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Competing for the future
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Henry Kressel,Thomas V. Lento |
Everybody knows that digital technology has revolutionised our economy and our lifestyles. But how many of us really understand the drivers behind the technology - the significance of going digital; … |
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Reality Is Broken
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Jane McGonigal |
Visionary game designer Jane McGonigal shows how we can harness the power of computer games to solve real-world problems and boost global happiness, since her research suggests that gamers are expert… |
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Vulnerable places, vulnerable people
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Jonathan A. Cook |
This text presents the unique perspectives of both the world's largest development organization (The World Bank) and the world's largest conservation organization (The World Wildlife Federation) on t… |
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The body of the conquistador
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Rebecca Earle |
"This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating. It reveals the importance of food to the colonial project in Spanish Ame… |
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Soccer vs. the State
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Gabriel Kuhn |
Soccer has turned into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Professionalism and commercialization dominate its global image. Yet the game retains a rebellious side, maybe more so than any other sport co-… |
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Hard times
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Tom Clark |
"2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions we… |
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Imprisoning communities
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Todd R. Clear |
This volume maintains that current incarceration policy in urban America does more harm than good, from increasing crime to widening racial disparities and diminished life chances for youths. The aut… |
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Digital Cultures: Understanding New Media
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Glen Creeber,Royston Martin |
"From Facebook to the iPhone, from YouTube to Wikipedia, from Grand Theft Auto to Second Life - this book explores new media's most important issues and debates in an accessible and engaging text for… |
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Present shock
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Douglas Rushkoff |
"An award-winning author explores how the world works in our age of "continuous now". Back in the 1970s, futurism was all the rage. But looking forward is becoming a thing of the past. According to … |
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Part of our lives
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Wayne A. Wiegand,Wayne A. Wiegand |
"Part of Our Lives challenges the conventional idea that public libraries are valuable mostly because they are essential to democracy. Instead, this book uses the voices of generations of public libr… |
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Getting the picture
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Vanessa R. Schwartz,Jason Hill |
"Powerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have evaluated photographs of atrocity and crisis,… |
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(T)races of Louis Agassiz
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Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado |
Presents in an original way part of the Louis Agassiz's Brazilian photographic collection. Created in Rio de Janeiro and Manaus during the Thayer Expedition in 1865-1866. The book gathers artists, cu… |
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Interface cultures
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Christa Sommerer,Laurent Mignonneau,Dorothée King |
From media art archeology to contemporary interaction design - the term interface culture is based on a vivid and ongoing discourse in the fields of interactive art, interaction design, game design, … |
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Work's intimacy
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Gregg, Melissa |
This title provides an account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between the offices and homes of today's salaried professionals to pr… |
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Contesting aging & loss
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Janice Elizabeth Graham,Peter H. Stephenson |
"Disease and death are a part of life, but so too is being well. The lively voices found in this book are not shy about stating the ways in which the widely held notion that they are in decline has b… |
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In the loop
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Jessica Hemmings |
Knitting has really taken off in the contemporary craft scene. 'In the Loop' provides a complete review of knitting groups, discussing the international phenomenon of groups such as Stich and Bitch, … |
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From counterculture to cyberculture
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Fred Turner |
In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial c… |
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Shaping Scientific Thought
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Frederick Grinnell |
"In Everyday Practice of Science, Frederick Grinnell offers an insider's view of real-life scientific practice. Although scientific facts are often so complicated that only experts can appreciate the… |
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E-commerce
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Carol Traver,Carol Guercio Traver,Carol G. Traver,Kenneth C. Laudon |
In the 14 years since it began in 1995, electronic commerce has grown in the United States from a standing start to a $228 billion retail business and a $3.4 trillion business-to-business juggernaut,… |
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Distracted
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Maggie Jackson |
We have vast oceans of information at our disposal, yet increasingly we seek knowledge with brief glimpses at online headlines while juggling other tasks. We are networked as never before, but we com… |
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