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sewn oblong PAPERBACK, attractive copy, appears unused, beautifully illustrated in color throughout. JOYCE, NANCY. Building Stata: the design and construction of Frank O. Gehry's Stata Center at MIT. Commentary by Frank O. Gehry ; photographs by Richard M. Sobol. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004, xxi, 137pp., . "This illustrated book chronicles the entire planning and construction process of the Frank Gehry-designed Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT. Taking us from the historical background and architectural context at MIT through the interaction of the clients' needs and the architect's vision to the choice of building materials and construction methods, Building Stata offers a uniquely detailed look at the evolution of a major work by a master architect.", "The purpose of the Stata Center is to bring the "intelligence sciences"--Computer science, artificial intelligence, information and decision systems, linguistics, and philosophy - together into a space that emphasizes research-focused collaboration. Frank Gehry's design integrates flexible and interconnected workspaces and incorporates a series of steps from public to private space, with places for social and intellectual interaction on lower levels giving way to space for study and contemplation on the upper floors; thus a two-level warehouse-like space is topped by two towers. The Center is wrapped around a series of outdoor terraces visible from a central court. The characteristic Gehry curves are clad in metal, the more block-like elements in brick.", "The architectural drawings and photographs - 300 of them in color - in Building Stata document the making of the Stata Center from concept to concrete reality. The photographs by Richard Sobol portray a work in progress, evoking the beauty of its architectural form and capturing the telling detail - the building's sculptured shape against a clear blue sky, or construction workers perched on a massive curve of metal.". 9780262600613 ISBN 0262600617.

(XIII) 398 p. Paperback (Fine copy.).

Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: xvi, 372pp., 21 contributions, maps, notes, table of contents. Very fine copy - as new. Volume: Washington Quarterly Reader. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

8vo. 358 pp. Index. Silver and blind-stamped scarlet cloth, dust-jacket. Fine. ISBN: 9780262033183 "Nineteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of periodical literature, with the publication of over 100,000 different magazines and newspapers for a growing market of eager readers. The Victorian periodical press became an important medium for the dissemination of scientific ideas." Geoffrey Cantor is Professor in the History of Science at the University of Leeds and author of, among other books, Michael Faraday, Sandemanian and Scientist.

very good dust-jacket, attractive copy, very good gray cloth, rear top corner has slightest ding. thick red remainder stripe on bottom foredge, previous owner's name on front endpaper in ink. AUGIER, MIE / MARCH, JAMES G., ed. . Models of a man. Essays in memory of Herbert A. Simon. Edited by Mie Augier and James G. March. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xiv, 553pp., . CONTRIBUTORS: Mie Augier, James G. March, Katherine Simon Frank, Kenneth J. Arrow, William J. Baumol, William W. Cooper, Richard H. Day, Yuji Ijiri, David M. Kreps, Roy Radner, Paul A. Samuelson, Reinhard Selten, Vernon L. Smith and Ferenc Szidarovszky, Philip Bromiley, John Conlisk, William R. Dill, Diovanni Dosi, Julian Feldman, Robert E. Goodin, Harold Guetzkow, Brian J. Loasby, Oliver E. Williamson, Sidney G. Winter, Albert Ando, Peter E. Earl and Jason Potts, Massimo Egidi and Luigi Marengo, Axel Leijonhufvud, Charles C. Holt, Michael C. Lovell, Franco Modigliani, John F. Muth, Edward A. Feigenbaum, Gerd Gigerenzer, Daniel Kahneman and Shane Frederick, David Klahr, Kenneth Kotosky, Pat Langley, Pamela Mccorduck, George Miller, Joseph C. Pitt, Shyam Sunder, Raul E. Valdes-Perez. 9780262012089 ISBN 0262012081.

Hardcover. Zustand: sehr gut. Hardcover. gr. 8°. xviii, 435 pages. with figures and tables within the chapters. little rubbed. good condition. Series Computational Molecular Biology". in englischer Sprache (in english).

4to. Mit zahlr. Abb. 506 S. OHlwd. m. Deckelillustr. u. geprägt. Rückentitel. Gutes Ex. gr.

Artificial life is an interdisciplinary science focused on artificial systems that mimic the properties of living systems 281 S., OLn. mit OU. (39,90). Clothbound, orig. dustwrapper, as new. Wie neu.

