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Aligning Modern Business Processes and Legacy Systems: A Component-Based Perspective (Cooperative Information Systems) מאת Willem-Jan van den Heuvel Distributed business component computing—the assembling of business components into electronic business processes, which interact via the Internet—caters to a new breed of enterprise systems that are flexible, relatively easy to maintain and upgrade to accommodate new business processes, and rel...

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Great Streets מאת Joseph A. "Which are the world's best streets, and what are the physical, designable characteristics that make them great? To answer these questions, Allan Jacobs has surveyed street users and design professionals and has studied a wide array of street types and urban spaces around the world. With more than 2...

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The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT מאת Pepper White This is a personal story of the educational process at one of the world’s great technological universities. Pepper White entered MIT in 1981 and received his master’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1984. His account of his experiences, written in diary form, offers insight into graduate sch...

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Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions מאת Gary Klein "Most studies of decision-making treat humans like rats in a laboratory. But Dr. Klein, a cognitive psychologist, spent a decade watching fire commanders, fighter pilots, paramedics, and others making split-second decisions on the job, and this book is a clear and engaging account of his finding...

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Experiencing Architecture, 2nd Edition מאת Steen Eiler Rasmussen Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries, Experiencing Architecture manages to convey the intellectual excitement of superb design. From teacups, riding boots, golf balls, and underwater sculpture to the villas of Palladio and the fish-f...

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The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) מאת John Maeda Received an Honorable Mention in the Communication and Cultural Studies category of the 2005 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against...

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From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video (Inside Technology) מאת Joshua M. Greenberg The first video cassette recorders were promoted in the 1970s as an extension of broadcast television technology—a time-shifting device, a way to tape TV shows. Early advertising for Sony's Betamax told potential purchasers "You don't have to miss Kojak because you're watching Columbo.

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Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning) מאת Mizuko Ito This report summarizes the results of an ambitious three-year ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings—at home, in after school programs, and in online spaces. It offers a conden...

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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School מאת Matthew Frederick 2008 Silver Award Winner, Architecture Category, Independent Publisher Book Awards. and Winning entry, General Trade Illustrated Category, in the 2008 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston. This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and...

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Video Game Spaces: Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds מאת Michael Nitsche Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009. The move to 3D graphics represents a dramatic artistic and technical development in the history of video games that suggests an overall transformation of games as media. The experience of space has become a key element of how we understand games and...

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Disavowals: or Cancelled Confessions מאת Claude Cahun Contributions from François Leperlier, Agnès Lhermitte and Jennifer Mundy Memories? Choice morsels. My soul is fragmentary. —from Disavowals Claude Cahun (1894-1954), born Lucy Schwob, was a poet, performer, resistance fighter, prisoner, Surrealist, "constructor and explorer...

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Monetary Policy Strategy מאת Frederic S. Mishkin This book by a leading authority on monetary policy offers a unique view of the subject from the perspectives of both scholar and practitioner. Frederic Mishkin is not only an academic expert in the field but also has been a high-level policymaker. He is especially well positioned to discuss the cha...

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The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (Short Circuits) מאת Slavoj Zizek What matters is not so much that Žižek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what he sometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian belief. —John Milbank To put it even more bluntly,...

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The Metamorphosis of Plants מאת Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Metamorphosis of Plants, originally published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend "the truth about the how of the organism." Inspired by the diversity of flora he found on a journey to Italy, Goethe sought a unity of form in ...

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The Art of Agent-Oriented Modeling (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents) מאת Leon Sterling Today, when computing is pervasive and deployed over a range of devices by a multiplicity of users, we need to develop computer software to interact with both the ever-increasing complexity of the technical world and the growing fluidity of social organizations. The Art of Agent-Oriented Modeling...

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Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up (Irving Singer Library) מאת Irving Singer "I wish this book had been available to me in my salad days, that I had read it before immersing myself in the entire trilogy. That is now what I will say to those potential students of the philosophy of love and sex who ask me where they should start. First this book, then The Nature of Love.

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The Big Archive: Art From Bureaucracy מאת Sven Spieker Winner, Scholarly Illustrated Category, 2009 AAUP Book, Journal, and Jacket Show. The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain little more than garbage, paperwork no longer needed; to the h...

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The Odd One In: On Comedy (Short Circuits) מאת Alenka Zupancic Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical and psychoanalytic perspectives? In The Odd One In, Alenka Zupančič considers how philosophy and psychoanalysis can help us understand the movement and the logic involved in the practice of comedy...

