Latest in the Author's acclaimed 'German Army' series. Increasing interest in accounts of German Army. Strong British Army involvement, due to collapse of the French. Covers well...
On 25 December 1943 the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst slipped out Altenfjord in Norway to attack Arctic convoy JW55B which was carrying vital war supplies to the Soviet Union. But British naval...
The longest serving aircraft with the RAF and still operational, this book includes 20 colour profiles and a colour section. The author describes every version - British and American - ever...
Many tabletop wargamers attempt to write their own rules or modify existing commercial sets, this unique book gives clear, practical advice on how to do either.
Brand new addition to the Flight Craft series, this time focussing on the intriguing Sukhoi-Su-15 aircraft type, and providing a comprehensive overview of all model-making kits currently available...
This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs aby Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism and modern architecture, architectural...
In this book, Sanjoy Mahajan shows us that the way to master complexity is through insight rather than precision. Precision can overwhelm us with information, whereas insight connects seemingly...
The idea that human history is approaching a żsingularityżżthat ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or...
What is a self? Does it exist in reality or is it a mere social construct--or is it perhaps a neurologically induced illusion? The legitimacy of the concept of the self has been questioned aby both...
with a new introduction aby Lewis H. Lapham This reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan's classic expose on the state of the then...
The Generative Lexicon presents a novel and exciting theory of lexical semantics that addresses the problem of the "multiplicity of word meaning"; that is, how we are able to give an...
The experimental practices of a group of artists in the former East Germany upends assumptions underpinning Western art s postwar histories.In Paper Revolutions, Sarah James offers a radical...
Original, action-oriented humanist practices for interpreting and intervening in the city: a new methodology at the intersection of the humanities, design, and urban studies.Urban humanities is an...
Artwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural realms separated by impervious walls. But some fifty years ago, the borders between technology and art...
Six essays aby artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky on how education can foster inventiveness, paired with commentary żeby Minsky's former colleagues and students.
An examination of how the technical choices, social hierarchies, economic structures, and political dynamics shaped the Soviet nuclear industry leading up to Chernobyl.The Chernobyl disaster has...
Cosmism emerged in Russia before the October Revolution and developed through the 1920s and 1930s; like Marxism and the European avant-garde, two other movements that shared this intellectual...
A provocative call for the transformation of science museums into "idea colliders" that spark creative collaborations and connections. Today's science museums descend from the Kunst-und...
How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to...
In Mindblindness, Simon Baron-Cohen presents a model of the evolution and development of "mindreading." He argues that we mindread all the time, effortlessly, automatically, and mostly...