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Physical Metallurgy and Processing of Intermetallic Compounds
N. S. Stoloff
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• Author(s): N. S. Stoloff • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: MetallurgyFrom the Back CoverThis comprehensive and in-depth work details state-of-the-art intermetallic compounds, from mechanical properties and alloy devel...
View full detailsBehavioural Ecology of Siberian and European Roe Deer
A. Danilkin
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• Author(s): A. Danilkin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Animals - MammalsFrom the Back CoverThis book, the second in Chapman & Hall's Wildlife Ecology and Behaviour Series, focuses on studies of both European and...
View full detailsDigital Video: An Introduction to Mpeg-2
Barry G. Haskell
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• Author(s): Barry G. Haskell • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Television & VideoFrom the Back CoverThis book offers comprehensive coverage of the MPEG-2 audio / visual digital compression standard. The treatment i...
View full detailsNeural Networks for Vision, Speech and Natural Language
Robert Linggard
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• Author(s): Robert Linggard • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Chapman & Hall • BISAC: Data Science - Neural NetworksFrom the Back CoverThis book is written by researchers at BT Laboratories and at universities who have investigated ...
View full detailsComputer-Based Design Process
A. J. Medland
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• Author(s): A. J. Medland • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Design, Graphics & Media - CAD-CAMFrom the Back CoverThis book explores the use of Computer Aided Design (CAD) techniques in the solution of mechanical en...
View full detailsClimate Change and Human Impact on the Landscape: Studies in Palaeoecology and Environmental Archaeology
F. Chambers
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• Author(s): F. Chambers • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)From the Back CoverThis book covers climatic change studies from the stratigraphic evidence of peat bo...
View full detailsClimate Change and Human Impact on the Landscape: Studies in Palaeoecology and Environmental Archaeology
F. M. Chambers
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• Author(s): F. M. Chambers • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)From the Back CoverThis book covers climatic change studies from the stratigraphic evidence of peat...
View full detailsSaving Our Planet: Challenges and Hopes
Mostafa K. Tolba
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• Author(s): Mostafa K. Tolba • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)From the Back CoverThis book analyses the changes (both positive and negative) that have occurred...
View full detailsEnvironmental Gene Release: Models, Experiments and Risk Assessment
M. J. Bazin
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• Author(s): M. J. Bazin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)From the Back CoverThe opportunities for improving crops and the environment using genetic engineering...
View full detailsThe Groundnut Crop: A Scientific Basis for Improvement
J. Smartt
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• Author(s): J. Smartt • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Agriculture - ForestryFrom the Back CoverThe groundnut (peanut) is a crop of global economic significance, not only in the widespread geographical areas of its pr...
View full detailsMolecular Biology in Crop Protection
G. Marshall
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• Author(s): G. Marshall • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Agriculture - ForestryFrom the Back CoverThe editors of Molecular Biology in Crop Protection have drawn together an impressive international list of contributor...
View full detailsFish Bioenergetics
M. Jobling
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• Author(s): M. Jobling • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyFrom the Back CoverThe book compromises three main sections. First, the nutrition of fish is examined from the standpoint of the environme...
View full detailsLow Density Cellular Plastics: Physical Basis of Behaviour
N. C. Hilyard
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• Author(s): N. C. Hilyard • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Materials Science - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe basis of the formation and physical behaviour of low density cellular polymers is described and analysed and...
View full detailsMetal Ions in Gene Regulation
Simon Silver
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• Author(s): Simon Silver • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsFrom the Back CoverResearched and written by a group of highly respected professionals in the fields of biochemistry, mi...
View full detailsMars: The Story of the Red Planet
Peter Cattermole
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• Author(s): Peter Cattermole • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Chapman & HallFrom the Back CoverMars is the next target for planetary exploration, with three space missions planned for the years between 1992 and 1996. Past missions,...
View full detailsParasitic Plants
M. Press
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• Author(s): M. Press • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Plants - FlowersFrom the Back CoverInterest in the biology of parasitic flowering plants has been increasing over the past decade, both through it desire to unders...
View full detailsFood Analysis: Theory and Practice
Yeshajahu Pomeranz
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• Author(s): Yeshajahu Pomeranz • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Food Science - GeneralFrom the Back Cover'Food Analysis' is a text for undergraduate and graduate students in food science and technology. It will also s...
View full detailsFisheries Processing: Biotechnological Applications
A. M. Martin
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• Author(s): A. M. Martin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverFisheries Processing concentrates on the application of bioprocessing methods for the enhancement of the seafood industry as a whole ...
View full detailsComputer Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Research and Development
S. Joshi
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• Author(s): S. Joshi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Industrial EngineeringFrom the Back Cover'Computer Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems' is intended for lecturers and researchers in manufacturing and indust...