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Nurturing Dreams: Collected Essays on Architecture and the City מאת Fumihiko Maki Winning entry, Professional Illustrated Category, in the 2009 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston. Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko Maki brings t...

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Critical Play: Radical Game Design מאת Mary Flanagan For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But what if certain games were something more than this, providing not only outlets for entertainment but a means for creative expression, instruments for conceptual thinking, or tools for social change? In Critical Play,<...

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Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents) מאת Roland Siegwart Mobile robots range from the teleoperated Sojourner on the Mars Pathfinder mission to cleaning robots in the Paris Metro. Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots offers students and other interested readers an overview of the technology of mobility--the mechanisms that allow a mobile robot t...

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Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning) מאת Daphne Koller Most tasks require a person or an automated system to reason—to reach conclusions based on available information. The framework of probabilistic graphical models, presented in this book, provides a general approach for this task. The approach is model-based, allowing interpretable models to be con...

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Natural Law and Human Dignity (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) מאת Ernst Bloch Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) was one of the most original and influential of contemporary European thinkers, leaving his mark in fields ranging from philosophy and social theory to aesthetics and theology. Natural Law and Human Dignity represents a unique attempt to reconcile the traditional oppos...

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Drawing for Architecture (Writing Architecture) מאת Léon Krier Architect Léon Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or flatter the architectural establishment. Rather, they make an impassioned argument against what Krier sees ...

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Bicycling Science, 3rd Edition מאת David Gordon Wilson The bicycle is almost unique among human-powered machines in that it uses human muscles in a near-optimum way. This new edition of the bible of bicycle builders and bicyclists provides just about everything you could want to know about the history of bicycles, how human beings propel them, what make...

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The Art of the Metaobject Protocol מאת Gregor Kiczales The CLOS metaobject protocol is a high-performance extension to the CommonLisp Object System. The authors, who developed the metaobject protocol and who were among the group that developed CLOS, introduce this approach to programming language design, describe its evolution and design principles, and...

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Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy מאת Erik Brynjolfsson A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue t...

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Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning) מאת Mizuko Ito Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networks sites, and text messaging. Yet there is little actual research that investigates the intricate dyn...

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The Locative Syntax of Experiencers (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs) מאת Idan Landau Experiencers—grammatical participants that undergo a certain psychological change or are in certain psychological states—are grammatically special. As objects ('John scared Mary'; 'loud music annoy me'), experiencers display two peculiar clusters of nonobject properties across ...

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Semantics Engineering with PLT Redex מאת Matthias Felleisen This text is the first comprehensive presentation of reduction semantics in one volume; it also introduces the first reliable and easy-to-use tool set for such forms of semantics. Software engineers have long known that automatic tool support is critical for rapid prototyping and modeling, and this ...

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Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames מאת Mia Consalvo The widely varying experiences of players of digital games challenge the notions that there is only one correct way to play a game. Some players routinely use cheat codes, consult strategy guides, or buy and sell in-game accounts, while others consider any or all of these practices off limits. Meanw...

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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies) מאת Nick Montfort The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home videogame market so completely that "Atari" became the generic term for a videogame console. The Atari VCS was affordable and offered the flexibility of changeable cartridges. Nearly a thousand of these were created, the most significant of which es...

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Design Meets Disability מאת Graham Pullin Eyeglasses have been transformed from medical necessity to fashion accessory. This revolution has come about through embracing the design culture of the fashion industry. Why shouldn't design sensibilities also be applied to hearing aids, prosthetic limbs, and communication aids? In return, disabili...

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Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005 (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation) מאת Paul E. Ceruzzi Much of the world's Internet management and governance takes place in a corridor extending west from Washington, DC, through northern Virginia toward Washington Dulles International Airport. Much of the United States' military planning and analysis takes place here as well. At the center of that cor...

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Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) מאת Kristine C. Harper Winning entry, Professional Cover/Jacket Category, in the 2009 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston. and Winner, History Category, 2008 ASLI's Choice Award given by the Atmospheric Science Librarians International. For much of the first half of the twentieth century, m...

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The Crucible of Consciousness: An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain מאת Zoltan Torey From the Foreword: "Torey's way of putting things sheds new light on just what is going on in the 'computational' brain, since he has to find alternative metaphors to stand in for the now somewhat overworked comparison with computers. Just as poets often find that the constraints of rhyme ...

