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Architecture in the Scandinavian countries
The most complete survey of Nordic architecture available today. From Viking structures to Renaissance housing projects, Medieval stave churches to modern crematoriums, Architecture in the Scandinavian Countries presents the most complete survey of Nordic architecture available today. Its more than 400 illustrations provide a visual introduction to nearly 10,000 years of building in the region,…
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- 0262368072
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- 1 online resource (401 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Beyond modularity :a developmental perspective on cognitive science
"A Bradford book."Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, Annette Karmiloff-Smith offers an exciting new theory of developmental change that embraces both approaches. She shows how each can enrich the other and how both are necessary to a fundamental theory of human cognition.Karmiloff-Smith shifts the focus from what cognitive science can offer the study of …
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- 1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
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- 0585020442
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- 1 online resource (xv, 234 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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Architecture, ceremonial, and power :the Topkapi Palace in the fifteenth and …
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University, 1986.Glru Necipoglu brings together largely unpublished sources, both written and visual, along with information derived from the architectural remains to uncover the processes through which the meaning of the palace was once produced, before it came to represent a stereotyped microcosm of oriental despotism imbued with the exotic …
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- 0262368056
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- 1 online resource (vi, 336 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Architectural space in Ancient Greece
Translation of the author's thesis, prepared at the Berlin Charlottenburg Technische Hochschule and published in 1937 under title: Raumordnung im griechischen St?adtebau.Doxiadis is best known as an architect-planner, as a consultant with an international clientele, as something of a prophet whose outlook is focused on man's worldwide future. But here, in his first major study, originally publi…
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- 0262368080
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- 1 online resource (xxxvii, 184 pages)illustrations
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Architecture, poetry, and number in the royal palace at Caserta
Although Vanvitelli was one of the most notable architects of his century, as Caserta was one of its major buildings, this study by a leading scholar of Baroque and Neapolitan architecture is the first book in English on the architect and his masterpiece.The great palace of Caserta, near Naples, probably the largest building erected in Europe in the eighteenth century, became an archetypal expr…
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- 0262368110
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- 1 online resource (318 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Survey of architectural history in Cambridge.
Cambridge, Massachusetts is a rich mixture of closely mingled examples of architectural periods; 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th century, with the 21st century already near the drawing board and before the planning board. Yet implicit in the city is a continuity overruling what might be chaos. The Cambridge Historical Commission was established not to piously preserve a static past, but to make mani…
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- Revised edition.
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- 9780262368032
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- 1 online resource (volumes <1->) :illustrations, maps.
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Cyber rights :defending free speech in the digital age
Lawyer and writer Mike Godwin has been at the forefront of the struggle to preserve freedom of speech on the Internet. In Cyber Rights he recounts the major cases and issues in which he was involved and offers his views on free speech and other constitutional rights in the digital age. Godwin shows how the law and the Constitution apply, or should apply, in cyberspace and defends the Net agains…
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- Rev. and updated ed.
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- 9780262286978
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 402 pages)
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The education of the architect :historiography, urbanism, and the growth of a…
The authors of these eighteen essays have all been deeply influenced by the philosophy of architecture developed by Stanford Anderson, through his writings and through the teaching program of the Department of History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture, which he and Henry Millon founded at MIT over twenty years ago. This "school" of architectural thought views architecture as a world of inqu…
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- 1 online resource (xv, 478 pages :illustrations
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Energies :an illustrated guide to the biosphere and civilization
Originally published: 1999.Accurate, balanced AND imaginative.In this highly original book, ecologist Vaclav Smil presents a comprehensive and integrated survey of all the forms of energy that shape our world, from the sun to the human body, from bread to microchips. Written in a scientifically sophisticated yet accessible style, Energies consists of eighty-two short essays organized under six …
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- 1 online resource (314 pages) :illustrations, maps
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