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: 9780262692717 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 390 Rok wydania: 2001
This book addresses the question of how we can best feed the ten billion or so people who will likely inhabit the Earth żeby the middle of the twenty-first century. He asks whether human ingenuity...
ISBN: 9780262633000 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 514 Rok wydania: 2004
This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section of the...
ISBN: 9780262518581 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 264 Rok wydania: 2013
There is a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate mental processes exclusively "in the head." Some think that this expanded conception of the mind will be the basis of a...
ISBN: 9780262535229 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 272 Rok wydania: 2018
In The World Made Meme, Ryan Milner argues that memes, and the memetic process, are shaping public conversation. It's hard to imagine a major pop cultural or political moment that doesn't...
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: 9780262700207 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 184 Rok wydania: 2020
Written from a neo-Marxist point of view żeby a prominent Italian architectural historian, Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into a broader understanding of the...
ISBN: 9780262511155 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 268 Rok wydania: 2000
Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental network serving a dozen sites in the United States to a network of networks linking millions of computers worldwide. In...
ISBN: 9780262693240 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 444 Rok wydania: 2005
In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern world's unceasing demand for energy with the absolute necessity...
ISBN: 9780262522601 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 112 Rok wydania: 1999
Alan S. Blinder offers the dual perspective of a leading academic macroeconomist who served a stint as Vice-Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board--one who practiced what he had long preached and...
ISBN: 9780262661331 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 472 Rok wydania: 2002
The Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio was one of the most influential figures that the field of architecture has ever produced. For classical architects, the term Palladian stands for a...
ISBN: 9780262542395 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 448 Rok wydania: 2021
ISBN: 9780262514293 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 152 Rok wydania: 2010
An antidote to mathematical rigor mortis, teaching how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation.
ISBN: 9780262536431 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 424 Rok wydania: 2018
An introduction to dependent types, demonstrating the most beautiful aspects, one step at a time.
ISBN: 9780262538367 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 416 Rok wydania: 2020
New perspectives on the misinformation ecosystem that is the production and circulation of fake news.What is fake news? Is it an item on Breitbart, an article in The Onion, an outright falsehood...
ISBN: 9780262037587 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 448 Rok wydania: 2018
Museums often stir controversy when they deaccession works - formally remove objects from permanent collections - with some critics accusing them of betraying civic virtue and the public trust. In...
ISBN: 9780262518659 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 362 Rok wydania: 2013
For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But what if certain games were something more than this, providing not only outlets for entertainment but a means for...
ISBN: 9780262518765 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 272 Rok wydania: 2013
The many books on globalization published over the past few years range from claims that the world is flat to an unlikely rehabilitation of Genghis Khan as a pioneer of global commerce. Missing...
ISBN: 9780262512312 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 216 Rok wydania: 2009
Roy Lichtenstein's popular appeal--and his influence on pop culture, seen in everything from greeting cards to sitcoms--at times overshadows his importance to contemporary art. Yet, examined on...
ISBN: 9780262535182 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 352 Rok wydania: 2018
How Britain lost its early dominance in computing aby systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women.