Science, technology, and society, 

Автор: Tsing Anna Lowenhaupt, Bubandt Nils, Gan Elaine
Название: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
ISBN: 1517902371 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517902377
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Описание: Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication’s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste-in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch.Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U.

Автор: Hassanpour, Navid
Название: Leading from the Periphery and Network Collective Action
ISBN: 1316506452 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316506455
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Political revolutions, economic meltdowns, mass ideological conversions and collective innovation adoptions occur often; nevertheless, when they happen, they tend to be the least expected. Taking as evidence two Middle Eastern uprisings, as well as behavioural experiments of collective risk-taking, Hassanpour offers an explanation based on a novel paradigm of `leading from the periphery`.

Автор: Buckland Michael
Название: Information and Society
ISBN: 0262533383 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262533386
Издательство: MIT Press
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A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.

We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related and of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. Using information in its everyday, nonspecialized sense, Michael Buckland explores the influence of information on what we know, the role of communication and recorded information in our daily lives, and the difficulty (or ease) of finding information. He shows that all this involves human perception, social behavior, changing technologies, and issues of trust.

Buckland argues that every society is an "information society"; a "non-information society" would be a contradiction in terms. But the shift from oral and gestural communication to documents, and the wider use of documents facilitated by new technologies, have made our society particularly information intensive. Buckland describes the rising flood of data, documents, and records, outlines the dramatic long-term growth of documents, and traces the rise of techniques to cope with them. He examines the physical manifestation of information as documents, the emergence of data sets, and how documents and data are discovered and used. He explores what individuals and societies do with information; offers a basic summary of how collected documents are arranged and described; considers the nature of naming; explains the uses of metadata; and evaluates selection methods, considering relevance, recall, and precision.

Автор: Michael Filimowicz
Название: Teaching Computational Creativity
ISBN: 1107138043 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107138049
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book examines the new interdisciplinary pedagogies of today`s coding-intensive interactive media and design curricula. It covers a comprehensive overview of educational practices related in fields such as digital media, 3D printing, agile development, physical computing, games, dance, collaboration, teacher education and online learning.

Автор: Michael Crowley
Название: Preventing chemical weapons
ISBN: 1782626492 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782626497
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: This multi-disciplinary book analyses predicted developments in chemical and life sciences and the risks of their application in the development of weapons as well as regulatory mechanisms for their control.

Автор: James C. Zimring
Название: What Science Is and How It Really Works
ISBN: 1108701647 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108701648
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: What is the basis of scientific claims? How much confidence should we put in them? What is defined as science and what is not? This timely synthesis conveys the strengths, weaknesses and reality of science to inform the general reader and help professional scientists articulate what they do and why.

Автор: David Trippett, Benjamin Walton
Название: Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
ISBN: 1107111250 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107111257
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This innovative book will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural, musical and scientific history of the nineteenth century - from undergraduates to professional researchers. Chapters explore topics such as hypnosis, vocal physiology, stage machinery, histories of listening and the interaction of opera with nineteenth-century scientific theories.

Автор: Russell Bertrand
Название: Impact of Science on Society
ISBN: 1138641154 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138641150
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Many of the revolutionary effects of science and technology are obvious enough. Bertrand Russell saw in the 1950s that there are also many negative aspects of scientific innovation. Insightful and controversial in equal measure, Russell argues that science offers the world greater well-being than it has ever known, on the condition that prosperity is dispersed; power is diffused by means of a single, world government; birth rates do not become too high; and war is abolished. Russell acknowledges that is a tall order, but remains essentially optimistic. He imagines mankind in a 'race between human skill as to means and human folly as to ends', but believes human society will ultimately choose the path of reason.

Автор: Stooke
Название: The International Atlas of Mars Exploration
ISBN: 1107030935 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107030930
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Providing a chronological analysis of twenty-first-century Mars spacecraft operations, landing site selection, surface locations and mission proposals, this atlas is ideal for space enthusiasts, academic researchers and students. An essential reference source on modern Mars exploration, combining scientific and historical data with detailed illustrations.

Автор: Nancy Cartwright, Keith Ward
Название: Rethinking Order: After the Laws of Nature
ISBN: 1474244068 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474244060
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This book presents a radical new picture of natural order. The Newtonian idea of a cosmos ruled by universal and exceptionless laws has been superseded; replaced by a conception of nature as a realm of diverse powers, potencies, and dispositions, a ‘dappled world’. There is order in nature, but it is more local, diverse, piecemeal, open, and emergent than Newton imagined. In each chapter expert authors expound the historical context of the idea of laws of nature, and explore the diverse sorts of order actually presupposed by work in physics, biology, and the social sciences. They consider how human freedom might be understood, and explore how Newton’s idea of a ‘universal designer’ might be revised, in this new context. They argue that there is not one unified totalizing program of science, aiming at the completion of one closed causal system. We live in an ordered universe, but we need to rethink the classical idea of the ‘laws of nature’ in a more dynamic and creatively diverse way.