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  • Dynamics of Modern Communication
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    Dynamics of Modern Communication

    Flichy, Patrice

    A social history of communication technology from 1790 to 1995 and a critical analysis of the social shaping and impact of the communication technologies. The text explores the interaction of...
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  • Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe
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    Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe

    Lederman, Leon M.

    When scientists peer through a telescope at the distant stars in outer space or use a particle-accelerator to analyse the smallest components of matter, they discover that the same laws of physics...
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  • The Haunted Observatory
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    The Haunted Observatory

    Baum, Richard

    For many centuries observers of the night sky interpreted the moving planets and the surrounding starry realms in terms of concentric crystalline spheres, in the centre of which hung the Earth - the...
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  • Ordering Life
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    Ordering Life

    Johnson, Kristin

    For centuries naturalists have endeavored to name, order, and explain biological diversity. Karl Jordan (1861–1959) dedicated his long life to this effort, describing thousands of new species in the...
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  • The Ecological Plot
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    The Ecological Plot

    Miller, John MacNeill

    Unraveling the surprising history of the concept of ecology The Ecological Plot traces the roots of this most mainstream branch of science back to an unexpected source: narrative storytelling...
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  • Looking for a Few Good Males
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    Looking for a Few Good Males

    Milam, Erika L.

    Why do female animals select certain mates, and how do scientists determine the answer? In considering these questions, Erika Lorraine Milam explores the fascinating patterns of experiment and...
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  • Antisocial Media
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    Antisocial Media

    Goldberg, Greg

    The debate surrounding the transformation of work at the hands of digital technology and the anxieties brought forth by automation, the sharing economy, and the exploitation of leisure We have been...
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  • Science and Eastern Orthodoxy
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    Science and Eastern Orthodoxy

    Nicolaidis, Efthymios

    People have pondered conflicts between science and religion since at least the time of Christ. The millennia-long debate is well documented in the literature in the history and philosophy of science...
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  • Gliding for Gold
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    Gliding for Gold

    Denny, Mark

    As anyone from cold climates knows, frequently occurring ice and snow lead to a special appreciation of sports such as skiing, sledding, and skating. Prolific physics popularizer Mark Denny's take on...
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  • Telling the Bees
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    Telling the Bees

    Pettman, Dominic

    In a bid to wean himself off Facebook and Twitter, media scholar and cultural theorist Dominic Pettman decided to revive an ancient custom. He decided to tell the local bees of his thoughts,...
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  • Telling the Bees
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    Telling the Bees

    Pettman, Dominic

    In a bid to wean himself off Facebook and Twitter, media scholar and cultural theorist Dominic Pettman decided to revive an ancient custom. He decided to tell the local bees of his thoughts,...
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  • Assembling Futures
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    Assembling Futures

    Quigley, Jennifer

    What is the relationship of religion to economy, ecology, and democracy? In our fraught moment, what critical questions of religion may help to assembly democratic processes, ecosystems, and economic...
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  • Mixing Races
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    Mixing Races

    Farber, Paul Lawrence

    This book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played out on college...
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  • Communication, Technology and Cultural Change
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    Communication, Technology and Cultural Change

    Krug, Gary J

    With a foreword by Norman Denzin Communication and the history of technology have invariably been examined in terms of artefacts and people. Gary Krug argues that communication technology must be...
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  • Understanding and Using Scientific Evidence
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    Understanding and Using Scientific Evidence

    Gott, Richard

    Understanding and Using Scientific Evidence shows that there are things to understand about scientific evidence, difficult concepts about the structure of experiments; causality; repeatability and...
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  • The Deepening Divide
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    The Deepening Divide

    Van Dijk, Professor Jan A. G. M.

    The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society explains why the digital divide is still widening and, in advanced high-tech societies, deepening. Taken from an international perspective,...
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  • Biology in Time and Space
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    Biology in Time and Space

    Keener, James P.

    How do biological objects communicate, make structures, make measurements and decisions, search for food, i.e., do all the things necessary for survival? Designed for an advanced undergraduate...
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  • Psychotherapy and Science
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    Psychotherapy and Science

    Langs, Rob

    An investigation of the ways in which science has a bearing on the clinical techniques and practice of psychotherapy. Robert Langs notes striking parallels between the emotion-processing mind and...
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  • Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination
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    Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination

    Murphy, Kieran M.

    How does the imagination work? How can it lead to both reverie and scientific insight? In this book, Kieran M. Murphy sheds new light on these perennial questions by showing how they have been...
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  • the Heavens and the Earth
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    the Heavens and the Earth

    McDougall, Walter A.

    This highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on published literature, archival sources in both the United States and Europe, interviews...
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  • The Illusion of Separation
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    The Illusion of Separation

    Hutchins, Giles

    Our modern patterns of thinking and learning are all based on observing a world of 'things', which we think of as separate building blocks. This worldview allows us to count and measure objects...
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  • The Practical Einstein
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    The Practical Einstein

    Illy, Jozsef

    Albert Einstein may be best known as the wire-haired whacky physicist who gave us the theory of relativity, but that's just one facet of this geniuss contribution to human knowledge and modern...
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  • Data Cartels
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    Data Cartels

    Lamdan, Sarah

    In our digital world, data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme, using intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain influence and control. Sarah Lamdan brings us into the...
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  • The Costs of Connection
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    The Costs of Connection

