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The intertwining of biological reproduction and the personal, political, legal, and technological meanings of reproduction, explored through ethnographic studies and analyzed in the context of science and technology studies and feminist theory.

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A history of the innovative practices in the San Francisco-area electronics industry that paved the way for the rise of the computer industry in Silicon Valley.

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The MIT Sloan School of Management perspective on future management challenges.

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The original edition of this book summarized more than a decade of work on communications flow in science and engineering organizations, showing how human and organizational systems could be restructured to bring about improved productivity and better person-to-person contact.

(Paperback, 40th anniversary edition)

A textbook that offers a unified treatment of the applications of hydrodynamics to marine problems.

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Proposing a theory, backed by statistical evidence, on the causes of price fluctuations in speculative markets, this text challenges the standard efficient-markets model for explaining asset prices. It emphasizes the role popular opinion or psychology can play in price volatility.

(Paperback, second edition)

Provides a formal theory of nonmarket failure, analyzing such problems as redundant costs, monopoly, frequency of unanticipated externalities, and bureaucracy in such nonmarket institutions as foundations, universities, and government.

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Essays and interviews that span Mary Kelly's career highlight the artist's sustained engagement with feminism and feminist history.

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An introduction to the mathematical concepts and techniques needed for the construction and analysis of models in molecular systems biology.

(Paperback, second edition)

(Paperback, second edition)

This major survey of mathematics, featuring the work of 18 outstanding Russian mathematicians and including material on both elementary and advanced levels, encompasses 20 prime subject areas in mathematics in terms of their simple origins and their subsequent sophisticated development.

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In this provocative study, Robert Cummins takes on philosophers, both old and new, who pursue the question of mental representation as an abstraction, apart from the constraints of any particular theory or framework.

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An acclaimed philosopher views the search for meaning in life as the search for a mode of creativity that will make our lives meaningful.

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An engaging introduction to the use of game theory to study lingistic meaning.

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Tracing efforts to control unwanted soundthe noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraftfrom the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.

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A new textual studies and archival approach to the investigation of works of new media and electronic literature that applies techniques of computer forensics to conduct media-specific readings of William Gibson's electronic poem Agrippa, Michael Joyce's Afternoon, and the interactive game Mystery House.

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A sociological approach to the history of proof, as applied to and performed by computer systems.

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A "dirty materialist" ride through the media cultures of pirate radio, photography, the Internet, media art, cultural evolution, and surveillance.

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A comprehensive analysis of medical malpractice from legal, medical, economic, and insurance perspectives that considers why past efforts at reform have not worked and offers recommendations for realistic, achievable policy changes.

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How the way we hold knowledge about the pastin books, in file folders, in databasesaffects the kind of stories we tell about the past.

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In this text the authors discuss how analogy works and how it can be used most effectively. This account of the diverse operations and applications of analogy includes problem-solving, decision-making, explanation and communication.