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A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Modern Age

A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Modern Age covers the period from 1914 to today. Across the Twentieth Century, mathematics influenced two World Wars and the shape of modern warfare, nuclear techn…

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Tim Marshall
The Future of Geography

From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes an "insightful, hopeful, and endlessly fascinating" (Daily Express) book on today's spac…

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Zeynep Bulut
Building a Voice

On the emergence, embodiment, and mediation of voice as skin.How do we build or make a voice together? Can we imagine the voices we make in the form of a skin, a multi-sensory interface that behaves both …

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Andrew Lison
100% Utilization

A wide-ranging analysis of how the material limits to discrete, silicon-based computing power impact employment and automation.Since the end of the Second World War, we have come to expect continual growt…

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Territorial Imaginaries

"The edited volume Territorial Imaginings contends that conventional mapping practices are inadequate to illustrate the complex and multi-faceted reality of territory and political sovereignty both p…

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Willa Hammitt Brown
Gentlemen of the Woods

"The folk hero Paul Bunyan stands astride the story of the upper Midwest-a manly symbol of the labor that cleared the vast north woods for the march of industrialization while somehow also maintainin…

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Crafting Everyday Food

Focusing on East Asia from the nineteenth century to the present, Crafting Everyday Food highlights the role of technology in transforming traditional foods into modern ones and in reinventing industriali…

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Joseph Menn
Cult of the Dead Cow

The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our freedom, "a hugely important piece of the puzzle for anyone who wants to understand the forces shaping the int…

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Jonathan Weber
City on the Edge

By one of San Francisco's foremost chroniclers, the story of the city's meteoric transformation into a global capital of technology, and how the same creative and political forces that gave rise to its bo…

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Techno-Orientalism 2.0

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 addresses the impact of a volatile post-COVID present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The volume engages with techno-Orientalist inflections in recent high-profile and l…

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National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Health And Medicine Division, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Food And Nutrition Board
Exploring Linkages Between Soil Health and Human Health

The United States is an important food producer globally, in part because of its abundance of agriculturally productive soils. However, management practices that maximize yields have caused losses in soil…

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Moiya Mctier
Mothers of Invention

A rollicking, enlightening examination of humanity's changing relationship to creativity, written from the perspectives of the Greek Muses.The thing that sets humans apart from other animals is our abilit…

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Roderick J Hill
Space to Live

In an era where Earth faces unprecedented challenges, humanity's survival may depend on establishing life beyond our home planet.From the search for extraterrestrial life to the technological challenges o…

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Yijun Wang
The Tin Centuries

How a mundane metal bound miners and officials to global capitalism and an emerging technocratic state Tin was everywhere in early modern China--lining tea chests, shaping religious vessels, alloyed into …

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Max Smeets
Ransom War

Sheds light on the inner workings of the groups responsible for deploying ransomware, and the measures governments and businesses can take to combat the threat.

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Marco Visscher
The Power of Nuclear

The incredible story of a powerful and misunderstood energy source on which society turned its back

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Keith Houston
Empire of the Sum

Starting with hands, abacus and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bott…

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Techno-Orientalism 2.0

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 addresses the impact of a volatile post-COVID present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The volume engages with techno-Orientalist inflections in recent high-profile and l…

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Natasha Dow Schüll
Addiction by Design

An anthropologist traces the intimate connections between gambling addiction and casino industry design tacticsRecent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around ro…

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Max Adams
The Museum of the Wood Age

A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood - the material that shaped human history.Wood - humankind's long-term partner in our evolution from woodland foragers to engineers of our own destiny - has…

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