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• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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...