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Reading Digital Culture

By: N/A

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell: February 2001

Seller ID: 5003

ISBN: 0631223029

Condition: Used - Good

Computer technology has transformed many fundamental parts of life: how we work and play, how we communicate and consume, how we create knowledge and learn, even how we understand politics and participate in public life. Reading Digital Culture is a comprehensive collection of the most influential essays on digital media written in recent years.
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Tolstoy's Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse (Graywolf Forum)

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Graywolf Press: August 1996

Seller ID: 6349

ISBN: 1555972489

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When the great Russian writer Tolstoy was first offered the use of a brand new invention called the Dictaphone, he refused it, saying that it was sure to be "too dreadfully exciting" and would distract him from his literary endeavors.

For this provocative launch of the Graywolf Forum series, Sven Birkerts invited a number of literary writers to tell him how they were reacting to the technological innovatios of our day. Do the "dreadful excitements" promised by a digital future cause us to forfeit our time-honored cultural traditions for dubious gain? Or will the electronic millennium ...
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Mad Science: Einstein's Fridge, Dewar's Flask, Mach's Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries that Made Our World

By: N/A

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: November 2012

Seller ID: 52710

ISBN: 0316208191

Condition: Used - Good

365 days of inventions, discoveries, science, and technology, from the editors of "Wired" Magazine.
On January 30, Rubik applied for a patent on his cube (1975). On the next day, 17 years earlier, the first U.S. Satellite passed through the Van Allen radiation belt. On March 17, the airplane "black box" made its maiden voyage (1953). And what about today? Every day of the year has a rich scientific and technological heritage just waiting to be uncovered, and "Wired"'s top-flight science-trivia book MAD SCIENCE collects them chronologically, from New Year's Day to year's end, showing just h...
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Seashells of North America: A Guide to Field Identification

By: Abbott, Robert Tucker

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Golden Books Pub Co (Adult): June 1968

Seller ID: 53998

ISBN: 0307136574

Condition: Used - Good

Outwitting Critters

By: Adler Jr., Bill

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Lyons Press: January 1997

Seller ID: 37988

ISBN: 1558215239

Condition: Used - Good

A humane manual for outwitting unwelcome household guests of all kinds, from skunks to skinks.
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The Timeless Way of Building

By: Alexander, Christopher

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: January 1979

Seller ID: 52689

ISBN: 0195024028

Condition: Used - Good

The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at.

Now, at last, there is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself.

The Timeless Way of Building is the introductory volume in the Cent...
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

By: Alexander, Christopher,Ishikawa, Sara,Silverstein, Murray,Jacobson, Max,Fiksdahl-King, Ingrid,Angel, Shlomo

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: January 1977

Seller ID: 52707

ISBN: 0195019199

Condition: Used - Good

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction.

After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we ...
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Sniffy the Virtual Rat Lite, Version 3.0 (with CD-ROM)

By: Alloway, Tom, Wilson, Greg, Graham, Jeff

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing: March 2011

Seller ID: 21971

ISBN: 1111726175

Condition: Used - Good

Bring the theories of learning to life using SNIFFY, THE VIRTUAL RAT Instructors praise Sniffy, a realistic digital rat in an operant chamber (Skinner Box), for his ability to give students hands-on experience in setting up and conducting experiments that demonstrate the phenomena of classical and operant conditioning. Users begin by training Sniffy to press a bar to obtain food. Then they progress to studies of more complex learning phenomena. Throughout each, a series of "Mind Windows" enables students to visualize how Sniffy's experiences in the chamber produce the psychological changes th...
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Nature's Ways: How Nature Takes Care of Its Own

By: Andrews, Roy Chapman

Price: $16.50

Seller ID: 50299

ISBN: 281BQL1002568

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Understanding Physics: Volume 2: Light, Magnetism, and Electricity

By: Asimov, Isaac

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Signet: April 1969

Seller ID: 49772

ISBN: 0451623045

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The Ends of the Earth: The Polar Regions of the World

By: Asimov, Isaac

Price: $16.75

Publisher: Weybright and Talley: January 1975

Seller ID: 51191

ISBN: 0679401237

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Life on Earth A natural history

By: Attenborough, David

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Collins: January 1979

Seller ID: 51238

ISBN: 0002190915

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Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics

By: Banks, Robert B.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Princeton University Press: July 2002

Seller ID: 22038

ISBN: 0691102856

Condition: Used - Good

Although we seldom think of it, our lives are played out in a world of numbers. Such common activities as throwing baseballs, skipping rope, growing flowers, playing football, measuring savings accounts, and many others are inherently mathematical. So are more speculative problems that are simply fun to ponder in themselves--such as the best way to score Olympic events.

Here Robert Banks presents a wide range of musings, both practical and entertaining, that have intrigued him and others: How tall can one grow? Why do we get stuck in traffic? Which football player would have a be...
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Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis

By: Barnes, Barry,Bloor, David,Henry, John

Price: $22.95

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: July 1996

Seller ID: 48704

ISBN: 0226037312

Condition: Used - Good

Although science was once seen as the product of individual great men working in isolation, we now realize that, like any other creative activity, science is a highly social enterprise, influenced in subtle as well as obvious ways by the wider culture and values of its time. Scientific Knowledge is the first introduction to social studies of scientific knowledge.

The authors, all noted for their contributions to science studies, have organized this book so that each chapter examines a key step in the process of doing science. Using case studies from cognitive science, physics, and ...
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Basher Science: Chemistry: Getting a Big Reaction

By: Basher, Simon, Green, Dan

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Kingfisher: July 2010

Seller ID: 4178

ISBN: 0753464136

Condition: Used - Good

Basher Science: Chemistry, Getting a Big Reaction created and illustrated by Simon Basher, Written by Dan Green:

Discover the secrets of chemistry, and learn about the properties of matter and the ways in which they interact, combine and change. Chemistry is a compelling guide to a community of characters who make up everything around us.

New Handbook of the Heavens Revised Edition VIII

By: Bermjard, Hubert J.; Bennett, Dorothy A.; Rice, Hugh s.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc.: 1948

Seller ID: 2392

ISBN: 281BQL1000166

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How to Build Your Own Spaceship: The Science of Mass Space Travel

By: Bizony, Piers

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Portobello Books Ltd: May 2008

Seller ID: 2288

ISBN: 1846271258

Condition: Used - Good

Boldly going where no pop-sci book has gone before, this is an exploration of the coming reality of personal space travel - for anyone who wanted to be an astronaut when they grew up.
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