Search results for “[Subject: disaster]”

• Author(s): Tibor Besedes | Volker Nitsch • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: International - Economics & TradeEmpirical studies and theoretical analyses examine the causes and consequences of disruptions in cross-...

• Author(s): George H. Grosser | Henry Wechsler | Milton Greenblatt • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social PsychologyThis volume developed from the December 1962 symposium of the American Association for the Advance...

• Author(s): Megan Finn • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesAn examination of how changing public information infrastructures shaped people's experience of earthquakes in Northern California in 1868, 1906, ...

• Author(s): Dean A. Shepherd | Trenton A. Williams • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EntrepreneurshipIdentifying a new approach to disaster response: spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions to alleviate suf...

• Author(s): Robin R. Murphy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsA comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference for disaster robotics that covers theory, specific deployments, and ground, air, and mari...

• 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): Sonja D. Schmid • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralAn examination of how the technical choices, social hierarchies, economic structures, and political dynamics shaped the Soviet nuclear ind...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• 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): Christof Koch • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Bio-Science and Agriculture • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceA thought-provoking argument that consciousness--more widespread than previously assumed--is the ...

• 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...