Broschur : Ecken angestoßen, sonst tadellos, VI, 291 Seiten, Ill. ; 23 x 18 cm 600 g. Sprache: english.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Sm. 4° Color & B/w reproductions.Published as Exhibition Catalogue: Los Angeles County Museum of Art: June 13 to October 3rd, 2004 - Miami Art Museum, Florida November 11, 2004 to May 1, 2005. First edition, text in English language. Original Binding. In very good condition.

Zustand: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.wrappers Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, xii,354 pp., PAPERBACK. "Since the end of the Cold War, Turkey has moved from the periphery to the centre of Eurasian security. It is an important member of NATO and aspires to join the European Union. With a landmass and population larger than France's, Turkey is a pivotal actor in Southeastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Caucasus. Turkey's growing role in these regions has profound implications for the international arena and has spawned debates over the trajectory of Turkish foreign policy. "The Future of Turkish Foreign Policy" explores these debates and the interactions between Turkey's domestic issues and foreign policies. The contributors include some of the foremost scholars and commentators on Turkish foreign policy. Their analyses reveal the variety and complexity of challenges that confront Turkish foreign policy and point the way to creative and resourceful strategies" - Publisher's description.

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 21x13cm, xi,131 pp. "This work presents the effect of prenatal levels of testosterone on development and behaviour upto age 4. This pioneering study looks at the effects of prenatal testosterone on postnatal development and behaviour. Hormonal effects on behaviour have long been studied in animals; the unique contribution of this book is to suggest a connection between human fetal hormones and later behaviour. It details for the first time testosterone's effect on social and language development, opening a new avenue of research for cognitive neuroscience. The authors look at samples of amniotic fluid taken during amniocentesis at 16 weeks' gestation, and relate the fetal level of testosterone (which is present in fetuses of both sexes, although in different quantities) to behaviour at ages 1, 2, and 4 years. The study suggests that prenatal levels of testosterone affect a range of later behaviour in children, from the inclination to make eye contact with others to the size of the vocabulary. It also suggests that prenatal testosterone level may be related to the development of typically "masculine" and "feminine" behaviour. The study's ongoing research explores whether fetal testosterone has any link with the risk of developing autism. Connecting endocrinology and psychology, the authors propose that there is a biological component to behaviour often thought to be produced by the social environment" - Publisher's description. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.

orig.wrappers Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG. 16pp plates 23x15cm, xx,436,(16)pp, PAPERBACK. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG.

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. Light bump to head of spine. VG. 23x15cm, xv,194 pp, Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, 44. A small ink mark to top page-edge. Contents: Introduction: The Proposal & the Pan; Dependent Identity & (Non) coreference; The Formal Representation of Dependent Identity; The Form-to- Interpretation Principle & Pragmatic Obviation; The Distribution of Dependency: Extrasentential Dependency; Dependency on an Intrasentential Non-c-commending Antecedent; Preferred Dependent Interpretations & Rule H; On the Real & Apparent Overlap of the Form-to-Interpretation Principle & the Independence Principle; Extending the Indepdndence Principle?; Deriving Crossover: Crossover Phenomena & Previous Accounts; A Unified Theory of Crossover; Q-variables & Quantiative Dependency; Earlier Accounts from the Perspective of Tihs One; A Scopal Interaction & Functional Interpretation; Reconstruction & Dependent Readings: Secondary Crossover; Secondary Weakest Crossover; Copy Sets, Reconstruction, & Late Adjunction; Late Adjunction & Bound Variable Pronouns; Scope Reconstruction; The Logic of Promotion Anlaysis; Some Remarks on Resumption; The Independence Principle in the Architecture of Universal Grammar: Against Movement as an Account of Coconstrual; Appendix: Scrambling & Reconstruction. Minor rubbing. Light bump to head of spine. VG.

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. An ink mark to top page-edge. VG., dustwrapper. 24x15cm, xiii,287 pp. "In this remarkable monograph, Derek Melser argues that the core assumption of both folk psychology and cognitive science--that thinking goes on in the head--is mistaken. Melser argues that thinking is not an intracranial process of any kind, mental or neural, but is rather a learned action of the person. After an introduction in which he makes a prima facie case that thinking is an action, Melser reviews action-based theories of thinking advanced by Ryle, Vygotsky, Hampshire and others. He then presents his own theory of "token concerting," according to which thinking is a special kind of token performance, by the individual, of certain social, concerted activity. He examines the developmental role of concerted activity, the token performance of concerted activity, the functions of speech, the mechanics and uses of covert tokening, empathy, the origins of solo action, the actional nature of perception, and various kinds and aspects of mature thinking. In addition, he analyzes the role of metaphors in the folk notion of mind. While intending his theory as a contribution to the philosophy of mind, Melser aims also at a larger goal: to establish actions as a legitimate philosophical given, self-explanatory and sui generis. To this end, he argues in the final chapter against the possibility of scientific explanation of actions. The Act of Thinking opens up a large new area for philosophical research" - publisher's description. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to top page-edge. VG., dustwrapper.

