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How to Make a Home in the City

By Stacy Torres, author of At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban AmericaI never planned to study older adults. Old places that survived waves of gentrification initially fascinated me, as a lifelong New Yorker who had struggled to make ends meet and mourned the loss of beloved neighborho
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Q&A with Julie Guthman, author of The Problem with Solutions

Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today's myriad social and ecological crises? With this book, Julie Guthman digs into the impoverished solutions for food and agriculture currently emerging from Silicon Valley, urging us to stop trying to fix our broken food system through finit
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Do You Want AI To Be Used in Your Healthcare?

By Charles Binkley, co-author of Encoding Bioethics: AI in Clinical Decision-MakingArtificial Intelligence (AI) is being introduced into every sector of the human experience, and healthcare is no exception.AI models were first used in radiology in the 1980s to aid radiologists in interpretin
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DNA, Race, and Reproduction

by Emily Klancher Merchant (Editor), Meaghan O'Keefe (Editor)
Feb 2025
Open Access

The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life

by Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (Author)
Feb 2023
Open Access

Renaissance Futurities: Science, Art, Invention

by Charlene Villaseñor Black (Editor), Mari-Tere Álvarez (Editor)
Nov 2019
Open Access

Rivers of the Anthropocene

by Jason M. Kelly (Editor), Philip Scarpino (Editor), and 3 more
Nov 2017
Open Access

Water and Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900-1941

by William F. Deverell (Author), Tom Sitton (Author)
Oct 2016
Open Access