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Protocells :bridging nonliving and living matter
The first comprehensive general resource on state-of-the-art protocell research, describing current approaches to making new forms of life from scratch in the laboratory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282093
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 684 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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Critical play :radical game design
An examination of subversive games-games designed for political, aesthetic, and social critique.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258760
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- 1 online resource (vii, 353 pages) :illustrations
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Semblance and event :activist philosophy and the occurrent arts
An investigation of the "occurrent arts" through the concepts of the "semblance" and "lived abstraction."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298193
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- 1 online resource (xii, 220 pages) :illustrations.
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A hole in the head :more tales in the history of neuroscience
Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys-from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells-in the history of brain sciences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258852
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- 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) :illustrations
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School choice international :exploring public-private partnerships
This volume analyses and studies public-private partnerships in education and the varied forms they take in different parts of the world, for example it studies publicly-funded vouchers in Chile and Columbia and private schools in India.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262270113
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- 1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) :illustrations
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Art power
Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contemporary art according to its ideological function.…
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- 9780262274449
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- 1 online resource (187, [3] pages)
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The allure of machinic life :cybernetics, artificial life, and the new AI
"A Bradford Book."This account of the creation of new forms of life and intelligence in the sciences of cybernetics, artificial life and artificial intelligence analyses both their similarities and their differences in actualising life. The author draws on the work of scientists as well as work in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262276351
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 461 pages) :illustrations
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Tactical biopolitics :art, activism, and technoscience
'Tactical Biopolitics' suggests that the political challenges at the intersection of life, science and art are best addressed through a combination of artistic intervention, critical theorising and reflective practices. The multidisciplinary contributions focus on the political significance of recent advances in biological science.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262271127
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 511 pages) :illustrations.
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The ethics of protocells :moral and social implications of creating life in t…
Contributors explore the potential benefits, risks & ethical aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255301
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- 1 online resource (x, 365 pages) :illustrations.
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Big box reuse
What happens to the landscape, to community, and to the population when vacated big box stores are turned into community centers, churches, schools, and libraries? America is becoming a container landscape of big boxes connected by highways. When a big box store upsizes to an even bigger box "supercenter" down the road, it leaves behind more than the vacant shell of a retail operation; it leave…
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- 9780262270267
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- 1 online resource (viii, 231 pages) :illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
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