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  • Artificial Intelligence and Playable Media

    by Eric Freedman ...
    This book introduces readers to artificial intelligence (AI) through the lens of playable media and explores the impact of such software on everyday life.From video games to robotic companions to digital twins, artificial intelligence drives large sectors of the culture industry where play, media and machine learning coexist. This book illustrates how playable media contribute to our sense of self ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • The Persistence of Code in Game Engine Culture

    by Eric Freedman ...
    With its unique focus on video game engines, the data-driven architectures of game development and play, this innovative textbook examines the impact of software on everyday life and explores the rise of engine-driven culture.Through a series of case studies, Eric Freedman lays out a clear methodology for studying the game development pipeline, and uses the video game engine as a pathway for media ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Transient Images

    Personal Media in Public Frameworks

    by Eric Freedman ...
    In this probing study, Eric Freedman focuses on what images from photography, mobile communications, and the Internet reveal about looking. Exploring subjectivity by critically examining the look, he elaborates on the nature of the photographic frame and its relation to interpretive practices. Freedman scrutinizes what he calls "technobiography"—a life written through technology, and considers the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Making Habeas Work

    A Legal History

    by Eric M. Freedman ...
    A reconsideration of the writ of habeas corpus casts new light on a range of current issuesHabeas corpus, the storied Great Writ of Liberty, is a judicial order that requires government officials to produce a prisoner in court, persuade an independent judge of the correctness of their claimed factual and legal justifications for the individual’s imprisonment, or else release the captive. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Habeas Corpus

    Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty

    by Eric M. Freedman ...
    Habeas Corpus is the process by which state prisoners—particularly those on death row—appeal to federal courts to have their convictions overturned. Its proper role in our criminal justice system has always been hotly contested, especially in the wake of 1996 legislation curtailing the ability of prisoners to appeal their sentences.In this timely volume, Eric M. Freedman reexamines four of the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • A Perfect Mess

    The Hidden Benefits of Disorder - How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and on-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place

    by Eric Abrahamson, David H. Freedman ...
    Ever since Einstein's study of Brownian Motion, scientists have understood that a little disorder can actually make systems more effective. But most people still shun disorder-or suffer guilt over the mess they can't avoid. No longer! With a spectacular array of true stories and case studies of the hidden benefits of mess, A Perfect Mess overturns the accepted wisdom that tight schedules, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Design Research in Social Studies Education

    Critical Lessons from an Emerging Field

    Edited by Beth C. Rubin, Eric B Freedman, Jongsung Kim ...
    This edited volume showcases work from the emerging field of design-based research (DBR) within social studies education and explores the unique challenges and opportunities that arise when applying the approach in classrooms. Usually associated with STEM fields, DBR’s unique ability to generate practical theories of learning and to engineer theory-driven improvements to practice holds meaningful ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Biodiversity, Conservation and Environmental Management in the Great Lakes Basin

    Edited by Eric Freedman, Mark Neuzil ...
    The Great Lakes Basin in North America holds more than 20 percent of the world's fresh water. Threats to habitats and biodiversity have economic, political, national security, and cultural implications and ramifications that cross the US-Canadian border. This multidisciplinary book presents the latest research to demonstrate the interconnected nature of the challenges facing the Basin.Chapters by ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Communicating Endangered Species

    Extinction, News and Public Policy

    Edited by Eric Freedman, Sara Shipley Hiles, David B. Sachsman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media
    Communicating Endangered Species: Extinction, News, and Public Policy is a multidisciplinary environmental communication book that takes a distinctive approach by connecting how media and culture depict and explain endangered species with how policymakers and natural resource managers can or do respond to these challenges in practical terms.Extinction isn’t new. However, the pace of extinction is ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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    A Perfect Mess

    The Hidden Benefits of Disorder--How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place

    by Eric Abrahamson, David Freedman ...
    Narrated by Scott Brick ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 44 min

    Ever since Einstein’s study of Brownian motion, scientists have understood that a little disorder can actually make systems more effective. But most people still shun disorder–or suffer guilt over the mess they can’t avoid. No longer!With a spectacular array of true stories and case studies of the hidden benefits of mess, A PERFECT MESS overturns the accepted wisdom that tight schedules, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • After the Czars and Commissars

    Journalism in Authoritarian Post-Soviet Central Asia

    Edited by Richard Shafer, Eric Freedman ...
    Series series Eurasian Political Econ. & Public Policy
    From Czarism and Bolshevism to the current post-communist era, the media in Central Asia has been tightly constrained. Though the governments in the region assert that a free press is permitted to operate, research has shown this to be untrue. In all five former Soviet republics of Central Asia, the media has been controlled, suppressed, punished, and often outlawed. This enlightening collection ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Critical Perspectives on Journalistic Beliefs and Actions

    Global Experiences

    Edited by Eric Freedman, Robyn S. Goodman, Elanie Steyn ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Journalism
    This book provides case studies, many incorporating in-depth interviews and surveys of journalists. It examines issues such as journalists’ attitudes toward their contributions to society; the impact of industry and technological changes; culture and minority issues in the newsroom and profession; the impact of censorship and self-censorship; and coping with psychological pressures and physical ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD