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Chris Kraus
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• Author(s): Chris Kraus • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryEssays on and around art and art practices by the author of I Love Dick.A border isn't a metaphor. Knowing each other for over a ...
View full detailsThe Problem with Software: Why Smart Engineers Write Bad Code
Adam Barr
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• Author(s): Adam Barr • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Software Development & Engineering - GeneralAn industry insider explains why there is so much bad software—and why academia doesn't teach programmer...
View full detailsPerspecta 51: Medium
Shayari De Silva
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• Author(s): Shayari De Silva • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismEssays, interviews, and projects that consider the notion of medium and the possibilities for its productive use (and misuse) by archite...
View full detailsBruce Nauman
Taylor Walsh
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• Author(s): Taylor Walsh • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyEssential texts on the work of Bruce Nauman, spanning the five decades of the artist's career.This volume collects e...
View full detailsThe Chinese Typewriter: A History
Thomas S. Mullaney
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• Author(s): Thomas S. Mullaney • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryHow Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today.Chi...
View full detailsOur Selfish Tax Laws: Toward Tax Reform That Mirrors Our Better Selves
Anthony C. Infanti
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• Author(s): Anthony C. Infanti • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: TaxationWhy tax law is not just a pocketbook issue but a reflection of what and whom we, as a society, value.Most of us think of tax as a pocke...
View full detailsModern Hf Signal Detection and Direction Finding
Jay R. Sklar
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• Author(s): Jay R. Sklar • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: RadioDetailed descriptions of detection, direction-finding, and signal-estimation methods, using consistent formalisms and notation, emphasizing HF a...
View full detailsThe Surrender of Silence: A Memoir of Ironfoot Jack, King of the Bohemians
Ironfoot Jack
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• Author(s): Ironfoot Jack • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - 20th CenturyThe life of escape artist, fortune-teller, author and raconteur "Ironfoot Jack," aka Jack Rudolph Nea...
View full detailsPortrait of the Manager as a Young Author: On Storytelling, Business, and Literature
Philipp Schonthaler
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• Author(s): Philipp Schonthaler • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralWhat happens to the relationship between business and literature when storytelling becomes a privileged form of communication for organ...
View full detailsMaintenance Architecture
Hilary Sample
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• Author(s): Hilary Sample • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismAn inventive examination of a crucial but neglected aspect of architecture, by an architect writing to architects.Maintenance plays a cruci...
View full detailsThe Inversion Factor: How to Thrive in the IoT Economy
Linda Bernardi
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• Author(s): Linda Bernardi • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Strategic PlanningWhy companies need to move away from a product first orientation to pursuing innovation based on customer need.In the past, com...
View full detailsSherrie Levine
Howard Singerman
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• Author(s): Howard Singerman • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyTexts—including essays, reviews, and statements by the artist—on the work of Sherrie Levine.The artist Sherrie L...
View full detailsHaptics
Lynette Jones
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• Author(s): Lynette Jones • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralAn accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat screen displays....
View full detailsThe Energy System: Technology, Economics, Markets, and Policy
Travis Bradford
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• Author(s): Travis Bradford • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Industries - EnergyA comprehensive textbook that integrates tools from technology, economics, markets, and policy to approach energy issues using ...
View full detailsEconomics of Regulation and Antitrust, Fifth Edition
W. Kip Viscusi
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• Author(s): W. Kip Viscusi • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentA thoroughly revised and updated edition of the leading textbook on government and business policy, presenting th...
View full detailsBuilding the Intentional University: Minerva and the Future of Higher Education
Stephen M. Kosslyn
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• Author(s): Stephen M. Kosslyn • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherHow to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century.Higher education is in crisis. It is t...
View full detailsWeaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2p
Robert W. Gehl
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• Author(s): Robert W. Gehl • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Internet - GeneralAn exploration of the Dark Web—websites accessible only with special routing software—that examines the history of three anonymiz...
View full detailsQuantitative Biology: Theory, Computational Methods, and Models
Brian Munsky
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• Author(s): Brian Munsky • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyAn introduction to the quantitative modeling of biological processes, presenting modeling approaches, methodology, practical a...
View full detailsThe Economics of Philanthropy: Donations and Fundraising
Kimberley Scharf
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• Author(s): Kimberley Scharf • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Nonprofit Organizations & Charities - Fundraising & GrantsExperts bring economic tools to bear on philanthropic activities, addressing to...
View full detailsThe Taxation of Pensions
Robert Holzmann
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• Author(s): Robert Holzmann • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Taxation - GeneralTheoretical and policy perspectives on the taxation of pension, viewed in an international context.Policy makers and academic re...