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Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects מאת Rafael Moneo The internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Moneo is known to be a courageous architect. His major works include the Houston Museum of Fine Art, Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art and Architecture, and the Potzdammer Platz Hotel in Berlin. Now Moneo will be ...

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The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse מאת Peter Ludlow Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008. and Winner, Media and Cultural Studies category, 2007 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Awards for Excellence Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. When a virtual journalist for a virtual newspaper reporting on the di...

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The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century (October Books) מאת Hal Foster "The Return of the Real is one of the most cogent and theoretically self-aware readings of contemprary art I have seen." -- Howard Singerman, Department of Art History, University of Virginia In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory sinc...

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A Guide for the Young Economist מאת William Thomson This book is an invaluable guide for young economists working on their dissertations, preparing their first articles for submission to professional journals, getting ready for their first presentations at conferences and job seminars, or facing their first refereeing assignments. In clear, concise l...

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Inventing American History (Boston Review Books) מאת William Hogeland American public history—in magazines and books, television documentaries, and museums—tends to celebrate its subject at all costs, even to the point of denial and distortion. This does us a great disservice, argues William Hogeland in Inventing American History. Looking at details glossed...

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Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science מאת Alberto Pérez-Gómez Winner, Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, Society of Architectural Historians. Between the late Renaissance and the early nineteenth century, the ancient arts of architecture were being profoundly transformed by the scientific revolution. This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitc...

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Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning) מאת Henry Jenkins Many teens today who use the Internet are actively involved in participatory cultures—joining online communities (Facebook, message boards, game clans), producing creative work in new forms (digital sampling, modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction), working in teams to complete tasks and develop ne...

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Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California (Inside Technology) מאת Christopher R. Henke Just south of San Francisco lies California's Salinas Valley, the heart of a multibillion dollar agricultural industry that dominates U. S. vegetable production. How did the sleepy valley described in the stories of John Steinbeck become the nation's "salad bowl"? In Cultivating Science, Harvesti...

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The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript, Vol. 3: Studies מאת Michael of Rhodes In the fifteenth century, a Venetian mariner, Michael of Rhodes, wrote and illustrated a text describing his experiences in the Venetian merchant and military fleets. He included a treatise on commercial mathematics and treatments of contemporary shipbuilding practices, navigation, calendrical syste...

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The Parallax View (Short Circuits) מאת Slavoj ÂŽižek The Parallax View is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Zizek is interested in the "parallax g...

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Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies מאת Noah Wardrip-Fruin What matters in understanding digital media? Is looking at the external appearance and audience experience of software enough—or should we look further? In Expressive Processing, Noah Wardrip-Fruin argues that understanding what goes on beneath the surface, the computational processes that ...

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Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity מאת Carliss Y. Baldwin We live in a dynamic economic and commerical world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In many industries, changes in products and technologies have brought with them new kinds of firms and forms of organization. We are discovering news ways of structuring work, of bringing bu...

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The Men in My Life (Boston Review Books) מאת Vivian Gornick Vivian Gornick, one of our finest critics, tackled the theme of love and marriage in her last collection of essays, The End of the Novel of Love, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. In this new collection, she turns her attention to another large theme in literature: the struggle f...

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Fresh Pond: The History of a Cambridge Landscape מאת Jill Sinclair Fresh Pond Reservation, at the northwest edge of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been described as a "landscape loved to death." Certainly it is a landscape that has been changed by its various uses over the years and one to which Cantabridgeans and Bostonians have felt an intense attachment. Henry Ja...

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The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing) מאת John Willinsky An argument for extending the circulation of knowledge with new publishing technologies considers scholarly, economic, philosophical, and practical issues....

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The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture מאת Joseph Rykwert "This essay on our profound and daily relationship to classical forms is fairly boggling in its scholarship, its scope, its freedom from cant, and also in Rykwert's fresh reading of meanings vested in the orders that 'have dominated Western architecture for nearly three millennia.'" -- Villag...

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Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space מאת Charlie Hailey Winner, 2008 AIGA "50 Books / 50 Covers" Design Competition. What is a camp? In August 2005, television news showed viewers an estimated 20,000 Katrina evacuees camped out in the Superdome, Cindy Sheehan protesting the Iraq War on President Bush's doorstep in "Camp Casey," Texas, and Israe...

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Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent מאת Robert F. Barsky This biography describes the intellectual and political environments that helped shape Noam Chomsky, a pivotal figure in contemporary linguistics, politics, cognitive psychology, and philosophy. In describing these formative individuals and milieus, the book also presents an engaging political...

