Search results for “[subject: radiation]”

• Author(s): Wallace H. Tucker • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Physics - AstrophysicsA brief, simple introduction to the theory of radiation and its application in astrophysics and a manual for researchers.The purpo...

• Author(s): Richard P. Feynman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - Atomic & Molecular"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins...

• Author(s): Olga Kuchinskaya • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Safety & Security - General (See Also House & Home - SafetyLessons from the massive Chernobyl nuclear accident about how we deal with modern haza...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): George Bekefi | Alan H. Barrett • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Physics - ElectromagnetismThe book describes the features that vibrations and waves of all sorts have in common and includes examples of m...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Frank Daniele Rosch Panetta • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Chemistry - Industrial & TechnicalThis work is conceived to meet the demand of state-of-the-art literature to teach the fundamentals as ...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): E. Natalie Rothman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly trave...

• Author(s): Gabrielle Hecht | Michel Callon • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceHow it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) becam...

• Author(s): William G. Lycan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this book, William Lycan defends an original theory of mind that he calls "homuncular functionalism." What is consciousn...

• Author(s): Paul F. Lazarsfeld | Neil W. Henry • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MethodologyA lucid, stimulating introduction to a wide range of mathematical techniques, their usefulness in thinking, and their applic...

• Author(s): Roy H. Ginsberg • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Intergovernmental OrganizationsWritten by one of the premier scholars on the European Union and hailed...

• Author(s): Kerstin Dautenhahn | Chrystopher L. Nehaniv • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsAn interdisciplinary overview of current research on imitation in animals and artifac...