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Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future
An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity.Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science nee…
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- 1 online resource (179 pages).
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On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton
The collected writings of artist and filmmaker Hollis Frampton, including all the essays from the long-unavailable Circles of Confusion along with rare additional material.
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- 1 online resource (xx, 331 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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Equilibrium, Trade, and Growth: Selected Papers of Lionel W. McKenzie
Influential neoclassical economist Lionel McKenzie has made major contributions to postwar economic thought in the fields of equilibrium, trade, and capital accumulation. This selection of his papers traces the development of his thinking in these three crucial areas.McKenzie's early academic life took him to Duke, Princeton, Oxford, the University of Chicago, and the Cowles Commission. In 1957…
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- 1 online resource (vii, 480 pages) : illustrations
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Linkages of sustainability
In this book, experts discuss the multiple components of sustainability, the constraints imposed by their linkages, and the necessity of taking a comprehensive view.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258845
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 532 pages) :illustrations (some color), maps (some color).
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Why nuclear disarmament matters /
From the former UN head weapons inspector in Iraq, a plea for a renewed global disarmament movement.
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- 1 online resource (95 pages).
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Living through the end of nature :the future of American environmentalism
"Environmentalists have always worked to protect the wildness of nature but now must find a new direction. We have so tamed, colonized, and contaminated the natural world that safeguarding it from humans is no longer an option. Humanity's imprint is now every where and all efforts to "preserve" nature require extensive human intervention. At the same time, we are repeatedly told that there is n…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) :illustrations
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The Road to Democracy in Iran
A famous Iranian dissident calls for universal human rights and democracy based on our common humanity.
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- 1 online resource (113 pages).
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The road to democracy in Iran /
A famous Iranian dissident calls for universal human rights and democracy based on our common humanity.
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Cogent Science in Context: The Science Wars, Argumentation Theory, and Habermas
This text is a proposal for an interdisciplinary context-sensitive framework for assessing the strength of scientific arguments that melds J{uml}urgen Habermas's discourse theory and sociological contextualism.
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- 1 online resource (x, 345 pages) : illustrations
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Food justice /
The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table. In today's food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restaurants and liquor stores, food products emphasize convenience rather than wholesomeness, and the international reach of Americ…
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