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  • Beyond the Finite

    The Sublime in Art and Science

    by Roald Hoffmann, Iain Boyd Whyte ...
    Throughout its long history, and not just as the key aesthetic category for the Romantic Movement, the sublime has created the necessary link between aesthetic and moral judgment, offering the prospect of transcending the limits of measurement, even imagination. The best of science makes genuine claims to the sublime. For in science, as in art, every day brings the entirely new, the extreme, and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Beyond the Finite

    The Sublime in Art and Science

    by Roald Hoffmann, Iain Boyd Whyte ...
    Throughout its long history, and not just as the key aesthetic category for the Romantic Movement, the sublime has created the necessary link between aesthetic and moral judgment, offering the prospect of transcending the limits of measurement, even imagination. The best of science makes genuine claims to the sublime. For in science, as in art, every day brings the entirely new, the extreme, and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • New Design for Old Buildings

    by Roger Hunt, Iain Boyd ...
    This book is a celebration of good new design for old buildings and the SPAB philosophy that good new architecture can sit happily alongside old and is preferable to pastiche. Endorsing the value of architects who are engaged to work in the historic environment, this book explores design, materials and technical considerations in creating the best low energy, ecological and sustainable retrofits. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Complete Gaelic Beginner to Intermediate Book and Audio Course

    Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new language with Teach Yourself

    by Iain Taylor, Boyd Robertson ...
    Are you looking for a complete course in Gaelic which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting from scratch, or are just out of practice, Complete Gaelic will guarantee success!This edition is fully updated to reflect the published spelling conventions, and has complete audio support online.The course is structured in thematic units and the emphasis is ... Read more

    Was $4.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Nonequilibrium Gas Dynamics and Molecular Simulation

    by Iain D. Boyd, Thomas E. Schwartzentruber ...
    Series Book 42 - Cambridge Aerospace Series
    This current and comprehensive book provides an updated treatment of molecular gas dynamics topics for aerospace engineers, or anyone researching high-temperature gas flows for hypersonic vehicles and propulsion systems. It demonstrates how the areas of quantum mechanics, kinetic theory, and statistical mechanics can combine in order to facilitate the study of nonequilibrium processes of internal ... Read more

    $168.99 USD

  • Hypersonic Meteoroid Entry Physics

    by Dr Alina A. Alexeenko, Dr Daniil A. Andrienko, Prof Vincenzo Aquilanti, Dr Patricia Barreto, Dr James Beck, Dr Francesco Bonelli, Prof Jiří Borovička, Dr Salvatore Borrelli, Prof Iain D. Boyd, Dr Francesco Francesco Capitelli, Dr Giuseppe Ceglia, Prof Roberto Celiberto, Dr Luigi Cutrone, Prof Massimo D'Orazio, Dr Mario De Cesare, Dr Antonio Del Vecchio, Dr Georges Duffa, Dr Fabrizio Esposito, Dr Kazuhisa Fujita, Dr Carolyn Jacobs, Prof Ratko K. Janev, Prof Elena Kustova, Dr Hervé Lamy, Dr Vincenzo Laporta, Prof Christophe Laux, Dr Adrian Lemal, Prof Andrea Lombardi, Dr Han Luo, Dr Megan E. MacDonald, Dr Robyn Macdonald, Prof Sergey Macheret, Dr Pierre Mariotto, Dr Sean D. McGuire, Prof Zsolt J. Mezei, Prof Richard G. Morgan, Dr Félix Mouzet, Dr Alessandro Munafò, Prof Ekaterina Nagnibeda, Dr Kevin Neitzel, Dr Satoshi Nomura, Prof Fabrizio Paganucci, Dr Federico Palazzetti, Prof Marco Panesi, Prof Giuseppe Pascazio, Dr Lucia Daniela Pietanza, Prof Fernando Pirani, Dr Philippe Reynier, Dr Luigi Savino, Dr Antonio Schettino, Prof Ioan F. Schneider, Dr Giulio Seller, Dr Giorgio Saverio Senesi, Prof Kelly A. Stephani, Prof Sergey T. Surzhikov, Dr Augustin Tibère-Inglesse, Dr Josep Maria Trigo-Rodríguez, Dr Michele Tuttafesta, Prof Jogindra M. Wadehra, Prof Fabian Zander, Professor Jonathan Tennyson, Antonio D'Angola ...
    Series series IOP Series in Plasma Physics
    Hypersonic Meteoroid Entry Physics provides a fascinating overview of meteoroid atmospheric entry and covers meteoroid observations in outer space; the description of the chemical–physical phenomena during atmospheric entry; recovery of the meteor on the Earth’s surface and meteorite chemical analysis.The book, based on the lectures given during the HyMEP course held in Erice in 2017, is addressed ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Metropolis Berlin

    1880–1940

    Edited by Iain Boyd Whyte, David Frisby ...
    Series Book 46 - Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
    Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred contemporary texts, virtually all of which are published in English translation for the first time. They are from the pens of those who created Berlin as one of the world’s great cities and those who observed this process: architects, city planners, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Hot Art, Cold War – Western and Northern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990

    Edited by Claudia Hopkins, Iain Boyd Whyte ...
    Hot Art, Cold War – Northern and Western European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 is one of two text anthologies that trace the reception of American art in Europe during the Cold War era through primary sources.With the exception of those originally published in English, the majority of these texts are translated into English for the first time from eight languages, and are introduced by ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Hot Art, Cold War – Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990

    Edited by Claudia Hopkins, Iain Boyd Whyte ...
    Hot Art, Cold War – Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 is one of two text anthologies that trace the reception of American art in Europe during the Cold War era through primary sources.Translated into English for the first time from sixteen languages and introduced by scholarly essays, the texts in this volume offer a representative selection of the diverse responses ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Man-Made Future

    Planning, Education and Design in Mid-20th Century Britain

    Edited by Iain Boyd Whyte ...
    This anthology of essays by a group of distinguished scholars investigates post-1945 city planning in Britain; not from a technical viewpoint, but as a polemical, visual and educational phenomenon, shifting the focus of scholarly interest towards the often-neglected emotional and aesthetic aspects of post-war planning.Each essay is grounded in original archival research and sheds new light on this ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Modernism and the Spirit of the City

    Edited by Iain Boyd Whyte ...
    Modernism and the Spirit of the City offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the fashionable postmodernist arguments of the 1980s and '90s which damned modernist architecture as banal and monotonous, this collection of essays by eminent scholars investigates the complex cultural, social, and ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies

    Edited by Colin Renfrew, Iain Morley, Michael Boyd ...
    The origins of religion and ritual in humans have been the focus of centuries of thought in archaeology, anthropology, theology, evolutionary psychology and more. Play and ritual have many aspects in common, and ritual is a key component of the early cult practices that underlie the religious systems of the first complex societies in all parts of the world. This book examines the formative cults ... Read more

    $43.99 USD