mit press 1990 cambridge mass (15 results)

Hardcover. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, some traces of use. Ancien Exemplaire de bibliothèque avec signature et cachet. BON état, quelques traces d'usure. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. C 604 9780262031677 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Small 4to hardback with unclipped dust jacket, 272pp, indexed, illus in b/w. Occasional pencil lines and marks to text, light foxing to dust jacket. Overall VG/VG. (SHELF 96) ISBN: 0262121441 PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Original publisher's beige cloth hardback, title spine, dustjacket, large 8vo: (x), 542pp., 23 contributions, figs., references, list contributors, general index.

Very Good 25.5 x 17.5cms 96pp b/w Illusts No Jacket Very Good Soft Cover This issue has essays on educating the designer: Moholy-Nagys pedagogy at Chicago (1937-46); Katherine McCoys opinion & proposal; the transition from skills to knowledge; a rational for public design education; education in automation. SALE PRICE.

Fine Med 8vo 264pp b/w Illusts Very Good - edge Wear Hard Cover This book argues that the subterranean environment has become a model for a future dominated by technology. It examines the hopes and fears engendered by the powerful fantasy of a society living entirely underground.

, Klein, George, 1925-. The atheist and the holy city : encounters and reflections. Translated by Theodore and Ingrid Friedmann ; foreword by Lewis Thomas. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1990, xiv, 223pp., very good dust-jacket, minor tear at top edge, very good gray cloth, but front endpaper and half-title cut 3cm at top to remove previous owner's name. FROM THE DUST-JACKET : "Ranging all the way from the secrets of life to the mythological significance of one big, dark bird, from a children's hospital in Africa to German concentration camps, from the mysteries of biochemistry to the paradoxes of human sexuality and eroticism, from experimental immunology to the elusive tranquility of a Jerusalem evening, this book is facinating, challenging, deep, and sometimes fun reading" (Amos Oz). 9780262111553 ISBN 0262111551.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. No signatures. Some creasing and rubbing to covers. ; 1990 paperback reprint of a title originally published in 1987. xvi, [4], 459 pages. Page dimensions: 226 x 151mm. "This monumental work traces the rise, the transformation, and the diffusion of probabilistic and statistical thinking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors - scientists, historians, and philosophers of science from eight countries make it possible for readers trained in many disciplines to see why the probabilistic revolution has been so complete and so successful." Part V of this volume is on Evolutionary Biology, and is made up of the following chapters: "The Probablistic Revolution in Evolutionary Biology - An Overview" by John Beatty; "Natural Selection as a Causal, Empirical, and Probablistic Theory" by J. S. Hodge; "Dobzhansky and Drift: Facts, Values, and Chance in Evolutionary Biology" by John Beatty; "Random Genetic Drift, R. A. Fisher, and the Oxford School of Ecological Genetics" by John R. G. Turner; "On the Prior Probability of the Existence of Life" by Bernd-Olaf Küppers. Part VI on Physics includes the chapter "Max Born and the Reality of Quantum Probabilities" by Nancy Cartwright, along with 3 other chapters on Physics.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy large octavo 471pp., b/w pls., bibliog., index, 'Filmmakers, artists, social activists, novelists, drag performers, architects, musicians and academics discuss 'critical thought in the making'. They talk about the theory/practise nexus; the representation of social & sexual stereotypes; the viability of 'postmodernism'; art/community relationships; the high art/popular culture nexus'. Light tape-marks to front end paper o/w a nice copy.

