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A history of Venetian culture from the beginning of the 16th century through the first decades of the 17th century. This study records the battle that was fought for architecture as metaphor for absolute truth and good government.

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Descriptions of basic visual mechanisms and related clinical abnormalities, by a neuroscientist and an ophthalmologist.

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Connecting New England's historical spiritualist and utopian traditionsfrom Brook Farm to Harvard's LSD researchto work by contemporary artists with regional ties.

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The history, theoretical frameworks, methodology, and pedagogy of the new field of visual culture; current debates and the possibility for future consensus.

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A guide to the basics of information visualization that teaches nonprogrammers how to use advanced data mining and visualization techniques to design insightful visualizations.

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An illuminated tour of Walter Benjamin's ideas; a graphic translation; an encyclopedia of fragments.

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Updated edition of a comprehensive introduction to the economics of water management, with self-contained treatment of all necessary economic concepts.

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An engineering-oriented introduction to wave propagation by an award-winning MIT professor,with highly accessible expositions and mathematical detailsmany classical but others not heretofore published.

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How the extraordinary multisensory phenomenon of synesthesia has changed our traditional view of the brain.

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An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level.

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Exploring philosophy through detailed argument analyses of texts by philosophers from Plato to Strawson using a novel and transparent method of analysis.

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The first complete English translation of Nadar's intelligent and witty memoir, a series of vignettes that capture his experiences in the early days of photography.

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Why you are more than just a brain, more than just a brain-and-body, and more than all your assumptions about who you are.

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Analysis and case studies show that including different orientations toward the natural world makes for more effective scientific practice and science education.

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A source book for American culture in the 1960s and 1970s: suggested reading from the Last Whole Earth Catalog, from Thoreau to James Baldwin.

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An architect's defense of drawing as a way of thinking, even in an age of electronic media.

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Selections from Gabriel Orozco's notebooks: sketches, photographs, and texts that offer a rare look inside his art-making process.

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A thorough and accessible introduction to a range of key ideas in type systems for programming language.

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Emphasizing issues of computational efficiency, Michael Kearns and Umesh Vazirani introduce a number of central topics in computational learning theory for researchers and students in artificial intelligence, neural networks, theoretical computer science, and statistics.

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A concise introduction to a complex field, bringing together recent work in cognitive science and cognitive robotics to offer a solid grounding on key issues.

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Pioneering essays on the idea of the Balkan as a body of knowledge and a cultural metaphor.

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Body Criticism is a celebration of visual culture as well as a major contribution to our understanding of the history of the human body.

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A wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics.

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An argument that we understand the world through many special-purpose mental models of different content domains, and an exploration of the philosophical implications.