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  • Open Roads, Closed Borders

    The Contemporary French-language Road Movie

    Edición de Michael Gott, Thibaut Schilt ...
    This is the first collection of essays about French-language road movies, a particularly rich yet critically neglected cinematic category. These films, the contributors argue, offer important perspectives on contemporary French ideas about national identity, France’s former colonies, Europe, and the rest of the world. Taken together, the essays illustrate how travel and road motifs have enabled ... Leer más

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  • Fool Me Twice

    Fighting the Assault on Science in America

    "Whenever the people are well informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government."But what happens in a world dominated by complex science? Are the people still well-enough informed to be trusted with their own government? And with less than 2 percent of Congress with any professional background in science, how can our government be trusted to lead us in the right ... Leer más

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  • Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism

    InThe Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Global Warming and Environmentalism, Christopher C. Horner tears the cover off the Left's manipulation of environmental issues for political purposes--and lays out incontrovertible evidence for the fact that catastrophic man-made global warming is just more Chicken-Little hysteria, not actual science. He explains why, although Al Gore and his cronies among ... Leer más

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  • The War on Science

    Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It

    de Shawn Otto ...
    **An "insightful" and in-depth look at anti-science politics and its deadly results (Maria Konnikova, New York Times–bestselling author of The Biggest Bluff).Thomas Jefferson said, "Wherever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government." But what happens when they aren't?From climate change to vaccinations, transportation to technology, health care to defense, we are ... Leer más

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  • Complacent Nation

    de Gavin Ellis ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    New Zealanders are too complacent about the continuing erosion of their right to know what government is doing on their behalf. Political risk has become a primary consideration in whether official information requests will be met, and successive governments have allowed free speech rights to be overridden.Drawing on decades of experience as a journalist and editor, Gavin Ellis chronicles the ... Leer más

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  • Sex and Rockets

    The Occult World of Jack Parsons

    de John Carter ...
    Rocket pioneer, occultist, and counterculture icon—Jack Parsons and the explosive intersection of science, sex, and magic. Sex and Rockets by John Carter is the definitive biography of John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons—rocket-fuel innovator, co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and one of the most controversial figures in twentieth-century American science. By day, Parsons helped develop the ... Leer más

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  • What Stays in Vegas

    The World of Personal Data-Lifeblood of Big Business-and the End of Privacy as We Know It

    de Adam Tanner ...
    The greatest threat to privacy today is not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers, and other firms are voraciously gathering data with little oversight from anyone.In Las Vegas, no company knows the value of data better than Caesars Entertainment. Many thousands of enthusiastic clients pour through the ever-open doors of their casinos. The secret to the ... Leer más

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  • A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986 to 2012

    Edición de Jason Healey ...
    A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986-2012 is the first book of its kind- a comprehensive, accessible history of cyber conflict. A Fierce Domain reaches back to look at the major "wake-up calls," the major conflicts that have forced the realization that cyberspace is a harsh place where nations and others contest for superiority. The book identifies the key lessons for policymakers, and, ... Leer más

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  • Silencing Science

    de Shaun Hendy ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    The nuclear meltdown at Fukushima ... the Fonterra botulism scare ... the Christchurch earthquakes in all these recent crises the role played by scientists has been under the spotlight.What is the first duty of scientists in a crisis to the government, to their employer, or to the wider public desperate for information? And what if these different objectives clash?In this penetrating BWB Text, ... Leer más

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  • Creativity in the Classroom

    Case Studies in Using the Arts in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

    Edición de Paul McIntosh, Digby Warren ...
    This volume contests the current higher educational paradigm of using objectives and outcomes as ways to measure learning. Instead, the contributors propose approaches to learning that draw upon the creative arts and humanities, including cinema, literature, dance, drama and visual art. ... Leer más

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  • Creating the Market University

    How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine

    When science adopts the logic of the marketAmerican universities today serve as economic engines, performing the scientific research that will create new industries, drive economic growth, and keep the United States globally competitive. But only a few decades ago, these same universities self-consciously held themselves apart from the world of commerce. Creating the Market University is the first ... Leer más

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  • Myths

    Decode Vol. 1

    Series series Decode
    Myths is a visual and written exploration on the subject of myths. It contains contributions from writers, illustrators, designers, photographers and artists from around the world who have each responded to the theme in their own unique way.Myths is important as it approaches the theme in various ways but also includes interviews with artists who have been inspired by myths in some way – ... Leer más

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