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The Nature of Love: The Modern World (Irving Singer Library) מאת Irving Singer With a new preface by the author Irving Singer's trilogy The Nature of Love has been called "majestic" (New York Times Book Review), "monumental" (Boston Globe), "one of the major works of philosophy in our century" (Noûs), "wise and magisterial" (Times Lite...

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The Processes of Life: An Introduction to Molecular Biology מאת Lawrence E. Hunter Recent research in molecular biology has produced a remarkably detailed understanding of how living things operate. Becoming conversant with the intricacies of molecular biology and its extensive technical vocabulary can be a challenge, though, as introductory materials often seem more like a barrie...

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Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds מאת Celia Pearce "[Celia Pearce's] background as a games designer is evident in the way she respectfully engages readers in clear, vivid prose structured in an original and—can we say it?—entertaining way. From its thoughtful analyses of play and community to its authoritative contextualization of games and virt...

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Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World מאת Andreas Schäfer In the nineteenth century, horse transportation consumed vast amounts of land for hay production, and the intense traffic and ankle-deep manure created miserable living conditions in urban centers. The introduction of the horseless carriage solved many of these problems but has created others. Today...

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Simulation and Its Discontents (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) מאת Sherry Turkle Over the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation and visualization have changed our ways of looking at the world. In Simulation and Its Discontents, Sherry Turkle examines the now dominant medium of our working lives and finds that simulation has become its own sensibility. We hear ...

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De Lingua Belief (Bradford Books) מאת Robert Fiengo Speakers, in their everyday conversations, use language to talk about language. They may wonder about what words mean, to whom a name refers, whether a sentence is true. They may worry whether they have been clear, or correctly expressed what they meant to say. That speakers can make such inquiries ...

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The Locative Syntax of Experiencers (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs) מאת Idan Landau Experiencers—grammatical participants that undergo a certain psychological change or are in certain psychological states—are grammatically special. As objects (John scared Mary; loud music annoys me), experiencers display two peculiar clusters of nonobject properties across differe...

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Confronting Income Inequality in Japan: A Comparative Analysis of Causes, Consequences, and Reform מאת Toshiaki Tachibanaki Contrary to general belief, and to Japan's own self-image, inequality of income and wealth distribution in Japan has grown in the past two decades. In this well-written and accessible book, Toshiaki Tachibanaki analyzes the movement toward more income inequality in Japan and offers policy recommenda...

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Essentials of Programming Languages, 3rd Edition מאת Daniel P. Friedman This book provides students with a deep, working understanding of the essential concepts of programming languages. Most of these essentials relate to the semantics, or meaning, of program elements, and the text uses interpreters (short programs that directly analyze an abstract representation of the...

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Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation) מאת Kurt W. Beyer A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered walls of academia to serve her country in the Navy after Pearl Harbor and finds herself on the front lines of the computer revolution. She works hard...

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Making Medical Decisions for the Profoundly Mentally Disabled (Basic Bioethics) מאת Norman L. Cantor In this book, Norman Cantor analyzes the legal and moral status of people with profound mental disabilities—those with extreme cognitive impairments that prevent their exercise of medical self-determination. He proposes a legal and moral framework for surrogate medical decision making on their beh...

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Why Agree? Why Move?: Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse Configurational Languages (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs) מאת Shigeru Miyagawa An unusual property of human language is the existence of movement operations. Modern syntactic theory from its inception has dealt with the puzzle of why movement should occur. In this monograph, Shigeru Miyagawa combines this question with another, that of the occurrence of agreement systems. Usin...

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Mental Reality, Second Edition, with a new appendix (Representation and Mind) מאת Galen Strawson In Mental Reality, Galen Strawson argues that much contemporary philosophy of mind gives undue primacy of place to publicly observable phenomena, nonmental phenomena, and behavioral phenomena (understood as publicly observable phenomena) in its account of the nature of mind. It does so at the...

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City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (On Architecture) מאת William J. Mitchell Visit the City of Bits Web site...

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Dada in Paris מאת Michel Sanouillet Michel Sanouillet's Dada in Paris, published in France in 1965, reintroduced the Dada movement to a public that had largely ignored or forgotten it. Over forty years later, it remains both the unavoidable starting point and the essential reference for anyone interested in Dada or the early tw...

