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Solar Calendar, and Other Ways of Marking Time
At the end of his life, Pierre Hadot was a professor at the Collège de France — a “professor’s professor” — and he helped Michel Foucault, most famously, conceptualize ethics. Hadot devoted his career to recovering the ancient conception of philosophy, according to which the discourses of universities are but a fragment of what philosophy is. His engagement with this theme helped Ben…
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The Metabolism of Desire the Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti
It is chiefly through the translations of Rossetti and Pound that English-speaking readers have encountered Cavalcanti’s work. Pound’s famous translation, now viewed by some as antiquated, is remarkably different from the translation provided here in the graceful voice of poet David Slavitt. Working under the significant restraints of Cavalcanti’s elaborate formal structures, Slavitt rend…
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- 149 pages
The Green Paradox: A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming
A leading economist develops a supply-side approach to fighting climate change that encourages resource owners to leave more of their fossil carbon underground.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301367
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- 1 online resource (xv, 269 pages)
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Staying Alive : a Survival Manual For The Liberal Arts
Staying Alive: A Survival Manual for the Liberal Arts fiercely defends the liberal arts in and from an age of neoliberal capital and techno-corporatization run amok, arguing that the public university’s purpose is not vocational training, but rather the cultivation of what Fradenburg calls “artfulness,” including the art of making knowledge. In addition to sustained critical and creative …
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Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
This updated resource refines and expands on both the core concepts and the real-world practice of consultation-liaison psychiatry in medical settings. New and revised chapters provide background and basics and describe CL psychiatry approaches to managing a wide array of common conditions, including heart disease, dementia, anxiety and depressive disorders, alcohol and substance use problems, …
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- 978-3-319-11004-2
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Privacy on the line :the politics of wiretapping and encryption
Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure. The Cold War culture of recording devices in telephone receivers and bugged embassy offices has been succeeded by a post-9/11 world of NSA wiretaps and demands for data retention. Although the 1990s battle for individual and commercial freedom to use cryptography was won, growth in the use of cryptography has been slow. Meanwhile, regulations r…
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- Updated and expanded ed.
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- 9780262256018
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 473 pages) :illustrations
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Contiguity theory
Norvin Richards argues that there are universal conditions on morphology and phonology, particularly in how the prosodic structures of language can be built, and that these universal structures interact with language-specific properties of phonology and morphology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral--Royal College of Art, 2013) under the title: Purposes, poetics, and publics : the shifting dynamics of design criticism in the US and UK, 1955-2007.Product design criticism operates at the very brink of the landfill site, salvaging some products with praise but consigning others to its depths through condemnation or indifference. When a designed produ…
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Adversarial Design
An exploration of the political qualities of technology design, as seen in projects that span art, computer science, and consumer products.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things: The Politics of Infrastruct…
An examination of how post-9/11 security concerns have transformed the public view and governance of infrastructure. After September 11, 2001, infrastructures—the mundane systems that undergird much of modern life—were suddenly considered “soft targets” that required immediate security enhancements. Infrastructure protection quickly became the multibillion dollar core of a new and ex…
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