Mit press 2003 cambridge (25 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Very Good Softcover; 9" tall; xi (11) + 178 pages including many photo illustrations, plus 4 semi-glossy pages of color photos; remainder marked; published in association with the MIT museum; author: Institute Historian T. F. Peterson; a securely bound, nice tight book.…

xiv, 1 leaf, 372 pp; illus. Original cloth. Near Fine, in dust jacket. This copy does NOT have any library markings, nor does it have a remainder mark. First Edition.

, Nye, David E., 1946-. America as second creation. Technology and narratives of new beginnings. Cambridge, Mass., London : MIT Press, 2003, x, 371pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black cloth, light wear. CONTENTS: Introduction: In the American beginning -- Narrating the assimilation of nature -- Surveying the ground -- Axe, clearing, cabin -- The nurturing forest -- The mill, or "natural power" -- Pollution and class conflict -- "Let us conquer space" -- "The route of superior desolation" -- "Conquered rivers are better servants than wild clouds" -- Water monopoly: federal irrigation and factories in the field -- Progress, or entropy? -- Conclusion: Second creation, conservation, and wilderness. 9780262140812 ISBN 0262140810.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Fine, internally clean, solid hard cover in a complete Fine dust jacket.

Trade Paperback. Condición: As New.

New! Paper bound, later printing, vii + Pp188. Includes references. Tight and unmarked - a fine copy. 225 grams. We welcome all reasonable offers on our books and also offer local curbside pick-up. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Very good minus, light edgewear. trade paper.

8vo, 245pp. A near fine hardback copy in like dust jacket. Remainder mark.

(XXII) 353 p. Paperback (In good condition.).

Hardcover. Condición: Used - Very Good. Previous owner stamped his name on text edge. Nice clean tight copy.

Condición: Good. 8vo. Hard covers. 317 pp. Very Good, like new with some scuffing.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. xii, 1 leaf, 599 pp. Original cloth. Ink stripe on bottom edge, else Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. "In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public science. Chemical affinity played an important role in this process as a metaphor, a theory domain, and a subject of investigation. Goethe's Elective Affinities, which was based on the current understanding of chemical affinities, attests to chemistry's presence in the public imagination. In Affinity, That Elusive Dream, Mi Gyung Kim restores chemical affinity to its proper place in historiography and in Enlightenment public culture. The Chemical Revolution is usually associated with Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, who introduced a modern nomenclature and a definitive text. Kim argues that chemical affinity was erased from historical memory by Lavoisier's omission of it from his textbook. She examines the work of many less famous French chemists (including physicians, apothecaries, metallurgists, philosophical chemists, and industrial chemists) to explore the institutional context of chemical instruction and research, the social stratification that shaped theoretical discourse, and the crucial shifts in analytic methods. Apothecaries and metallurgists, she shows, shaped the main theory domains through their innovative approach to analysis. Academicians and philosophical chemists brought about two transformative theoretical moments through their efforts to create a rational discourse of chemistry in tune with the reigning natural philosophy. The topics discussed include the corpuscular (Cartesian) model in French chemistry in the early 1700s, the stabilization of the theory domains of composition and affinity, the reconstruction of French theoretical discourse in the middle of the eighteenth century, the Newtonian languages that plagued the domain of affinity just before the Chemical Revolution, Guyton de Morveau's program of affinity chemistry, Lavoisier's reconstruction of the theory domains of chemistry, and Berthollet's path as an affinity chemist" (MIT Press Web site). …

Oktav. Org.-Ganzleinen mit Org.-SU. xxii, 386 S., sehr wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. ISBN 0262194821. - ENGLISH: Octavo, publisher's full cloth with publisher's d/j, xxii, 386 pp., in very fine condition. ISBN 0262194821. - ENGLISH: Octavo, publisher's full cloth with publisher's d/j, xxii, 386 pp., in very fine condition. 1001 g.…

1st paperback edition. - 592 pages. - With index. - (An October Book). - Paperback.

Condición: DISCRETO USATO. Da revisionare INGLESE Rivista di storia interdisciplinare, volume "XXXIII" anni 2002-2003 successivamente rilegato in coperta rigida a mezza tela al dorso e punte con titoli impressi in nero al dorso e piatti marmorizzati segnata da lievi segni di usura da scaffale ai bordi ed etichetta al dorso di catalogazione precedente. Pagine in buono stato generale di conservazione con timbro precedente alla pagina di guardia ed al frontespizio. Testo in lingua inglese. Numero pagine 69.…

Series: Dibner Institute in the History of Science. 8vo. xxii, 386 pp. Figs., index. Cloth, dust-jacket. Fine. ISBN: 9780262194822 [BH].

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New octavo xxiii + 453pp., index, Use the tools of economic analysis to examine the formation and change of political borders. It shows that a country's borders were subject to the same analysis as any other man-made institution. It argues that the optimal size of a country is determined by a cost-benefit trade-off between the benefits of size and the costs of heterogeneity.…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New octavo xviii + 563pp., text ills., references, indexes, Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology. Argues that seeing is different from thinking.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Near Fine. First printing. 8vo. [7], viii-xxii, [1], 2-326, [4] pp. Black cloth with green lettering on the spine. Edited and with translations by Barbara Fultner. A series of essays on Habermas' theory of communicative action, and its implications for epistemology and metaphysics. A Near Fine book with a tiny spot of discoloration on the fore-edge in a Near Fine dust jacket with a small ding to the rear panel.…

First edition. xiv + 410 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some light sunning to spine.

