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Today's urban riverfronts are changing. The decline of river commerce and riverside industry has made riverfront land once used for warehouses, factories, and loading docks available for open space,
Today's urban riverfronts are changing. The decline of river commerce and riverside industry has made riverfront land once used for warehouses, factories, and loading docks available for open space,
The second volume of a commonsense, self-contained introduction to the mathematics and physics of music, focusing on the digital and computational domain; essential reading for musicians, music engin
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How did the complex interplay of academic, commercial, and military interests produced an intense period of scientific discovery and technological innovation in computing during the Cold War? During t
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The privatization carried out under the Thatcher and Major governments in Britain has been widely (although not universally) considered a success, and has greatly influenced the privatization of state
This title includes experts from science, industry, and government that discuss the unresolved scientific and technical issues surrounding the Yucca Mountain site as a geologic repository for high-lev
A hands-on guide to implementing the precautionary principle and avoiding harm through foresight and wise decisions. The precautionary principle calls for taking action against threatened harm to peop
Japan, the world's second largest economy, has suffered from a prolonged period of stagnation and malaise since 1991. Subpar growth, failing banks, plummeting real estate and stock prices, deflation,
New media students, teachers, and professionals have long needed a comprehensive scholarly treatment of digital games that deals with the history, design, reception, and aesthetics of games along wit
In Event-Cities 3, Bernard Tschumi explores the complex and productive triangulation of architectural concept, context, and content. There is no architecture without a concept, an overriding idea tha
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International economists and other scholars address the major issues that arise in writing a European constitution, including the evolution of federalism and the role of direct democracy. The leader
The privatisation carried out under the Thatcher and Major governments in Britain has been widely (although not universally) considered a success, and has greatly influenced the privatisation of state
Interfacing Thought consolidates and presents theoretically important cognitive science research in the new and intensely active domain of human-computer interaction. It is a valuable survey of the wh
An Introduction to Distributed Algorithms takes up some of the main concepts and algorithms, ranging from basic to advanced techniques and applications, that underlie the programming of distributed-me
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A collection of essays on the interrelationship of social science and software practice. Software practice-which includes software development, design, and use-needs to go beyond the traditional eng
Philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer has made major contributions to aesthetic theory, Plato and Hegel studies, humanistic studies, and the philosophy of history. A student of Martin Heidegger, Gadamer too
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In Building the Trident Network, Maggie Mort approaches the United Kingdom's Trident submarine and missile system as a sociotechnical network. Drawing on the sociology of scientific and technical know
After World War II, other major industrialized nations responded to the technological and industrial hegemony of the United States by developing their own design and manufacturing competence in digita
In The Monumental Impulse, art historian George Hersey investigates many ties between the biological sciences and the building arts. Hersey draws striking analogies between building types and animal s
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This book lays out the theory and the practical techniques for discovering and applying translational equivalence at the lexical level. Parallel texts (bitexts) are a goldmine of linguistic knowledg
In recent years, bioethicists have worked on government commissions, on ethics committees in hospitals and nursing homes, and as bedside consultants. Because ethical knowledge is based on experience w
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Dazzling in their variety of sizes, shapes, and colors, the cichlids (smallperch-like fishes) of Lake Victoria, like the finches of the Galapagos Islands and Hawaii'sHoneycreepers, have been geographi
The eight chapters in this volume fall into three subject areas: government budget management and control, federal entitlement programs, and attempts to influence private sector behavior through tax c
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This breakthrough study argues for a significant link between phonetics and phonology. This breakthrough study argues for a significant link between phonetics and phonology. Its authors propose that p
The legendary Situationist activist and author of The Revolution of Everyday Life offers a fiercely partisan historical reflection on the ways religious and economic forces have shaped Western cultu
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The "Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science" provides professionals and students with a comprehensive overview of the main results and developments in this rapidly evolving field. Volume A covers mo
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This major contribution to modern syntactic theory elaborates a principles-and-parameters framework in which the differences and similarities among languages with respect to WH-questions can be captur
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