Search results for “[Subject: construction]”

• Author(s): John Rajchman | Paul Virilio • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Criticism

• Author(s): John H. Holland • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsAn overarching framework for comparing and steering complex adaptive systems is developed through understanding the mecha...

• 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): Silvia Danielak • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThe first comprehensive account of infrastructure building in United Nations peace operations. Roads,...

• Author(s): Nathan Silver • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Buildings - Public, Commercial & IndustrialThis is the story of how France's famed cultural icon, one of the most controversial and supremely public bui...

• Author(s): Albert G. H. Dietz • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Construction - GeneralIn print since 1948, Dwelling House Construction is a homebuilding classic that covers site inspection, foundations, framing, win...

• Author(s): John Fitchen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Construction - GeneralHow were huge stones moved from quarries to the sites of Egyptian pyramids? How did the cathedral builders of the Middle Ages lift bloc...

• Author(s): Rebecca L. Henn | Andrew J. Hoffman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Development - Sustainable DevelopmentExperts consider green construction and the social, institut...

• 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...

• Author(s): James Meese • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyAn examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational fra...

• 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...