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Imagery in the 21st century
This volume offers systematic and interdisciplinary reflections on the new imagery world opened by the Internet and the digital world. It offers analytical approaches to the visual.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9781461944409
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- 1 online resource (vi, 410 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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Surveillance or security? :the risks posed by new wiretapping technologies
In this book, the author argues that in embarking on an unprecedented effort to build surveillance capabilities deeply into communications infrastructure, the U.S. government is opting for short-term security and creating dangerous long-term risks. Landau describes what makes communications security hard, warrantless wiretapping and the role of electronic surveillance in the war on terror, the …
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- 9780262295581
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 383 pages) :illustrations, maps
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The tone of our times :sound, sense, economy, and ecology
Sound, tone, music, voice, and noise as forms of sonority through which our current economic and ecological crises can be understood.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262320580
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- 1 online resource.
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Voice :vocal aesthetics in digital arts and media
This work provides perspectives on the voice and technology from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance and sound poetry.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262289695
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- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 399 pages) :illustrations.
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Why America is not a new Rome
An investigation of the America-Rome analogy that goes deeper than the facile comparisons made on talk shows and in glossy magazine articles.America's post-Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in protracted fighting in Iraq…
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- 9780262283885
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- 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Insatiable curiosity :innovation in a fragile future
An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity.Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science nee…
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- 9780262280761
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- 1 online resource (179 pages).
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Gaia in turmoil :climate change, biodepletion, and earth ethics in an age of …
Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258692
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 371 pages) :illustrations
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Equilibrium, Trade, and Growth :Selected Papers of Lionel W. McKenzie
Influential neoclassical economist Lionel McKenzie has made major contributions to postwar economic thought in the fields of equilibrium, trade, and capital accumulation. This selection of his papers traces the development of his thinking in these three crucial areas.McKenzie's early academic life took him to Duke, Princeton, Oxford, the University of Chicago, and the Cowles Commission. In 1957…
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- 9780262279536
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- 1 online resource (vii, 480 pages) :illustrations
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Code/space :software and everyday life
An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1283148056
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- 1 online resource (xi, 290 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Scenario visualization :an evolutionary account of creative problem solving
An account of how humans evolved a conscious, vision-related ability unique to their species in order to solve nonroutine problems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262267373
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- 1 online resource (viii, 209 pages) :illustrations
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