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This is the first book specifically designed to offer the student a smooth transitionary course between elementary fluid dynamics (which gives only last-minute attention to turbulence) and the professional literature on turbulent flow, where an advanced viewpoint is assumed.

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Newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, legal patents, protest pamphlets, and other primary sources document the technological achievements of African-Americans from colonial times to the present.

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From the first digital computer to the dot-com crasha story of individuals, institutions, and the forces that led to a series of dramatic transformations.

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Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleysfrom trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cellsin the history of brain sciences.

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This text looks at the smallest and simplest of dwellings in order to explore some of the largest questions that can be posed about architecture. What begins where architecture ends What was before architecture

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This book makes available to linguists and Sanskritists a collection of the most important articles on the Sanskrit grammarians, and provides a connected historical outline of their activities.

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Available again, a lyrical memoir by one of the major figures of postmodernist architecture; with drawings of architectural projects prepared especially for the book.

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This book provides a detailed, systematic, and accessible introduction to an original philosophical theory of concepts that Christopher Peacocke has developed in recent years to explain facts about the nature of thought, including its systematic character, its relations to truth and reference, and its normative dimension.

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This collection of new and previously published essays reflects the major research and thought of one of today's preeminent philosophers of mind.

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A theory of control, equally grounded in syntax and semantics, that argues that obligatory control is achieved either through predication or through logophoric anchoring.

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A new, philosophically grounded theory of the voicethe voice as the lever of thought, as one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object.

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How MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a small technical school into a major research university.

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In 1824, a young Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel proved conclusively that algebraic equations of the fifth order are not solvable in radicals. In this work, Peter Pesic shows what an important event this was in the history of thought. He also presents it as a remarkable human story.

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What is special about the face, and what happens when neurological conditions make expression or comprehension of the face unavailable

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This book presents a theory of speech-sound generation in the human vocal system.

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A call for a new form of democracy in which hybrid forums composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology.

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An argument that perception is something we do, not something that happens to us: not a process in the brain, but a skillful bodily activity.

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Leading philosophers explore responsibility from a variety of perspectives, including metaphysics, action theory, and philosophy of law.

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Selections from FBI files on political activists including Betty Friedan, Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King, Aaron Swartz, and Malcolm X.

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Advancing the understanding of parallel computation.