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This beautifully illustrated book describes the development of bridges from the primitive wooden beam and masonry arch to today's large steel and prestressed concrete structures spanning rivers and valleys and highways. The author, who has tau[...]
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In this insightful and incisive essay, Eugene Ferguson demonstrates that good engineering is as much a matter of intuition and nonverbal thinking as of equations and computation. He argues that a system of engineering education that ignores no[...]
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Widely regarded as a classic in the field, Experiencing Architecture explores the history and promise of good design. Generously illustrated with historical examples of designing excellence—ranging from teacups, riding boots, and golf balls to[...]
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H. Behnke, Éditeur scientifique ; F. Bachmann, Éditeur scientifique ; K. Fladt, Éditeur scientifique ; H. Kunle, Éditeur scientifique | London : The MIT Press | 1974Fundamentals of Mathematics represents a new kind of mathematical publication. While excellent technical treatises have been written about specialized fields, they provide little help for the nonspecialist; and other books, some of them semipopu[...]
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Robert Kargon, Éditeur scientifique ; Peter Achinstein, Éditeur scientifique | London : The MIT Press | Studies from the Johns Hopkins center for the history and philosophy of science | 1987This book presents the twenty lectures in their original form for the first time. (a greatly revised version of the lectures appeared in 1904.) In addition, it contains 10 original essays in which well-known historians and philosophers of scienc[...]
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The technique of plastic design has many advantages over the traditional elastic design technique. The methodology was developed in large part by M. R. Horne and his co-workers, and first came into wide-spread practical application in Britain. W[...]
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Random variation over space and time is one of the few attributes that might safely be predicted as characterizing almost any given complex system. Random fields or "distributed disorder systems" confront astronomers, physicists, geologists, m[...]
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Understanding Buildings provides students in architecture and other allied disciplines with a basic introduction to building technology in all its aspects. This general, multidisciplinary text provides an overall explanation of the building pr[...]
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An authoritative, accessible, and up-to-date treatment of deep learning that strikes a pragmatic middle ground between theory and practice.Deep learning is a fast-moving field with sweeping relevance in today's increasingly digital world. Unders[...]
