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The Learning Habit: A Groundbreaking Approach to Homework and Parenting That Helps Our Children Succeed in School and Life
Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman, Rebecca Jackson, Robert Pressman
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• Author(s): Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman | Rebecca Jackson | Robert Pressman • Publisher: PRH USA • Publisher Imprint: Tarcherperigee • BISAC: Parenting - GeneralA groundbreaking approach to building learning habits for life, based on a major ne...
View full detailsMr. Monk and the Dirty Cop
Lee Goldberg
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• Author(s): Lee Goldberg • Publisher: PRH USA • Publisher Imprint: Berkley • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Police ProceduralCaptain Leland Stottlemeyer relies on Adrian Monk to solve his most baffling cases, but when the captain is faced with...
View full detailsModern Ireland: 1600-1972
R. F. Foster
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• Author(s): R. F. Foster • Publisher: PRH UK • Publisher Imprint: Penguin MJ • BISAC: Europe - IrelandMasterfully blending narrative and interpretation, and R.F. Foster's Modern Ireland: 1600-1972 looks at how key events in Irish history contrib...
View full detailsMagnetohydrodynamic Shock Waves
Edward J. Anderson
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• Author(s): Edward J. Anderson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Physics - ElectromagnetismStudies based on the Rankine-Hugoniot relations have classified MHO shock waves as fast, switch-on, intermediate, switch-off,...
View full detailsConnectionist Symbol Processing
Geoffrey Hinton
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• Author(s): Geoffrey Hinton • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsAddressing the current tension within the artificial intelligence community between advocates of powerful symbolic repres...
View full detailsProductivity in the Food Industry: Problems and Potential
Gordon F. Bloom
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• Author(s): Gordon F. Bloom • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralThis timely resources appears during a period when rising food prices are a subject of public concern and the entire food distribution...
View full detailsTextile Fabric Flammability
Stanley Backer, G. S. Tesoro, T. Y. Toong
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• Author(s): Stanley Backer | G. S. Tesoro | T. Y. Toong • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Chemical & BiochemicalA report on fabric and garment flammability research; a reference for fiber and textile technologist...
View full detailsA Robot Ping-Pong Player: Experiments in Real-Time Intelligent Control
Russell L. Andersson
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• Author(s): Russell L. Andersson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsThis tour de force in experimental robotics describes the first robot able to play, and even beat, human ping-pong players.This tour de force...
View full detailsPublic Regulation: New Perspectives on Institutions and Policies
Elizabeth E. Bailey
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• Author(s): Elizabeth E. Bailey • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralPublic Regulation studies the formation of institutions and government policies that regulate industry, offering new data, new cont...
View full detailsA Social History of Engineering, second edition
W. H. G. Armytage
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• Author(s): W. H. G. Armytage • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsHow social and economic conditions have precipitated advances in engineering. A Social History of Engineering shows how social and economi...
View full detailsAlias Jack the Ripper: Beyond the Usual Whitechapel Suspects
R. Michael Gordon
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• Author(s): R. Michael Gordon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminology Over a century ago, a depraved killer skillfully moved through the dark and filthy slums of London's East End. D...
View full detailsNeural Computing Architectures: The Design of Brain-Like Machines
Igor Aleksander
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• Author(s): Igor Aleksander • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsMcClelland and Rumelhart's Parallel Distributed Processing was the first book to present a definitive account of the newl...
View full detailsThe Location of the Synthetic-Fiber Industry
Joseph Airov
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• Author(s): Joseph Airov • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentA case study that explains the present location pattern of the synthetic-fiber industry, forecasts the regional distributio...
View full detailsThe Logical Problem of Language Acquisition
C. L. Baker, John J. McCarthy
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• Author(s): C. L. Baker | John J. McCarthy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis collection of articles and associated discussion papers focuses on a problem that has attracted increasing attent...
View full detailsSino-Soviet Relations and Arms Control
Morton H. Halperin
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• Author(s): Morton H. Halperin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: International Relations - Arms ControlThis book, which offers the work of a group of distinguished contributors, is designed to clarify the bearing of ...
View full detailsPhysiology of Speech Production: Results and Implications of a Quantitative Cineradiographic Study
Joseph S. Perkell
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• Author(s): Joseph S. Perkell • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe physiology of speech production in terms of articulatory dynamics is the subject of this monograph.An extensive study of articu...
View full detailsWhat Determines Savings?
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
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• Author(s): Laurence J. Kotlikoff • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralWhat determines savings? The question is timely and important. The U.S. saving rate is less than half that of Japan, Germany, and...
View full detailsThe Relative Inefficiency of Quotas
James E. Anderson
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• Author(s): James E. Anderson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralJames Anderson has been a singular force in the research on tariffs versus quotas. In this book he demonstrates that in most reasonab...
View full detailsThe Multinational Paradigm
Robert Z. Aliber
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• Author(s): Robert Z. Aliber • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Investments & Securities - GeneralNontechnical yet analytically rigorous, The Multinational Paradigm represents a new direction in understanding the ...
