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Müteferriqa

Müteferriqa

Müteferriqa is an online research portal. It contains an exceptionally rich collection of printed materials published in the Ottoman Empire from the 18th to mid-20th century. It paves the way for interdisciplinary collaboration in historical research through its English and Turkish language support.

Through its sleek Web interface, Müteferriqa lets you perform full-text search within seconds across millions of pages of its corpus, which consists of virtually all the books and a large majority of periodicals ever printed in Ottoman Turkish. Refining queries through rich and extensive metadata gives relevant cross-sections of the material. – Publisher

 

Oxford Handbooks in Psychology

Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Analytic Therapy

This volume presents a comprehensive guide to the cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) model. Throughout the volume, there is a balance of established theory and practice alongside a focus on innovation in both direct work with clients and the application of CAT more broadly within teams, organizations, and training, and as a model for leadership. – Publisher

 

The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality (2nd edn)

A Spiritual Renaissance of Psychological Science has arrived: an explosion of rigorously derived, foundationally new models of human experience. The collective vision of psychological science in the second edition of the OUP Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality advances psychological research beyond 20th-century radical materialism and mechanism, to inform the rapidly evolving spiritually oriented global Zeitgeist that surrounds academia. – Publisher

 

New MIT Press Direct to Open Monographs

New MIT Press Direct to Open Monographs.  Access through NUsearch or the publisher’s website.

 

¡Alerta! : engineering on shaky ground / Elizabeth Reddy.

A place for science and technology studies : observation, intervention, and collaboration / Jane Calvert.

Academic star wars : excellence initiatives in global perspective / edited by Maria Yudkevich, Philip G. Altbach, Jamil Salmi.

After eating : metabolizing the arts / Lindsay Kelley.

Algorithmic rights and protections for children / edited by Mizuko Ito, Remy Cross, Karthik Dinakar, Candice Odgers.

Algorithms of resistance : the everyday fight against platform power / Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré.

Art + DIY electronics / Garnet Hertz.

Athena unbound why and how scholarly knowledge should be free for all Peter Baldwin

Balkan cyberia : Cold War computing, Bulgarian modernization, and the information age behind the Iron Curtain / Victor Petrov.

Catastrophes, confrontations, and constraints : how disasters shape the dynamics of armed conflicts / Tobias Ide.

Computational formalism : art history and machine learning / Amanda Wasielewski.

Constructing student mobility : how universities recruit students and shape pathways between Berkeley and Seoul / Stephanie K. Kim.

Context changes everything : how constraints create coherence / Alicia Juarrero.

Creative hustling : women making and distributing films from Nairobi / Robin Steedman.

Cryptographic city : decoding the smart metropolis / Richard Coyne.

Dare to invent the future : knowledge in the service of and through problem-solving / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga.

Data and democracy at work : advanced information technologies, labor law, and the new working class / Brishen Rogers, The MIT Press.

Data paradoxes : the politics of intensified data sourcing in contemporary healthcare / Klaus Hoeyer.

Demystifying the academic research enterprise : becoming a successful scholar in a complex and competitive environment / Kelvin K. Droegemeier.

Design aesthetics : theoretical basics and studies in implication / Mads Nygaard Folkmann.

Design, empathy, interpretation [electronic resource] : toward interpretive design research / Ilpo Koskinen.

Distant viewing : computational exploration of digital images / Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton.

Distributional reinforcement learning / Marc G. Bellemare, Will Dabney, Mark Rowland.

Evolution “on Purpose” : Teleonomy in Living Systems / edited by Peter A. Corning [and four others].

Evolvability : a unifying concept in evolutionary biology? / edited by Thomas F. Hansen, David Houle, Mihaela Pavlicev, and Christophe Pélabon.

Families on the edge : experiences of homelessness and care in rural new england / Elizabeth Carpenter-Song.

Forecasting travel in urban America : the socio-technical life of an engineering modeling world / Konstantinos Chatzis.

From ASCII art to Comic Sans : typography and popular culture in the digital age / Karin Wagner.

From geometry to behavior : an introduction to spatial cognition / Hanspeter A. Mallot.

Fulfilling the pledge : securing industrial democracy for American workers in a digital economy / Roger C. Hartley.

Global shifts : business, politics, and deforestation in a changing world economy / Philip Schleifer.

Going big : a scientist’s guide to large projects and collaborations / Christopher W. Stubbs.

Gradient expectations : structure, origins, and synthesis of predictive neural networks / Keith L. Downing.

How the Robot Made Me Feel

Inducing immunity? : justifying immunization policies in times of vaccine hesitancy / Roland Pierik and Marcel Verweij.

