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  • The Psychophysical Ear

    Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910

    by Alexandra Hui ...
    Series series Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
    An examination of how the scientific study of sound sensation became increasingly intertwined with musical aesthetics in nineteenth-century Germany and Austria.In the middle of the nineteenth century, German and Austrian concertgoers began to hear new rhythms and harmonies as non-Western musical ensembles began to make their way to European cities and classical music introduced new compositional ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World

    Responding to the Global Climate Emergency

    Edited by Alexandra Hui, Emily Pawley ...
    Series series History for a Sustainable Future
    A historian’s guide to the climate crisis: how research, teaching, and public engagement can help reshape the future of our environment.The work of historians is vital to this moment. As climate debates shift from “believing the science” to fighting for the massive changes needed to address cataclysmic environmental damage, historical work is a critical resource for tracing and challenging the ... Read more

    $99.99 CAD

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  • Testing Hearing

    The Making of Modern Aurality

    Edited by Viktoria Tkaczyk, Mara Mills, Alexandra Hui ...
    Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality argues that the modern cultural practices of hearing and testing have emerged from a long interrelationship. Since the early nineteenth century, auditory test tools (whether organ pipes or electronic tone generators) and the results of hearing tests have fed back into instrument calibration, human training, architecture, and the creation of new ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Math Mafia

    How a Persistent Group of Reformers Standardized American Education

    by Dr. Emily T. Hamilton ...
    Series series NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    How Cold War urgency, academic ambition, and federal power converged to make math the cornerstone of American education policy.The Math Mafia by Emily T. Hamilton is a historical account of mathematics education reform in twentieth-century America and how that movement played a role in shaping the broader contours of national education policy. Hamilton contends that a cohesive and well-organized ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Osiris, Volume 28

    Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750-1980

    Edited by Alexandra Hui, Julia Kursell, Myles W. Jackson ...
    Series Book 28 - Osiris
    The understanding of sound underwent profound changes with the advent of laboratory science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. New techniques of sound visualization and detection, the use of electricity to generate sound, and the emergence of computers radically reshaped the science of acoustics and the practice of music. The essays in this volume of Osiris explore the manifold ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Life Out of Balance

    Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World

    by Joel B. Hagen ...
    Series series NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    Exploring how scientists came to understand life's balance between stability and adaptation.Life Out of Balance focuses on a period in history when new ideas of self-regulation, adaptation, and fitness became central to a variety of biological disciplines. During the decades surrounding World War II, these ideas developed in several quite different contexts and led to greater debates about the ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 208

    by Neil Clarke, Aimee Ogden, Marie Vibbert, Chi Hui, Alexandra Munck, Cecile Cristofari, Priya Chand, E.N. Auslender, C. M. Fields ...
    Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our January 2024 issue (#208) contains:* Original fiction by Aimee Ogden ("Nothing of Value"), Cécile Cristofari ("Down the Waterfall"), Alexandra Munck ("Binomial Nomenclature and the Mother of Happiness"), Chi Hui ("Stars Don't Dream ... Read more

    $6.33 CAD

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  • Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 209

    by Neil Clarke, Isabel J. Kim, Rajeev Prasad, David Goodman, Meghan Feldman, Yang Wanqing, Zohar Jacobs, H.H. Pak, Ryan Marie Ketterer ...
    Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our February 2024 issue (#209) contains:* Original fiction by H.H. Pak ("Scalp"), Rajeev Prasad ("The Flowers That We Intend To Share"), Zohar Jacobs ("The Enceladus South Pole Base Named after V.I. Lenin"), David Goodman ("Kardashev' ... Read more

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  • Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 205

    by Neil Clarke, Suzanne Palmer, Lavie Tidhar, Michael Swanwick, Grace Chan, Lisa Papademetriou, Bella Han, David Goodman, Amal Singh ...
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  • Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 200

    by Neil Clarke, Suzanne Palmer, Rich Larson, Naomi Kritzer, Parker Ragland, Harry Turtledove, Megan Chee, Jordan Chase-Young, An Hao ...
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