Michael Dupuis: 3 books
Bearing Witness
Journalists, Record Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
At approximately 8:45 a.m. on 6 December 1917, the Belgian Relief vessel IMO struck the munitions-laden freighter Mont-Blanc in Halifax Harbour. The Mont-Blanc exploded in a devastating 2.9 kiloton blast, which killed 2,000 people and injured 9,000. More than 6,000 people were made homeless, and an...
From Bricks to Brains
The Embodied Cognitive Science of Lego Robots
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science, and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mindstorms robots.Discussing the characteristics that distinguish embodied cognitive science from classical cognitive science, From Bricks to Brains...
Alternative Food Networks
Knowledge, Practice, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Farmers’ markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods – how have these once novel, "alternative" foods, and the people and networks supporting them, become increasingly familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of "alternative worlds"...