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Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America
An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history. In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change. The engineers were fighting to remake their profession, challenging their fellow engineers to embrace…
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- 9780262305181
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 286 pages) :illustrations.
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The Inner History of Devices
"For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our collective imagination with her insights about how technology enters our private worlds. In The Inner History of Devices, she describes her process, an approach that reveals how what we make is woven into our ways of seeing ourselves. She brings together three traditi…
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- 9780262285247
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- 1 online resource (x, 208 pages)
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Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society
Previously published in French as: Trois le?cons sur la soci?et?e post-industrielle.A noted economist analyzes the upheavals caused by revolutions in technology, labor, culture, financial markets, and globalization.In this pithy and provocative book, noted economist Daniel Cohen offers his analysis of the global shift to a post-industrial era. If it was once natural to speak of industrial socie…
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- 9780262266659
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- 1 online resource (106 pages)
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The black rose and other poems
Introspection, carried too far, may wreck the soul of a man, but without it a poet is merely a versifier or an experimenter, dealing with the laboratory instead of with life. For him there must be no eternal verities except those he discovers and proves to himself. He can take nothing on trust. His life-work is to " stir the decent dust about the world " — his own world as well as that of oth…
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- 24 p. ; 19 cm
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The magic casement : an anthology of fairy poetry
THE MAGIC CASEMENT A BOOK OF FAERY POEMS GIVING GLIMPSES OF THE WORLD BEYOND THE CASEMENT: SELECTED AND ARRANGED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ALFRED NOYES
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- 391 p. : 20 cm
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Hymn to Venus : an anthology in miniature of poems
A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS VOU are a tulip seen to-day, •*• But, dearest, of so short a stay That where you grew scarce men can say. You are a lovely July-flower, Yet one rude wind or ruffling shower Will force you hence, and in an hour.
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- 23 p. : 19 cm
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Global justice and transnational politics : essays on the moral and political…
If globalization is to be a benefit and not a burden to humankind, it must be governed by global institutions that are perceived by all people to be democratic and just. But before we can create such institutions, we must imagine them, and that requires a rethinking and extension of normative political theory. Global Justice and Transnational Politics encourages and advances that work.The book'…
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- 9780262271325
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- 1 online resource (vi, 320 pages).
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- Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
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Global networks : computers and international communication
Global Networks takes up the host of issues raised by the new networking technology that now links individuals, groups, and organizations in different countries and on different continents. The twenty-one contributions focus on the implementation, application, and impact of computer-mediated communication in a global context. Previously limited to scientific research, global networks now have a…
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- 0585020361
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- 1 online resource (xii, 411 pages) :illustrations
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Global trade and conflicting national interests
Ralph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy.In this book Ralph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy. Trade today is dominated by manufactured goods, rapidly moving technology, and huge firms that benefit from economies of scale. This is very different from the largely agricultural world in which the class…
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- 9780262274050
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 199 pages) :illustrations.
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- Lionel Robbins Lectures
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Globalization and History : the Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Ec…
Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914-the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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