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Perplexities of Consciousness
"A Bradford book."In this book, the author examines various aspects of inner life (dreams, mental imagery, emotions, and other subjective phenomena) and argues that we know very little about our stream of conscious experience. In fact, he contends, we are prone to gross error about our ongoing emotional, visual, and cognitive experiences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295338
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- 1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) :illustrations.
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Waves and Forms: Electronic Music Devices and Computer Encodings in China
An examination of the relationship between technical objects and culture in contemporary China, drawing on concepts from science and technology studies. Technical objects constrain what users do with them. They are not neutral entities but embody information, choices, values, assumptions, or even mistakes embedded by designers. What happens when a technology is designed in one culture and us…
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- 9780262328159
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World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities
Here, experts examine ways in which the use of increasingly powerful and versatile digital information and communication technologies are transforming research activities across all disciplines.
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Gurus and Oracles: The Marketing of Information
An examination of the information industry, from Reuters to Facebook, and the special characteristics of information and knowledge markets. We live in an “Information Age” of overabundant data and lightning-fast transmission. Yet although information and knowledge represent key factors in most economic decisions, we often forget that data, information, and knowledge are products created …
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Robert Morris
Essays, an interview, and a roundtable discussion on the work of one of the most influential American artists of the postwar period. This October Files volume gathers essays, an interview, and a roundtable discussion on the work of Robert Morris, one of the most influential American artists of the postwar period. It includes a little-known text on dance by Morris himself and a never-before-a…
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- 9780262316507
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Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science
"In 2000, the Russian scientist Zhores Alferov shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the heterojunction, a semiconductor device the practical applications of which include light-emitting diodes, rapid transistors, and the microchip. Alferov's Nobel Prize was the culmination of a career that spanned the eras of Stalin, Khrushchev, and Gorbachev--and continues today in the post-…
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- 9780262289528
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- 1 online resource (307 pages) :illustrations.
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Off-Track and Online: The Networked Spaces of Horse Racing
The horse racing industry has been a pioneer in interactive media, information networks, and their deployment. The race track and the off-track betting parlor offer interactive media environments that reconfigure the relationships among private and public space and presence and copresence. In this book, Holly Kruse explores how horse racing has used media over the last several decades, arguing …
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- 9780262332392
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A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s
Lawrence Badash traces the rise & fall of the concept of 'nuclear winter', played out in research activity, public relations & Reagan-era politics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258531
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 403 pages).
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Global Environmental Change and Human Security
Experts discuss the risks global environmental change poses for the human security, including disaster and disease, violence, and increasing inequity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259057
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- 1 online resource (x, 327 pages) :illustrations
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The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?
A militant Marxist atheist and a "Radical Orthodox" Christian theologian square off on everything from the meaning of theology and Christ to the war machine of corporate mafia.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262254816
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- 1 online resource (311 pages).
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