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Computer simulation of dynamic systems
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ISBN: 0131660748 9780131660748 Year: 1972 Publisher: Englewood Cliffs (N.J.) : Prentice-Hall,

Systems engineering
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ISBN: 0138804028 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Prentice Hall

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System dynamics : a unified approach.
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ISBN: 0471459402 Year: 1975 Publisher: New York John Wiley & Sons


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Practical reliability engineering
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ISBN: 0471926965 0471929026 Year: 1991 Publisher: Chichester Wiley

The Laws of Simplicity. Design, Technology, Business, Life
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ISBN: 9780262134729 0262134721 9780262278874 0262278871 1429412925 9781429412926 1282098063 9781282098060 9786612098062 6612098066 Year: 2006 Publisher: Massachusetts The MIT Press

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This title presents ten laws of simplicity for business, technology, and design that teach us how to need less but get more. Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against technology that's too complicated, against DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte "read me" manuals. The iPod's clean gadgetry has made simplicity hip. But sometimes we find ourselves caught up in the simplicity paradox: we want something that's simple and easy to use - but also does all the complex things we might ever want it to do. In "The Laws of Simplicity", John Maeda offers guidelines, ten laws for balancing simplicity and complexity in business, technology, and design - for needing less and actually getting more. Maeda - a professor in MIT's Media Lab and a world-renowned graphic designer - explores the question of how we can redefine the notion of "improved" so that it doesn't always mean something more, something added on. Maeda's first law of simplicity is "Reduce." It's not necessarily beneficial to add technology features just because we can. And the features that we do have must be organized (Law 2) in a sensible hierarchy so users aren't distracted by features and functions they don't need. But simplicity is not less just for the sake of less. Skip ahead to Law 9: "Failure: Accept the fact that some things can never be made simple." Maeda's concise guide to simplicity in the digital age shows us how this idea can be a cornerstone of organizations and their products - how it can drive both business and technology. We can learn to simplify without sacrificing comfort and meaning, and we can achieve the balance described in Law 10. This law, which Maeda calls "The One," tells us: "Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful."

The Cyborg experiments
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ISBN: 082645903X 0826459021 9780826459022 9780826459039 9781847144393 184714439X 1472545877 9781472545879 1281291994 9781281291998 9786611291990 6611291997 9781441160768 1441160760 Year: 2002 Publisher: London New York Continuum

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The Cyborg Experiments analyzes the challenges posed to corporeality by techology. Taking as their starting point the work of the highly influential performance artists Orlan and Stelarc, the essays in this timely and important collection raise a number of questions in relation to new conceptions of embodiment, identity and otherness in the age of new technologies: Has the body become obsolete? Does transgender challenge traditional ideas of agency? Have we always been cyborgs?In addition to highlighting the playful character of digital aesthetics, the contributors investigate ethical issues concerning the ownership of our bodies and the experiments we perform on them. In this way the book explores how humanism, and ideas of "the human", have been placed under increasing scrutiny as a result of new developments in science, media and communications.Contributors:John Appleby, Rachel Armstrong, Fred Botting, Julie Clarke, Gary Hall, Chris Hables Gray, Meredith Jones, Orlan, Mark Poster, Jay Prosser, E. A. Scheer, Zod Sofia, Stelarc, Scott Wilson, Joanna Zylinska


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Journal of design history
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ISSN: 09524649 17417279 Year: 1988 Publisher: Oxford

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Journal of Design History is a leading journal in its field. It plays an active role in the development of design history (including the history of the crafts and applied arts), as well as contributing to the broader field of studies of visual and material culture. The journal includes a regular book reviews section and lists books received, and from time to time publishes special issues.

Power supply systems in communications engineering. 1 : Principles.
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ISBN: 3800913798 047190290X 9780471902904 3800914433 0471906271 9780471906278 9783800914432 Year: 1984 Publisher: Berlin Siemens

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