Insolvent : how to reorient computing for just sustainability / Christoph Becker.

Inventing the working parent : work, gender, and feminism in neoliberal Britain / Sarah E. Stoller.

Just in time : temporality, aesthetic experience, and cognitive neuroscience / G. Gabrielle Starr.

Kids across the spectrums : growing up autistic in the digital age / Meryl Alper.

Living with algorithms : agency and user culture in Costa Rica / Ignacio Siles.

Mainstreaming and game journalism / David B. Nieborg and Maxwell Foxman.

Making meaning with machines : somatic strategies, choreographic technologies, and notational abstractions through a Laban/Bartenieff lens / Amy LaViers and Catherine Maguire.

Making modern medical ethics : how African Americans, anti-Nazis, bureaucrats, feminists, veterans, and whistleblowing moralists created bioethics / Robert Baker.

Managing meaning in Ukraine : information, communication, and narration since the Euromaidan revolution / Göran Bolin and Per Ståhlberg.

May we make the world? : gene drives, malaria, and the future of nature / Laurie Zoloth.

Media ruins : Cambodian postwar media reconstruction and the geopolitics of technology / Margaret Jack.

Migration stigma : understanding prejudice, discrimination, and exclusion / edited by Lawrence H. Yang, Maureen A. Eger and Bruce G. Link.

Milk and honey : technologies of plenty in the making of a Holy Land / Tamar Novick.

More than a health crisis : securitization and the US response to the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak / Jessica Kirk.

Nature-made economy : cod, capital, and the great economization of the ocean / Kristin Asdal and Tone Huse.

No heavenly bodies : a history of satellite communications infrastructure / Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren.

On linearization : toward a restrictive theory / Guglielmo Cinque.

On the Brink of Utopia

Open minded : searching for truth about the unconscious mind / Ben R. Newell.

Ownership of knowledge : beyond intellectual property / edited by Dagmar Schäfer, Annapurna Mamidipudi, and Marius Buning.

Parody in the age of remix : mashup creativity vs. the takedown / Ragnhild Brøvig.

Person, thing, robot : a moral and legal ontology for the 21st century and beyond / David J. Gunkel.

Picture research : the work of intermediation from pre-photography to post-digitization / Nina Lager Vestberg.

Picture-work : how libraries, museums, and stock agencies launched a new image economy / Diana Kamin.

Playing oppression : the legacy of conquest and empire in colonialist board games / Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson.

Principles of knowledge auditing : foundations for knowledge management implementation / Patrick Lambe.

Prison media : incarceration and the infrastructures of work and technology / Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt.

Properties of life : toward a theory of organismic biology / Bernd Rosslenbroich.

Psychoacoustic foundations of major-minor tonality / Richard Parncutt.

Rational accidents : reckoning with catastrophic technologies / John Downer.

Real Life in Real Time : Live Streaming Culture / edited by Johanna Brewer [and three others].

Recycling class : the contradictions of inclusion in urban sustainability / Manisha Anantharaman.

Repairing play : a Black phenomenology / Aaron Trammell.

Run and jump : the meaning of the 2D platformer / Peter McDonald.

Selling the American people : advertising, optimization, and the origins of Adtech / Lee McGuigan.

Sewer of progress : corporations, institutionalized corruption, and the struggle for the Santiago River / Cindy McCulligh.

Tactical publishing : using senses, software, and archives in the twenty-first century / Alessandro Ludovico ; foreword by Nick Montfort.

The brain abstracted : simplification in the history and philosophy of neuroscience / M. Chirimuuta.

The Brain in Motion : From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function / Sten Grillner.

The elephant and the blind : philosophy, science, and 500+ experiential reports / Thomas Metzinger.

The evolution of techniques : rigidity and flexibility in use, transmission, and innovation / edited by Mathieu Charbonneau.

The green power of socialism : wood, forest, and the making of Soviet industrially embedded ecology / Elena Kochetkova.

The infrastructural South : techno-environments of the third wave of urbanization / Jonathan Silver.

The perception machine : our photographic future between the eye and AI / Joanna Zylinska.

The phoenix complex : a philosophy of nature / Michael Marder.

The rule book : the building blocks of games / Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola.

The science-music borderlands : reckoning with the past and imagining the future / edited by Elizabeth H. Margulis, Psyche Loui and Deirdre Loughridge.

The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities / Kathrin Maurer.

The space between look and read : designing complementary meaning / Susan M. Hagan.

The stuff games are made of / Pippin Barr.

The unequal effects of globalization / Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg ; with Greg Larson.

The videogame industry does not exist : why we should think beyond commercial game production / Brendan Keogh.

To know is to compare : studying social media across nations, media, and platforms / Mora Matassi and Pablo J. Boczkowski.

