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"Repairing Play tries to wrest the narrative of play away from white, European notions that rely primarily on pleasure by including different connotations of play that do not rely on the access to the conditions of leisure"--

"A comprehensive insider's account of the discovery of gravitational waves, including insights on the physics theory and the critical LIGO technology that made it possible"--

"A critical investigation of a massive commercial phenomenon, the so-called "Euro" or "German"-style tabletop board games whose basic goal is explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate"--

Exploring how design can be used for good—prompting self-reflection, igniting the imagination, and affecting positive social change.Good design provides solutions to problems. It improves our buildings, medical equipment, clothing, and kitchen utensils, among other objects. But what if design could also improve societal problems by prompting positive ideological change? In this book, Bruce and Stephanie Tharp survey recent critical design practices and propose a new, more inclusive field of socially minded practice: discursive design. While many consider good design to be unobtrusive, intuitive, invisible, and undemanding intellectually, discursive design instead targets the intellect, prompting self-reflection and igniting the imagination. Discursive design (derived from “discourse”) expands the boundaries of how we can use design—how objects are, in effect, good(s) for thinking.Discursive Design invites us to see objects in a new light, to understand more than their basic form and utility. Beyond the different foci of critical design, speculative design, design fiction, interrogative design, and adversarial design, Bruce and Stephanie Tharp establish a more comprehensive, unifying vision as well as innovative methods. They not only offer social criticism but also explore how objects can, for example, be used by counselors in therapy sessions, by town councils to facilitate a pre-vote discussions, by activists seeking engagement, and by institutions and industry to better understand the values, beliefs, and attitudes of those whom they serve. Discursive design sparks new ways of thinking, and it is only through new thinking that our sociocultural futures can change.

"An advanced-level logic textbook that presents proof construction on equal footing with model building. Potentially relevant to students of mathematics and computer science as well"--

"A comprehensive overall survey of the tools and techniques used in the field of computer music, aimed at beginners as well as intermediate and advanced users"--

"A phenomenological exploration of the emotional experience of grief. Written by one of the leading figures philosophical psychology"--

"Chemistry for Cooks is a science for nonmajors textbook that addresses the science of cooking. No background knowledge in science is needed"--

"This book will provide the first English-language monographic account of the work of Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997), a West German provocateur who has become one of the most exhibited German artists"--

"Immigrant service members are simultaneously held up as the exemplary immigrants and treated with suspicion as potential spies or infiltrators. The Green Card Soldier leverages the intersection between two key American institutions-the military and immigration-to understand how their overlap helps build a vision of the nation rooted in militarized citizenship and empire"--

"Photo documentary of the creation and launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the world's largest orbiting astronomy observatory"--

"This expansive history of knowledge and its openness makes a strong and nuanced case for opening scholarly knowledge to the public"--

"A practical guide for business leaders to manage workers within and outside their organizations"--

"A book of photographs of US artist Sol LeWitt's in situ pencil drawings on the walls of a medieval tower in Spoleto, Italy, preceded by an illustrated introductory and contextual essay"--

"Richly illustrated, the first monograph to examine artist Cheyney Thompson's oeuvre the way he reimagines complex data to investigate history, production, labor & the artworld itself"--

"We raise our children in a fragile world. Climate change, pandemics, superbugs resistant to antibiotics. Extreme inequality, endemic poverty, institutionalized racism and sexism. What does it mean to be a "good parent" in the face of all this? This book is one woman's quest for an answer, as a philosopher and as a mother"--

"A book in the Ohlin Lectures series on trade agreements"--

"The pandemic has raised awareness of the need for universal access to high speed internet service in the United States. This book shows us that the debate about internet access is but the latest chapter in a long history of debates about universal service in the United States. This book analyzes the history, costs, and benefits of providing universal access to technologies and services, including education, postal service, telephone service, electrification, public libraries, and Internet"--

"This book re-focuses media design for material as well as human needs. It provides examples, critical discussions, and defining criteria for media that do not serve humans alone anymore"--

"A sober, but polemical text on how the linguistics and language field has lost sight of the fact that syntactic structure remains crucial"--

"An exploration of the idea of the world in art (both an image of the world that has perished, and another opened up by the artwork) as revealed through a number of seminal philosophical thinkers as well as through assorted modes of aesthetic production, including painting, film, photography, poetry and music"--

"Uneven Futures reimagines the SF megatext as a vibrantly dialogical and enduringly ethical methodology for our living political futures"--

"This is a theoretical music technology book, influenced by new research in embodied music cognition. The main focus is on musical instruments and how they shape our experiences of music"--

"A critical examination of how single-family housing, the building block of US cities, is changing and its transformative potential for American urbanism"--

"Stiny extends his arguments around shape grammars outlined in his 2006 book Shape in order to provide insights into visual calculating with rules and grammar in art and design"--

"This book goes beyond dualisms and surpasses the pivotal paradigm of (inter)activity, searching for other forms of playful aesthetic expression and perception facilitated within the digital realm"--

"The book explores the origin story of the Open Government Partnership and place the open government reform movement in the context of the long history of public sector reform"--

"This textbook describes approaches and design principles for developing intelligent autonomous systems grounded in biology and neurosciences"--

"A look at how social media shape discourses around pregnancy and motherhood"--