    Couldry, Nick

    Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free-it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through...
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  • The Collectors of Lost Souls
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    The Collectors of Lost Souls

    Anderson, Warwick

    Winner, William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of MedicineWinner, Ludwik Fleck Prize, Society for Social Studies of ScienceWinner, General History Award, New South Wales...
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  • The Physics of Krav Maga
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    The Physics of Krav Maga

    Goff, John Eric

    Krav Maga ("contact combat" in Hebrew) is a hard-hitting and efficient form of self-defense that was popularized by Israeli soldiers. Stressing practical, real-world fighting and a philosophy of...
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  • Nature Exposed
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    Nature Exposed

    Tucker, Jennifer

    In Nature Exposed, Jennifer Tucker studies the intersecting trajectories of photography and modern science in late Victorian Britain. She examines the role of photograph as witness in scientific...
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  • Spark from the Deep
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    Spark from the Deep

    Turkel, William J.

    Spark from the Deep tells the story of how human beings came to understand and use electricity by studying the evolved mechanisms of strongly electric fish. These animals have the ability to shock...
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  • Calculus for the Natural Sciences
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    Calculus for the Natural Sciences

    Helfgott, Michel

    In this textbook on calculus of one variable, applications to the natural sciences play a central role. Examples from biology, chemistry, and physics are discussed in detail without compromising the...
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  • Introduction to Numerical Linear Algebra
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    Introduction to Numerical Linear Algebra

    Borgers, Christoph

    Fit for students just starting to build a background in mathematics, this textbook provides an introduction to numerical methods for linear algebra problems. Introduction to Numerical Linear Algebra...
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  • Applied Numerical Linear Algebra
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    Applied Numerical Linear Algebra

    Hager, William W.

    Applied Numerical Linear Algebra introduces students to numerical issues that arise in linear algebra and its applications. A wide range of techniques are touched on, including direct to iterative...
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  • Numerical Linear Algebra with Julia
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    Numerical Linear Algebra with Julia

    Darve, Eric

    Numerical Linear Algebra with Julia provides in-depth coverage of fundamental topics in numerical linear algebra, including how to solve dense and sparse linear systems, compute QR factorizations,...
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  • Location Estimation from the Ground Up
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    Location Estimation from the Ground Up

    Toledo, Sivan

    The location of an object can often be determined from indirect measurements using a process called estimation. This book explains the mathematical formulation of location-estimation problems and the...
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  • Probability and Mathematical Statistics
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    Probability and Mathematical Statistics

    Meyer, Mary C.

    This book develops the theory of probability and mathematical statistics with the goal of analyzing real-world data. Throughout the text, the R package is used to compute probabilities, check...
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  • Solitons in Two-Dimensional Shallow Water
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    Solitons in Two-Dimensional Shallow Water

    Kodama, Yuji

    Web-like waves, often observed on the surface of shallow water, are examples of nonlinear waves. They are generated by nonlinear interactions among several obliquely propagating solitary waves, also...
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  • Differential Dynamical Systems
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    Differential Dynamical Systems

    Meiss, James D.

    Differential equations are the basis for models of any physical systems that exhibit smooth change. This book combines much of the material found in a traditional course on ordinary differential...
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  • Resurgent Commons
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    Resurgent Commons

    Tola, Miriam

    Once dismissed as "tragedy," the commons have been making a comeback. Amid intensifying social and environmental injustices in neoliberal regimes, scholars and activists have turned to the commons -...
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  • Resurgent Commons
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    Resurgent Commons

    Tola, Miriam

    Once dismissed as "tragedy," the commons have been making a comeback. Amid intensifying social and environmental injustices in neoliberal regimes, scholars and activists have turned to the commons -...
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  • Making Sense of Science
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    Making Sense of Science

    Yearley, Steven

    Science is at the heart of contemporary society and is therefore central to the social sciences. Yet science studies has often encountered resistance from social scientists. This book attempts to...
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  • Reshaping Communications
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    Reshaping Communications

    Preston, Paschal

    `It is a clich [ac]e but this book is timely, welcome and indeed a breath of fresh air....It is of particular value for people concerned with public communications, political economy, economics and...
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  • Evolution and Ethics Science and Morals
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    Evolution and Ethics Science and Morals

    Huxley, Thomas Henry

    These two essays by the famous 19th-century champion of Darwin's theory of evolution tackle a subject that is still a major focus of ethical debates today: the relation of science as a whole, and...
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  • Exploring Science Communication
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    Exploring Science Communication

    Felt, Ulrike

    Exploring Science Communication demonstrates how science and technology studies approaches can be explicitly integrated into effective, powerful science communication research. Through a range of...
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  • Turned Upside Down
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    Turned Upside Down

    Pogacnik, Marko

    Marko Pogacnik is an experienced lithopuncturist, or 'landscape-healer'. Through his work, he is attuned to the different planes and dimensions of the Earth, and in the late 1990s he became aware...
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  • Pursuing Power and Light
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    Pursuing Power and Light

    Hunt, Bruce J.

    In the nineteenth century, science and technology developed a close and continuing relationship. The most important advancements in physics - the science of energy and the theory of the...
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  • If God Exists, Second Edition
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    If God Exists, Second Edition

    M. E. Stearn

    When M. E. Stearn was seven years old, the nun teaching my Catechism class told him that Mary immaculately conceived Jesus. His mother immediately disabused him of this idea, stating, unequivocally,...
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