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Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools

Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science...

Author: Ann Johnson ,  Johannes Lenhard
ISBN: 9780262548236
Format: Paperback
$95.00

"""This book provides a longue dur�ee story examining the dynamic history of predictive methods and values in sciences--and...  Read More >>

Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot

Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot

Author: Jonathan Alexander
ISBN: 9781531507305
Format: Paperback
$32.99

"An archive of personal trauma that addresses how a culture still toxic to queer people can reshape a body In the...  Read More >>

The War In-Between: Indexing a Visual Culture of Survival

The War In-Between: Indexing a Visual Culture of Survival...

Author: Wendy Kozol
ISBN: 9781531507237
Format: Paperback
$68.99

"Against the fabric of suffering that unfolds around more spectacular injuries and deaths, The War In-Between studies...  Read More >>

Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction

Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction...

Author: Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) ,  Jonas Heide Smith (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781032214726
Format: Hardback
$273.00

"The fifth edition of this pioneering textbook takes video game studies into the next decade, highlighting changes...  Read More >>

The Literary Beach: History and Aesthetics of a Modern Topos

The Literary Beach: History and Aesthetics of a Modern...

Author: Carsten Meiner (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) ,  Katrine Helene Andersen
ISBN: 9781032526737
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book studies the literary representation of the beach from ancient Greek literature up until today, drawing...  Read More >>

The Children’s Hour

The Children’s Hour

Author: Julia Erhart
ISBN: 9780228021209
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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A Sociology of Journalism in Japan: The Last Empire of the Press

A Sociology of Journalism in Japan: The Last Empire...

Author: César Castellvi
ISBN: 9781032615806
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book represents an in-depth analysis of journalism in Japan during the golden era of the daily press and the...  Read More >>

Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths About Privacy, Jobs, AI, and Today’s Innovation Economy

Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths About Privacy,...

Author: Robert D. Atkinson ,  David Moschella
ISBN: 9783031523489
Format: Paperback
$100.29

Technologies and tech companies are routinely accused of creating many societal problems. Technology Fears and...  Read More >>

Tender Headed

Tender Headed

Author: Olatunde Osinaike
ISBN: 9781636141411
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Tender Headed, selected by Camille Rankine as a winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series, is a musical and formally...  Read More >>

True Living Organics: The Artisan All-Natural Style of Growing Cannabis: Druid's Edition (3rd Edition)

True Living Organics: The Artisan All-Natural Style...

Author: The Rev
ISBN: 9781937866822
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The Rev’s third edition of True Living Organics is a unique guide that teaches readers how to transform their grow...  Read More >>

Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question

Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question

Author: Roxani Krystalli (Lecturer, Lecturer, University of St. Andrews)
ISBN: 9780197764541
Format: Paperback
$52.95

"As of 2023, over nine million Colombians have secured official recognition as victims of an armed conflict that...  Read More >>

Taking Care: The Story Of Nursing And Its Power To Change Our World

Taking Care: The Story Of Nursing And Its Power To Change...

Author: Sarah DiGregorio
ISBN: 9780063071292
Format: Paperback
$45.00

But the potential power of nursing to create a healthier, more just world endures.The story of nursing is complicated....  Read More >>

The Monsoon War: A Novel

The Monsoon War: A Novel

Author: Bina Shah
ISBN: 9781953002372
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The Monsoon War revisits the futuristic country of Before She Sleeps, where government leaders maintain a stranglehold...  Read More >>

There Was Nothing There: Williamsburg, The Gentrification of a Brooklyn Neighborhood

There Was Nothing There: Williamsburg, The Gentrification...

Author: Sara Martucci
ISBN: 9781479815579
Format: Paperback
$64.99

"""There Was Nothing There: Williamsburg, The Gentrification of a Brooklyn Neighborhood explores the daily, lived-effects...  Read More >>

Body Impossible: Desmond Richardson and the Politics of Virtuosity

Body Impossible: Desmond Richardson and the Politics...

Author: Ariel Osterweis (Faculty, Faculty, California Institute of the Arts)
ISBN: 9780190645823
Format: Paperback
$69.95

Body Impossible theorizes the concept of virtuosity in contemporary dance and performance through a study of the...  Read More >>

Religion and Humour: An Introduction

Religion and Humour: An Introduction

Author: David Feltmate
ISBN: 9781032125558
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book is the first volume to introduce the field of religion and humour, exploring their intersection through...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities

The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities...

Author: Ezra Chitando ,  Obert Bernard Mlambo
ISBN: 9783031491665
Format: Hardback
$580.77

This handbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of key theoretical and analytical approaches,...  Read More >>

Urban Inequalities from Space: Earth Observation Applications in the Majority World

Urban Inequalities from Space: Earth Observation Applications...

Author: Monika Kuffer ,  Stefanos Georganos
ISBN: 9783031491825
Format: Hardback
$475.17

In this book, we aim to provide an outlook on how Remote Sensing can provide tailored solutions to information needs...  Read More >>

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

Author: Camille T Dungy
ISBN: 9781982195311
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A “heartfelt and thoroughly enriching” (Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders)...  Read More >>

Environmental Activism and Global Media: Perspective from the Past, Present and Future

Environmental Activism and Global Media: Perspective...

Author: Pardeep Singh ,  Bendangwapang Ao
ISBN: 9783031554070
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This scholarly work discusses the historical, contemporary, and prospective dimensions of environmental activism...  Read More >>

Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908–1979

Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature,...

Author: Per Esben Svelstad
ISBN: 9783031560293
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex...  Read More >>

Rebel Rising: the highly anticipated autobiography of the Australian star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids, one of the best new books of 2024

Rebel Rising: the highly anticipated autobiography of...

Author: Rebel Wilson
ISBN: 9781460767115
Format: Hardback
$49.99

From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilarious and inspiring...  Read More >>

With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic

With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional...

Author: A. Ashley Hoff
ISBN: 9781641607681
Format: Paperback
$34.99

When she died in 1977, Joan Crawford was remembered as an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age—until publication the following...  Read More >>

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