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Cultures of prediction :how engineering and science evolve with mathematical …
"This book provides a longue dur?ee story examining the dynamic history of predictive methods and values in sciences--and particularly in engineering and other applied sciences--which is crucial to understanding today's culture of prediction"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262379045
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Prior art :patents and the nature of invention in architecture
"Prior Art offers the first ever history of the use of patents in architecture, spanning the period 1830 - 1996"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262378345
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Invention and innovation :a brief history of hype and failure
"Smil presents the long history and modern infatuation with invention and innovation. Meticulous as always, these vast realms of human ingenuity are organized into sensible categories: inventions that went from welcome to undesirable, inventions that dominate and missed the mark, inventions we still dream about, and lastly, the exaggerations, myths, and wise expectations for innovations we need…
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The claims of life :a memoir
"The story of how a self-consious schoolgirl who worried she wasn't smart became the president of Wellesley College, and a leader in philanthropy and social change"--Includes index.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026237627X
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The green power of socialism :wood, forest, and the making of Soviet industri…
"An environmental history of the Soviet forestry industry, showing how a utilitarian view of nature and the "rational" use of natural resources plays out in practice"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262377560
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An anthology of Blackness :the state of Black design
"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.
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- 9780262377249
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Plastics
"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.
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- 9780262377058
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Ownership of knowledge :beyond intellectual property
"This is a book for academics interested in both knowledge and property-historically, sociologically and anthropologically"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262374644
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Interdisciplinarity in the making :models and methods in frontier science
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…
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Insolvent :how to reorient computing for just sustainability
"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.
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