Computing :a concise history

The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the Internet, or the story of "smart" hand-held devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Twitter. In this account of the invention and development of digital technology, the author, a computer historian offers a broader and more useful perspective. He identifies four major t…

Technoscience and environmental justice: Expert cultures in a grassroots move…

This book argues that the environmental justice movement has also begun to transform science and engineering. The chapters present case studies of technical experts' encounters with environmental justice and activists and issues.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The digital rights movement: The role of technology in subverting digital cop…

The evolution of activism against the expansion of copyright in the digital domain, with case studies of resistance including eBook and iTunes hacks.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Evil media

A philosophical manual of media power for the network age."Evil Media develops a philosophy of media power that extends the concept of media beyond its tried and trusted use in the games of meaning, symbolism, and truth. It addresses the gray zones in which media exist as corporate work systems, algorithms and data structures, twenty-first century self-improvement manuals, and pharmaceutical te…

Taking economics seriously

'There is nothing wrong with economics, Dean Baker contends, but economists routinely ignore their own principles when it comes to economic policy. What would policy look like if we took basic principles of mainstream economics seriously and applied them consistently? In the debate over regulation, for example, Baker--one of the few economists who predicted the meltdown of fall 2008--points out…

Afloat in the forest

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382 p. 20 cm

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Essays

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319 p

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Awful disclosures of Maria Monk : as exhibited in a narrative of her sufferin…

IT is hoped that the reader of the ensuing narrative will not suppose that it is a fiction, or that the scenes and persons that I have delineated, had not a real existenc

Uncle Richard's stories

HAVE been looking everywhere for vou> Uncle Richard! what are you doing out here alone ? " asks little Beatrice, as she finds herself suddenly facing the old walnut-tree in the far meadow,

The Cassilis engagement : a comedy in four acts

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160 p. 19 cm

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