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A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience מאת Charles G. Gross Neuroscientist Charles Gross has been interested in the history of his field since his days as an undergraduate. A Hole in the Head is the second collection of essays in which he illuminates the study of the brain with fascinating episodes from the past. This volume's tales range from the his...

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Big Box Reuse מאת Julia Christensen Winning entry, General Trade Cover/Jacket Category, in the 2009 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston., "Best of Category", General Trade Illustrated Books, in the 2009 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston. and Winner, Jackets and Covers Category, 2009 AAU...

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Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron: Biology, Physics, and Change in Science (Inside Technology) מאת Park Doing After World War II, particle physics became a dominant research discipline in American academia. At many universities, alumni of the Manhattan Project and of Los Alamos were granted resources to start (or strengthen) programs of high-energy physics built around the promise of a new and more powerful...

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Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA מאת Catherine Brady Molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn—one of Time magazine’s 100 “Most Influential People in the World” in 2007—made headlines in 2004 when she was dismissed from the President's Council on Bioethics after objecting to the council's call for a moratorium on stem cell research and ...

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Participatory IT Design: Designing for Business and Workplace Realities מאת Keld Bødker The goal of participatory IT design is to set sensible, general, and workable guidelines for the introduction of new information technology systems into an organization. Reflecting the latest systems-development research, this book encourages a business- oriented and socially sensitive approach that...

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The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World (Bradford Books) מאת Owen J. Flanagan Honorable Mention, Philosophy category, 2007 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Awards for Excellence Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. If consciousness is the "hard problem" in mind science—explaining how the amazing private world of consciousness emer...

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The Nature of Love: Plato to Luther (Irving Singer Library) מאת Irving Singer With a new preface by the author Irving Singer's trilogy The Nature of Love has been called "majestic" (New York Times Book Review), "monumental" (Boston Globe), "one of the major works of philosophy in our century" (Noûs), "wise and magisterial" (Times Lite...

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Cognition and Perception: How Do Psychology and Neural Science Inform Philosophy? (Bradford Books) מאת Athanassios Raftopoulos In Cognition and Perception, Athanassios Raftopoulos discusses the cognitive penetrability of perception and claims that there is a part of visual processes (which he calls "perception") that results in representational states with nonconceptual content; that is, a part that retrieves informa...

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The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (Inside Technology) מאת Gabrielle Hecht Winner of the 1999 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association. and Winner of the 2001 Edelstein Prize (formerly the Dexter Prize) presented by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). This award is given to the author of an outstanding scholarly book in the history...

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Nanoscale: Visualizing an Invisible World מאת Kenneth S. Deffeyes The world is made up of structures too small to see with the naked eye, too small to see even with an electron microscope. Einstein established the reality of atoms and molecules in the early 1900s. How can we see a world measured in fractions of nanometers? (Most atoms are less than one nanometer, ...

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Offshoring of American Jobs: What Response from U.S. Economic Policy? (Alvin Hansen Symposium Series on Public Policy) מאת Jagdish Bhagwati It is no surprise that many fearful American workers see the call center operator in Bangalore or the factory worker in Guangzhou as a threat to their jobs. The emergence of China and India (along with other, smaller developing countries) as economic powers has doubled the supply of labor to the int...

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Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making (Bradford Books) מאת Gary Klein In making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyze every option? When should we use our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics? Most of us would probably agree that for important decisions, we should follow certain guidelines—gather as much inf...

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Human Information Retrieval (History and Foundation of Information Science) מאת Julian Warner Information retrieval in the age of Internet search engines has become part of ordinary discourse and everyday practice: "Google" is a verb in common usage. Thus far, more attention has been given to practical understanding of information retrieval than to a full theoretical account. In Human Inf...

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Rainforest מאת Sara Oldfield More than half of the world's living species--from the hidden forests and exotic mammals of Madagascar to the multicolored birds and butterflies of Central America--are found almost exclusively within the rainforest canopy. Illustrated with 200 spectacular color photographs, Rainforest celebr...

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Orangutans: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation מאת Junaidi Payne This abundantly illustrated look at orangutan life tells the story of one of the most fascinating members of the great ape family. In Orangutans, conservation biologist Junaidi Payne presents an informative and compelling description of the lives of orangutans, from their habitat and behavior...

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Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy, 2nd Edition מאת J. Barkley Rosser Jr. This second edition of an innovative undergraduate text offers an approach to understanding different economic systems that reflects both recent transformations in the world economy and recent changes in the field of Comparative Economic Systems. The traditional way of teaching comparative economics...