View full detailsResonant Games: Design Principles for Learning Games That Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday
Eric Klopfer
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• Author(s): Eric Klopfer • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Video & MobilePrinciples for designing educational games that integrate content and play and create learning experiences connecting to many areas...
View full detailsMathematics of Big Data: Spreadsheets, Databases, Matrices, and Graphs
Jeremy Kepner
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• Author(s): Jeremy Kepner • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Data Science - GeneralThe first book to present the common mathematical foundations of big data analysis across a range of applications and technolo...
View full detailsAll in the Downs: Reflections on Life, Landscape, and Song
Shirley Collins
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• Author(s): Shirley Collins • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: MemoirsA memoir from one of Britain's legendary singers, folklorists, and music historians.A legendary singer, folklorist, and music his...
View full detailsNow the Night Begins
Alain Guiraudie
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• Author(s): Alain Guiraudie • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: LiteraryA novel that is a meditation on friendship, love, obsession, power, and abuse, by turns hyperrealist and phantasmagoric, recalling the work...
View full detailsThe Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art, Revised Edition
Linda Dalrymple Henderson
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• Author(s): Linda Dalrymple Henderson • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Movements - ModernismFrom the Back CoverDuring the first three decades of this century, the concept of the fourth dimension had a libera...
View full detailsGesture and Speech
Andre Leroi-Gourhan
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• Author(s): Andre Leroi-Gourhan • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralCombines in one volume Technics and Language and Memory and Rhythms, the cornerstones of Leroi-Gourhan's comprehensive t...
View full detailsFuture Gaming: Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture
Paolo Ruffino
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• Author(s): Paolo Ruffino • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Goldsmiths Press • BISAC: Video & MobileA sophisticated critical take on contemporary game culture that reconsiders the boundaries between gamers and games.This book i...
View full detailsThe Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947
Tsering Shakya
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• Author(s): Tsering Shakya • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThis definitive history of modern Tibet -- based entirely on unpublished primary sources a...
View full detailsTopology of Violence
Byung-Chul Han
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• Author(s): Byung-Chul Han • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralOne of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positiv...
View full detailsGlenn Ligon: Untitled (I Am a Man)
Gregg Bordowitz
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• Author(s): Gregg Bordowitz • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Afterall Books • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsAn illustrated examination of Glenn Ligon's iconic Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988)--a quotation, an appropriated text...
View full detailsGore Capitalism
Sayak Valencia
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• Author(s): Sayak Valencia • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Colonialism & Post-ColonialismAn analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today's hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism.Death ...
View full detailsThe Anxious Mind: An Investigation Into the Varieties and Virtues of Anxiety
Charlie Kurth
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• Author(s): Charlie Kurth • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyAn empirically informed, philosophical account of the nature of anxiety and its value for agency, virtue, and decision making.In The ...
View full detailsA Play of Bodies: How We Perceive Videogames
Brendan Keogh
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• Author(s): Brendan Keogh • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Video & MobileAn investigation of the embodied engagement between the playing body and the videogame: how player and game incorporate each other...
View full detailsSomnium, Revised and Expanded Edition
Steve Moore
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• Author(s): Steve Moore • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralAn intensely personal fictional tapestry that weaves together numerous historical and stylistic variations on the enduri...
View full detailsThe Chinese Economy, Second Edition: Adaptation and Growth
Barry J. Naughton
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• Author(s): Barry J. Naughton • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: International - Economics & TradeThe new edition of a comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy, revised to reflect the end of th...
View full detailsHolographic Quantum Matter
Sean A. Hartnoll
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• Author(s): Sean A. Hartnoll • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Physics - Condensed MatterA comprehensive overview of holographic methods in quantum matter, written by pioneers in the field. This book, written...
View full detailsChasing Men on Fire: The Story of the Search for a Pain Gene
Stephen G. Waxman
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• Author(s): Stephen G. Waxman • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceA thirty-year quest, from genes to pain-signaling neurons to people with a rare genetic disorder that makes them feel they are on fi...
View full detailsThe Reasoned Schemer, Second Edition
Daniel P. Friedman
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• Author(s): Daniel P. Friedman • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Languages - GeneralA new edition of a book, written in a humorous question-and-answer style, that shows how to implement and use an elegant li...
View full detailsThe Adventure
Giorgio Agamben
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• Author(s): Giorgio Agamben • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - MedievalAgamben charts a journey that ranges from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to H...
View full detailsChaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century
Mark W. Scala
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• Author(s): Mark W. Scala • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyFifty paintings, reproduced in color, by an international array of contemporary artists, show the aptness and relev...
View full detailsCarceral Capitalism
Jackie Wang
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• Author(s): Jackie Wang • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: EssaysEssays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees...