orig.wrappers Minor rubbing. Rubberstamp to bottom page-edge. VG. 30x22cm, 160 pp Contents: Antoine Picon "The Ghost of Architecture : The Project & Its Codification"; Daniel Sherer "Le Corbusier's Discovery of Palladio in 1922 & the Modernist Transformation of the Classical Code"; Peter Eisenman " Digital Scrambler: From Index to Codex"; Edward Eigen "The House of Entropy: On Schrödinger's Code-Script"; Carl Chu "Metaphysics of Genetic Architecture & Computation"; Sylvia Lavin "What Color Is It Now?"; Jonathan Massey "New Necessities: Modernist Aesthetic Discipline"; Felicity D. Scott "When Systems Fail: Arthur Drexler & the Postmodern Turn". ["Codes, as systematic forms of regulation and organisation, are not the innocuous or neutral documents they are often considered to be. Operating with or without legal sanction, they are formulated to ensure specific and predictable outcomes and are laden with authorial and authoritative intent. Nevertheless, while codes have come to be an increasingly pervasive force in contemporary architecture, they are still frequently dismissed as onerous and quotidian. This volume of Perspecta - the oldest and most distinguished student-edited, university-based American architecture journal - investigates the historical and ongoing evolution of the relationship between codes and architecture, from Vitruvian systems of mathematical proportion through current strategies in building legislation. Although regulations created to establish restrictive power over building have existed throughout history, architecture today is more than ever bounded, shaped, and directed by Minor rubbing. Rubberstamp to bottom page-edge. VG.

Zustand: Minor rubbing. VG. Revised Edtn. orig.wrappers Minor rubbing. VG. Textual illustrations. 23x22cm, 160 pp, PAPERBACK. With a new foreword by Rick Poynor. ["Herbert Spencer's text examines what led up to the new concepts in graphic design and carefully disentangles the respective influences of Futurism, Dadaism, de Stijl, Suprematism, Constructivism and the Bauhaus. His text is illustrated with examples of crucial contributions to the new typography - from Apollinaire to Zwart - and the book's documentation includes biographical notes on the key figures" - Publisher's description].

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 24x15cm, x,313 pp Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 24x15cm, xvi,253 pp., Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology. "How are the mind and body harnessed together? In The Mind Incarnate Lawrence Shapiro addresses this question by subjecting to test two widely accepted hypotheses, the multiple realisability thesis and the separability thesis. He argues that there is signficicant - though far from decisive - evidence against them. While contemporary philosophers no longer view the mind as a supernatural entity - the famous "Ghost in the Machine" dogma that Gilbert Ryle ridiculed over fifty years ago - Shapiro argues that naturalistic approaches to understanding the mind retain their own naturalised varieties of ghosts. In particular, the multiple realisability thesis holds the connection between human minds and human brains is in some sense accidental: the tie between mental properties and neural properties is not physically necessary. According to the separability thesis, the mind is a largely autonomous component residing in the body that contributes little to its functioning. Shapiro tests these hypotheses against two rivals, the mental constraint thesis and the embodied mind thesis. Collecting evidence from a variety of sources (e.g., neuroscience, evolutionary theory, and embodied cogntion) he In contrast to views of mind that tempt us to see the mind as simply being resident in a brain or body, Shapiro argues for a far more encompassing integration of mind, brain, and body than philosophers have supposed" - Publisher's description. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.

