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From the Middle Ages to the present, master draftsmen have used the technique of metalpoint to create some of the most beautiful and technically accomplished drawings in the history of art. Drawing in Silver and Gold examines the history of this evocative medium, in which a metal stylus is used on a specially prepared surface to create lines of ast

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Presents the sessions devoted to dream interpretation and its history. This book examines a long dream series from the Renaissance physician Girolamo Cardano.

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Approaches the question about dream and reality by seeking to identify its subject matter: what is it that would be the dream if "this" were a dream

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Describes the unmanned space missions that have opened windows on distant worlds. Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they have fundamentally transformed our scientific and cultural perspectives on the universe and our place in it.

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Dream analysis is a distinctive and foundational part of analytical psychology, the school of psychology founded by C G Jung and his successors. This title collects Jung's contributions to the study of dreams and their meaning. It reveals Jung's essential views about dreaming - especially regarding the relationship between language and dream.

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Deep within galaxies like the Milky Way, astronomers have found a fascinating legacy of Einstein's general theory of relativity: supermassive black holes. Connected to the evolution of the galaxies that contain these black holes, galactic nuclei are the sites of uniquely energetic events, including quasars, stellar tidal disruptions, and the genera

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Deep within galaxies like the Milky Way, astronomers have found a fascinating legacy of Einstein's general theory of relativity: supermassive black holes. Connected to the evolution of the galaxies that contain these black holes, galactic nuclei are the sites of uniquely energetic events, including quasars, stellar tidal disruptions, and the genera

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Famines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat of global warming. That is just one of the arguments that Cormac O Grada, one of the world's leading authorities on the history and economics of famine, develops in this wide-ranging book, which provides crucial new pers

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Plants and animals interact with each other and their surroundings, and these interactions--with all their complexity and contingency--control where species can survive and reproduce. In this comprehensive and groundbreaking introduction to the emerging field of ecological mechanics, Mark Denny explains how the principles of physics and engineering

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Economic forecasting involves choosing simple yet robust models to best approximate highly complex and evolving data-generating processes. This poses unique challenges for researchers in a host of practical forecasting situations, from forecasting budget deficits and assessing financial risk to predicting inflation and stock market returns. Economi

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Takes econometrics to a fresh level by demonstrating how to combine modern economic theory with the statistical inference methods to get the most out of economic data. This title draws applications from both microeconomics and macroeconomics, paying special attention to financial and labor economics.

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As an artist, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) defies easy description. Including essays on Degas' life and work, his sculptural technique and materials, and the story of the sculptures after his death, this title features art-historical and technical discussions of various works in the collection of National Gallery of Art, Washington.

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