View full detailsThe Materiality of Interaction: Notes on the Materials of Interaction Design
Mikael Wiberg
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• Author(s): Mikael Wiberg • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralA new approach to interaction design that moves beyond representation and metaphor to focus on the material manifestations of interaction.Sma...
View full detailsQuantum Language and the Migration of Scientific Concepts
Jennifer Burwell
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• Author(s): Jennifer Burwell • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryHow highly abstract quantum concepts were represented in language, and how these concepts were later taken up by philosophers, literary cr...
View full detailsFlintstone Modernism: Or the Crisis in Postwar American Culture
Jeffrey Lieber
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• Author(s): Jeffrey Lieber • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyAncient history, midcentury modernism, Cinemascope, humanism and monumentality, totalitarianism and democracy: tra...
View full detailsProtecting Children Online?: Cyberbullying Policies of Social Media Companies
Tijana Milosevic
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• Author(s): Tijana Milosevic • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyA critical examination of efforts by social media companies—including Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat,...
View full detailsComparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy, Third Edition
J. Barkley Jr Rosser
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• Author(s): J. Barkley Jr Rosser • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: International - Economics & TradeAn approach to comparative economic systems that avoids simple dichotomies to examine a wide variety of ...
View full detailsWhat the Digital Future Holds: 20 Groundbreaking Essays on How Technology Is Reshaping the Practice of Management
Mit Sloan Management Review
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• Author(s): Mit Sloan Management Review • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralThe relationship between management and digital technology: experts present a new agenda for the practice of manag...
View full detailsAfflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice
Nicole M. Piemonte
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• Author(s): Nicole M. Piemonte • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: EthicsHow medical education and practice can move beyond a narrow focus on biological intervention to recognize the lived experiences of illnes...
View full detailsThe Illusion of Conscious Will, New Edition
Daniel M. Wegner
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• Author(s): Daniel M. Wegner • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Motivational & InspirationalA new edition of Wegner's classic and controversial work, arguing that conscious will simply reminds of us the au...
View full detailsGlobalizing Innovation: State Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Economies
Patrick J.W. Egan
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• Author(s): Patrick J.W. Egan • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: GlobalizationThe impact of host country institutions and policy on innovation by multinational firms in emerging economies.In the past, multinat...
View full detailsExperienced Wholeness: Integrating Insights from Gestalt Theory, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Predictive Processing
Wanja Wiese
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• Author(s): Wanja Wiese • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionAn interdisciplinary account of phenomenal unity, investigating how experiential wholes can be characterized and h...
View full detailsExperimental Politics: Work, Welfare, and Creativity in the Neoliberal Age
Maurizio Lazzarato
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• Author(s): Maurizio Lazzarato • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: PoliticalA celebrated theorist examines the conditions of work, employment, and unemployment in neoliberalism's flexible and precarious labor m...
View full detailsDecoding the Social World: Data Science and the Unintended Consequences of Communication
Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
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• Author(s): Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)How data science and the analysis of networks help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences.Social li...
View full detailsThe Future
Nick Montfort
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• Author(s): Nick Montfort • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Future StudiesHow the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers.The future is like an unwrit...
View full detailsThe Subject's Matter: Self-Consciousness and the Body
Frederique De Vignemont
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• Author(s): Frederique De Vignemont • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyAn interdisciplinary and comprehensive treatment of bodily self-consciousness, considering representation of the body, the ...
View full detailsStuart Hall: Conversations, Projects and Legacies
Julian Henriques
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• Author(s): Julian Henriques • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Goldsmiths Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralA contemporary look at one of the founding figures in the field of cultural studies.This volume from Goldsmiths ...
View full detailsThe Theory of Collusion and Competition Policy
Joseph E. Jr Harrington
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• Author(s): Joseph E. Jr Harrington • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyA review of the theoretical research on unlawful collusion, focusing on the impact and optimal design of co...
View full detailsConsumer Neuroscience
Moran Cerf
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• Author(s): Moran Cerf • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Consumer Behavior - GeneralA comprehensive introduction to using the tools and techniques of neuroscience to understand how consumers make decisions ab...
View full details1668: The Year of the Animal in France
Peter Sahlins
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• Author(s): Peter Sahlins • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Zone Books • BISAC: Europe - FranceWhen animals and their symbolic representations—in the Royal Menagerie, in art, in medicine, in philosophy—helped transform...
View full detailsPhysioeconomics: The Basis for Long-Run Economic Growth
Philip M. Parker
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• Author(s): Philip M. Parker • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - MacroeconomicsParker shows how factors such as income, aggregate savings, investment, technology, entrepreneurship, production, and o...
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