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The evolution of the Boston metropolitan area, from country villages and streetcar suburbs to exurban sprawl and "smart growth."

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This is a personal story of the educational process at one of the world's great technological universities.

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Michael Tye untangles the complex web of empirical and conceptual issues of the newly revived imagery debate in psychology between those that liken mental images to pictures and those that liken them to linguistic descriptions.

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The central claim of this powerful philosophical exploration is that within any logic we have, there can be no coherent notion of all truth or of total knowledge.

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Memoir, clinical writings, and ethnography inform new perspectives on the experience of technology; personal stories illuminate how technology enters the inner life.

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Two experts show that innovation is a skill that can be learned and describe eight essential practices for achieving success.

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This book examines the broad range of social and intellectual responses to technology in the first four decades of this century, and suggests that these responses set the terms that continue to govern contemporary debates.

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Integrating the disparate disciplines of descriptive cataloging, subject cataloging, indexing, and classification, the book adopts a conceptual framework that views the process of organizing information as the use of a special language of description called a bibliographic language.

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The collective vision that shaped the emergence of the Internet: what led software designers, managers, employees, politicians, and individuals to develop and adopt one particular technology.

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A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related in the long run to the skills of its population.

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In this book Joan Lisa Bromberg brings a historian's broad perspective to bear on the formative years of laser research in the United States.

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A novel of of ideas, expressed in the birth, life, and early death of Oliver Alden.

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How unassuming government researcher Marshall Nirenberg beat James Watson, Francis Crick, and other world-famous scientists in the race to discover the genetic code.

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In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Lowith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside.

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Santayana argues that instinct and imagination are crucial to the emergence of reason from chaos.

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Builds sufficiency as a principle for sustainability with concepts and case studies and shows how seeking enough when more is possible is intuitive, rational and ethical.

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A leading economist and former central banker discusses the evolution of central bank communication from secretiveness to transparency and accountability.

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This "building biography" discusses the making of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. It explores the designer's battles to maintain control and build within budget. The account also details the design team's conception of a building with flexible plans and adjustable elevations.

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This text looks for an improved understanding of the politics of economic policy-making from a transaction cost perspective. It uses US fiscal policy and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) as two examples that illustrate the framework.

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A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris--the "Grand Paris" initiative--and the building of today's networked global city.

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In this medical detective adventure, Cytowic shows how synesthesia, or "joined sensation," illuminates a wide swath of mental life and leads to a new view of what it means to be human.

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A critical examination of translational medicine, when private risk is transferred to the public sector and university research teams become tech startups for global investors.