View full detailsThe Sources of Increased Efficiency: A Study of DuPont Rayon Plants
Samuel Hollander
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• Author(s): Samuel Hollander • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralAn extraordinary opportunity offered by the Du Pont Company gave Professor Hollander free access both to all detailed cost and much i...
View full detailsA Scientist Speaks: Excerpts from Addresses by Karl Taylor Compton
Karl Taylor Compton
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• Author(s): Karl Taylor Compton • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Applied Sciences
Electron-Stream Interaction with Plasmas
Richard J. Briggs
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• Author(s): Richard J. Briggs • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Engineering (General)This study considers the instabilities that result when an electron beam is injected into a plasma. A number of different models of...
View full detailsReadings in Molecular Biology: Selections from Nature
W. B. Gratzer
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• Author(s): W. B. Gratzer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Molecular BiologyThe 63 articles collected in this book appeared in the news and reviews section of Nature between January 1969 and August 1...
View full detailsScientists as Writers
James Harrison
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• Author(s): James Harrison • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralWritings on science by a wide range of scientists and thinkers, including Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, and Rachel Carson.This sampler o...
View full detailsTrade, Tariffs, and Growth: Essays in International Economics
Jagdish N. Bhagwati
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• Author(s): Jagdish N. Bhagwati • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Development - GeneralProfessor Bhagwati has brought together here his most important theoretical writings on international economics. A major contribu...
View full detailsA Sense of the Future: Essays in Natural Philosophy
Jacob Bronowski
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• Author(s): Jacob Bronowski • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralJacob Bronowski truly educated an enormous number of members of that diffuse population usually referred to, with a hint of condescension, as educa...
View full detailsAdvanced Research in VLSI: Proceedings of the Fifth MIT Conference
Jonathan Allen, Frank Thomson Leighton
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• Author(s): Jonathan Allen | Frank Thomson Leighton • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Logic DesignThe field of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) is concerned with the design, production, and use of highly complex i...
View full detailsMachine Learning: Paradigms and Methods
Jaime Carbonell
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• Author(s): Jaime Carbonell • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsHaving played a central role at the inception of artificial intelligence research, machine learning has recently reemerge...
View full detailsThe Analysis and Synthesis of Linear Servomechanisms
Albert C. Hall
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• Author(s): Albert C. Hall • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ElectricalA standard reference on the application of network theory to the design of automatic control systems.The 1943 printing of The Analysis and Synthe...
View full detailsCurrents, Fields, and Particles
Francis Bitter
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• Author(s): Francis Bitter • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Physics - GeneralA different kind of textbook, the result of a six-year effort to base the second year of a two-year physics course on atomic physics. Cove...
View full detailsApplied Electronics, second edition: A First Course in Electronics, Electron Tubes, and Associated Circuits
Truman S. Gray
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• Author(s): Truman S. Gray • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ElectricalA basic text covering the physical phenomena involved in electronic conduction; ways in which these phenomena combine to govern the characteristi...
View full detailsSanskrit-Wörterbuch: Nach Den Petersburger Wörterbuechern Bearbeitet
Carl Cappeller
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• Author(s): Carl Cappeller • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralNo detailed description available for "Sanskrit-Wörterbuch".
Selected Books and Journals in Science and Engineering, second edition
Irma Johnson
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• Author(s): Irma Johnson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Bibliographies & IndexesA guide to first purchases in science and engineering undergraduate libraries.
Metal Cutting Principles, third edition
Milton C. Shaw
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• Author(s): Milton C. Shaw • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MachineryToward developing a rational basis for the metal cutting process.From the introduction: The economic importance of the cutting process may be appr...
View full detailsThe Papers of Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton, Harold C. Syrett
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• Author(s): Alexander Hamilton | Harold C. Syrett • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: General
Mittelpersisches Lesebuch
Olaf Hansen
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• Author(s): Olaf Hansen • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Mittelpersisches Lesebuch" verfügbar.
Cross-Polity Time-Series Data
Arthur S. Banks
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• Author(s): Arthur S. Banks • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe assembly of an archive of longitudinal data on the world's nation-states was undertaken by the Center for Comparative Political Res...
View full detailsEssays on the Structure of Social Science Models
Albert Ando, Franklin M. Fisher, Herbert A. Simon
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• Author(s): Albert Ando | Franklin M. Fisher | Herbert A. Simon • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EssaysA set of related papers dealing with the meaning of causality in simulataneous dynamic equation systems. Investi...
View full detailsPhysical Science, Its Structure and Development, Volume 1: From Geometric Astronomy to the Mechanical Theory of Heat
Edwin C. Kemble
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• Author(s): Edwin C. Kemble • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Physics - GeneralThis introduction to physical science combines a rigorous discussion of scientific principles with sufficient historical background and p...
