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Le Corbusier, the noble savage :toward an archaeology of modernism
This revelatory study is the most unexpected and vital piece of Le Corbusier scholarship to appear in years. Adolf Max Vogt looks to the early, formative years of the architect's life as a key to understanding his mature practice, taking aim at such fundamental riddles as "Where did his design vocabulary come from?" and "How was his aesthetic sense formed?"Vogt's investigation of LC's early lif…
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- 1 online resource (xv, 365 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Language, consciousness, culture :essays on mental structure
"A Bradford Book."An integrative approach to human cognition that encompasses the domains of language, consciousness, action, social cognition, and theory of mind that will foster cross-disciplinary conversation among linguists, philosophers, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, cognitive anthropologists, and evolutionary psychologists.Ray Jackendoff's Language, Consciousness, Culture represents a…
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- 9780262276108
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 403 pages) :illustrations.
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Labor and the environmental movement :the quest for common ground
Relations between organized labor and environmental groups are typically characterized as adversarial, most often because of the specter of job loss invoked by industries facing environmental regulation. But, as Brian Obach shows, the two largest and most powerful social movements in the United States actually share a great deal of common ground. Unions and environmentalists have worked togethe…
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- 9780262280938
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- 1 online resource (x, 338 pages).
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Knowledge in action :logical foundations for specifying and implementing dyna…
Modeling and implementing dynamical systems is a central problem in artificial intelligence, robotics, software agents, simulation, decision and control theory, and many other disciplines. In recent years, a new approach to representing such systems, grounded in mathematical logic, has been developed within the AI knowledge-representation community. This book presents a comprehensive treatment …
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages) :illustrations
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Kinetics of high-temperature processes
"The MIT Press."A symposium on condensed-phase processes at high temperatures, particularly in nonmetal systems, which presents a record of recent efforts to understand the field and apply this understanding to complex systems.Title from vendor webpage (IEEE Xplore; viewed on Feb. 14, 2013).A symposium on condensed-phase processes at high temperatures, particularly in nonmetal systems, which pr…
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Journey from cognition to brain to gene :perspectives from Williams syndrome
A blueprint for the investigation of neurodevelopmental disorders, this book presents the work of a team of scientists using a multidisciplinary, integrated approach to link genes with human behavior. Using Williams syndrome as a model, leading researchers in neuroanatomy, neurocognition, neurophysiology, and molecular genetics have built bridges between disciplines to link higher cognitive fun…
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- 9780262287395
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- 1 online resource (xx, 189 pages) :illustrations
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Japan's great stagnation :financial and monetary policy lessons for advanced …
Experts on the Japanese economy examine Japan's prolonged period of economic underperformance, analyzing the ways in which the financial system, monetary policy, and international financial factors contributed to its onset and duration.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (vi, 276 pages) :illustrations.
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Making Silicon Valley :innovation and the growth of high tech, 1930-1970
In Making Silicon Valley, Christophe Lecuyer shows that the explosive growth of the personal computer industry in Silicon Valley was the culmination of decades of growth and innovation in the San Francisco-area electronics industry. Using the tools of science and technology studies, he explores the formation of Silicon Valley as an industrial district, from its beginnings as the home of a few r…
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- 9780262322591
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- 1 online resource (407 pages) :illustrations.
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Meaning and mental representation
"A Bradford book."In this provocative study, Robert Cummins takes on philosophers, both old and new, who pursue the question of mental representation as an abstraction, apart from the constraints of any particular theory or framework. Cummins asserts that mental representation is, in fact, a problem in the philosophy of science, a theoretical assumption that serves different explanatory roles w…
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- 1 online resource (viii, 180 pages) :illustrations.
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The LOCUS distributed system architecture
"Computer systems consisting of many machines will be the norm within a few years. However, making a collection of machines appear as a single, coherent system - in which the location of files, servers, programs, or users is invisible to users who do not wish to know - is a very difficult problem. LOCUS, a distributed version of the popular operating system Unix, provides an excellent solution.…
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- 1 online resource (xv, 148 pages) :illustrations.
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