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Weapons in space :technology, politics, and the rise and fall of the Strategi…
"This is the first historical work that situates the Strategic Defense Initiative within a new phase in the militarization of space, uncovering a largely secret history of the role of military space technologies in late-Cold War U.S. defense strategy and foreign relations"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Categories we live by :how we classify everyone and everything
An in-depth analysis of how humanity's compulsion to categorize affects every aspect of our lived experience. The minute we are born -- sometimes even before -- we are categorized. From there, classifications dog our every step: to school, work, the doctor's office, and even the grave. Despite the vast diversity and individuality in every life, we seek patterns, organization, and control. In Ca…
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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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The evolution of techniques :rigidity and flexibility in use, transmission, a…
A novel, interdisciplinary exploration of the relative contributions of rigidity and flexibility in the adoption, maintenance, and evolution of technical traditions. Techniques can either be used in rigid, stereotypical ways or in flexibly adaptive ways, or in some combination of the two. The Evolution of Techniques , edited by Mathieu Charbonneau, addresses the impacts of both flexibility and …
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The biology of kindness :six daily choices for health, well-being, and longev…
Originally published: Biologia della gentilezza: Le 6 scelte quotidiane per salute benessere e longevit?a, 2020."Explains how our life behaviors can affect our state of health by comparing science and conscience in a revolutionary approach to health, longevity and quality of life"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The elephant and the blind :philosophy, science, and 500+ experiential reports
"The Elephant and the Blind is a book about why we need a new culture of consciousness, and how to get it. A culture of consciousness (or Bewusstseinskultur) is a culture that values and cultivates the mental states of its members in an ethical and evidence-based way"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Making modern medical ethics :how African Americans, anti-Nazis, bureaucrats,…
"A counter history of the birth of bioethics, which focuses on the dissenters and whistleblowers who challenged law and institutions rather than simply the development of new technologies"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The science of sadness :a new understanding of emotion
"An argument for the importance of sadness in human life, drawing broadly on the cognitive sciences and stemming from the author's deep research into music"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262378314
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Optimizing play :why theorycrafting breaks games and how to fix it
"A thoughtful account of how optimization (also known as theorycrafting or the "moneyballing effect") has changed the way we play games from World of Warcraft to soccer"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262378338
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Inducing immunity? :justifying immunization policies in times of vaccine hesi…
"An argument for the moral right of democratically elected governments to impose vaccine mandates on citizens, even those who are "vaccine hesitant.""--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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