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Separation of variables and superintegrability :the symmetry of solvable syst…
"Version: 20180501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Background and definitions -- 2.1. Classical mechanics -- 2.2. Quantum mechanics -- 2.3. Integrability and superintegrability3. Separation of variables -- 3.1. Some approaches to separability -- 3.2. The Levi-Civita procedure -- 3.3. Nonorthogonal separation : examples -- 3.4. Intrinsic characterizat…
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Radiation dose management of pregnant patients, pregnant staff and paediatric…
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Dosimetry -- 1.1. Physical phantoms simulating pregnancy and children -- 1.2. Thermoluminescence dosimeters (TLDs) and optically stimulated luminescence dosimeters (OSLDs) -- 1.3. Optically stimulated luminescence dosimeters (OSLDs) -- 1.4. Computational phantoms simulating pregnancy and children -- 1.5. Monte Carlo si…
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Astrophysical recipes :the art of AMUSE /
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. What is computational astrophysics? -- 1.1. Computational astrophysics -- 1.2. A brief history of simulations in astrophysics -- 1.3. Software used in this book -- 1.4. Initial conditions2. Gravitational dynamics -- 2.1. In a nutshell -- 2.2. N-body integration strategies -- 2.3. Gravity solvers in AMUSE -- 2.4. Exampl…
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The Folklore of the FreewayRace and Revolt in the Modernist City
When the interstate highway program connected America’s cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent and predominantly white residents fought back in a much heralded “freeway revolt,” saving such historic neighborhoods as Greenwich Village and New Orleans’s French Quarter. This book tells of the other revolt, a movement of …
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Constructing Imperial BerlinPhotography and the Metropolis
How photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image—and one another—in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city that once visually epitomized a divided Europe has thrived in the international spotlight as an image of reunified statehood and urbanity. Yet research on Berlin’s past has focused on the interwar yea…
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Pedestrian ModernShopping and American Architecture, 1925–1956
Too close to the wiles and calculations of consumption, stores and shopping centers are generally relegated to secondary, pedestrian status in the history of architecture. And yet, throughout the middle decades of the twentieth century, stores and shopping centers were an important locus of modernist architectural thought and practice. Under the mantle of modernism, the merchandising problems a…
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The Architecture of DisabilityBuildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access
A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access, but The Architecture of Disability calls for a radical reorientation of this perspective by situating experiences of impairment as a new foundation for the built environment. With its provocative p…
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Historic CapitalPreservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. has long been known as a frustrating and sometimes confusing city for its residents to call home. The monumental core of federal office buildings, museums, and the National Mall dominates the city’s surrounding neighborhoods and urban fabric. For much of the postwar era, Washingtonians battled to make the city their own, fighting the federal government over the basic ques…
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The Social ProjectHousing Postwar France
Winner of the 2015 Abbott Lowell Cummings prize from the Vernacular Architecture Forum Winner of the2015Sprio Kostof Book Award from theSociety of Architectural Historians Winner of the2016 International Planning History Society Book Prize for European Planning History Honorable Mention:2016 Wylie Prize in French Studies In the three decades following World War II, the French government engag…
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Curated DecayHeritage beyond Saving
Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, and explains how we must adopt an ethical stance that allow…
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