, edited :taking liberties with history
"Memory, Edited explores historical memory in the context of today's crises of extremism and polarization, showing how narratives that seem to reveal an "arc of history" leading to progress or salvation are false accounts that exclude some groups and privilege others. Rumsey gives us a deep look at 20th century Russian and Eastern European artists as a way of exploring the effects of authoritar…
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- 9780262376150
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