View full detailsSelene: The Moon Goddess and the Cave Oracle
Steve Moore
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• Author(s): Steve Moore • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyAn examination of the myths of the Moon goddess and how she appeared to the original creators of those myths in anci...
View full detailsStandard Basque: A Progressive Grammar
Rudolf P.G. De Rijk
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• Author(s): Rudolf P.G. De Rijk • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: MiscellaneousThe first modern pedagogically oriented reference to the grammar of standard Basque (Euskara Batua), in two parts: Part 1 present...
View full detailsMusic and the Making of Modern Science
Peter Pesic
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• Author(s): Peter Pesic • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryA wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string t...
View full detailsSnapshot Photography: The Lives of Images
Catherine Zuromskis
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• Author(s): Catherine Zuromskis • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryAn examination of the contradictions within a form of expression that is both public and private, specific and abstract, conventional a...
View full detailsExploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, Second Edition
Nick Montfort
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• Author(s): Nick Montfort • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Programming - GeneralA new edition of a book for anyone who wants to learn programming to explore and create, with exercises and projects to help re...
View full detailsThe Aesthetic of Play
Brian Upton
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• Author(s): Brian Upton • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Video & MobileA game designer considers the experience of play, why games have rules, and the relationship of play and narrative.The impulse towar...
View full detailsCharacteristics of Games
George Skaff Elias
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• Author(s): George Skaff Elias • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Video & MobileUnderstanding games--whether computer games, card games, board games, or sports--by analyzing certain common traits.Character...
View full detailsThere Is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man: More Strange Fiction and Hallucinatory Tales
David Tibet
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• Author(s): David Tibet • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: Horror - GeneralA compendium of strange fiction and hallucinatory tales by both renowned innovators of the weird and little-known scribes of...
View full detailsLiberty Realm
Cathy Ward
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• Author(s): Cathy Ward • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: Folk & Outsider ArtThe fascinating phantasmal worlds in the work of the artist Cathy Ward.Pulsing and surging with dark energies, Cathy W...
View full detailsRated Savx: The Savage Pencil Scratchbook
Savage Pencil
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• Author(s): Savage Pencil • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralDrawings, personal photographs, documents, and ephemera by underground cartoonist, artist, writer, musici...
View full detailsRacing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System
Nick Montfort
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• Author(s): Nick Montfort • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Video & MobileA study of the relationship between platform and creative expression in the Atari VCS, the gaming system for popular games like Pa...
View full detailsBikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle Wear
Kat Jungnickel
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• Author(s): Kat Jungnickel • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Goldsmiths Press • BISAC: HistoryAn illustrated history of the evolution of British women's cycle wear.The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle o...
View full detailsThe Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist
Carol A Stabile
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• Author(s): Carol A Stabile • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Goldsmiths Press • BISAC: Media StudiesHow forty-one women—including Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Lena Horne—were forced out of American television and radio in t...
View full detailsOf Mud and Flame: A Penda's Fen Sourcebook
Matthew Harle
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• Author(s): Matthew Harle • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismExploring Penda's Fen, a 1974 BBC film that achieved mythic status.In 1974, the BBC broadcast the film Penda...
View full detailsCenterbook: The Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the Evolution of Art-Science-Technology at Mit
Elizabeth Goldring
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Goldring • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: SA+P Press • BISAC: Museum StudiesThe first comprehensive history of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), told through personal accounts and groundbreakin...
View full detailsPornotopia: An Essay on Playboy's Architecture and Biopolitics
Paul Preciado
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• Author(s): Paul Preciado • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Zone Books • BISAC: PornographyDesign objects, bachelor pads, and multimedia rotating beds as expressions of the relationships among architecture, gender, and...
View full detailsPlagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World Is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways
Thomas J. Bollyky
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• Author(s): Thomas J. Bollyky • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryWhy the news about the global decline of infectious diseases is not all good.Plagues and parasites have played a central rol...
View full detailsHow I Became One of the Invisible, New Edition
David Rattray
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• Author(s): David Rattray • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: GeneralThe only collection of Rattray's prose: essays that offer a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition.In order t...
View full detailsStatistical Analysis of Fmri Data, Second Edition
F. Gregory Ashby
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• Author(s): F. Gregory Ashby • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Imaging SystemsA guide to all aspects of experimental design and data analysis for fMRI experiments, completely revised and updated for the secon...
View full detailsInteractive Task Learning: Humans, Robots, and Agents Acquiring New Tasks Through Natural Interactions
Kevin A. Gluck
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• Author(s): Kevin A. Gluck • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralExperts from a range of disciplines explore how humans and artificial agents can quickly learn completely new task...
