Picturing Knowledge
Title | Picturing Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Scott Baigrie |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 420 |
Release | 1996-01-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780802074393 |
The contributors to this volume examine the historical and philosophical issues concerning the role that scientific illustration plays in the creation of scientific knowledge.
Picturing Knowledge
Title | Picturing Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Scott Baigrie |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 389 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780802029850 |
The contributors to this volume examine the historical and philosophical issues concerning the role that scientific illustration plays in the creation of scientific knowledge.
Big Picture Book of General Knowledge
Title | Big Picture Book of General Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | James Maclaine |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2017-03-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781474917889 |
A big picture book with giant fold-out pages to satisfy the curiosity of every young child. This book will teach children fun facts about general knowledge, which is all displayed on a huge double-gate fold. Makes a perfect gift which children will pore over for hours.
Climate Change
Title | Climate Change PDF eBook |
Author | Gavin Schmidt |
Publisher | WW Norton |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-03-24 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780393331257 |
An unprecedented union of scientific analysis and stunning photography illustrating the effects of climate change on the global ecosystem. Going beyond the headlines, this work by leading NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt and master photographer Joshua Wolfe illustrates as never before the ramifications of shifting climate. Photographic spreads show retreating glaciers, sinking villages in Alaska’s tundra, and drying lakes. The text follows adventurous scientists through the ice caps at the poles to the coral reefs of the tropical seas. Marshaling data spanning centuries and continents, the book sparkles with cutting-edge research and visual records, including contributions from experts on atmospheric science, oceanography, paleoclimatology, technology, politics, and the polar regions. As Jeffrey D. Sachs writes in his powerful foreword, “Climate Change is a tour de force of public education.”
The World Book
Title | The World Book PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN |
Promiscuous Knowledge
Title | Promiscuous Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Cmiel |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 345 |
Release | 2020-02-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022667066X |
“[A] lively account of the cultural and intellectual history of how Americans have lived with image and information since the mid-nineteenth century.” —Peter Simonson, author of Refiguring Mass Communication Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to “the mind of God.” As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google’s divine omniscience traffics in news, maps, weather, and porn indifferently. This book, begun by the late Kenneth Cmiel and completed by his close friend John Durham Peters, provides a genealogy of the information age from its early origins up to the reign of Google. It examines how we think about fact, image, and knowledge, centering on the different ways that claims of truth are complicated when they pass to a larger public. To explore these ideas, Cmiel and Peters focus on three main periods—the late nineteenth century, 1925 to 1945, and 1975 to 2000, with constant reference to the present. Cmiel’s original text examines the growing gulf between politics and aesthetics in postmodern architecture, the distancing of images from everyday life in magical realist cinema, the waning support for national betterment through taxation, and the inability of a single presentational strategy to contain the social whole. Peters brings Cmiel’s study into the present moment, providing the backstory to current controversies about the slipperiness of facts in a digital age. A hybrid work from two innovative thinkers, Promiscuous Knowledge enlightens our understanding of the internet and the profuse visual culture of our time. “With a clear voice and careful evidence, Promiscuous Knowledge offers fascinating glimpses into important people and practices from across the centuries.” —Fred Turner, author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Seeing Like a Rover
Title | Seeing Like a Rover PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Vertesi |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 331 |
Release | 2015-04-22 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 022615601X |
In the years since the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and Opportunity first began transmitting images from the surface of Mars, we have become familiar with the harsh, rocky, rusty-red Martian landscape. But those images are much less straightforward than they may seem to a layperson: each one is the result of a complicated set of decisions and processes involving the large team behind the Rovers. With Seeing Like a Rover, Janet Vertesi takes us behind the scenes to reveal the work that goes into creating our knowledge of Mars. Every photograph that the Rovers take, she shows, must be processed, manipulated, and interpreted—and all that comes after team members negotiate with each other about what they should even be taking photographs of in the first place. Vertesi’s account of the inspiringly successful Rover project reveals science in action, a world where digital processing uncovers scientific truths, where images are used to craft consensus, and where team members develop an uncanny intimacy with the sensory apparatus of a robot that is millions of miles away. Ultimately, Vertesi shows, every image taken by the Mars Rovers is not merely a picture of Mars—it’s a portrait of the whole Rover team, as well.