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  • Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion
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    Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion

    Fifteen thought-provoking essays engage in an innovative dialogue between cultural studies of affect, feelings and emotions, and digital cultures, new media and technology. The volume provides a fascinating dialogue that cuts across disciplines, media...
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  • Constructive Empiricism Constructive Empiricism
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    Constructive Empiricism

    Should scientists believe everything they say? Or would a more cautious attitude be preferable? On the one hand, the undisputed success of our contemporary scientific theories gives us good reasons to suppose that they are largely true; yet on the other...
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  • An Introduction to Animals and the Law An Introduction to Animals and the Law
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    An Introduction to Animals and the Law

    Throughout history, humans have raised and confined animals for food, clothing and research, trained animals for entertainment, fought animals for sport, bought and sold animals for profit, and lived with animals for companionship. The law under the...
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  • New Waves in Philosophy of Science New Waves in Philosophy of Science
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    New Waves in Philosophy of Science

    New Waves in Philosophy of Science captures the diverse array of issues in the rapidly developing area of philosophy of science by bringing together a pool of talented young philosophers from across the globe to debate the field and show where it's...
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  • Knowing the Structure of Nature Knowing the Structure of Nature
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    Knowing the Structure of Nature

    Preface Introduction PART I: SCIENTIFIC REALISM The Present State of the Scientific Realism Debate Scientific Realism and Metaphysics Thinking About the Ultimate Argument for Realism Against Neo-Instrumentalism Tracking the Real: Through Thick and Thin...
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  • Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery
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    Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery

    The volume is based on the papers that were presented at the Interna­ tional Conference Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery (MBR'98), held at the Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, in December 1998...
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    Cold War 2.0
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    Cold War 2.0

    A vivid, thoughtful examination of how technological innovation—especially AI—is shaping the tensions between democracy and autocracy during the new Cold War.So much of what we hear about China and Russia today likens the relationship between these two...
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    Religion of Sports
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    Religion of Sports

    From the sports documentarian and executive producer of the docuseries The Religion of Sports, a memoir-meets-manifesto about the overwhelming power of sports and how they provide meaning and purpose in people’s lives all over the world. Featuring...
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    Man-Made
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    Man-Made

    Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man-Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change.Winner, 2023 Australian...
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    Art of Nature: Fungi Boxed Card Set (Set of 20 Cards)
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    Art of Nature: Fungi Boxed Card Set (Set of 20 Cards)

    Celebrate the magical, strange, and beautiful kingdom of fungi with this stunning card collection of illustrated mushrooms.INCLUDES TWENTY 4” x 6” CARDS: This boxed note card set includes 20 beautiful blank cards and coordinating envelopes.FIVE BEAUTIFUL...
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  • Science and the Akashic Field
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    Science and the Akashic Field

    Presents the unifying world-concept long sought by scientists, mystics, and sages: an Integral Theory of Everything • Explains how modern science has rediscovered the Akashic Field of perennial philosophy • New edition updates ongoing scientific studies,...
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    Fantastic Fungi
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    Fantastic Fungi

    2020 IBPA Awards Winner!“Louie Schwartzberg’s lightly informative, delightfully kooky documentary, “Fantastic Fungi,” offers nothing less than a model for planetary survival.” –Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times“Gorgeous photography! Time-lapse...
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  • AI Snake Oil
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    AI Snake Oil

    From two of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and productsConfused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You're not...
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  • AI Needs You
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    AI Needs You

    A humanist manifesto for the age of AI.Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what - and who - this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is...
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  • The Einsteinian Revolution
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    The Einsteinian Revolution

    How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science.The revolution that emerged from Albert Einstein's work in the early twentieth century transformed our understanding of space, time, motion, gravity,...
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  • The Beauty of Falling
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    The Beauty of Falling

    A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity's true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life.Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body's buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot,...
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  • Slouch
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    Slouch

    The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America - from eugenics and posture pageants to today's promoters of 'paleo posture.'In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that...
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    The Game of Contradictions
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    The Game of Contradictions

    What is the nature of the 'laws' that Marx and Engels sought to formulate for the development of capitalism? How to understand and judge Engels's attempt to formulate a general philosophy and worldview? These are the questions highlighted in this...
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    Empirical Ecocriticism
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    Empirical Ecocriticism

    A groundbreaking book that combines the environmental humanities and social sciences to study the impact of environmental stories There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help catalyze the social change necessary to address today's...
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  • Theology and the Scientific Imagination
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    Theology and the Scientific Imagination

    Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science. Distinguished scholar Amos Funkenstein explores the...
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    On Digital Advocacy
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    On Digital Advocacy

