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Artifacts :an archaeologist's year in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley, a small place with few identifiable geologic or geographic features, has achieved a mythical reputation in a very short time. The modern material culture of the Valley may be driven by technology, but it also encompasses architecture, transportation, food, clothing, entertainment, intercultural exchanges, and rituals.Combining a reporter's instinct for a good interview with trad…
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- 1 online resource (xlix, 246 pages) :illustrations, map
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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
"Excerpts from the Preface and Chapter 8: Materials Science, wedged as it is between the two better-known fields of Chemistry and Physics, teaches us that everything in our world is due to the interactions of atoms. If you can find out how they interact to make up the physical world, then you can also change the way that atoms act to make them do new things and, as we develop new materials, we …
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Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice
This volume provides an examination of how garbage reveals the relationships between the global and the local, the economic and the ecological, and the historical and the contemporary.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305693
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- 1 online resource (vi, 291 pages) :map.
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Meaningful stuff :design that lasts
"In a world suffocated by people and things, this book exposes why we throwaway things that still work, and shows how we can design products, services, and experiences that last"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Design for resilience :making the future we leave behind
"Designing for resilience is a critical issue of the 21st century. This is the first book-length work that shows us how to design for a future that lasts, and why we should want to"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Molecular mechanisms in materials :insights from atomistic modeling and simul…
"This book introduces students and non-specialists to the study of material behaviors at the molecular level and their impact on macroscopic properties"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Convention and materialism :uniqueness without aura
"Virno's first book, revised in 2010, and one of the first important considerations of "immaterial labor" from a heterodox Marxist perspective. With an introduction by Giorgio Agamben"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262365413
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Built on sand :the science of granular materials
Explaining the science contained in a simple assembly of grains--the most abundant form of matter present on Earth. Granular matter--materials composed of vast amounts of solid grains--constitutes the most abundant form of matter on Earth. Granular materials assemble in disordered configurations scientists often liken to a bag of marbles. Made of macroscopic particles rather than molecules, the…
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The really hard problem :meaning in a material world
"A Bradford book."A noted philosopher proposes a naturalistic (rather than supernaturalistic) way to solve the "really hard problem": how to live a life that really matters-even as a finite material being living in a material world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages) :illustrations
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Materials matter :toward a sustainable materials policy
"The products we purchase and use are assembled from a wide range of naturally occurring and manufactured materials. But too often we create hazards for the ecosystem and human health as we mine, process, distribute, use, and dispose of these materials. Until recently, most research has focused on the waste end of material cycles. This book argues that the safest and least costly point at which…
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