orig.wrappers. Zustand: Minor rubbing. VG. Textual photo illustrations. (illustrator). 24x16cm, 248 pp., PAPERBACK. "For Siegfried Kracauer, the urban ornament was not just an aspect of design; it was the medium through which city dwellers interpreted the metropolis itself. In Ornaments of the Metropolis, Henrik Reeh traces variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's writings on urbanism,from his early journalism in Germany between the wars to his " sociobiography" of Jacques Offenbach in Paris. Kracauer (1889-1966), often associated with the Frankfurt School and the intellectual milieu of Walter Benjamin, is best known for his writings on cinema and the philosophy of history. Reeh examines Kracauer's lesser-known early work, much of it written for the trendsetting newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung in the 1920s and early 1930s, and analyzes Kracauer's continuing reflections on modern urban life, through the pivotal idea of ornament. Kracauer deciphers the subjective experience of the city by viewing fragments of the city as dynamic ornaments; an employment exchange, a day shelter for the homeless, a movie theater, and an amusement park become urban microcosms.Reeh focuses on three substantial works written by Kracauer before his emigration to the United States in 1940. In the early autobiographical novel Ginster, Written by Himself, a young architect finds aesthetic pleasure in the ornamental forms that are largely unused in the profession of the time. The collection Streets of Berlin and Elsewhere, with many essays from Kracauer's years in Berlin, documents the subjectiveness of urban life.,." - publisher's description.

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG. 21x14cm, xiv,339 pp, Series: Contemporary Philosophical Monographs, 4. Contents: Anti-Individualism; Knowledge & Discrimination; Thought & Discriminative Abilities; The Illusion Argument; Anti-Individualism & Reasoning; Anti-Individualism & the Fregean Sense; The Reductio Argument: Transmission of Warrant; Conclusion. ["Contemporary philosophy of mind is dominated by anti- individualism, which holds that a subject's thoughts are determined not only by what is inside her head but also by aspects of her environment. Despite its dominance, anti-individualism is subject to a daunting array of epistemological objections: that it is incompatible with the privileged access each subject has to her thoughts, that it undermines rationality, and, absurdly, that it provides a new route to a priori knowledge of the world. In this rigorous and persuasive study, Jessica Brown defends anti- individualism from these epistemological objections. The discussion has important consequences for key epistemological issues such as skepticism, closure, transmission, and the nature of knowledge and warrant. According to Brown's analysis, one main reason for thinking that anti-individualism is incompatible with privileged access is that it undermines a subject's introspective ability to distinguish types of thoughts. So diagnosed, the standard focus on a subject's reliability about her thoughts provides no adequate reply. Brown defuses the objection by appeal to the epistemological notion of a relevant alternative.,." - Publisher's description] Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG.

orig.cloth Two 1cm tears to bottom spine edge. Good., dustwrapper. 24x15cm, lxxv,618 pp., An ink mark to bottom page-edge. In a torn dustwrapper. Series : The Works of George Santayana, Vol. 5 Two 1cm tears to bottom spine edge. Good., dustwrapper.

2nd Edition. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. An ink mark to top page-edge. VG. 24x15cm, x,569 pp., Some page-edge soil. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to top page-edge. VG.

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG., dustwrapper. 25x18cm, xxi,253 pp. "Digital images are an integral part of all media, including television, film, photography, animation, video games, data visualization, and the Internet. In the digital world, spectators become navigators wending their way through a variety of interactive experiences, and images become spaces of visualization with more and more intelligence programmed into the very fabric of communication processes. In How Images Think, Ron Burnett explores this new ecology, which has transformed the relationships humans have with the image-based technologies they have created. So much intelligence has been programmed into these image-dependent technologies that it often seems as if images are "thinking"; ascribing thought to machines redefines our relationship with them and enlarges our ideas about body and mind. Burnett argues that the development of this new, closely interdependent relationship marks a turning point in our understanding of the connections between humans and machines. After presenting an overview of visual perception, Burnett examines the interactive modes of new technologies--including computer games, virtual reality, digital photography, and film-- and locates digital images in a historical context.He argues that virtual images occupy a "middle space," combining the virtual and the real into an environment of visualization that blurs the distinctions between subject and object--part of a continuum of experiences generated by creative choices by viewers, the results of which cannot be attributed either to images or to participants" - publisher's Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG., dustwrapper.

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. Small ink-mark to bottom page-edge. VG. 16pp color plates 23x18cm, xx,436 pp Contains 11 papers. Includes: D.P. Harland & R.R. Jackson "Portia Perception: The Umwelt of an Araneophagic Jumping Spider"; S. Zhang & M. Srinivasan "Exploration of a Cognitive Capacity in Honeybees: Higher Functions Emerge from a Small Brain"; K. Kral & F.R. Prete "In the Mind of a Hunter: The Visual World of the Praying Mantis"; J.-P. Ewert "Motion Perception Shapes the Visual World of Amphibians"; L. Chittka & H. Wells " Color Vision in Bees: Mechanisms, Ecology & Evolution"; K. Srikawa; et al. "Color Vision & Retinal Organization in Butterflies"; T. Hariyama " Seasonal Variation in the Visual World of Crayfish"; T.W. Cronin & J. marshall "The Unique Visual World of Mantis Shrimps"; I.G. Gleadall & N. Shashar "The Octopus's Garden: The Visual World of Cephalopods"; C. Comer &V. Leung "The Vigilance of the Hunted: Mechanosensory-Visual Integration in Insect Prey"; M.J. van Staaden; et al: "A Novel Approach to Hearing: The Acoustic World of Pneumorid Grasshoppers". Minor rubbing. Small ink-mark to bottom page-edge. VG.

