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| Stuck in the Shallow End
Education, Race, and Computing
Jane Margolis
An investigation into why so few African American and Latino high school students are studying computer science reveals the dynamics of inequality in American schools.
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| Architecture or Techno-Utopia
Politics after Modernism
Felicity D. Scott
The first history of twentieth-century America's architecture that puts architecture and its institutions into a dialogue with the "underground"—featuring the experiments, practices, and polemics of the 1960s and 1970s.
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| System Modeling in Cellular Biology
From Concepts to Nuts and Bolts
Zoltan Szallasi, Jörg Stelling and Vipul Periwal (Eds.)
An introduction and overview of system modeling in biology that is accessible to researchers from different fields, including biology, computer science, mathematics, statistics, physics, and biochemistry.
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| Words to Be Looked At
Language in 1960s Art
Liz Kotz
A critical study of the use of language and the proliferation of text in 1960s art and experimental music, with close examinations of works by Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, John Cage, Douglas Huebler, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, La Monte Young, and others.
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| The Producer as Composer
Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music
Virgil Moorefield
The evolution of the record producer from organizer to auteur, from Phil Spector and George Martin to the rise of hip-hop and remixing.
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| The Hidden Sense
Synesthesia in Art and Science
Cretien van Campen
The uncommon sensory perceptions of synesthesia explored through accounts of synesthetes' experiences, the latest scientific research, and suggestions of synesthesia in visual art, music, and literature.
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| Feedback
Television against Democracy
David Joselit
In a world where politics is conducted through images, the tools of art history can be used to challenge the privatized antidemocratic sphere of American television.
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| Riding the Waves
A Life in Sound, Science, and Industry
Leo Beranek
The life and work of Renaissance man Leo Beranek: scientist, professor, engineer, business leader, inventor, entrepreneur, musician, television executive, philanthropist, and author.
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| Privacy on the Line
The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, Updated and Expanded Edition
Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau
A penetrating and insightful study of privacy and security in telecommunications for a post-9/11, post-Patriot Act world.
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| A Culture of Improvement
Technology and the Western Millennium
Robert Friedel
How technological change in the West has been driven by the pursuit of improvement: a history of technology, from plows and printing presses to penicillin, the atomic bomb, and the computer.
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