By force of thought : irregular memoirs of an intellectual journey / / János Kornai |
Autore | Kornai János |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (485 p.) |
Disciplina |
330.092
B |
Soggetto topico | Economists - Hungary |
Soggetto non controllato |
ECONOMICS/Political Economy
HUMANITIES/Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
0-262-61224-0
1-282-09799-7 9786612097997 0-262-27744-1 1-4294-6092-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Preface; 1 My Family and Youth-1928-1944; 2 How I Became a Communist-1945-1947; 3 On a Communist Newspaper-1947-1955; 4 Waking Up-1953-1955; 5 The Beginning of a Research Career- 1955-October 23, 1956; 6 Revolution and After-October 23, 1956-1959; 7 My Universities-1957-1959; 8 The Economic Application of Mathematical Methods-1957-1968; 9 Traveling to the West-1963 Onward; 10 Against the Current-1967-1970; 11 Institute, University, and Academy-1967 Onward; 12 Pathfinding and Preparation-1971-1976; 13 Pieces Falling into Place-1971-1980; 14 A Breakthrough-1979 Onward
15 Amicable, Dispassionate Criticism-1968-198916 Harvard-1984-2002; 17 At Home in Hungary and in the World- 1985 Onward; 18 Synthesis-1988-1993; 19 Turning Point-1989-1992; 20 On the Boundaries between Science and Politics- 1990 Onward; 21 Continuation-1990 Onward; Endnotes; Chronology; Glossary; References; Index |
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Kornai János
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Eli Heckscher, international trade, and economic history / / edited by Ronald Findlay [and others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (573 p.) |
Disciplina | 382.01 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FindlayRonald |
Soggetto topico |
International trade
Economic history Mercantile system Heckscher-Ohlin principle |
Soggetto non controllato |
ECONOMICS/Trade & Development
HUMANITIES/Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
0-262-29193-2
1-282-09817-9 9786612098178 0-262-27264-4 1-4237-9024-3 |
Classificazione | 83.42 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Preface; 1 - Introduction; 2 - Recent Methodological Developments in Economic History; 3 - The Making of the Economic Historian: Eli F.Heckscher, 1897-1904*; 4 - Eli Heckscher and the Holy Trinity; 5 - Heckscher-Ohlin Theory and Individual Attitudes Toward Globalization; 6 - Mediterranean Trade in Biblical Times; 7 - Demographic Shocks and the Factor Proportions Model: From the Plague of Justinian to the Black Death; 8 - Explaining World Tariffs,1870-1938: Stolper-Samuelson, Strategic Tariffs, and State Revenues; 9 - Eli Heckscher and His Mercantilism Today
10 - Mercantilism: Power and Plenty Through the Lens of Strategic Trade Policy11 - Mercantilism, the Enlightenment, and theI ndustrial Revolution; 12 - The Contemporary Relevance of Heckscher's Mercantilism; 13 - The Continental System After Eighty Years; 14 - Eli Heckscher, Economic Warfare, Naval Blockades, and The Continental System; 15 - The Hanoverian State and the Defeat of the Continental System: A Conversation with Eli Heckscher; 16 - Swedish Industrialization 1870-1930 and the Heckscher-Ohlin Theory; 17 - Eli F. Heckscher's Vision of Economic Development 18 - From Wartime Provisioning to Barbarous Prosperity: Eli F. Heckscher's Investigations of Food Consumption in Early Modern Sweden19 - A Portrait of Our Grandfather; 20 - Eli Heckscher Today: A Bibliometric Picture; 21 - When Heckscher Changed Direction: From Social Conservatism to Economic Liberalism; 22 - Eli Heckscher on Jewish Assimilation and Zionism; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777657403321 |
Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006 | ||
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Emil du Bois-Reymond : neuroscience, self, and society in nineteenth-century Germany / / Gabriel Finkelstein |
Autore | Finkelstein Gabriel Ward |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (381 p.) |
Disciplina |
612.8092
B |
Collana | Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology |
Soggetto topico |
Neurosciences - Philosophy - History - 19th century
Physiology, Experimental - History - 19th century Physiologists - Germany |
Soggetto non controllato |
HUMANITIES/Biography & Autobiography
NEUROSCIENCE/General SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science |
ISBN |
0-262-31485-1
0-262-31484-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; I Beginnings; 1 Childhood; 2 Youth; 3 Apprenticeship; II Experiments; 4 Science; 5 Revolution; 6 Paris; III Life; 7 Love; 8 Marriage and Career; 9 Public and Private; IV Fame; 10 Politics and History; 11 Goethe and Darwin; 12 Limits; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790791303321 |
Finkelstein Gabriel Ward
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Emil du Bois-Reymond : neuroscience, self, and society in nineteenth-century Germany / / Gabriel Finkelstein |
Autore | Finkelstein Gabriel Ward |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (381 p.) |
Disciplina |
612.8092
B |
Collana | Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology |
Soggetto topico |
Neurosciences - Philosophy - History - 19th century
Physiology, Experimental - History - 19th century Physiologists - Germany |
Soggetto non controllato |
HUMANITIES/Biography & Autobiography
NEUROSCIENCE/General SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science |
ISBN |
0-262-31485-1
0-262-31484-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; I Beginnings; 1 Childhood; 2 Youth; 3 Apprenticeship; II Experiments; 4 Science; 5 Revolution; 6 Paris; III Life; 7 Love; 8 Marriage and Career; 9 Public and Private; IV Fame; 10 Politics and History; 11 Goethe and Darwin; 12 Limits; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821182703321 |
Finkelstein Gabriel Ward
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Engineering invention : Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. electrical industry / / Frederick Dalzell |
