Engineering And Social Science – Bücher, Diverse, CDs und mehr, Seite 9

U. Sunday Tim (Associate Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA), Sugam Sharma (Researcher, Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA)
The Geography of Climate Change Vulnerability

Geography of Climate Change Vulnerability: Exposure, Sensitivity and Adaptation explores the geographic dimensions of vulnerability of human- environmental systems to climate change. It provides informati…

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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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Melanie Mitchell
Artificial Intelligence

Named One of the Five Best Books on AI by The New York Times and The Wall Street JournalNo technological development in recent history has generated as much excitement and terror-both utopian visions and …

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Verity Harding
AI Needs You

A humanist manifesto for the age of AIArtificial 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 rea…

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Lily N Shapiro
Connective Tissue

An ethnography of factory accidents and their attendant reconstructive plastic surgeries in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Connective Tissue explores notions of risk, work and labor practices, and the way meanin…

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Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | The New Yorker 's Best Books of 2025 | A 2025 Booklist Editors' Choice Pick The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction---but it's not too…

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Bruce Schneier
Liars and Outliers

Praise for LIARS & OUTLIERS"Without trust, nothing can be achieved. Liars and Outliers is a brilliant analysis of the role of trust in society and business." -Klaus Schwab, Founder and Execu…

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Steve Goodman, Angus Carlyle
Notes on the Third Ear / Phantom Lure

Two original essays scrutinize the use of acoustic camouflage and the outer limits of unsound.In Phantom Lure Angus Carlyle explores the ways in which the frequency spectrum can become a site for disguise…

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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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Lily N Shapiro
Connective Tissue

An ethnography of factory accidents and their attendant reconstructive plastic surgeries in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Connective Tissue explores notions of risk, work and labor practices, and the way meanin…

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Cara Wallis
Social Media and Ordinary Life

How Chinese citizens use social mediaFocusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life is a deeply moving ethnograp…

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Snait B. Gissis
Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France

The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between 'the biological' and 'the social'. Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring t…

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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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Curtis Marez
Producing Precarity

The hidden cost of TV production for communities of color Producing Precarity is a long-overdue examination of the television industry's practice of "offshoring" production to impoverished sites…

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Fortesa Latifi
Like, Follow, Subscribe

A searing investigation into the child influencer industry and the perils of childhood internet fame, Like, Follow, Subscribe is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the costs of internet fa…

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Robert N Spengler
Nature's Greatest Success

The 15,000-year story of how grass seduced humanity into being its unwitting labor force--and the science behind it.Domesticated crops were not human creations, and agriculture was not simply invented. As…

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Jim Fruchterman
Technology for Good

"Build the field of technology for social good by inspiring social good leaders and the people who support them while providing them with the knowledge, insight, and confidence to take this path"…

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Malcolm Gladwell
Revenge of the Tipping Point

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with "curiosity and humor" in this New York Times bestseller that reframes the lessons of The T…

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Alfred Rudin, Phillip Choi
The Elements of Polymer Science and Engineering

The Elements of Polymer Science and Engineering, Fourth Edition updates on the field of polymers, which has advanced considerably since the book's last publication. A key feature of this new edition is th…

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George E McCarthy
Shadows of the Enlightenment

Shadows of the Enlightenment sheds light on the deeply political agenda underlying Western science from the so-called "Age of Reason" to the present. George McCarthy uncovers the economic, socia…

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