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Distributed Reduplication (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs) מאת John Frampton A convincing account of reduplicative phenomena has been a longstanding problem for rule-based theories of morphophonology. Many scholars believe that derivational phonology is incapable in principle of analyzing reduplication. In Distributed Reduplication, John Frampton demonstrates the adeq...

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Economic Dynamics: Theory and Computation מאת John Stachurski This text provides an introduction to the modern theory of economic dynamics, with emphasis on mathematical and computational techniques for modeling dynamic systems. Written to be both rigorous and engaging, the book shows how sound understanding of the underlying theory leads to effective algorith...

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Parentonomics: An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting מאת Joshua Gans Like any new parent, Joshua Gans felt joy mixed with anxiety upon the birth of his first child. Who was this blanket-swaddled small person and what did she want? Unlike most parents, however, Gans is an economist, and he began to apply the tools of his trade to raising his children. He saw his new l...

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Predicative Minds: The Social Ontogeny of Propositional Thinking (Bradford Books) מאת Radu J. Bogdan The predicative mind singles out and represents an item in order to attribute to it a property, a relation, an action, an evaluation; it thinks, and says, of a house that it is big, of a car that it is to the left of the house, of a cat that it is about to jump, of a hypothesis that it is plausible....

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Primer of Visual Literacy מאת Donis A. Dondis Responding to the need she so clearly perceives, Ms. Dondis, a designer and teacher of broad experience, has provided a beginning text for art and design students and a basic text for all other students—those who do not intend to become artists or designers but who need to acquire the essential sk...

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Critical Resistance: From Poststructuralism to Post-Critique מאת David Couzens Hoy This book serves as both an introduction to the concept of resistance in poststructuralist thought and an original contribution to the continuing philosophical discussion of this topic. How can a body of thought that mistrusts universal principles explain the possibility of critical resistance? With...

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Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, Updated and Expanded Edition מאת Whitfield Diffie Awarded the 1998 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Policy Research. and Received the IEEE-USA Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding of the Profession. Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure. The Cold ...

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Where Does Binding Theory Apply? (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs) מאת David Lebeaux This concise but wide-ranging monograph examines where the conditions of binding theory apply and in doing so considers the nature of phrase structure (in particular how case and theta roles apply) and the nature of the lexical/functional split. David Lebeaux begins with a revised formulation of ...

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Psychology: Pythagoras to Present (Bradford Books) מאת John C. Malone Certain ideas have preoccupied thinkers since ancient times: the nature of mind, the sources of knowledge and belief, the nature of the self, ethics and the best way to lead our lives, the question of free will. In this book, John Malone examines these ideas in the writings of thinkers from antiquit...

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Milk and Melancholy מאת Kenneth Hayes Winner, 2008 AIGA "50 Books / 50 Covers" Design Competition. Milk and Melancholy looks at milk through the lens of photography and from the angle of art. Specifically, it considers the milk splash in all its manifestations, representations, and variations, tracing the complex flow o...

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Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity before Edison מאת Michael Brian Schiffer In 1882, Thomas Edison and his Edison Electric Light Company unveiled the first large-scale electrical system in the world to light a stretch of offices in a city. This was a monumental achievement, but it was not the beginning of the electrical age. The first electric generators were built in the 1...

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The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing) מאת Elaine Svenonius Instant electronic access to digital information is the single most distinguishing attribute of the information age. The elaborate retrieval mechanisms that support such access are a product of technology. But technology is not enough. The effectiveness of a system for accessing information is a dir...

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Zen-Brain Reflections מאת James H. Austin This sequel to the widely read Zen and the Brain continues James Austin’s explorations into the key interrelationships between Zen Buddhism and brain research. In Zen-Brain Reflections, Austin, a clinical neurologist, researcher, and Zen practitioner, examines the evolving psychologi...

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Becoming Bucky Fuller מאת Loretta Lorance Buckminster Fuller's fame reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s, when his visionary experiments struck a chord with the counterculture and his charismatic personality provided the media with a good story—that of a genius who could play the role of artist, scientist, and entrepreneur all at once....

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Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film (Irving Singer Library) מאת Irving Singer Film is the supreme medium for mythmaking. The gods and heroes of mythology are both larger than life and deeply human; they teach us about the world, and they tell us a good story. Similarly, our experience of film is both distant and intimate. Cinematic techniques—panning, tracking, zooming, and...