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This major intellectual exploration seeks to deepen our understanding of the way in which modern capitalism works. The author argues, in particular, that it has always rested in part on the unremuner
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In this first full-length study of a largely forgotten optical device from the eighteenth century, Arnaud Maillet reconfigures our historical understanding of visual experience and meaning in relatio
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Where is the Information Society headed? Improve your understanding of the promises and challenges that await our high-tech world with this provocative look at the future of telecommunications techno
The scientific understanding of pain mechanisms has increased dramatically in the last few years, and, in turn, so has the need for a comprehensive volume on the molecular biology of pain and the deve
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The term "folkbiology" refers to people's everyday understanding of the biological world-how they perceive, categorize, and reason about living kinds. The study of folkbiology not only sheds light on
This book makes an important contribution towards an understanding of citizenship as mediated by other collective, historically determined identities: of gender, ethnicity, class and national status.
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This book makes an important contribution towards an understanding of citizenship as mediated by other collective, historically determined identities: of gender, ethnicity, class and national status.
Don Tapscott organizes some of the Harvard Business Review's most insightful articles into a framework for understanding the new dynamics of value and wealth in the networked world.A rich mix of ideas
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In a world of huge, interconnected networks that can be completely blacked out by disturbances, POWER SYSTEM PROTECTION offers you an improved understanding of the requirements necessary for prompt an
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanati
Understanding magnetic hysteresis is vitally important to the development of the science of magnetism as a whole and to the advancement of practical magnetic device applications. Magnetic Hysteresis,
Even in places of deadly national enmity, some very ordinary people are routinely doing peace. In this highly original study, Cynthia Cockburn deepens our understanding of the processes sustaining con
Even in places of deadly national enmity, some very ordinary people are routinely doing peace. In this highly original study, Cynthia Cockburn deepens our understanding of the processes sustaining con
The Cerebral Code is a new understanding of how Darwinianprocesses could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, starting with shuffledmemories no better than the jumble of our ni
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Multi-Body Dynamics: Vehicles, Machines, and Mechanisms opens by providing an understanding of engineering dynamics and then leads on to the analysis, techniques, and problem solving approaches. The a
This extraordinary book issues a clarion call for a new understanding of Africa. The author of the best-selling Male Daughters/Female Husbands here issues a challenge to western anthropologists to rec
This extraordinary book issues a clarion call for a new understanding of Africa. The author of the best-selling Male Daughters/Female Husbands here issues a challenge to western anthropologists to rec
Phonemic awareness-the understanding that words are made up of sounds-is essential to a child's early reading success. With this book, children gain this awareness through activities that are easy to
How can the baffling problems of phenomenal experience be accounted for? In thisprovocative book, Fred Dretske argues that to achieve an understanding of the mind it is not enoughto understand the bio
In this book, the author explores the underlying spiritual understanding of narcissism. He presents a detailed map of the steps involved in working through barriers that prevent us from recognizing th
