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The shadows of consumption :consequences for the global environment
An environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing the environmental consequences of five commodities.The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth's ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences of rising consumption. Products ranging from cars to hamburgers offer conveniences and pleasures; but…
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- 9780262271233
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 315 pages)
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Racing the beam :the Atari video computer system
The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home video game market so completely that "Atari" became the generic term for a video game console. The Atari VCS was affordable and offered the flexibility of changeable cartridges. Nearly a thousand of these were created, the most significant of which established new techniques, mechanics, and even entire genres. This book offers a detailed and ac…
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- 9780262254939
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- 1 online resource (xii, 180 pages) :illustrations.
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Street-fighting mathematics :the art of educated guessing and opportunistic p…
"In Street-Fighting Mathematics, Sanjoy Mahajan builds, sharpens, and demonstrates tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty, opportunistic problem solving across diverse fields of knowledge - from mathematics to management. Mahajan describes six tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by analogy. Illustrating each tool with…
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- 9780262265881
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- 1 online resource (xv, 134 pages) :illustrations
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Evolution of communicative flexibility :complexity, creativity, and adaptabil…
Experts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including human language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281027
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- 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) :illustrations.
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Systematics as cyberscience :computers, change, and continuity in science
For all the use scientists make of computers in their work, we still know little about how computing affects their working methods and the knowledge they produce. Christine Hine explores these questions by examining the developing use of information technology in one discipline, systematics (the classification of organisims).OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275408
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- 1 online resource (x, 307 pages) :illustrations.
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Global catastrophes and trends :the next 50 years
From the Publisher: Fundamental change occurs most often in one of two ways: as a "fatal discontinuity," a sudden catastrophic event that is potentially world changing, or as a persistent, gradual trend. Global catastrophes include volcanic eruptions, viral pandemics, wars, and large-scale terrorist attacks; trends are demographic, environmental, economic, and political shifts that unfold over …
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- 9780262283878
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- 1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Relationscapes :movement, art, philosophy
Exploring the relation between sensation and thought through the prisms of dance, cinema, art, and the new media, Manning argues for the intensity of movement, developing the concept of preacceleration which makes palpable how movement creates relational intervals out of which displacements take form.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255158
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- 1 online resource (x, 268 pages) :illustrations.
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Semblance and event :activist philosophy and the occurrent arts
An investigation of the "occurrent arts" through the concepts of the "semblance" and "lived abstraction."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298193
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- 1 online resource (xii, 220 pages) :illustrations.
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Histories of the immediate present :inventing architectural modernism
How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism-Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri-advanced specific versions of modernism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262288163
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages) :illustrations.
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Software studies :a lexicon
This collection of short expository, critical and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social and aesthetic impact of software. Experts from a range of disciplines each take a key topic in software and the understanding of software, such as algorithms and logical structures.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273343
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- 1 online resource (xii, 334 pages) :illustrations.
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