Verlag: Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982, 1982
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
PAPERBACK, cover price $5.95, very good. RASMUSSEN, STEEN EILER. Experiencing architecture. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982, 17th printiing, 245pp., . 1959 classic by Danish architectural theorist. - CONTENTS: Basic Observations - Solids and Cavities in Architecture - Contrasting Effects of Solids and Cavities - Architecture Experienced as Color Planes - Scale and Proportion - Rhythm in Architecture - Textural Effects - Daylight in Architecture - Color in Architecture - Hearing Architecture. 9780262680028 ISBN 0262680025.
Verlag: Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2015, 2015
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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very good dust-jacket, very good black hardcover, fresh attractive copy. POLLIN, ROBERT. Greening the global economy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2015, 1st printing number line ending in 1, 164pp., . Boston review book. - "In order to control climate change, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that greenhouse gas emissions will need to fall by about forty percent by 2030. Achieving the target goals will be highly challenging. Yet in Greening the Global Economy, economist Robert Pollin shows that they are attainable through steady, large-scale investments -- totaling about 1.5 percent of global GDP on an annual basis -- in both energy efficiency and clean renewable energy sources. Not only that: Pollin argues that with the right investments, these efforts will expand employment and drive economic growth. Drawing on years of research, Pollin explores all aspects of the problem: how much energy will be needed in a range of industrialized and developing economies; what efficiency targets should be; and what kinds of industrial policy will maximize investment and support private and public partnerships in green growth so that a clean energy transformation can unfold without broad subsidies. All too frequently, inaction on climate change is blamed on its potential harm to the economy. Pollin shows greening the economy is not only possible but necessary: global economic growth depends on it" - CONTENTS: Introduction: the global green energy challenge -- Prospects for fossil fuels and nuclear power -- Prospects for energy efficiency -- Prospects for clean renewable energy -- How to hit the CO2 emissions reduction target -- Expanding job opportunities through clean energy investments -- A policy agenda that can work -- Risk, ethics, and the politics of climate stabilization. ISBN 9780262028233.
Verlag: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987
ISBN 10: 026222027X ISBN 13: 9780262220279
Anbieter: Munster & Company LLC, ABAA/ILAB, Corvallis, OR, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1987. 436 pp. 22.5 x 15 cm. Glossy stiff paper wrappers printed in grey and purple with white titling. Rubbing and some light scuffing to covers, with creasing to the bottom corner of the front cover. 1 cm closed tear with peeling to head of spine and jagged tear below, which doesn't affect the durability of the spine. Some light pencil erasures and creasing to upper corner of half title page, otherwise interior is clean and unmarked. Binding sound. . Soft Cover. Very Good.
Verlag: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998
ISBN 10: 0262631865 ISBN 13: 9780262631860
Anbieter: Antiquariat Weber, Neuendorf b. Elmshorn, SH, Deutschland
Verbandsmitglied: GIAQ
kart. 23 cm ; With an new Foreword by Neil Postman. Englischsprachige Paperbackausgabe, XIII, 322 Seiten. Gutes Exemplar (good Condition). pw109 ISBN: 0262631865.
Verlag: Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2021, 2021
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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sewn PAPERBACK, cover price $24.95, fresh attractive copy, appears unused. BEAL, JUSTIN. Sandfuture. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2021, 1st printing number line ending with 1, 269pp., . "Sandfuture is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. That Yamasaki's most famous projects--the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis and the original World Trade Center in New York--were both destroyed on national television, thirty years apart, makes his relative obscurity all the more remarkable. andfuture is also a book about an artist interrogating art and architecture's role in culture as New York changes drastically after a decade bracketed by terrorism and natural disaster. From the central thread of Yamasaki's life, Sandfuture spirals outward to include reflections on a wide range of subjects, from the figure of the architect in literature and film and transformations in the contemporary art market to the perils of sick buildings and the broader social and political implications of how, and for whom, cities are built. The result is at once sophisticated in its understanding of material culture and novelistic in its telling of a good story." - "A work of literary non-fiction about the life of architect Minoru Yamasaki (architect of the Twin Towers), but also a parallel narrative about an artist (the author) interrogating art and architecture's role in culture in NYC". ISBN 9780262543095.
