"Shows why the design field has consistently failed to attract Black professionals, how Eurocentric hegemony impacts Black designers & how to create an antiracist, pro-Black design industry instead"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An overview of the science of plastics, what makes them a desired material choice, why they are harmful to humans, animals, and the environment, and how we can replace them"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This is a book for academics interested in both knowledge and property-historically, sociologically and anthropologically"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A cognitive ethnography of how bioengineering scientists create innovative modeling methods. In this first full-scale, long-term cognitive ethnography by a philosopher of science, Nancy J. Nersessian offers an account of how scientists at the interdisciplinary frontiers of bioengineering create novel problem-solving methods. Bioengineering scientists model complex dynamical biological systems u…
"This book proposes a framework for the design of systems that will advance social and environmental justice along with technical and economic objectives"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Based on extensive archival research in the voluminous Science Service records at the Smithsonian Institution, Writing for Their Lives focuses on a remarkable group of women whose contributions to science and journalism deserve greater recognition"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A rallying call for extending human rights beyond our physical selves -- and why we need to reboot rights in our data-intensive world. Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality In We, the Data , Wendy H. Wong argues that we cannot allow that to happen. Exploring the pervasiveness of data collec…
"This book offers an original, multifaceted view of physiognomy, which invites the reader to reflect on the mystery of the human face"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Includes index."With a few basic programming skills, we can change our relationship with the machines in our life and get more done with their help"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Proposes a new conceptual platform and a new library against the colonial, postcolonial and modern/Eurocentric libraries by re-appropriating the work of key Black thinkers to rethink questions of invention, transformation, and innovation alongside those of knowledge cosmologies and epistemologies"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.