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The letters of George Santayana.
The Works of George Santayana, Volume V, brings together a total of 3,081 letters. Book One covers the longest period of time, in effect spanning Santayana's correspondence from the 1880s through most of the first decade of the twentieth century.edited and with an introduction by William G. Holzberger Since the first selection of George Santayana's letters was published in 1955, shortly after h…
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- Santayana ed.
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- 0585381100
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- 1 online resource (lxiv, 582 pages) :facsimiles.
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The letters of George Santayana.
The fourth of eight books of the correspondence of George Santayana.George Santayana published The Realm of Matter (1930) and The Genteel Tradition at Bay (1931). He continued work on Book Three of Realms of Being, The Realm of Truth, and on his novel, The Last Puritan. Citing his commitment to his writing and his intention to retire from academia, he declined offers from Harvard University for…
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- Santayana ed.
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- 9780262282956
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- 1 online resource (lxxv, 530 pages) :illustrations.
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The letters of George Santayana.
The fifth of eight books of the correspondence of George Santayana.During the period covered by this book, George Santayana had settled permanently in Rome. His best-selling novel, The Last Puritan, was published in London in 1935 and in the United States in 1936, where it was chosen as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. In 1936 Santayana became one of the few philosophers ever to appear on th…
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- Santayana ed.
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- 9780262282949
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- 1 online resource (lxxxvii, 609 pages) :illustrations.
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Leonardo's laptop :human needs and the new computing technologies
"Ben Shneiderman's book dramatically raises computer users' expectations of what they should get from technology. He opens their eyes to new possibilities and invites them to think freshly about future technology. He challenges developers to build products that better support human needs and that are usable at any bandwidth. Shneiderman proposes Leonardo da Vinci as an inspirational muse for th…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) :illustrations
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Lectures on antitrust economics
Antitrust law regulates economic activity but differs in its operation from what is traditionally considered "regulation." Where regulation is often industry-specific and involves the direct setting of prices, product characteristics, or entry, antitrust law focuses more broadly on maintaining certain basic rules of competition. In these lectures Michael Whinston offers an accessible and lucid …
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- 9780262286046
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- 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) :illustrations.
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Neither brain nor ghost :a nondualist alternative to the mind-brain identity …
In this highly original work, Teed Rockwell rejects both dualism and the mind-brain identity theory. He proposes instead that mental phenomena emerge not merely from brain activity but from an interacting nexus of brain, body, and world. The mind can be seen not as an organ within the body, but as a "behavioral field" that fluctuates within this brain-body-world nexus. If we reject the dominant…
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- 0262681676
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 231 pages) :illustrations
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NBER macroeconomics annual
This 20th edition of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual treats many questions at the cutting edge of macroeconomics that are central to current policy debates. The papers and discussions include an analysis of the differential between American and European unemployment rates, with the authors of the paper taking issue with Edward Prescott's view that higher European tax rates are responsible; a pro…
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- 9780262273732
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 459 pages) :illustrations, charts.
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The natural and the normative :theories of spatial perception from Kant to He…
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275057
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- 1 online resource (xii, 366 pages)
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Nanotechnology :research and perspectives : papers from the First Foresight C…
"BC Crandall is Cofounder and Vice President of Prime Arithmetics, Inc.'"Contributors: Robert Birge. Federico Capasso. BC Crandall. K. Eric Drexler. Gregory Fahy. Richard Feynman. John Foster. Tracy Handel. Bill Joy. Arthur Kantrowitz. Joseph Mallon. Norman Margolus. Ralph Merkle. Lester Milbrath. Gordon Tullock. Hiroyuki Sasabe. Michael Ward.""Advances in physics, molecular biology, and comput…
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- 9780262290814
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- 1 online resource (viii, 381 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Modernity and housing
Explores the social, cultural, and expressive history of housing during two periods: the large-scale developments in the 1920s, and the widespread modernist principles in the 1970s. A theoretical and historical inquiry, the text also aims to inspire the design of modern housing.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262367912
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