Undue hate : a behavioral economic analysis of hostile polarization in US politics and beyond / Daniel F. Stone.

Visions of a digital nation : market and monopoly in British telecommunications / Jacob Ward.

War on all fronts : a theory of health security justice / Nicholas G. Evans.

What makes us social? / Chris Frith and Uta Frith.

Winds of doctrine : studies in contemporary opinion / by George Santayana ; edited by David E. Spiech, Martin A. Coleman, and Faedra Lazar Weiss with an introduction by Paul Forster.

Woman’s Right to Know

Women and climate change : examining discourses from the Global North / Nicole Detraz.

Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology

The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology is an authoritative forum for key opinion leaders across medicine, government, and health systems to influence clinical practice, explore global policy, and inform constructive, positive change worldwide. The journal publishes original research, expert review, opinion, and news covering international issues, providing a clear, independent perspective about the clinical advances and practice-changing research shaping these specialties globally. – Publisher

Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health is dedicated to publishing original research that advocates change in, or illuminates, clinical practice or child health across the disciplines of general paediatrics, adolescent medicine, or child development, and across all paediatric subspecialties including (but not limited to) allergy and immunology, cardiology, critical care, endocrinology, fetal and neonatal medicine, gastroenterology, haematology, hepatology and nutrition, infectious diseases, neurology, oncology, psychiatry, respiratory medicine, and surgery. – Publisher

 

Trends in Chemistry

Trends in Chemistry

Trends in Chemistry represents a new global platform for discussion of significant and transformative concepts in all phases of chemistry. Undoubtedly, uncovering new frontiers in chemistry will have significant impact on many of the imposing challenges facing our world today. The journal offers readable, multidisciplinary review, opinion, and short articles that are thoughtfully designed to keep students and leading scientists alike updated on the most pressing issues in the field. – Publisher

Trends in Cancer

Trends in Cancer

Trends in Cancer offers concise and engaging expert commentary articles that address key frontline research topics and cutting-edge advances in the rapidly changing field of cancer discovery and medicine. The journal provides a unique platform for multidisciplinary information, discussion and education that is valuable for scientists, clinicians, and policy makers, as well as patients and advocates. – Publisher

Chem Catalysis

Chem Catalysis

Chem Catalysis publishes experimental and theoretical studies in all fields of catalysis-heterogeneous catalysis, homogeneous catalysis, and biocatalysis-that report transformative methods, tools, and technologies that are of value to all communities. We give particular emphasis to reports that significantly advance our understanding of existing systems, expand the current knowledge with novel catalysts, and connect fundamental catalysis insights to the real world for the benefit of society. – Publisher

Congress and the Nation 2013-2016, Volume XIV: Politics and Policy in the 113th and 114th Congresses

Congress and the Nation 2013-2016, Volume XIV: Politics and Policy in the 113th and 114th Congresses

Chronicling the polarized partisan environment during the President Barack Obama’s second term, Congress and the Nation 2013-2016, Vol. XIV is the most authoritative reference on congressional lawmaking and trends during the 113th and 114th Congresses. The newest edition in this award-winning series documents the most fiercely debated issues during this period, including: The unprecedented federal government shutdown, The strike down of the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional, End of the filibuster for most executive and judicial branch nominees, Changes to the Dodd-Frank Act, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Pope Francis address joint sessions, Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act passed, overhauling rape kit processing and establishment of victim bill of rights, SPACE Act passed, allowing commercial exploration of space. No other source guides readers seamlessly through the policy output of the national legislature with the breadth, depth, and authority of Congress and the Nation. – Publisher

Device

Device

Device, a sister journal to Cell, is a monthly journal encompassing the applied research needed to make groundbreaking fundamental research into tomorrow’s cutting-edge technology. The disciplines and expertise needed to build devices that positively impact human lives are diverse, and as such, Device will publish research in applied physics, computer science, chemistry, biology, engineering, and more as it applies to driving integrated, purpose-driven applications. – Publisher

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Community and Identity in North America

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Community and Identity in North America

In additions to parts 1 through 5, Northwestern University Libraries now have access to part 6 of Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Community and Identity in North America.

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Community and Identity in North America offers perspectives on society, sexual identity, community building, and gender issues. This archive focuses on North America, with collections from Canada, the United States, and Mexico. It presents social history that casts a spotlight on diversity, equity, and inclusion with materials that cover activism and social justice issues, highlight disabilities in Queer society, offer information around alternative sexualities, document interactions between sexuality and religion, and represent diverse ethnic communities across North America. These collections detail how identities developed in different social conditions, and how communities grew around dedicated, sometimes courageous, individuals. – Publisher