Autore | Dalzell Frederick |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
Disciplina |
621.3092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Inventors - United States
Electric utilities - United States - History - 20th century Electrical engineers - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
BUSINESS/Management
HUMANITIES/Biography & Autobiography ENGINEERING/Electrical Engineering |
ISBN |
0-262-25812-9
1-282-69440-5 9786612694400 0-262-25870-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Motive Powers and Mechanisms; 2 Getting Traction, 1884 to 1888; 3 Assessing Richmond; 4 Restless and Rising; 5 Fighting for Control; 6 Elusive Control; 7 Mainline Electrification; Afterword; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791291303321 |
Dalzell Frederick
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2010 | ||
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Helmholtz : from enlightenment to neuroscience / / Michel Meulders ; translated and edited by Laurence Garey |
Autore | Meulders Michel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.2 |
Soggetto topico | Scientists - Germany |
Soggetto non controllato |
HUMANITIES/Biography & Autobiography
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science |
ISBN |
0-262-31195-X
1-282-89927-9 9786612899270 0-262-28964-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Author's Acknowledgments; Translator's Introduction; Preface; Prelude; 1 Helmholtz; 2 Natural Philosophy in Young Helmholtz's Time; 3 Johannes Müller, "Man of Iron"; 4 Vitalism; 5 Helmholtz and the Understanding of Nature; Intermezzo with Artists; 6 In Search of Lost Time; 7 Goethe and His Vision of Nature; 8 The Dispute about Colors; 9 The Founding Regard; 10 For or Against Pythagoras?; 11 The Musical Ear; Conclusion; Postface; Notes; Bibliography |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791660103321 |
Meulders Michel
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010 | ||
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Lenin's laureate : Zhores Alferov's life in communist science / / Paul R. Josephson |
Autore | Josephson Paul R |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (314 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.47/0904 |
Collana | Transformations |
Soggetto topico |
Physicists - Russia (Federation)
Physics - Russia (Federation) - History Science and state - Russia (Federation) - History |
Soggetto non controllato | HUMANITIES/Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
0-262-29150-9
1-282-89923-6 9786612899232 0-262-28952-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785243503321 |
Josephson Paul R
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Riding the waves : a life in sound, science, and industry / / Leo Beranek |
Autore | Beranek Leo L (Leo Leroy), <1914-2016.> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
Disciplina |
620.2092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Acoustical engineering - United States
Music-halls |
Soggetto non controllato | HUMANITIES/Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
0-262-25065-9
1-282-09933-7 9786612099335 0-262-26818-3 1-4356-2796-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Iowa and beyond: from bumble bees to ivy -- Harvard : shaping the future -- Wartime : communications and kamikazes -- MIT, teaching, writing, AT&T, and traveling -- Bolt Beranek & Newman, the United Nations, big noise, and the Internet -- Muffling the jet age -- Music, acoustics, and architecture -- America's best TV station -- Family, nonprofits, and variety -- Art + physics = beautiful music. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778335603321 |
Beranek Leo L (Leo Leroy), <1914-2016.>
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When I was a photographer / / Felix Nadar ; translated by Eduardo Cadava and Liana Theodoratou |
Autore | Nadar Félix <1820-1910, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina | 770.92 |
Soggetto topico |
Photography - France
Photographers - France |
Soggetto non controllato |
ARTS/Photography & Film/General
HUMANITIES/Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
0-262-33072-5
0-262-33071-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Translators' Note; Balzac and the Daguerreotype; Gazebon Avenged; The Blind Princess; Homicidal Photography; The First Attempt at Aerostatic Photography; Subterranean Paris; Female and Male Clients; The Professional Secret; Doctor Van Monckhoven; Obsidional Photography; The Primitives of Photography; The New President of the French Society of Photography; The Bee Tamer; 1830 and Thereabouts; Chronology; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797843903321 |
Nadar Félix <1820-1910, >
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , [2015] | ||
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When I was a photographer / / Felix Nadar ; translated by Eduardo Cadava and Liana Theodoratou |
Autore | Nadar Félix <1820-1910, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina | 770.92 |
Soggetto topico |
Photography - France
Photographers - France |
Soggetto non controllato |
ARTS/Photography & Film/General
HUMANITIES/Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
0-262-33072-5
0-262-33071-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Translators' Note; Balzac and the Daguerreotype; Gazebon Avenged; The Blind Princess; Homicidal Photography; The First Attempt at Aerostatic Photography; Subterranean Paris; Female and Male Clients; The Professional Secret; Doctor Van Monckhoven; Obsidional Photography; The Primitives of Photography; The New President of the French Society of Photography; The Bee Tamer; 1830 and Thereabouts; Chronology; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814123003321 |
Nadar Félix <1820-1910, >
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , [2015] | ||
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