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Trump and the media
The election of Donald Trump and the great disruption in the news and social media.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262346610
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All data are local :thinking critically in a data-driven society
How to analyze data settings rather than data sets, acknowledging the meaning-making power of the local. In our data-driven society, it is too easy to assume the transparency of data. Instead, Yanni Loukissas argues in All Data Are Local , we should approach data sets with an awareness that data are created by humans and their dutiful machines, at a time, in a place, with the instruments at han…
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- 9780262352215
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- 1 online resource (272 pages).
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Convergent evolution in stone-tool technology
Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262346160
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- 1 online resource (x, 294 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Fire, ice, and physics :the science of Game of thrones
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- 9780262355292
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- 1 online resource (296 pages) :illustrations
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Laboratory lifestyles :the construction of scientific fictions
"The past decade has seen an extraordinary laboratory-building boom. This new crop of laboratories features spectacular architecture and resort-like amenities. The buildings sprawl luxuriously on verdant campuses or sit sleekly in expensive urban neighborhoods. Designed to attract venture capital, generous philanthropy, and star scientists, these laboratories are meant to create the ideal condi…
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- 9780262349741
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 274 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Safe spaces, brave spaces :diversity and free expression in education
How the essential democratic values of diversity and free expression can coexist on campus.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262343664
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 171 pages)
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Literature and cartography :theories, histories, genres
Literary authors have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their bearings in the imaginative world of the text. Today, the convergence of digital mapping and globalization has spurred a cartographic turn in literature. This book gathers leading scholars to consider the relationship of literature and cartography. Gene…
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- 9780262342247
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- 1 online resource (vi, 472 pages) :illustrations
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A billion little pieces :RFID and the infrastructures of identification
How RFID, a ubiquitous but often invisible mobile technology, identifies tens of billions of objects as they move through the world. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is ubiquitous but often invisible, a mobile technology used by more people more often than any flashy smartphone app. RFID systems use radio waves to communicate identifying information, transmitting data from a tag that carri…
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- 9780262352567
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- 1 online resource (336 pages).
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Technologies of the human corpse
"How human technological interventions into death and the dead body since the nineteenth century have had a profound impact on today's (and future) end-of-life and human mortality realities. As Director of the Centre for Death and Society, the world's only interdisciplinary studies centre dedicated to researching death, dying, and the dead body, and the son of an American Funeral Director who g…
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- 9780262358095
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- 1 online resource.
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Quantum language and the migration of scientific concepts
"This book looks at the use of language in science and in the circulation of scienctific concepts in society at large. More precisely, the book looks at the difficulties physicists faced regarding the use of language while creating quantum mechanics, with the use of quantum concepts in literary criticism and in literature, and with the use of these concepts by the New Age and Post New Age incli…
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- 9780262345118
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