An exploration of science and technology studies in eight different places, and the possibilities that arise for observation, intervention, and collaboration. Where does science and technology studies (STS) belong In A Place for Science and Technology Studies, Jane Calvert takes readers through eight different rooms -- the laboratory, the conference room, the classroom, the coffee room, the art…
"This book collects case studies on academic excellence initiatives in nine countries, and provide an analysis of how these initiatives shape higher education within national and international systems. This book updates and expands Altbach & Salmi's 2011 work on AEIs and the political economy of higher education"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Monteiro draws on an in-depth field study of the Norwegian oil and gas industry to explore the process of digitalization in the oil industry and what it means for us "to know.""--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A collection of essays from the Center for Science and the Imagination that combines theory and practice for a critical assesment of the transmedia landscape"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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"How whiteness has been constructed, naturalized, and wielded; and how we can unmake it. By a renowned visual culture scholar; grounded in visual and cultural critique, feminism, and the Black radical tradition"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Through a close examination of the material and visual culture found online, Wagner offers a contextualizing historiography that takes the reader from the art of ASCII to hatred of Comic Sans. By combining design history, visual, and material culture, this book offers a new glimpse into the role of letter form and typographical structure in the history of digital culture"--OCLC-licensed vendor…
"Practical guidance for business leaders to learn what their competitors will do and why, so organizations are better prepared to meet competitive challenges"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
From the influential author of Dynamics in Action , how the concepts of constraints provide a way to rethink relationships, opening the way to intentional, meaningful causation . Grounding her work in the problem of causation, Alicia Juarrero challenges previously held beliefs that only forceful impacts are causes. Constraints, she claims, bring about effects as well, and they enable the emerge…
"This book argues that bibliography is the foundation of information science, an infrastructure with the power to address many of the most challenging issues in the field. Bibliographers establish what has been presented to us as records of what has been known, experienced, and desired, and they are responsible for assessing and safeguarding what has arrived in the present and for reproducing w…