Human Information Retrieval

Julian Warner offers a comprehensive overview of information retrieval, synthesizing theories from different disciplines and incorporating such disparate systems as WorldCat and Google into a single, robust theoretical framework.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The Self-Organizing Social Mind

"A Bradford book."In this work, John Bolender proposes a new explanation for the forms of social relations. He argues that the core of social-relational cognition exhibits beauty - in the physicist's sense of the word, associated with symmetry.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Ignorance and Surprise: Science, Society, and Ecological Design

In this work, Matthias Gross examines the relationship between ignorance and surprise, proposing a conceptual framework for handling the unexpected and offering case studies of ecological design that demonstrate the advantages of allowing for surprises and including ignorance in the design and negotiation processes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Tech…

"This book provides the most holistic approach to the history of the development of programming and computer systems so far written. By embedding this history in a sociological and political context, Ensmenger has added hugely to our understanding of how the world of computing and its work practices came to be." Martin Campbell-Kelly, Professor of Computer Science, Warwick University.;"The Comp…

Pragmatism and Reference

Despite a revival of interest in pragmatist philosophy, most work in the analytic philosophy of language ignores insights offered by classical pragmatists & contemporary neopragmatists. This text arues that a pragmatist perspective on reference presents a distinct alternative to the prevailing analytic views on the topic.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Race, Incarceration, and American Values

"Based on the 2007 Tanner lectures on human values at Stanford."Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate--at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising--is almost forty percent greater th…

America's Food: What You Don't Know About What You Eat

We don't think much about how food gets to our tables, or what had to happen to fill our supermarket's produce section with perfectly round red tomatoes and its meat counter with slabs of beautifully marbled steak. We don't realize that the meat in one fast-food hamburger may come from many different cattle raised in several different countries. In fact, most of us have a fairly abstract unders…

Amenities of literature : consisting of sketches and characters of English li…

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Garbage wars : the struggle for environmental justice in Chicago

A study of the struggle for environmental justice, focusing on conflicts over solid waste and pollution in Chicago.In Garbage Wars, the sociologist David Pellow describes the politics of garbage in Chicago. He shows how garbage affects residents in vulnerable communities and poses health risks to those who dispose of it. He follows the trash, the pollution, the hazards, and the people who encou…

Generation digital : politics, commerce, and childhood in the age of the inte…

The role that children and youth play in the emerging digital media culture-as consumers targeted by marketing campaigns, as creators of their own digital culture, and as political participants.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.