Its Unique Place in Visual PerceptionA new account of how we perceive the 3D shapes of objects and how to design machines that can see shapes the way we do.
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Zygmunt Pizlo
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312
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9780262253246
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Reinventing Video Games and Their PlayersHow casual games like Guitar Hero, Bejeweled, and those for Nintendo Wii are expanding the audience for video games.
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Jesper Juul
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256
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9780262259781
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Technology and the Western MillenniumHow technological change in the West has been driven by the pursuit of improvement: a history of technology, from plows and printing presses to penicillin, the atomic bomb, and the computer.
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Robert Friedel
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576
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9780262251716
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A Documentary History of Technology and the African-American ExperienceNewspaper and magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, legal patents, protest pamphlets, and other primary sources document the technological achievements of African-Americans from colonial times to the present.
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Carroll W. Pursell
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415
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9780262253147
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From James and Wundt to Cognitive ScienceThe evolution of cognitive psychology, traced from the beginnings of a rigorous experimental psychology at the end of the nineteenth century to the "cognitive revolution" at the end of the twentieth, and the social and cultural contexts of its t
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George Mandler
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309
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9780262252898
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More Tales in the History of NeuroscienceEssays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys—from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells—in the history of brain sciences.
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Charles G. Gross
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336
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9780262259668
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Biological Bases of Sexual CoercionA biologist and an anthropologist use evolutionary biology to explain the causes and inform the prevention of rape.
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Randy Thornhill, Craig T. Palmer, Margo I. Wilson
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269
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9780262253796
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Science and Politics in the 1980sThe rise and fall of the concept of nuclear winter, played out in research activity, public relations, and Reagan-era politics.
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Lawrence Badash
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424
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9780262259309
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Human Relationships, Nature, and the Built EnvironmentAn integrated approach to ethics that covers interhuman ethics, the ethics of the natural environment (including animals), and the ethics of the built environment, and enables us to offer sensible and defensible answers to the widest possible range of eth
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Warwick Fox
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400
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9780262251655
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A new, philosophically grounded theory of the voice—the voice as the lever of thought, as one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object.
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Mladen Dolar
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224
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9780262254168
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