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, Nye, David E., 1946-. America as second creation. Technology and narratives of new beginnings. Cambridge, Mass., London : MIT Press, 2003, x, 371pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black cloth, light wear. CONTENTS: Introduction: In the American beginning -- Narrating the assimilation of nature -- Surveying the ground -- Axe, clearing, cabin -- The nurturing forest -- The mill, or "natural power" -- Pollution and class conflict -- "Let us conquer space" -- "The route of superior desolation" -- "Conquered rivers are better servants than wild clouds" -- Water monopoly: federal irrigation and factories in the field -- Progress, or entropy? -- Conclusion: Second creation, conservation, and wilderness. 9780262140812 ISBN 0262140810.…

(XXII) 353 p. Paperback (In good condition.).

Zustand: Good. 8vo. Hard covers. 317 pp. Very Good, like new with some scuffing.

Oktav. Org.-Ganzleinen mit Org.-SU. xxii, 386 S., sehr wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. ISBN 0262194821. - ENGLISH: Octavo, publisher's full cloth with publisher's d/j, xxii, 386 pp., in very fine condition. ISBN 0262194821. - ENGLISH: Octavo, publisher's full cloth with publisher's d/j, xxii, 386 pp., in very fine condition. 1001 g.…

1st paperback edition. - 592 pages. - With index. - (An October Book). - Paperback.

Zustand: DISCRETO USATO. Da revisionare INGLESE Rivista di storia interdisciplinare, volume "XXXIII" anni 2002-2003 successivamente rilegato in coperta rigida a mezza tela al dorso e punte con titoli impressi in nero al dorso e piatti marmorizzati segnata da lievi segni di usura da scaffale ai bordi ed etichetta al dorso di catalogazione precedente. Pagine in buono stato generale di conservazione con timbro precedente alla pagina di guardia ed al frontespizio. Testo in lingua inglese. Numero pagine 69.…

Series: Dibner Institute in the History of Science. 8vo. xxii, 386 pp. Figs., index. Cloth, dust-jacket. Fine. ISBN: 9780262194822 [BH].

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First printing. 8vo. [7], viii-xxii, [1], 2-326, [4] pp. Black cloth with green lettering on the spine. Edited and with translations by Barbara Fultner. A series of essays on Habermas' theory of communicative action, and its implications for epistemology and metaphysics. A Near Fine book with a tiny spot of discoloration on the fore-edge in a Near Fine dust jacket with a small ding to the rear panel.…

First edition. xiv + 410 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some light sunning to spine.

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG., dustwrapper. 24x15cm, xii,245 pp. "In Requiem for Communism Charity Scribner examines the politics of memory in post-industrial literature and art. Writers and artists from Europe's second world have responded to the last socialist crisis with works that range from sober description to melancholic fixation. This book is the first survey of this cultural field. For many writers and artists on the left, the fallout of the last century's socialist crisis calls for an elegy. This regret has prompted a proliferation of literary texts and artworks, as well as a boom in museum exhibitions that race to curate the wreckage of socialism and its industrial remnants. The best of these works do not take us back to the factory. Rather they look for something to take out of it: the intractable moments of solidarity among men and women that did not square with the market or the plan. Requiem for Communism explores a selection of signal works. They include John Berger's narrative trilogy Into Their Labors; Documenta, the German platform for contemporary art and ideas; Krzysztof Kieslowski's cinema of mourning and Andrzej Wajda's filmed chronicles of the Solidarity movement; the art of Joseph Beuys and Rachel Whiteread; the novels of Christa Wolf; and Leslie Kaplan's antinostalgic memoir of women's material labour in France. Sorting among the ruins of the second world, the critical minds of contemporary Europe aim to salvage both the remains of socialist ideals and the latent feminist potential that attended them" - Publisher's description. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG., dustwrapper.…

