A lavishly illustrated guide to the magnum opus of the great seventeenth-century anatomist, master embalmer, artist, and collector of specimens.Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731) was a celebrated Dutch anatomist, master embalmer, and museologist. He is best ... Zobraziť viac
Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, nine of them never before published in English.Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this... Zobraziť viac
Concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation, from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory... Zobraziť viac
How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us... Zobraziť viac
The long-awaited new edition of a groundbreaking work on the impact of alternative concepts of space on modern art... Zobraziť viac
An old genre is given a new look, as portraits and self-portraits of Marcel Duchamp invent and cover up as much as they reveal and portray... Zobraziť viac
What if modern society put a priority on the material security of its citizens and the ecological integrity of its resource base? What if it took ecological constraint as a given, not a hindrance but a source of long-term economic security? How would... Zobraziť viac
Aronoff integrates an account of morphological structure into a general theory of generative grammar. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 1 Zobraziť viac
In this book, scholars from a wide range of disciplines respond to Habemas's most directly relevant work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Zobraziť viac
An introductory text that emphasizes the underlying algorithmic ideas that are driving advances in bioinformatics. Zobraziť viac
Two distinguished neuroscientists distil general principles from more than a century of scientific study, "reverse engineering" the brain to understand its design. Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists... Zobraziť viac
The first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of power densities of renewable energy flows, fossil fuels, and all common energy uses. “There's no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.” —... Zobraziť viac
An early realist novel by Stanislaw Lem,taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II. Taking place within the confines of a psychiatric hospital, Stanislaw Lem's The Hospital of the Transfiguration tells the story of a young doctor... Zobraziť viac
Connections and clashes between new and old media, as told by interviewees ranging from the founder of Twitter to the publisher of the New York Times... Zobraziť viac
By pure chance, scientists detect a signal from space that may be communication from rational beings. How can people of Earth understand this message, knowing nothing about the senders—including whether or not they even exist?... Zobraziť viac
The solutions manual for Bolton and Dewatripont's Contract Theory includes complete solutions to 27 of the 54 exercises in the text. Zobraziť viac
In Making Silicon Valley, Christophe Lécuyer 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... Zobraziť viac
The second edition of this book has been updated and expanded to include seven new articles that take up ongoing debates in the field. The new material includes a critical examination of Quine's views on epistemology by Jagegwon Kim and an interesting... Zobraziť viac
Many teens today who use the Internet are actively involved in participatory cultures—joining online communities (Facebook, message boards, game clans), producing creative work in new forms (digital sampling, modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction),... Zobraziť viac
