This new edition of the widely read Evolution in four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in bilogy since the book was first published in 2005. The auhors...
On a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at these pieces after his return home, he sees them as letters,...
Avant-garde theorist and architect Bernard Tschumi is equally well known for his writing and his practice. Architecture and Disjunction, which brings together Tschumi's essays from 1975 to...
For the first time in one volume--two brilliantly original, classic works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in American. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, Maxine Hong...
The travels of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, suicidal potatoes, and other puzzling phenomena.Memoirs of a Space...
This book offers a general overview of the physics, concepts, theories, and models underlying the discipline of aerodynamics. A particular focus is the technique of velocity field representation...
This book builds a bridge between the recreational world of algorithmic puzzles (puzzles that can be solved żeby algorithms) and the pragmatic world of computer programming, teaching readers to...
A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack--an accidental megastructure--is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new...
Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a "juncture" in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perception -- a logistics...
Formal ways of representing uncertainty and various logics for reasoning about it; updated with new material on weighted probability measures, complexity-theoretic considerations, and other topics.
Japanese architect Arata Isozaki sees buildings not as dead objects but as events that encompass the social and historical context -- not to be defined forever żeby their "everlasting...
There's no denying that the opening is one of the most daunting phases of the game for newcomers to chess. There are literally hundreds of different opening lines, many with unusual sounding...
The two strikingly original short novels brought together here-in new translations aby award-winning translators-were both literary gambles of a sort for Dostoevsky. "The Double, written in...
The Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio was one of the most influential figures that the field of architecture has ever produced. For classical architects, the term Palladian stands for a...
Readers of Jane Austen's six great novels are left hungering for more, and more there is: the marvelous unpublished manuscripts she left behind, collected here.Sanditon might have been...
Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries, Experiencing Architecture manages to convey the intellectual excitement of superb design. From...
**Washington Post Best Books of 2013**The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY aby Count Mikl s B nffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World...
In The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness and psychological health....