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I WOULD LIKE to thank the following people who in innumerable ways have made this book possible. First, to all of the brilliant contributors without whom this book would not be what it is, Margaret Janik for being my mirror, Stephen Perrella for his…

Well below freezing the air inside the plane turns breath
to fog and windows to ice. Heat from a hand pressed
against the glass makes a patch of window transparent
long enough for a glimpse of the snow-blown expanse of
rock three hundred metres…

why postmodernism, yet again? Is it not either too late or too early,too academic or too obvious, to return to that moment when architecture was taken up by so many thinkers for its evidentiary status, as marking
a momentous interruption, or at…

Evolution and education, like nature and nurture, have often been put into oppo- sition. Here, our aim is to bring them together. The brain has evolved to educate and to be educated, often instinctively and effortlessly. The brain is the machine that…

Welcome to Introducing Autodesk® Maya® 2016 and the world of
computer-generated imagery (CGI). Whether you’re new to 3D graphics or
venturing into Autodesk’s powerhouse animation software from another 3D
application, you’ll find this book…

I could not have produced this account, fourteen years in
the making, without significant help. Surely credit is due
to the early Usonians who typed and mimeographed—and saved—the thousands of single-spaced communications during the creation…

We review the extensive benchmark data on short‐term memory for order, and discuss the prominent computational theories accounting for serial order memory. On the basis of recent diagnostic results, we identify four explana- tory constructs that we…

Interiors: An Introduction, Fifth Edition, is the starting point for a lifetime of design
education, appreciation, and enjoyment. Interior design is an exciting discipline that
makes life better through effective design solutions to spatial,…

Many years ago I was in Moscow, carrying out a negotiation in the offices of a state buying organisation. After my negotiation was finished I had to wait for the
formal signatures to the document that I had agreed. I passed the time sitting in one…

The Art in Peacemaking:
An Initiative of the Partnership for Conflict Resolution in the Arts
Young people bring many challenges and sensitive issues with them when they enter community arts programs. Often these challenges exist as disputes young…