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  • - Urban Landscapes as Public History
    von Dolores Hayden
    45,00 €

  • - Psychodynamics of Organizational Life
    von Larry (Ctr For Applied Research) Hirschhorn
    44,00 €

    In this revealing study, Larry Hirschhorn examines the rituals, or social defenses, organizations develop to cope with change.

  • von Robert W. Staiger & Kyle W. Bagwell
    36,00 €

    An economic analysis of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization.

  • von Janet (Virginia Tech) Abbate
    39,00 €

    Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use.

  • - Work and Technology in a Postindustrial Age
    von Larry (Ctr For Applied Research) Hirschhorn
    34,00 €

    In this thought-provoking study of work, worker, and machine in the postindustrial age, Hirschhorn points out that factories will become places of learning where the worker must be able to diagnose and solve an array of problems generated by error-prone machine systems.

  • - Art and Spatial Politics
    von Rosalyn Deutsche
    65,00 €

    Looking at issues of public space, this text combines critical aesthetics theory about the social production of art with critical urban theory about the social production of space. The author aims to reveal a hidden agenda, showing urban redevelopment programmes are not always beneficial to all.

  • - On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
    von Jonathan Crary
    44,00 €

    Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory of the society of the spectacle.In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity.Inverting conventional approaches, Crary considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. He insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices that situated vision within the body as a physiological event. Alongside the sudden appearance of physiological optics, Crary points out, theories and models of "subjective vision" were developed that gave the observer a new autonomy and productivity while simultaneously allowing new forms of control and standardization of vision.Crary examines a range of diverse work in philosophy, in the empirical sciences, and in the elements of an emerging mass visual culture. He discusses at length the significance of optical apparatuses such as the stereoscope and of precinematic devices, detailing how they were the product of new physiological knowledge. He also shows how these forms of mass culture, usually labeled as "realist," were in fact based on abstract models of vision, and he suggests that mimetic or perspectival notions of vision and representation were initially abandoned in the first half of the nineteenth century within a variety of powerful institutions and discourses, well before the modernist painting of the 1870s and 1880s.

  • - The Early History of the New AI
    von Rodney A. (Panasonic Professor of Robotics Brooks
    43,00 €

    Presents Rodney Brooks's initial formulation of and contributions to the development of the behavioural approach to robotics. The text shows the philosophical/technical ideas that put the "bottom-up" approach in the forefront of research in not only Artificial Intelligence but in cognitive science.

  • von Lynn M. Osen
    44,00 €

    Mathematicians, science historians, and general readers will find this book a lively history; women will find it a reminder of a proud tradition and a challenge to take their rightful place in academic life today.

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    50,00 €

    This collection of articles and associated discussion papers focuses on a problem that has attracted increasing attention from linguists and psychologists throughout the world during the past several years. Reduced to essentials, the problem is that of discovering the character of the mental capacities that make it possible for human beings to attain knowledge of their language on the basis of fragmentary and haphazard early linguistic experience. A fundamental assumption running through all of these contributions is that people possess strong innate predispositions that are critical for success in this task.

  • von Robert G. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Gallager
    30,00 €

    This is a complete presentation of all important theoretical and experimental work done on low-density codes. Low-density coding is one of the three techniques thus far developed for efficient communication over noisy channels with an arbitrarily low probability of error

  • von Louis L. Bucciarelli
    44,00 €

    Designing Engineers describes the evolution of three disparate projects: an x-ray inspection system for airports, a photoprint machine, and a residential photovoltaic energy system.

  • von Maria Luisa (University of Southern California) Zubizarreta
    44,00 €

    Exemplifies a trend in grammatical theory which combines findings from more than one area of linguistics. The author looks at the relationship between phrasal prominence and focus in Romance and Germanic languages to provide insights into how these properties are grammatically articulated.

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    43,00 €

    A critical primer on the work of artist Eva Hesse.

  • - The Dilemma of Technological Determinism
     
    54,00 €

  • - Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
    von Howard Rheingold
    65,00 €

    Howard Rheingold tours the "virtual community" of online networking.

  • - The Perceptual Organization of Sound
    von Albert S. (McGill University) Bregman
    85,00 €

  • - The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology
    von Howard Rheingold
    55,00 €

    In a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay.

  • - Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
    von Gary William Flake
    70,00 €

    Gary William Flake develops in depth the simple idea that recurrent rules can produce rich and complicated behaviors.In this book Gary William Flake develops in depth the simple idea that recurrent rules can produce rich and complicated behaviors. Distinguishing "agents" (e.g., molecules, cells, animals, and species) from their interactions (e.g., chemical reactions, immune system responses, sexual reproduction, and evolution), Flake argues that it is the computational properties of interactions that account for much of what we think of as "beautiful" and "interesting." From this basic thesis, Flake explores what he considers to be today's four most interesting computational topics: fractals, chaos, complex systems, and adaptation.Each of the book's parts can be read independently, enabling even the casual reader to understand and work with the basic equations and programs. Yet the parts are bound together by the theme of the computer as a laboratory and a metaphor for understanding the universe. The inspired reader will experiment further with the ideas presented to create fractal landscapes, chaotic systems, artificial life forms, genetic algorithms, and artificial neural networks.

  • - Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds
    von Mitchel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Resnick
    43,00 €

    How does a bird flock keep its movements so graceful and synchronized? Most people assume that the bird in front leads and the others follow. In fact, bird flocks don't have leaders: they are organized without an organizer, coordinated without a coordinator. And a surprising number of other systems, from termite colonies to traffic jams to economic systems, work the same decentralized way. Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams describes innovative new computational tools that can qhelp people (even young children) explore the workings of such systems—and help them move beyond the centralized mindset.

  • von Peter G. Rowe
    44,00 €

  • - Toward a Foundation for Cognitive Science
    von Zenon W. (Rutgers University - New Brunswick) Pylyshyn
    45,00 €

    This systematic investigation of computation and mental phenomena by a noted psychologist and computer scientist argues that cognition is a form of computation, that the semantic contents of mental states are encoded in the same general way as computer representations are encoded.

  • von Ray S. (Tufts University) Jackendoff & Fred (Columbia University) Lerdahl
    66,00 €

    A search for a grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics.This work, which has become a classic in music theory since its original publication in 1983, models music understanding from the perspective of cognitive science.The point of departure is a search for the grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics.The theory, which is illustrated with numerous examples from Western classical music, relates the aural surface of a piece to the musical structure unconsciously inferred by the experienced listener. From the viewpoint of traditional music theory, it offers many innovations in notation as well as in the substance of rhythmic and reductional theory.

  • - Macroeconomic Papers from the Centre for European Policy Studies
    von Rudiger Dornbusch
    35,00 €

    Major economic issues facing the European Community and Western Europe both internally and internationally.

  • von Ernst Bloch
    65,00 - 86,00 €

    This text is part of a three-volume critical history of the utopian vision and an exploration of the possible reality of utopia. This first volume lays the foundations of the philosophy of process and introduces the idea of the "not-yet-conscious."

  • von Carl Schmitt
    43,00 €

    In Political Romanticism, Carl Schmitt defends a concept of political action based on notions of good and evil, justice and injustice, and attacks the political passivity entailed by the romanticism of experience.

  • - An Application of Cost-Benefit Analysis to the MIT Libraries
    von Jeffrey A. (University of Delaware) Raffel
    35,00 €

    A study in the systematic policy analysis of the MIT Libraries. The study identifies two principal missions for the MIT library system: provide material for students' course work and provide material in general support of research at MIT. The problem is how to organize future library resources into a set of programs that best fulfill these objectives.

  • von Reinhard (Universitat Bonn) Selten & John C. Harsanyi
    49,00 €

    The authors, two of the most prominent game theorists of this generation, have devoted a number of years to the development of the theory presented here, and to its economic applications.

  • - A Design for Irrelevancy
    von Marshall Kaplan
    35,00 €

    Nathan Glazer has called Marshall Kaplan the best social planner of the 1960s and asserts that this book does for 1973 what Herbert Gans's People and Plans did for 1963. Kaplan states at the outset that it can be said that one need not look far for evidence, even if anecdotal, to show that the impact of the planning profession on the quality of urban life has been marginal at best and, at times, negative. Certainly, twenty years of federal planning assistance programs have not visibly built up the planning capacity of local governments or improved the quality of local life. Indeed, the prime beneficiaries of such aid seem to be, not local governments or local residents, but local and national consultants.Most plans prepared by most city planners have failed to pay heed to the many culturally and economically determined differences in life style of residents of the nation's cities and suburban areas. Plans, when heeded, have often either led to an allocation of scarce resources away from the least advantaged members of urban society or, as in urban renewal, had a directly negative effect on their lives. Somewhat surprisingly, even the more affluent members of society have not found their legitimate needs and their observed behavior patterns reflected in most community plans.

  • - The Adaptive Toolbox
     
    56,00 €

    This book promotes bounded rationality as the key to understanding how real people make decisions.

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