View full detailsThe Papers of Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton, Harold C. Syrett
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• Author(s): Alexander Hamilton | Harold C. Syrett • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: General
Enzymes
J. B. S. Haldane
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• Author(s): J. B. S. Haldane • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - MicrobiologyJ.B.S. Haldane will be long remembered for his many contributions to man's knowledge of his world and of himself. Some of the...
View full detailsThe Technology of Ceramics and Refractories
P. P. Budnikov, Scripta Technica Scripta Technica
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• Author(s): P. P. Budnikov | Scripta Technica Scripta Technica • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Civil - GeneralThis work describes current engineering practices and techniques in the fields of ceramics in the Soviet...
View full detailsSino-Soviet Relations, 1964--1965
William E. Griffith
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• Author(s): William E. Griffith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: World - GeneralBeginning with a detailed analysis of all aspects of Sino-Soviet relations from November 1963 through November 1965, this summary takes...
View full detailsSocial Indicators
Raymond A. Bauer
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• Author(s): Raymond A. Bauer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe focus of this volume is nothing less than the entire set of social indicators--statistics, statistical series, and all other forms...
View full detailsPapers on Digital Signal Processing
Alan V. Oppenheim
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• Author(s): Alan V. Oppenheim • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Electronics - GeneralA collection of articles originally intended for use in a graduate course.This collection of papers is the result of a desire to ma...
View full detailsElectrons, Ions, and Waves: Selected Papers of William Phelps Allis
William P. Allis, Sanborn C. Brown
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• Author(s): William P. Allis | Sanborn C. Brown • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Physics - GeneralThe selected papers of William Phelps Allis are gathered here in celebration of his elevation from Professor to Profe...
View full detailsFactory under the Elms: A History of Harrisville, New Hampshire 1774-1969
John Bordon Armstrong
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• Author(s): John Bordon Armstrong • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH,This is a detailed history of one instance of a vanishing phenomenon, the small New ...
View full detailsScience Reference Sources, fifth edition
Frances B. Jenkins
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• Author(s): Frances B. Jenkins • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ReferenceScience Reference Sources is a selected, up-to-date compilation of about 1600 representative bibliographical and reference tools in the physic...
View full detailsProject Bosporus
Mit Students' System Project
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• Author(s): Mit Students' System Project • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CommerceThis is another in the series of reports that have resulted from the interdisciplinary student projects in systems engineering conduc...
View full detailsThe Scanlon Plan: A Frontier in Labor-Management Cooperation
Frederick G. Lesieur
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• Author(s): Frederick G. Lesieur • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralContributing Authors Include Clinton S. Golden, Douglas McGregor, Russell W. Davenport And Many Others.
Solzhenitsyn
Georg Lukacs, William David Graf
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• Author(s): Georg Lukacs | William David Graf • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Russian & Former Soviet UnionGeorg Lukács's most recent work of literary criticism, on the Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
View full detailsRegulatory Biochemistry in Neural Tissues
Louis Sokoloff
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• Author(s): Louis Sokoloff • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Neuroscience
Technology, Engineering, and Economics
Philip Sporn
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• Author(s): Philip Sporn • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsFrom the foreword by Howard W. Johnson: Philip Sporn's long and distinguished career has been at the interface of economics, engineering, and m...
View full detailsMathematics, second edition, Volume 1: Its Contents, Methods, and Meaning
A. D. Aleksandrov, A. N. Kolmogorov, M. a. Lavrent'ev
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• Author(s): A. D. Aleksandrov | A. N. Kolmogorov | M. a. Lavrent'ev • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralA comprehensive exposition of mathematics, tracing the history and cultural significance of mathematical id...
View full detailsThe United States and International Organization: The Changing Setting
Lawrence S. Finkelstein
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• Author(s): Lawrence S. Finkelstein • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyA thoughtful study of the problems facing foreign policy makers.This special issue of International Organizatio...
View full detailsThe Water's Edge: Critical Problems of the Coastal Zone
Bostwick H. Ketchum
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• Author(s): Bostwick H. Ketchum • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceA summary of the findings of a 1972 workshop convened to study problems of coastal ecosystems.This volume summarizes the conclusi...
View full detailsPublic Policy For The Seas, revised edition
Norman J. Padelford
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• Author(s): Norman J. Padelford • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: InternationalThe objectives set forth by the passage of the Marine Resources and Engineering Development Act of 1966 marked a turning point in U.S. po...
View full detailsPlotin
Dietrich Roloff
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• Author(s): Dietrich Roloff • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Plotin" verfügbar.
More Sky
Otto Piene
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• Author(s): Otto Piene • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralHow to make public property artful and art public property--opening up new horizons in art and art education.Otto Piene opens up...
View full detailsRäumliche Umwelt: Die Phänomenologie Des Räumlichen Verhaltens ALS Beitrag Zu Einer Psychologischen Umwelttheorie
Lenelis Kruse
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• Author(s): Lenelis Kruse • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Räumliche Umwelt" verfügbar.