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"Scholarly communication in the context of open access: how the imaginaries, practices, and infrastructures of 'openness' have been shaped"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Do drugs produce fixed, predictable effects or are their effects a product of society and culture? American Trip explores this question, presenting the most comprehensive description of mid-twentieth-century hallucinogenic drug research thus far. American Trip follows seven different mid-twentieth-century schools of psychedelic research including the military, the psychotherapeutic, the spirit…
How Gyorgy Kepes, the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, became the single most significant artist within a network of scientific experts and elites. Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001) was the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, an acolyte of Lszlo Moholy-Nagy and a self-styled revolutionary artist. But by midcentury, transplanted to America, Kepes found he was trapped in the military-industrial-aesthet…
"Distracted, Frustrated, Bored explores the shifting relations, rhythms, and productivity of media technologies that are not mere instruments, but fundamental methods for making sense of the world"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired. To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong . Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, always wrong. It not just incomplete or i…
A collection of physics and biology stories from Quanta magazine.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Mathematics stories from Quanta Magazine.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The author develops a model of peer pedagogy by examining the popular genre of Let's Play videos as a source of learning for Minecraft players"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"How to be a great online searcher, demonstrated with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions (for example, "Is that plant poisonous?"). We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb: we Google it--"Japan population" or "Nobel Peace Prize" or "poison ivy" …