ISBN: 9780262518789 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 272 Rok wydania: 2013
Architecture depends -- on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help...
ISBN: 9780262538442 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 184 Rok wydania: 2020
An exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it contradicts our everyday assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality.Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of...
ISBN: 9780262740258 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 196 Rok wydania: 2003
Slavoj Zizek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild man of theory"; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop culture in order to dissect current...
ISBN: 9780262539647 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 304 Rok wydania: 2020
The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the 30-year-old Hubble Space Telescope. With the first...
ISBN: 9780262037020 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 272 Rok wydania: 2017
In Nonhuman Photography, Joanna Zylinska offers a new philosophy of photography, going beyond the human-centric view to consider imaging practices from which the human is absent. Zylinska argues...
ISBN: 9780262514620 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 428 Rok wydania: 2010
David Marr's posthumously published Vision (1982) influenced a generation of brain and cognitive scientists, inspiring many to enter the field. In Vision, Marr describes a general framework for...
ISBN: 9780262542678 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 264 Rok wydania: 2021
An investigation of the work and workers in fossil preparation labs reveals the often unacknowledged creativity and problem-solving on which scientists rely.Those awe-inspiring dinosaur skeletons...
ISBN: 9780262539401 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 248 Rok wydania: 2020
An accessible introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems. Our behavior is strongly influenced by factors that lie outside...
ISBN: 9780262522120 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 232 Rok wydania: 1996
Designing Engineers describes the evolution of three disparate projects: an x-ray inspection system for airports, a photoprint machine, and a residential photovoltaic energy system.
ISBN: 9780262534215 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 296 Rok wydania: 2017
The dream of a universal translation device goes back many decades, long before Douglas Adams's fictional Babel fish provided this service in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Since the...
ISBN: 9780262693134 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 358 Rok wydania: 2004
The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamental importance to the modern world than the invention of the airplane, nuclear energy, space flight, or...
ISBN: 9780262533393 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 568 Rok wydania: 2016
Before The Computational Brain was published in 1992, conceptual frameworks for brain function were based on the behavior of single neurons, applied globally. In The Computational Brain, Patricia...
ISBN: 9780262539470 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 128 Rok wydania: 2020
World renowned graphic designer and one of Esquire's 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century," John Maeda gives the ten laws of simplicity for business, technology, and design, that...
ISBN: 9780262534710 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 312 Rok wydania: 2017
Part memento mori for architecture, and part invocation to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.
ISBN: 9780262538459 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Stanisław Lem Ilość stron: 280 Rok wydania: 2020
Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space. Żeby pure chance, scientists detect a signal from space that may be communication from rational beings....
ISBN: 9780262533355 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 112 Rok wydania: 2017
Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals...
ISBN: 9780262538985 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 344 Rok wydania: 2020
The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades.Sunstein's book is illuminating because it puts norms at the center of how we think about...
ISBN: 9780262526661 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 264 Rok wydania: 2014
Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our great ape relatives. Change has been rapid (in evolutionary terms) and pervasive. Morphology, life...
ISBN: 9780262542395 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 448 Rok wydania: 2021
ISBN: 9780262620017 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 208 Rok wydania: 1960
What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these...