Ferguson, Russell, ed. Discourses: conversations in postmodern art and culture. Foreword by Marcia Tucker ; a photographic sketchbook by John Baldessari. New York : Cambridge, Mass.: New Museum of Contemporary Art ; MIT Press, 1990, 471pp., very good dust-jacket with a few light scratches and slight wear, very good heavy black cloth, lightly bumped at bottom of spine and rubbed along bottom edge of cover, old publisher's sale price label on front endpaper. Documentary sources in contemporary art ; v. 3. - CONTENTS: A box of tools : theory & practice / Russell Ferguson -- Intellectuals & power / Michel Foucault & Gilles Deleuze -- Sankofa & Black Audio Film Collective / Coco Fusco -- If upon leaving what we have to say we speak : a conversation piece / Laleen Jayamanne, Leslie Thornton & Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Feminist film practice & pleasure / Dee Dee Glass [et al.] -- Julia Kristeva / Alice Jardine -- Mechanisms of exclusion & relation : identity / Marcia Tucker -- In the shadow of the West : Edward Said / Phil Mariani & Jonathan Crary -- Gayatri Spivak / Walter Adamson -- Women in the beehive : Jacques Derrida / the Pembroke Seminar -- Extended sensibilities / Jeff Weinstein [et al.] -- When is art not enough? : art & community / Karen Fiss -- Tim Rollins / Trevor Fairbrother -- Jimmy Boyle / Russell Ferguson -- Prisoner : James Pettaway / Jonathan Borofsky -- Joseph Beuys / Kate Horsfield & Lyn Blumenthal -- Out of the blue / Dara Birnbaum -- Gran fury / David Deitcher -- David Hammons / Kellie Jones -- Taking control : popular culture / Russell Ferguson -- Punk and history / Malcolm McLaren [et al.] -- Girls rappin' roundtable / Roxanne Shante [et al.] -- Speaking your mind : Ethyl Eichelberger & Lily Savage / Neil Bartlett -- New music / Scott Johnson [et al.] -- Resistance to interpretation : authority & institutions / Marcia Tucker -- Krysztof Wodiczko / Doublas Crimp, Rosalyn Deutsche & Ewa Lajer-Burcharth -- Charlottesville Conference / Philip Johnson [et al.] -- Doctor lawyer Indian chief : 'primitivism' in 20th century art / Tom McEvilley, William Rubin & Kirk Varnedoe -- Histories of the tribal and modern / James Clifford -- Roland Barthes / Bernard-Henri Lev y -- Reading Lacan / Jane Gallop. 9780262061254 ISBN 0262061252.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New tall octavo 240pp., b/w pls., text ills., appends., bibliog., index,

1st edition stiff wrappers Nice copy octavo xv + 449pp., b/w plate, text ills., map, indexes, Light wear to wrappers o/w nice copy.

32.0 x 24.0cms 440pp b/w Illusts very good+ hardback & dustwrapper This book examines Le Douxs work and life in the context of the Revolutionary period. it discusses his education early career and the development of his personal idiom as a domestic architect. It analyses his Saline de Chaux the celebrated factory town; the Palace of Justice of Aix-de-Provence; the Theatre of Besancon; the Paris tollgates and The Ideal City of Chaux as examples of a modern classicism that would reinvent the ancient forms with contemporary meaning.

2nd printing hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo ix + 269pp., b/w pls., text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., index, 'Manfredo Tafuri presents a sophisticated account of the origins and development of the movements and schools that have shaped Italian architecture and urban design since the Liberation'.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Very nice copy quarto xv + 447pp., b/w plates, text ills., plans, notes, bibliog., index, 'Examines Le Doux's work and life in the context of the Revolutionary period. it discusses his education, early career and the development of his personal idiom as a domestic architect. It analyses his Saline de Chaux, the celebrated factory town; the Palace of Justice of Aix-de-Provence; the Theatre of Besancon; the Paris tollgates and 'The Ideal City of Chaux' as examples of a 'modern classicism' that would reinvent the ancient forms with contemporary meaning.'.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New quarto xv + 447pp., b/w plates, text ills., plans, notes, bibliog., index, 'Examines Le Doux's work and life in the context of the Revolutionary period. it discusses his education, early career and the development of his personal idiom as a domestic architect. It analyses his Saline de Chaux, the celebrated factory town; the Palace of Justice of Aix-de-Provence; the Theatre of Besancon; the Paris tollgates and 'The Ideal City of Chaux' as examples of a 'modern classicism' that would reinvent the ancient forms with contemporary meaning.'.