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From Malthus to Becker, the economic approach to population growth and its interactions with the surrounding economic environment has undergone a major transformation. Population Economics elucidates the theory behind this shift and the consequences for economic policy.

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In praise of the hand: A philosopher considers the crucial role of the hand in human evolution, particularly with respect to language.

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The story of how diesel engines and gas turbines, used to power cargo ships and jet airplanes, made today's globally integrated economy possible.

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Through close reading of two major figures of modern architecture, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, this text argues that architecture only becomes modern in its engagement with the mass media. It suggests that modern architecture renegotiates the relationship between public and private.

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This book provides hands-on experience with a major area of modern phonology, including phonetics; phonetic variation; natural classes of sounds; alternations; rule systems; and prosodic phonology.

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Case studies, personal accounts, and analysis show how to recognize and combat pseudoscience in a post-truth world.

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What is at stake socially, culturally, politically, and economically when we routinely use technology to gather information about our bodies and environments

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A nontechnical, concise, and rigorous introduction to the rational choice paradigm, focusing on basic insights applicable in fields ranging from economics to philosophy.

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The contributors represent the complete spectrum of positions between a relativism that challenges the very concept of a single world and the idea that there are ascertainable, objective universals.

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Alternating discursive accounts with fictional vignettes that recreate time and place, this book skillfully integrates the history of French gardens with the modern history of ideas.

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Santiago Ramn y Cajal (1852-1934) made prolific and lasting contributions to understanding "the life of the infinitely small."

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Over the past decade, a small group of economists has challenged traditional wisdom about international trade. Rethinking International Trade provides a coherent account of this research program and traces the key steps in an exciting new trade theory that offers, among other possibilities, new arguments against free trade.

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A report from the front lines of higher education and technology that chronicles efforts to transform teaching, learning, and opportunity.

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A roboticist imagines life with robots that sell us products, drive our cars, even allow us to assume new physical form, and more.

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State-of-the-art robotics research on topics including manipulation, locomotion, machine learning, localization, visual SLAM, haptics, and biologically inspired design.

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The stories of residents of low-income communities across the country who took action when pollution from heavy industry contaminated their towns.

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The tumultuous life and career of a woman who fought gender bias on multiple frontsin theory and in practice, for herself and for us all.

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A solutions manual for all 582 exercises in the second edition of Intermediate Public Economics.

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How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater.

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Urban practitioners and scholars from various disciplines explore the role of storytelling in the effort to create sustainable American cities.

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These sixteen illustrated essays present an important revision of surrealism by focusing on the works of women surrealists and their strategies to assert positions as creative subjects within a movement that regarded woman primarily as an object of masculine desire or fear.

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Going beyond the oversimplified notion of a "digital divide" to analyze the relationship between access to information and communication technologies and social inclusion.

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The intersection of race and technology: black creativity and the economic and social functions of the myth of disengenuity.