Sökt på: Sökresultat
totalt 1 092 träffar
Ending the Fossil Fuel Era
A provocative call for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than accommodating them, accompanied by case studies from Ecuador to Appalachia and from Germany to Norway.Not so long …
Becoming Fluent
How adult learners can draw upon skills and knowledge honed over a lifetime to master a foreign language.Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because …
How History Gets Things Wrong
Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired.To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex …
Wednesday Is Indigo Blue
How the extraordinary multisensory phenomenon of synesthesia has changed our traditional view of the brain.A person with synesthesia might feel the flavor of food on her …
Thought and Language
A new edition of a foundational work of cognitive science that outlines a theory of the development of specifically human higher mental functions.Since it was introduced to the …
Software Abstractions
An approach to software design that introduces a fully automated analysis giving designers immediate feedback, now featuring the latest version of the Alloy language. In Software …
Celestial Calculations
How to predict and calculate the positions of stars, planets, the sun, the moon, and satellites using a personal computer and high school mathematics.Our knowledge of the universe …
Noise, Water, Meat
An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts.This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it-to the …
Building Successful Online Communities
How insights from the social sciences, including social psychology and economics, can improve the design of online communities.Online communities are among the most popular …
The Embodied Mind
A new edition of a classic work that originated the "embodied cognition" movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices.This classic book, first published …
The Four Books on Architecture
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 …
Architecture Depends
Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be.Architecture depends-on what? On people, time, politics, …