CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge

An introduction to the global carbon cycle and the human-caused disturbances to it that are at the heart of global warming and climate change.The most colossal environmental disturbance in human history is under way. Ever-rising levels of the potent greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) are altering the cycles of matter and life and interfering with the Earth's natural cooling process. Melting Ar…

Auditory Neuroscience: Making Sense of Sound

An integrated overview of hearing and the interplay of physical, biological, and psychological processes underlying it.Every time we listen--to speech, to music, to footsteps approaching or retreating--our auditory perception is the result of a long chain of diverse and intricate processes that unfold within the source of the sound itself, in the air, in our ears, and, most of all, in our brain…

Learning Machine Translation

This title looks at how machine learning can improve machine translation, enabling technologies and new statistical techniques.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution

How humans' aesthetic perceptions have shaped other life forms, from racehorses to ornamental plants. Humans have bred plants and animals with an eye to aesthetics for centuries: flowers are selected for colorful blossoms or luxuriant foliage; racehorses are prized for the elegance of their frames. Hybridized plants were first exhibited as fine art in 1936, when the Museum of Modern Art in N…

Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software

How the influential industry that produced such popular games as Oregon Trail and KidPix emerged from experimental efforts to use computers as tools in child-centered learning.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The Ethics of Computer Games

Miguel Sicart looks at the ethical component in many computer games, including how players may engage their ethical values in gameplay and the implications for game design.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information H…

This is an examination of how the availability of low-end information and communication technology has provided a basis for the emergence of a working-class network society in China.

Video Game Spaces: Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds

Here, Nitsche introduces five analytical layers - rule-based space, mediated space, fictional space, play space, and social space - and uses them in the analyses of games that range from early classics to recent titles.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The Paradox of Scientific Authority: The Role of Scientific Advice in Democra…

The authors assess the influence of scientific advice in societies that increasingly question scientific authority & expertise. This paradox is explored through an ethnographic study of the scientific advisory committee, one of the key sites for the interaction of science, policy & society.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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