Verlag: Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2020, 2020
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
PAPERBACK, very good but slightly warped and curved backwards, little used if at all. COSTANZA-CHOCK, SASHA. Design justice: community-led practices to build the worlds we need. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2020, later printing number line ending in 4, xviii, 338pp., . Information policy series. - What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? "Design justice" is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims explicitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities. It has emerged from a growing community of designers in various fields who work closely with social movements and community-based organizations around the world. This book explores the theory and practice of design justice, demonstrates how universalist design principles and practices erase certain groups of people - specifically, those who are intersectionally disadvantaged or multiply burdened under the matrix of domination (white supremacist heteropatriarchy, ableism, capitalism, and settler colonialism) - and invites readers to "build a better world, a world where many worlds fit; linked worlds of collective liberation and ecological sustainability." Along the way, the book documents a multitude of real-world community-led design practices, each grounded in a particular social movement. This book goes beyond recent calls for design for good, user-centered design, and employment diversity in the technology and design professions; it connects design to larger struggles for collective liberation and ecological survival. ISBN 9780262043458.
Verlag: Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2014, 2014
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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Rosecrance, Richard N. / Miller, Steven E., ed. The next great war?: the roots of World War I and the risk of U.S.-China conflict. Edited by Richard Rosecrance and Steven E. Miller. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2014, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xxiii, 285pp., very good dust-jacket, fresh attractive copy, black hardcover. Belfer Center studies in international security. - Experts consider how the lessons of World War I can help prevent U.S.--China conflict. - CONTENTS: Introduction : The Sarajevo Centenary, 1914 and the Rise of China / Steven E. Miller -- Before the War : Three Styles of Diplomacy / Alan Alexandroff -- Respites or Resolutions? : Recurring Crises and the Origins of War / Arthur A. Stein -- Better Now Than Later : The Paradox of 1914 as Everyone's Favored Year for War / Jack Snyder -- Allies, Overbalance, and War / Richard N. Rosecrance -- Economic Interdependence and War / Richard N. Cooper -- The Thucydides Trap / Graham Allison -- Thucydides Dethroned : Historical Differences That Weaken the Peloponnesian Analogy / David K. Richards -- Thucydides, Alliance Politics, and Great Power Conflict / Charles S. Maier -- War, Revolution, and the Uncertain Primacy of Domestic Politics / T.G. Otte -- Domestic Coalitions, Internationalization, and War : Then and Now / Etel Solingen -- European Militaries and the Origins of World War I / Stephen Van Evera -- Inevitability and War / Joseph S. Nye Jr. -- Lessons from Europe 1914 for Asia 2014 : Reflections on the Centenary of the Outbreak of World War I / Kevin Rudd -- Contingency as a Cause (or Little Things Mean a Lot) / Richard N. Rosecrance. ISBN 9780262028998.
Verlag: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. & London, 1974
Anbieter: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. No dust jacket. Hardcover. One in the Monographs in Modern Electrical Technology Series. Ex-library, with library labelling on spine foot, page block, pastedowns, front endpaper and at several further points. Boards are rather grubby and have a few surface scratches. Minor wear to spine ends and leading corners. Binding is sound, pages are tight and contents are clear throughout. AF. Ex-Library.
Verlag: The MIT Press., Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 2001
ISBN 10: 0262050668 ISBN 13: 9780262050661
Anbieter: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Vereinigtes Königreich
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hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket, blue hard cover with silver lettering on spine and contents in very good clean condition with very slight signs of wear. Library plate on front inside cover. Library sticker on FEP. Library stamps on catalogue page, back inside cover and page block. Illustrated with numerous diagrams and tables. T. Ex-Library.