Zustand: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG. Textual charts. 23x15cm, xvi,220 pp Contents: The Creation and Its Aftermath: The Creation of the World; The Question of Free Will; The Imposition of Constraints; Eve's Temptation by the Serpent; Eve's Offer to Adam; The Punishment of Adam and Eve; The Meaning of Faith: Abraham's Sacrifice; Jephthah's Sacrifice; Other Interpretations and Conclusions; Family Conflict: Cain And Abel; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and His Brothers; Protracted Conflict: Enter Moses; God the Agent Provocateur; The Main Event; A New Challenge; Dissension, More Retribution; Conclusions; Just Agreements and Wise Arbitration: Rahab and the Spies; Joshua' s Deception by the Gibeonites; Solomon's Wisdom; Royal Conflict: Saul's Tenuous Position; Conflict with David; Esther's Intercession; Conflict Between the Sexes: A Love Triangle: Nabal, Abigail, and David; Samson's Revenge; The Cashiering of Queen Vashti; Theory, Evidence, and Findings: Evaluation of the Theory; Evaluation of the Evidence; Concluding Remarks on God; Beyond Biblical Games: What if Abraham Had Refused to Sacrifice Isaac; The Revelation Game; Conclusions.…

Zustand: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG. 24x15cm, 366 pp. Contents: Nancy L. Stokey "Rules versus Discretion" after Twenty-Five Years (comments by Peter N. Ireland and Lars E. O. Svensson) Aart Kraay and Jaume Ventura Current Accounts in the Long and Short Run (comments by Fabrizio Perri and Eric van Wincoop) J. Bradford DeLong Productivity Growth in the 2000s (comments by Susanto Basu and Boyan Jovanovic) James H.Stock and Mark W. Watson Has the Business Cycle Changed, and Why? ( comments by Jordi Gali and Robert E. Hall) Charles Engel Expenditure Switching and Exchange Rate Policy (comments by Karen K. Lewis and Pierre- Olivier Gourinchas) Alberto Alesina, Robert J. Barro, and Silvana Tenreyro Optimal Currency Areas (comments by Rudiger Dornbusch and Andrew K. Rose).…

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. An ink mark to top page-edge. VG., dustwrapper. 24x18cm, xxiv,612 pp "The recurring theme of Jerry Wiesner's varied and distinguished career was what Senator Edward M. Kennedy calls "a passionate involvement to make a better world, and a safer world". His odyssey as a public citizen included work as an acoustician for folklorist Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress, research at MIT's radiation lab and at Los Alamos, service as President John F. Kennedy's Special Assistant for Science and Technology and his years at MIT as professor, dean, provost and president. At Los Alamos he recieved what he called "a valuable education on issues that were to occupy a large part of my life". The lessons learned informed his later work on nuclear disarmament; he was a pivotal adviser on both the 1963 partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the 1972 ABM Treaty and an early member of the Pugwash Group, an organization of scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain. His many accomplishments as president of MIT similarly reflected his conviction that science and technology cannot be separated from society. Jerry Wiesner had long planned an autobiographical book that would combine personal experience and historical interpretation, covering his wide range of interests, but the commitments of his postretirement life and a serious stroke in 1989 kept him from completing it.." - Publisher's description. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to top page-edge. VG., dustwrapper.…

orig.boards Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG. 26x18cm, xxv,1687 pp Contains 210 papers concerning Cognitive Science / Artificial Intelligence;Neuroscience; Theory; Algorithms & Architectures; Emerging Technologies, Speech & Signal Processing; Visual Processing; Applications; Reinforcement Learning & Control. Includes: Fast Exact Inference with a Factored Model for Natural Language Parsing; Predictions & Semantic Association; Replay, Repair & Consolidation; Binary Coding in Auditory Cortex; How Linear Are Auditory Cortical Responses? Spikernels: Embedding Spiking Neurons in Inner-Product Spaces; A Statistical Mechanics Approach to Approximate Analytical Bootstrap Averages; Stable Fixed Points of Loopy Belief Propogation Are Local Minima of the Bethe Free Energy; Dyadic Classification Trees via Structural Risk Minimization; Bayesian Monte Carlo; Adapting Codes & Embeddings for Polychotomies; Learning Semantic Similarity; Circuit Model of Short-term Synaptic Dynamics; A Probabilistic Approach to Single Channel Blind Signal Separation; Bayesian Estimation of Time-Frequency Coefficients for Audio Signal; Prediction of Protein Topologies Using Generalised IOHMMS & RNNs. Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG. …