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. Binding corner bumped and creased. Good. 16pp plates. 24x18cm, xv,455,(16)pp "How to imagine not only a new art or architecture but a new self or subject equal to them? In Prosthetic Gods, Hal Foster explores this question through the works and writings of such key modernists as Gauguin and Picasso, F. T. Marinetti and Wyndham Lewis, Adolf Loos and Max Ernst. These diverse figures were all fascinated by fictions of origin, either primordial and tribal or futuristic and technological. In this way, Foster argues, two forms came to dominate modernist art above all others: the primitive and the machine. Foster begins with the primitivist fantasies of Gauguin and Picasso, which he examines through the Freudian lens of the primal scene. He then turns to the purist obsessions of the Viennese architect Loos, who abhorred all things primitive. Next Foster considers the technophilic subjects propounded by the futurist Marinetti and the vorticist Lewis. These "new egos" are further contrasted with the " bachelor machines" proposed by the dadaist Ernst. Foster also explores extrapolations from the art of the mentally ill in the aesthetic models of Ernst, Paul Klee, and Jean Dubuffet, as well as manipulations of the female body in the surrealist photography of Brassai, Man Ray, and Hans Bellmer. Finally, he examines the impulse to dissolve the conventions of art altogether in the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, the scatter pieces of Robert Morris, and the earthworks of Robert Smithson, and traces the evocation of lost objects of desire in sculptural work from Marcel Duchamp and Alberto Giacometti to Robert Gober" - publisher's description. Minor rubbing. Binding corner bumped and creased. Good.

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orig.boards Minor rubbing. A rubberstamp to bottom page-edge. VG. 24x15cm, viii,481 pp. "One philosophical approach to causation sees counterfactual dependence as the key to the explanation of causal facts: for example, events c (the cause) and e (the effect) both occur, but had c not occurred, e would not have occurred either. The counterfactual analysis of causation became a focus of philosophical debate after the 1973 publication of the late David Lewis's groundbreaking paper, "Causation," which argues against the previously accepted "regularity" analysis and in favour of what he called the "promising alternative" of the counterfactual analysis. Thirty years after Lewis's paper, this book brings together some of the most important recent work connecting - or, in some cases, disputing the connection between - counterfactuals and causation, including the complete version of Lewis's Whitehead lectures, "Causation as Influence," a major reworking of his original paper. Also included is a more recent essay by Lewis, "Void and Object," on causation by omission. Several of the essays first appeared in a special issue of the Journal of Philosophy, but most, including the unabridged version of "Causation as Influence," are published for the first time or in updated forms" - Publisher's description. Minor rubbing. A rubberstamp to bottom page-edge. VG.

orig.boards A crease to front cover. An ink mark to top page-edge. VG. Textual illustrations. 26x20cm, 239 pp, Some light dents to binding edge. "In the decades following World War II artists in Europe, North America and South America began experimenting with geometric forms. Rebelling equally against the mathematical purity of earlier geometric modernism and what many saw as the emotional excesses of abstract expressionism and Art Informel, these artists emphasised three-dimensionality, the repetition of modular elements, the conceptual underpinnings of art and the performative to engage the viewer in the creative process and achieve broader intellectual, sensual and emotive range in their work. Beyond Geometry, which accompanies an exhibition at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, showcases over 200 works by 139 artists that chart the development of these experiments in form. It is noteworthy that artists on three continents began exploring these forms at the same time, often unaware of aesthetic developments elsewhere. Beyond Geometry brings together examples of European and Latin American concrete art, Argentine Arte Madi, Brazilian Neo-Concretism, Kinetic and Op Art, Minimalism and various forms of post-minimalism including systematic forms of process and conceptual art" - Publisher's description. A crease to front cover. An ink mark to top page-edge. VG.