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The digital plenitude :the decline of elite culture and the rise of new media
How the creative abundance of today's media culture was made possible by the decline of elitism in the arts and the rise of digital media. Media culture today encompasses a universe of forms--websites, video games, blogs, books, films, television and radio programs, magazines, and more--and a multitude of practices that include making, remixing, sharing, and critiquing. This multiplicity is so …
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- 9780262352505
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- 1 online resource (232 pages).
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Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power, and Relational Practice at Work
Joyce Fletcher's research shows that emotional intelligence and relational behavior are often viewed as inappropriate because they collide with powerful, gender-linked images.This study of female design engineers has profound implications for attempts to change organizational culture. Joyce Fletcher's research shows that emotional intelligence and relational behavior are often viewed as inappro…
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- 9780262272827
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- 1 online resource (173 pages)
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Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West
"This book offers a reevaluation of the twentieth century. It argues that the disintegration of Soviet socialism marked the abandonment of the idea of mass utopia by both sides in the Cold War. One of the casualties of the end of that war was the shattering of dreamworlds of industrialization, mass culture, and historical progress that gave meaning to collective social life in East and West. Dr…
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- 9780262269506
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Organic struggle :the movement for sustainable agriculture in the United States
'Organic Struggle' analyzes the evolution of the sustainable agriculture movement in the United States and evaluates its achievements and shortcomings. It traces the development of organic farming from its roots in the 1940s through its embrace by the 1960s counterculture to its mainstream acceptance and development into a multi-billion dollar industry.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262328302
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- 1 online resource (327 pages).
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Language, Music, and the Brain: A Mysterious Relationship
Through four key themes, this book explores the relationships between language, music, and the brain and the crosstalk between them: song and dance as a bridge between music and language; multiple levels of structure from brain to behaviour to culture; the semantics of internal and external worlds and the role of emotion; and the evolution and development of language. Specially commissioned exp…
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- 9781461934394
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 662 pages).
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I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer / Entertainment System Platform
In the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System videogame Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, a character famously declared: I AM ERROR. Puzzled players assumed that this cryptic mesage was a programming flaw, but it was actually a clumsy Japanese-English translation of "My Name is Error," a benign programmer's joke. In I AM ERROR Nathan Altice explores the complex material histories of the Nintendo Ent…
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- 0262328399
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- 1 online resource (xii, 426 pages) :illustrations.
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How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement
An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or "all in the head." This shift in perspective raises important questions about the relationship between cognition and …
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- 9781461935674
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- 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages)
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Evolution and Culture: A Fyssen Foundation Symposium
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- 9780262316224
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 296 pages) :illustrations.
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Folkbiology
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262279611
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- 1 online resource (ix, 504 pages) :illustrations
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The new American farmer :immigration, race, and the struggle for sustainability
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- 9780262355841
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- 1 online resource (192 pages) :illustrations.
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