View full detailsFaunus: The Decorative Imagination of Arthur Machen
James Machin
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• Author(s): James Machin • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: Horror & SupernaturalScholarship, debate, archival material, and esoterica relating to Arthur Machen, a “modern master of the weird tal...
View full detailsArchitecture and Action
J. Meejin Yoon
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• Author(s): J. Meejin Yoon • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: SA+P Press • BISAC: History - GeneralProjects and texts that address architecture's role in taking on complex global challenges including climate change, housing, migrati...
View full detailsWalker Evans: Kitchen Corner
Olivier Richon
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• Author(s): Olivier Richon • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Afterall Books • BISAC: Movements - ModernismAn examination of one of Walker Evans's iconic photographs of the Great Depression.Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale Cou...
View full detailsInventive Minds: Marvin Minsky on Education
Marvin Minsky
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• Author(s): Marvin Minsky • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Educational PsychologySix essays by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky on how education can foster inventiveness, paired with commentary ...
View full detailsInternational Relations in the Cyber Age: The Co-Evolution Dilemma
Nazli Choucri
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• Author(s): Nazli Choucri • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralA foundational analysis of the co-evolution of the internet and international relations, examining resultant challe...
View full detailsA Hidden Landscape Once a Week: The Unruly Curiosity of the UK Music Press in the 1960s-80s, in the Words of Those Who Were There
Mark Sinker
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• Author(s): Mark Sinker • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralAn anthology of conversations and essays, memories and commentary from the heyday of British pop music writ...
View full detailsPhoto Forensics
Hany Farid
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• Author(s): Hany Farid • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - Computer Vision & Pattern RecognitThe first comprehensive and detailed presentation of techniques for authenticating digi...
View full detailsBomb Culture: 50th Anniversary Edition
Jeff Nuttall
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• Author(s): Jeff Nuttall • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismOut of print for fifty years, Jeff Nuttall's legendary exploration of radical 1960s art, music, and protes...
View full detailsAI Weiwei: Beijing Photographs, 1993-2003
Ai Weiwei
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• Author(s): Ai Weiwei • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsAn autobiography in pictures: photographs taken by Ai Weiwei that capture his emergence as the uniquely provocative artis...
View full detailsTransgression in Games and Play
Kristine Jorgensen
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• Author(s): Kristine Jorgensen • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Video & MobileContributors from a range of disciplines explore boundary-crossing in videogames, examining both transgressive game content a...
View full detailsQualitative Representations: How People Reason and Learn about the Continuous World
Kenneth D. Forbus
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• Author(s): Kenneth D. Forbus • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionAn argument that qualitative representations—symbolic representations that carve continuous phenomena into m...
View full detailsOf Kings and Things: Strange Tales and Decadent Poems by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock
Eric Stanislaus Stenbock
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• Author(s): Eric Stanislaus Stenbock • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: GeneralAn introduction to the Decadent writer Stanislaus Eric Stenbock for the general reader, offering morbid stories, suicida...
View full detailsIncurable: The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era's Dark Angel
Lionel P Johnson
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• Author(s): Lionel P Johnson • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: GeneralWritings that shed new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of thefin-de-siècle.A lost poet of the decadent era,...
View full detailsNumbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media
Jacqueline Wernimont
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• Author(s): Jacqueline Wernimont • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesA feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, a...
View full detailsHandbook of Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology
Massimiliano L. Cappuccio
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• Author(s): Massimiliano L. Cappuccio • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Sports PsychologyThe first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mindbody relati...
View full detailsFascination: Memoirs
Kevin Killian
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• Author(s): Kevin Killian • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: MemoirsA memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement.Fascination brings together an early ...
View full detailsModel Checking, Second Edition
Edmund M. Jr Clarke
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• Author(s): Edmund M. Jr Clarke • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceAn expanded and updated edition of a comprehensive presentation of the theory and practice of model checking, a technology tha...
View full detailsDesign Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World, Volume 1: Designing for Emergence
Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian
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• Author(s): Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralTools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world.Design Unbound presents...
View full detailsThe Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas
Roberto Simanowski
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• Author(s): Roberto Simanowski • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralProvocative takes on cyberbullshit, smartphone zombies, instant gratification, the traffic school of the information highway, and other ...
View full detailsVile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns, 1985-1988
Gary Indiana
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• Author(s): Gary Indiana • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Art & PoliticsGary Indiana's collected columns of art criticism from the Village Voice, documenting, from the front lines, the 1980s New York art ...
View full detailsWeather as Medium: Toward a Meteorological Art
Janine Randerson
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• Author(s): Janine Randerson • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesAn exploration of artworks that use weather or atmosphere as the primary medium, creating new coalitions of collective engagement wi...
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