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Learning in Virtual Worlds

Research and Applications

Athabasca University Press

In this authoritative collection, a team of international experts outline the emerging trends and developments in the use of 3D virtual worlds for teaching and learning.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Emergence and Innovation in Digital Learning

Foundations and Applications

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Health Advocacy, Inc.

How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement

UBC Press

In this unsettling analysis of the breast cancer movement in Canada, health activist, scholar, award-winning journalist, and cancer survivor Sharon Batt investigates the changing relationship between patient advocacy groups and the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the contentious role of pharma funding.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Made Modern

Science and Technology in Canadian History

UBC Press

The first major collection of its kind in thirty years, Made Modern explores the role of science and technology in shaping Canadians’ experience of themselves and their place in the modern world.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Delivering Policy

The Contested Politics of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Canada

UBC Press

Delivering Policy explores how the tension between science and politics shaped the long and fraught path to Canada’s Assisted Human Reproduction Act.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Firestorm

How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future

Island Press
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Medicine and Morality

Crises in the History of a Profession

UBC Press

The first historical study of morality and science in Canadian medicine, Medicine and Morality shows how moments of doubt in doctors’ impartiality resulted in changes to how medicine was done, and even to the very definition of medical practice itself.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Fixing Niagara Falls

Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall

UBC Press

Long considered a natural wonder, the world’s most famous waterfall is anything but. Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the engineering and politics behind the transformation of Niagara Falls.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Beyond Earth’s Edge

The Poetry of Spaceflight

The University of Arizona Press, University of Arizona Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Digital Lives in the Global City

Contesting Infrastructures

UBC Press

Digital Lives in the Global City asks how digital technologies are remaking urban life around the world, from migrant work in Singapore to digital debt in Toronto, illegal buildings in Mumbai, and targeted policing in New York.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence

The Canadian Case

UBC Press

In a critical analysis of the profound shift to big data practices among intelligence agencies, Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence highlights the challenges for civil liberties, human rights, and privacy protection.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Transformative Media

Intersectional Technopolitics from Indymedia to #BlackLivesMatter

UBC Press

In an era of social media dominance, Transformative Media reveals the often invisible, transformative media practices of marginalized groups.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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What is Cognitive Psychology?

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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