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The Green and Virtual Data Center (Paperback)

This book provides strategies and blueprints for enabling and deploying environmentally friendly next-generation data centers. It looks at design and implementation tradeoffs using various best practices and technologies to sustain application and... more

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems: Advances in Human Factors in Training Education and Learning Sciences: Proceedings of the Ahfe 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Factors in Training Education

This book addresses the importance of human factors in optimizing the learning and training process. It reports on the latest research and best practices relating to the application of behavioral and cognitive science and new technologies in the design... more

The Cultures and Practice of Violence: Virtual War and Magical Death : Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing (Hardcover)

The contributors to this provocative collection scrutinize the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war contending that modern high-tech warfare is analogous to rituals of magic and sorcery and examining the U.S. military s... more

The Cultures and Practice of Violence: Virtual War and Magical Death : Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing (Paperback)

The contributors to this provocative collection scrutinize the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war contending that modern high-tech warfare is analogous to rituals of magic and sorcery and examining the U.S. military s... more

Industry 5.0 Transformation Applications: Automation in the Welding Industry: Incorporating Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning and Other Technologies (Hardcover)

AUTOMATION IN THE WELDING INDUSTRY This volume serves as a multidimensional perspective of welding practices in Industry 5.0 from the perspective of automation digitization digital twins cobots virtual reality augmented reality machine learning... more

Future Presence: How Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection Intimacy and the Limits of Ordinary Life (Paperback)

A Wired senior editor and virtual reality expert presents a captivating candid glimpse into the future realities of this emerging technology: how we will use it to form previously impossible relationships explore new frontiers of intimacy and how it... more

Future Presence: How Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection Intimacy and the Limits of Ordinary Life (Hardcover)

A Wired senior editor and virtual reality expert presents a captivating candid glimpse into the future realities of this emerging technology: how we will use it to form previously impossible relationships explore new frontiers of intimacy and how it... more

Varieties of Embodied Yoga Practice : A Unique Exploration of Modern Yoga (Paperback)

In recent decades yoga practice has become ubiquitous in the United States and around the world often in the context of health and wellness. The increased presence of yoga practice in health and wellness contexts raises opportunities for discussion... more

Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology: Identity Performance and Technology: Practices of Empowerment Embodiment and Technicity (Paperback)

This project investigates the implications of technology on identity in embodied performance opening up a forum of debate exploring the interrelationship of and between identities in performance practices and considering how identity is formed... more

Palgrave Studies in Performance and Tech Identity Performance and Technology: Practices of Empowerment Embodiment and Technicity (Hardcover)

This project investigates the implications of technology on identity in embodied performance opening up a forum of debate exploring the interrelationship of and between identities in performance practices and considering how identity is formed... more

Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media (Paperback)

In this updated second edition Jason Farman offers a groundbreaking look at how location-aware mobile technologies are radically shifting our sense of identity community and place-making practices. Mobile Interface Theory is a foundational book in... more

Body Mandala : Posture Perception and Presence (Edition 2) (Paperback)

An experiential guide to using your body as the focus of contemplative practice - Presents more than 50 physical self-explorations that invite you to transform your sensory experience expand your awareness and practice embodied presence - Integrates... more

World-Wide-Walks : Peter d Agostino: Crossing Natural-Cultural-Virtual Frontiers (Hardcover)

This book presents Peter d Agostino s World-Wide-Walks project providing a unique perspective on walking practices across time and place considered through the framework of evolving technologies and changes in climate. more

Platform Based Design and Immersive Technologies for Manufacturing and Assembly in Offsite Construction: Applying Extended Reality and Game Applications to Pdfma (Hardcover)

This book explores the applications of virtual reality technologies in building design and offsite construction. Its focus is on how small and medium-sized architectural and construction practices with limited budgets and time can implement innovation... more

Crime Prevention and Security Management: Surveillance Schools: Security Discipline and Control in Contemporary Education (Hardcover)

Focusing on the phenomena of the Surveillance School Taylor examines the increased presence of surveillance technologies and practices which identify verify categorise and track pupils exploring the impact that invasive and continual monitoring is... more