Verlag: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1987
ISBN 10: 0262100363 ISBN 13: 9780262100366
Anbieter: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Vereinigtes Königreich
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hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Paperboard cover has notiseable edge wear. Bottom of page block is a bit grubby. Pages are clean and bright throughout. Illustrated with numerous graphs and diagrams. Used.
Verlag: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1996
ISBN 10: 0262611228 ISBN 13: 9780262611220
Anbieter: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Vereinigtes Königreich
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paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. New condition. Illustrated with tables and diagrams. Clean Copy.
Verlag: Cambridge, Massachusetts, London: MIT Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0262121344 ISBN 13: 9780262121347
Anbieter: Antiquariat Knacke, Berlin, Deutschland
Sprache: Deu 367 ; 23,5 cm In englischer Sprache. Leinen; Büchereiexemplar: gestempelt, mit Rückenschild. Ohne Schutzumschlag, sonst guter Zustand.
Verlag: Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1994, 1994
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
very good dust-jacket with a few light scratches, very good blue cloth, black and white illustrated stamp on front endpaper showing a bear in the city (part of the book or private, unclear?). FODOR, JERRY A. The elm and the expert: mentalese and its semantics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1994, no additional printings noted on copyright page, xii, 128pp., . Series: The Jean Nicod lectures, 1993 CONTENTS: 1. If Psychological Processes Are Computational, How Can Psychological Laws Be Intentional? -- 2. Life without Narrow Content? -- 3. Rabbit Redux (or, 'Reference Scrutinized') -- 4. Why We Are So Clever; An Epistemological Postlude -- Appendix B: Meaning and History. ISBN 9780262061704.
Verlag: The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England
Anbieter: Antiquariat Bookfarm, Löbnitz, Deutschland
Hardcover. y04532 Ehemaliges Bibliotheksexemplar mit entsprechenden Merkmalen in gutem Zustand Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.
Verlag: The M.I.T. Press - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, 1963
Anbieter: Antiquariat Bookfarm, Löbnitz, Deutschland
Hardcover. x19217 Ehemaliges Bibliotheksexemplar mit entswprechenden Merkmalen in gutem Zustand. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.
Verlag: The MIT Press - Cambridge - Massachusetts - London - England
Anbieter: Antiquariat Bookfarm, Löbnitz, Deutschland
HC. 504 w17627 Ex-Library with Stamp and Library-Signature in Good Condition, Some Traces of Use Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.
Verlag: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good in wrappers. Paperback Book. Slightly rubbed on the edges and the corners. Hinge is worn. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Verlag: The MIT Press., Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 2006
ISBN 10: 0262693356 ISBN 13: 9780262693356
Anbieter: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Vereinigtes Königreich
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paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Very good/ as new condition. Publisher's stamp on bottom of page block. Illustrated with diagrams and table. T. Used.
Verlag: Cambridge, Massachusetts. The MIT Press. 1992, 1992
Anbieter: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 23.5 cm, ix,381 p., appendices, index, original black cloth with red spine titles, illustrated jacket, a fine copy in fine jacket (B29).
Verlag: MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966
Anbieter: Gebrauchtbücherlogistik H.J. Lauterbach, Gummersbach, NRW, Deutschland
Leinen. Zustand: Gut. 24 cm XV, 143 S. Gewebe (Schwarz). Sprache: Englisch, Zustand: Gut bis Sehr Gut min. gebräunt (Innen); Archivex. mit Klebestreifenrestmit Besitzerstempel; Einband (Außen) hat geringe bis leichte Gebrauchsspuren (Außen); Hinterdeckel hat unten rechts eine Druckstelle; Schutzumschlag fehlt, oder es gibt keinen; * Die Photos sind original von uns erstellt worden, u.a. erkennbar an einem kleinen weißen Stück Papier im oberen Schnitt. Ab und an verwenden Suchmaschinen Verlagsphotos, bei den Portalen selbst, werden aber nur unsere Originalphotos gezeigt.
