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Built upon love :architectural longing after ethics and aesthetics
A vision of architecture that transcends concerns of form and function and finds the connections between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society. The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture--opposing art to social interests, ethics to poetic expression--obscures the deep connections …
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- 9780262281409
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- 1 online resource (x, 247 pages)
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Building IBM :shaping an industry and its technology
No company of the twentieth century achieved greater success and engendered more admiration, respect, envy, fear, and hatred than IBM. Building IBM tells the story of that company, how it was formed, how it grew, and how it shaped and dominated the information processing industry. Emerson Pugh presents substantial new material about the company in the period before 1945 as well as a new interpr…
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- 0585353468
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 405 pages) :illustrations.
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Brain, vision, memory :tales in the history of neuroscience
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585024812
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 255 pages) :illustrations
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Bounded rationality :the adaptive toolbox
Report of the 84th Dahlem Workshop ... held in Berlin, March 14-19, 1999.In a complex and uncertain world, humans and animals make decisions under the constraints of limited knowledge, resources, and time. Yet models of rational decision making in economics, cognitive science, biology, and other fields largely ignore these real constraints and instead assume agents with perfect information and …
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- 0585388288
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- 1 online resource (xv, 377 pages) :illustrations
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Borders in cyberspace :information policy and the global information infrastr…
Borders in Cyberspace investigates issues arising from national differences in law, public policy, and social and cultural values in light of the emerging global information infrastructure. The contributions include detailed analyses of some of the most visible issues, including intellectual property, security, privacy, and censorship.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 058500286X
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- 1 online resource (xi, 374 pages) :illustrations.
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The body and the self
"A Bradford book."The Body and the Self brings together recent work by philosophers and psychologists on the nature of self-consciousness, the nature of bodily awareness, and the relation between the two. The central problem addressed is How is our grasp of ourselves as one object among others underpinned by the ways in which we use and represent our bodies? The contributors take up such issues…
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- 058502183X
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- 1 online resource (viii, 376 pages) :illustrations
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Body and building :essays on the changing relation of body and architecture
Written for a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 1996 in honor of Jospeh Rykwert.Essays on the changing relationship of the human body and architecture.Since Greek antiquity, the human body has been regarded as a microcosm of universal harmony. In this book, an international group of architects, architectural historians, and theorists examines the relation of the human bo…
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- 9780262271813
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- 1 online resource (427 pages) :illustrations
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Biorobotics :methods and applications
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- 9780262316101
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages)
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Biological emergences :evolution by natural experiment
"A Bradford book."A critique of selectionism and the proposal of an alternate theory of emergent evolution that is causally sufficient for evolutionary biology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282260
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- 1 online resource (xv, 517 pages).
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Bicycling science
Revised edition of: Bicycling science / Frank Rowland Whitt. 2nd ed. c1982.The bicycle is almost unique among human-powered machines in that it uses human muscles in a near-optimum way. This new edition of the bible of bicycle builders and bicyclists provides just about everything you could want to know about the history of bicycles, how human beings propel them, what makes them go faster, and …
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- 3rd ed.
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- 0262310686
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- 1 online resource (viii, 477 pages) :illustrations
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