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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.

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How do media find an audience when there is an endless supply of content but a limited supply of public attention

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A guide to the mathematical modeling of marriage.

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This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism and modern architecture, architectural vocabulary in the 19th century, the architecture of Chicago, neoclassicism and modern architecture, and the architecture of utopia.

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From cathedrals to star wars, Arnold Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the last thousand years and uses that survey to argue for a more humane form of future technological development.

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A new edition of a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of language, substantially updated and reorganized.

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Bringing together neural, perceptual, and behavioral studies, The Merging of the Senses provides the first detailed review of how the brain assembles information from different sensory systems in order to produce a coherent view of the external world.

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Explaining the puzzling behavior of exchange rates using models from microstructure finance and data from electronic trading.

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A proposal by two eminent biological scientists for a mechanism whereby mind becomes manifest from the operations of brain tissue.

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A classic work that situates linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, formulating and developing the minimalist program.

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A comprehensive introduction and reference guide to the minimum description length (MDL) Principle that is accessible to researchers dealing with inductive reference in diverse areas including statistics, pattern classification, machine learning, data mining, biology, econometrics, and experimental psychology, as well as philosophers interested in the foundations of statistics.