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Slab City :dispatches from the last free place
An architect and a photographer explore a community of squatters, artists, snowbirds, migrants, and survivalists inhabiting a former military base in the California desert. Under the unforgiving sun of southern California's Colorado Desert lies Slab City, a community of squatters, artists, snowbirds, migrants, survivalists, and homeless people. Called by some "the last free place" and by others…
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- 1 online resource (192 pages).
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Yesterday's tomorrow :on the loneliness of communist specters and the reconst…
Originally published in German under title: Gestern Morgen."In Yesterday's Tomorrow, Adamczak responds to right-wing criticism in English of her first book, Communism for Kids, and critiques tendencies on the left to sidestep the dark history and the path that Communism ended up taking. She takes the reader through a series of 8 turning-points in the betrayal of communism, moving in reverse chr…
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Evolution or revolution :rethinking macroeconomics after the Great recession
Leading economists discuss post--financial crisis policy dilemmas, including the dangers of complacency in a period of relative stability. The Great Depression led to the Keynesian revolution and dramatic shifts in macroeconomic theory and macroeconomic policy. Similarly, the stagflation of the 1970s led to the adoption of the natural rate hypothesis and to a major reassessment of the role of m…
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- 9780262351270
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- 1 online resource (392 pages).
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Fake photos
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Computational thinking
An introduction to computational thinking that traces a genealogy beginning centuries before the digital computer. A few decades into the digital era, scientists discovered that thinking in terms of computation made possible an entirely new way of organizing scientific investigation; eventually, every field had a computational branch: computational physics, computational biology, computational …
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- 1 online resource (272 pages) :illustrations
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The lost planets :Peter van de Kamp and the vanishing exoplanets around Barna…
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- 9780262354639
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How attention works :finding your way in a world full of distraction
How we filter out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we need to know. We are surrounded by a world rich with visual information, but we pay attention to very little of it, filtering out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we think we need to know. Advertisers, web designers, and other "attention architects" try hard to get our attention, promoting products with videos on huge out…
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- 9780262350976
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- 1 online resource (152 pages).
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IBM :the rise and fall and reinvention of a global icon
A history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century. For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It was "Big Blue", an icon. And yet over the years, IBM has gone through both failure and success, survivin…
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- 9780262351485
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- 1 online resource (752 pages).
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Quantum reality :grasping the metaphysical implications of Bell's theorem
A physicist's efforts to understand the enigma that is quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is one of the glories of our age. The theory lies at the heart of modern society. Quantum mechanics is one of our most valuable forecasters--a "great predictor." It has immeasurably altered our conception of the natural world. Its philosophical implications are earthshaking. But quantum mechanics steadfa…
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- 9780262353298
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- 1 online resource (160 pages) :illustrations
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Proxies :the cultural work of standing in
"A history of proxies and how they are made, shaped, and maintained"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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