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG., dustwrapper. 24x15cm, xii,245 pp. "In Requiem for Communism Charity Scribner examines the politics of memory in post-industrial literature and art. Writers and artists from Europe's second world have responded to the last socialist crisis with works that range from sober description to melancholic fixation. This book is the first survey of this cultural field. For many writers and artists on the left, the fallout of the last century's socialist crisis calls for an elegy. This regret has prompted a proliferation of literary texts and artworks, as well as a boom in museum exhibitions that race to curate the wreckage of socialism and its industrial remnants. The best of these works do not take us back to the factory. Rather they look for something to take out of it: the intractable moments of solidarity among men and women that did not square with the market or the plan. Requiem for Communism explores a selection of signal works. They include John Berger's narrative trilogy Into Their Labors; Documenta, the German platform for contemporary art and ideas; Krzysztof Kieslowski's cinema of mourning and Andrzej Wajda's filmed chronicles of the Solidarity movement; the art of Joseph Beuys and Rachel Whiteread; the novels of Christa Wolf; and Leslie Kaplan's antinostalgic memoir of women's material labour in France. Sorting among the ruins of the second world, the critical minds of contemporary Europe aim to salvage both the remains of socialist ideals and the latent feminist potential that attended them" - Publisher's description. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG., dustwrapper.…

Condición: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG. Textual charts. 23x15cm, xvi,220 pp Contents: The Creation and Its Aftermath: The Creation of the World; The Question of Free Will; The Imposition of Constraints; Eve's Temptation by the Serpent; Eve's Offer to Adam; The Punishment of Adam and Eve; The Meaning of Faith: Abraham's Sacrifice; Jephthah's Sacrifice; Other Interpretations and Conclusions; Family Conflict: Cain And Abel; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and His Brothers; Protracted Conflict: Enter Moses; God the Agent Provocateur; The Main Event; A New Challenge; Dissension, More Retribution; Conclusions; Just Agreements and Wise Arbitration: Rahab and the Spies; Joshua' s Deception by the Gibeonites; Solomon's Wisdom; Royal Conflict: Saul's Tenuous Position; Conflict with David; Esther's Intercession; Conflict Between the Sexes: A Love Triangle: Nabal, Abigail, and David; Samson's Revenge; The Cashiering of Queen Vashti; Theory, Evidence, and Findings: Evaluation of the Theory; Evaluation of the Evidence; Concluding Remarks on God; Beyond Biblical Games: What if Abraham Had Refused to Sacrifice Isaac; The Revelation Game; Conclusions.…

Condición: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG. 24x15cm, 366 pp. Contents: Nancy L. Stokey "Rules versus Discretion" after Twenty-Five Years (comments by Peter N. Ireland and Lars E. O. Svensson) Aart Kraay and Jaume Ventura Current Accounts in the Long and Short Run (comments by Fabrizio Perri and Eric van Wincoop) J. Bradford DeLong Productivity Growth in the 2000s (comments by Susanto Basu and Boyan Jovanovic) James H.Stock and Mark W. Watson Has the Business Cycle Changed, and Why? ( comments by Jordi Gali and Robert E. Hall) Charles Engel Expenditure Switching and Exchange Rate Policy (comments by Karen K. Lewis and Pierre- Olivier Gourinchas) Alberto Alesina, Robert J. Barro, and Silvana Tenreyro Optimal Currency Areas (comments by Rudiger Dornbusch and Andrew K. Rose).…

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. An ink mark to top page-edge. VG., dustwrapper. 24x18cm, xxiv,612 pp "The recurring theme of Jerry Wiesner's varied and distinguished career was what Senator Edward M. Kennedy calls "a passionate involvement to make a better world, and a safer world". His odyssey as a public citizen included work as an acoustician for folklorist Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress, research at MIT's radiation lab and at Los Alamos, service as President John F. Kennedy's Special Assistant for Science and Technology and his years at MIT as professor, dean, provost and president. At Los Alamos he recieved what he called "a valuable education on issues that were to occupy a large part of my life". The lessons learned informed his later work on nuclear disarmament; he was a pivotal adviser on both the 1963 partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the 1972 ABM Treaty and an early member of the Pugwash Group, an organization of scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain. His many accomplishments as president of MIT similarly reflected his conviction that science and technology cannot be separated from society. Jerry Wiesner had long planned an autobiographical book that would combine personal experience and historical interpretation, covering his wide range of interests, but the commitments of his postretirement life and a serious stroke in 1989 kept him from completing it.." - Publisher's description. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to top page-edge. VG., dustwrapper.…

orig.boards Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG. 26x18cm, xxv,1687 pp Contains 210 papers concerning Cognitive Science / Artificial Intelligence;Neuroscience; Theory; Algorithms & Architectures; Emerging Technologies, Speech & Signal Processing; Visual Processing; Applications; Reinforcement Learning & Control. Includes: Fast Exact Inference with a Factored Model for Natural Language Parsing; Predictions & Semantic Association; Replay, Repair & Consolidation; Binary Coding in Auditory Cortex; How Linear Are Auditory Cortical Responses? Spikernels: Embedding Spiking Neurons in Inner-Product Spaces; A Statistical Mechanics Approach to Approximate Analytical Bootstrap Averages; Stable Fixed Points of Loopy Belief Propogation Are Local Minima of the Bethe Free Energy; Dyadic Classification Trees via Structural Risk Minimization; Bayesian Monte Carlo; Adapting Codes & Embeddings for Polychotomies; Learning Semantic Similarity; Circuit Model of Short-term Synaptic Dynamics; A Probabilistic Approach to Single Channel Blind Signal Separation; Bayesian Estimation of Time-Frequency Coefficients for Audio Signal; Prediction of Protein Topologies Using Generalised IOHMMS & RNNs. Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG. …