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Smarter Homes: How Technology Will Change Your Home Life (Design Thinking)
Smarter Homes: How Technology Will Change Your Home Life (Design Thinking)
Examine the history of smart homes, how technology shapes our lives, and ways you can think about the home when developing new products. This book presents the opportunities in the homespace that will come from understanding the history and multiple players that have contributed to the development of the home in general. ...
A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982
A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982

The book's text and many photographs introduce readers to the renowned teachers and researchers who are still well known in engineering circles.

Electrical engineering is a protean profession. Today the field embraces many disciplines that seem far removed from its roots in the telegraph, telephone, electric...

Lewis Fry Richardson: His Intellectual Legacy and Influence in the Social Sciences (Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice)
Lewis Fry Richardson: His Intellectual Legacy and Influence in the Social Sciences (Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice)
This is an open access book. Lewis F Richardson (1981-1953), a physicist by training, was a pioneer in meteorology and peace research and remains a towering presence in both fields. This edited volume reviews his work and assesses its influence in the social sciences, notably his work on arms races and their...
Between Utopia and Realism: The Political Thought of Judith N. Shklar (Haney Foundation Series)
Between Utopia and Realism: The Political Thought of Judith N. Shklar (Haney Foundation Series)

From her position at Harvard University's Department of Government for over thirty-five years, Judith Shklar (1928-92) taught a long list of prominent political theorists and published prolifically in the domains of modern and American political thought. She was a highly original theorist of liberalism, possessing a broad and...

A History of Modern Urban Operations
A History of Modern Urban Operations
This book investigates the complexities of modern urban operations?a particularly difficult and costly method of fighting, and one that is on the rise. Contributors examine the lessons that emerge from a range of historical case studies, from nineteenth-century precedents to the Battle of Shanghai; Stalingrad, German town clearance, Mandalay,...
The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment
The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment
The Ku Klux Klan has peaked three times in American history: after the Civil War, around the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and in the 1920s, when the Klan spread farthest and fastest. Recruiting millions of members even in non-Southern states, the Klan’s nationalist insurgency burst into mainstream politics. Almost one hundred years...
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation law has failed to stem Israel's settlement enterprise. Laws of war have permitted killing and destruction during Israel's...

The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism
The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism
In The Politics of Operations Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital reshapes its relation with politics through operations that enable the extraction and exploitation of mineral resources, labor, data, and cultures. They show how capital—which they theorize as a direct political actor—operates...
Surrealism at Play (Art History Publication Initiative)
Surrealism at Play (Art History Publication Initiative)
In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and against a post-World War I world increasingly dominated by...
The Lady Is a Spy: Virginia Hall, World War II Hero of the French Resistance (Scholastic Focus)
The Lady Is a Spy: Virginia Hall, World War II Hero of the French Resistance (Scholastic Focus)
The Lady Is a Spy is the audacious and riveting true story of Virginia Hall, America's greatest spy and unsung hero, brought to vivid life by acclaimed author Don Mitchell.

When Hitler invaded Poland, Virginia Hall was traveling in Europe. Which was dangerous enough, but as fighting erupted,
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A Companion to African Cinema (Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas)
A Companion to African Cinema (Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas)

An authoritative guide to African cinema with contributions from a team of experts on the topic

A Companion to African Cinema offers an overview of critical approaches to African cinema. With contributions from an international panel of experts, the Companion approaches the topic through the lens of...

The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America (Volume 1) (Cinema Cultures in Contact)
The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America (Volume 1) (Cinema Cultures in Contact)
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

In the post–World War I American climate of
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