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  • Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence

    by David Baumeister, Vernon W. Cisney, Tober Corrigan, Rick Elmore, Jonathan Elmore, Luis Favela, Eric Godoy, Josh Grant-Young, Sydney Lane, Eunah Lee, Brian Onishi, Chandler Rogers, Kendall Phillips, Robert Sinnerbrink ...
    Why might interdependence, the idea that we are made up of our relations, be horrifying? Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence argues that philosophy can outline the contours of dark specter of interdependence and that film can shine a light on its shadowy details, together revealing a horror of relations. The contributors interrogate the question of interdependence through ... Read more

    $94.79 USD

  • Understanding Digital Ethics

    Cases and Contexts

    by Jonathan Beever, Rudy McDaniel, Nancy A. Stanlick ...
    Rapid changes in technology and the growing use of electronic media signal a need for understanding both clear and subtle ethical and social implications of the digital, and of specific digital technologies. Understanding Digital Ethics: Cases and Contexts is the first book to offer a philosophically grounded examination of digital ethics and its moral implications. Divided into three clear parts, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Perspectives in Bioethics, Science, and Public Policy

    Edited by Jonathan Beever, Nicolae Morar ...
    Series series Purdue Studies in Public Policy
    In this book, nine thought-leaders engage with some of the hottest moral issues in science and ethics. Based on talks originally given at the annual "Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science," the chapters explore interconnections between the three areas in an engaging and accessible way. Addressing a mixed public audience, the authors go beyond dry theory to explore some of the difficult ... Read more

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  • Colliding Worlds

    How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art

    by Arthur I. Miller ...
    A dazzling look at the artists working on the frontiers of science.In recent decades, an exciting new art movement has emerged in which artists utilize and illuminate the latest advances in science. Some of their provocative creations—a live rabbit implanted with the fluorescent gene of a jellyfish, a gigantic glass-and-chrome sculpture of the Big Bang (pictured on the cover)—can be seen in ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Environment and Society

    A Critical Introduction

    by Paul Robbins, Sarah A. Moore, John G. Hintz ...
    Series series Critical Introductions to Geography
    Substantially updated for the second edition, this engaging and innovative introduction to the environment and society uses key theoretical approaches to explore familiar objects.Features substantial revisions and updates for the second edition, including new chapters on E waste, mosquitoes and uranium, improved maps and graphics, new exercises, shorter theory chapters, and refocused sections on ... Read more

    $58.95 USD

  • Robotics And Virtuality - How The Future Will Be Transformed By Robotics And Virtual Reality

    by Lavirrealista ...
    Although we cannot defeat the laws of physiology and physics, technology in the future might allow us to trick them. We could be headed into a world where functional robotic machines can be enhanced by virtual envelopes which will give us an experience of reality which is not limited by the barriers of matter. This is where the most exciting science fiction will soon lead us. ... Read more

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  • Cosmic Apprentice

    Dispatches from the Edges of Science

    by Dorion Sagan ...
    In the pursuit of knowledge, Dorion Sagan argues in this dazzlingly eclectic, rigorously crafted, and deliciously witty collection of essays, scientific authoritarianism and philosophical obscurantism are equally formidable obstacles to discovery. As science has become more specialized and more costly, its questing spirit has been constrained by dogma. And philosophy, perhaps the discipline best ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Unfinished Foundation

    The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance

    by Ken Conca ...
    Why is the United Nations not more effective on global environmental challenges? The UN Charter mandates the global organization to seek four noble aspirations: international peace and security, rule of law among nations, human rights for all people, and social progress through development. On environmental issues, however, the UN has understood its charge much more narrowly: it works for "better ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • What Animals Live in the Desert? Animal Book 4-6 Years Old | Children's Animal Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    The desert looks like it can’t hold much life because it’s very hot and there aren't any greens for miles! Well, you're in for a big surprise! Underneath the sand, the desert is actually teeming with life. Would you like to know What Animals Live in the Desert? Then open this book today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Getting to Green

    Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution

    by Frederic C. Rich ...
    “Regardless of your place on the political spectrum, there is much to admire in this book, which reminds us that the stewardship of nature is an obligation shared by all Americans.” —U.S. Senator Angus S. King Jr.The Green movement in America has lost its way. Pew polling reveals that the environment is one of the two things about which Republicans and Democrats disagree most. Congress has not ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Energy Poverty

    (Dis)Assembling Europe's Infrastructural Divide

    by Stefan Bouzarovski ...
    This open access book aims to consolidate and advance debates on European and global energy poverty by exploring the political and infrastructural drivers and implications of the condition across a variety of spatial scales. It highlights the need for a geographical conceptualization of the different ways in which household-level energy deprivation both influences and is contingent upon ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Disaster Management in China

    Institutions, Interest Groups, and Social Participation

    by Gang Chen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In China’s 4,000-year-long history and modern development, natural disaster management has been about not only human combat against devastating natural forces, but also institutional building, political struggle, and economic interest redistribution among different institutional players. A significant payoff for social scientists studying disasters is that they can reveal much of the hidden nature ... Read more

    $49.49 USD