    Whether you hike, bike, camp, climb, hunt, ride, paddle, paint, garden-whatever way you get out and enjoy nature, you leave an impact on the outdoors every time you step out your front door. Every step your boots take down dusty trails, every bolt your...
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  • Making Sense in Common
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    Making Sense in Common

    A leading philosopher seeks to recover "common sense" as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophyWith her previous books on Alfred North Whitehead, Isabelle Stengers not only secured a reputation as one of the premier philosophers of our times...
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  • The Twittering Machine
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    The Twittering Machine

    In surrealist artist Paul Klee's The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer and broadcast Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor...
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  • The World Itself
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    The World Itself

    There is a wonderfully weird but real world out there, and we are a part of it. It is time for physics to take life seriously.Can we ever truly comprehend the universe before we fully understand consciousness and the wonders, and limits, of the mind? Ulf...
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  • Notes on Complexity
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    Notes on Complexity

    2024 Nautilus Book Award Winner * The Marginalian Favorite Books of 2023An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave, that explains the interconnectedness of all things and that Deepak Chopra says, "will...
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  • Robot, Take the Wheel
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    Robot, Take the Wheel

    From famed automotive journalist Jason Torchinsky comes a witty insider's guide to self-driving cars, the automated future, and the road ahead.Self-driving cars sound fantastical and futuristic and yet they'll soon be on every street in America. Whether...
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  • The Spread Mind
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    The Spread Mind

    Once we came out of the jungle and found time to think of something besides food, sex, and shelter, we confronted the fundamental questions: what are we? Who are we? Is a person a body, a soul? How do we access the external world if we are nothing but...
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    Places of the Heart

    Library of Science Book Club selection Discover magazine "What to Read" selection "A really great book." -IRA FLATOW, Science Friday "One of the finest science writers I've ever read." -Los Angeles Times "Ellard has a knack for distilling obscure...
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    The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning
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    The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning

    A groundbreaking account of the origin and place of meaning in the earthly biosphereWhat is meaning? How does it arise? Where is it found in the world? In recent years, philosophers and scientists have answered these questions in different ways. Some see...
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    Transhumanism

    The ultimate question is no longer "who am I" or "why am I here." These questions were answered in the earliest civilizations by philosophers and priests. Today we live in an age of such rapid advances in technology and science that the ultimate question...
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    The Poetic Species

    World Literature Today Editor's Pick "Enchanting. . . . The Poetic Species is a wonderful read in its entirety, short yet infinitely simulating." -MARIA POPOVA, Brain Pickings In this shimmering conversation (the outgrowth of an event co-sponsored by the...
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    Objectivity
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    Objectivity

    The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images in scientific atlases-a story of how lofty epistemic ideals fuse with workaday practices.Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In...
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  • Artificial Intimacy
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    Artificial Intimacy

    People have long told machines what to do by pushing buttons. Now, with advances in technology, machines are pushing our buttons.In Artificial Intimacy, evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks takes us from the origins of human behaviour to the latest in...
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  • Future Superhuman
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    Future Superhuman

    We're hurtling towards a superhuman future or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from global warming to the risks posed by nuclear weapons, novel and bioengineered pathogens and unaligned AI, is up. We'll need more...
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  • Webtopia
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    Webtopia

    The web was supposed to transform our world. So why are things so messed up?The arrival of the internet promised a utopian, creative and democratic future that would break down traditional institutions and replace them with exciting collaborative...
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  • The Future of Everything
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    The Future of Everything

    'A powerful and realistic message of hope for the future' - Professor John Quiggin, University of QueenslandWe are in the middle of the greatest technological revolution in history. Its epicentre lies in Silicon Valley, but its impacts are felt...
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    When We Are Human

    These are dark and darkening times, challenging us to look deeper to grasp the roots and dynamics of the looming civilizational crisis. Chronic illness of the planet calls for radically new thinking if there is to be any hope of renewal. When We Are...
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  • Who's Raising the Kids?
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    Who's Raising the Kids?

    From a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children, a timely investigation into how big tech is hijacking childhood - and what we can do about it.Even before COVID-19, digital technologies had become deeply...
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  • Women and GIS, Volume 3
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    Women and GIS, Volume 3

    Impressivestories of women using geospatial technology to create sustainable solutions for problems the world faces.The third volume in theWomen and GIS seriesshows how 31diversewomen in various STEAM fieldsdiscovered their passion, broke down barriers,...
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  • Runaway Science
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    Runaway Science

    Will computers come to dominate man? Will advanced technology, robots and artificial intelligence enhance or destroy our future ... and thereby changing us forever!?! Learn about the history, the menace and opportunities of technology-as well as possible...
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Impact of science and technology on society