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Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be.

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How electric light created new spaces that transformed the built environment and the perception of modern architecture.

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How we filter out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we need to know.

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Everything you've always wanted to know about self-driving cars, Netflix recommendations, IBM's Watson, and video game-playing computer programs.

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Innovating is for doers: you don't need to wait for an earth-shattering idea, but can build one with a hunch and scale it up to impact.

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Texts and images document the disconnection between modernity and ecological crisis: do we need to reset modernity's operating system

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An attempt to free architecture from site and program constraints and to counter the profusion of ever bigger architecture books with ever smaller content.

(Hardback, sixth edition)

The sixth edition of the foundational reference on cognitive neuroscience, with entirely new material that covers the latest research, experimental approaches, and measurement methodologies.

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A music researcher's quest to discover other musical species.

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An exploration of the scientific limits of knowledge that challenges our deep-seated beliefs about our universe, our rationality, and ourselves.

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

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According to Rosalind Picard, if we want computers to be genuinely intelligent and to interact naturally with us, we must give computers the ability to recognize, understand, even to have and express emotions.

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This long-awaited biography of Alfred Jarry reconstructs a life both "ubuesque" and pataphysical.

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An analysis of the ways that new media are experienced and studied as the subjects of history, using the examples of early recorded sound and digital networks.

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On rediscovering surroundings when information goes everywhere.

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An exploration of the dialogue that emerged after 1776 between different visions of what it meant to use new technologies to transform the land.

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This text examines the continuing appeal of the "technological sublime" as a key to America's history, using as examples the natural sites, architectural forms and technological achievements that people have valued The sites considered include the Grand Canyon and the Brooklyn Bridge.

(Paperback, third edition)

The new edition of an essential text offers an informative, engaging view of the architectural profession from education through practice.

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Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into a broader understanding of the relation of architecture to society and the architect to the workforce and the marketplace.

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An exploration of twentieth-century conceptions of time and their relation to artistic form.