Verlag: New York, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England: Zone Books, Distributed by the MIT Press, 2017, 2017
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
very good black cloth. SAHLINS, PETER. 1668: the year of the animal in France. New York, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England: Zone Books, Distributed by the MIT Press, 2017, 491pp., . Peter Sahlins's brilliant new book reveals the remarkable and understudied "animal moment" in and around 1668 in which authors (including La Fontaine, whose Fables appeared in that year), anatomists, painters, sculptors, and especially the young Louis XIV turned their attention to nonhuman beings. At the center of the Year of the Animal was the Royal Menagerie in the gardens of Versailles, dominated by exotic and graceful birds. In the unfolding of his original and sophisticated argument, Sahlins shows how the animal bodies of the menagerie and others were critical to a dramatic rethinking of governance, nature, and the human. The animals of 1668 helped to shift an entire worldview in France -- what Sahlins calls Renaissance humanimalism toward more modern expressions of classical naturalism and mechanism. In the wake of 1668 came the debasement of animals and the strengthening of human animality, including in Descartes's animal-machine, highly contested during the Year of the Animal. At the same time, Louis XIV and his intellectual servants used the animals of Versailles to develop and then to transform the symbolic language of French absolutism. Louis XIV came to adopt a model of sovereignty after 1668 in which his absolute authority is represented in manifold ways with the bodies of animals and justified by the bestial nature of his human subjects. 1668 explores and reproduces the king's animal collections -- in printed text, weaving, poetry, and engraving, all seen from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. ISBN 9781935408994.
Verlag: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2015, 2015
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
, Klose, Alexander, 1969-. The container principle. How a box changes the way we think. Translated by Charles Marcrum II. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2015, xv, 394pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black hardcover. First published in German, 2009. - CONTENTS: Introduction : The accident -- Time capsules -- What is a container? -- Sea-land -- Container histories -- Logistics: the power of a third party -- Computing with containers -- Life in cells -- Container world. ISBN 9780262028578.
Verlag: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2014, 2014
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
, Yusaf, Shundana, 1970-. Broadcasting buildings. Architecture on the wireless, 1927-1945. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2014, xviii, 331pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black hardcover, remainder stamp on top foredge, stripe on bottom foredge. CONTENTS: Figure of Speech: The Place of Radio in the Space of Architecture -- Order of Things in the Wireless Museum -- Politics of Broadcasting and the Broadcasting of Politics -- Speaking of Conservation: The Oral Travelogue and British Historical Imagination -- The Box on the Dresser and the Sacralization of the Everyday Spaces. ISBN 9780262026741.
Verlag: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1993
ISBN 10: 0262011271 ISBN 13: 9780262011273
Anbieter: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Vereinigtes Königreich
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hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Red cloth cover with black lettering on spine is sound with slight signs of wear at ends of spine. Pencil underlining and marginalia on pages 8-45. Illustrated with tables and graphs. Used.
Verlag: The Mit Press. Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge
Anbieter: Antiquariat Bookfarm, Löbnitz, Deutschland
Softcover. x2319 Ehemaliges Bibliotheksexemplar mit entsprechenden Merkmalen in gutem Zustand. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.
Verlag: A Bradford Book / The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1985
ISBN 10: 0262110997 ISBN 13: 9780262110990
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 303pp. Fine in very good lightly edgeworn dust jacket with short tears.
Verlag: The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First M.I.T. Press paperback edition. xv, 294pp. Good only, some highlighting and pen underlining, the bottom of the front panel is torn where it meets the spine, the spine is toned and creased, slightly cocked, soiling and toning to the wrappers and edges, and bumping to the spine ends and corners.
Verlag: Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0262531887 ISBN 13: 9780262531887
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. xviii, 209pp. Illustrated in black and white. Trade paperback. Wrappers lightly rubbed, else near fine. Part of the Preston Thomas Memorial Lecture Series.
Verlag: MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009
ISBN 10: 0262012898 ISBN 13: 9780262012898
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Foreword by William Easterly. 12mo. xii, 161pp. Fine, lacking a dust jacket as issued.
Verlag: MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2003
ISBN 10: 0262740257 ISBN 13: 9780262740258
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Later printing. 187pp. Fine in wrappers.