Parallax

  • Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos
    By Alan W. Hirshfeld

    In 1496, Bishop Watzenrode arranged for nephew Nicolaus to continue his studies at the bishop's own alma mater, the University of Bologna. After trekking across the Alps to Italy with his brother, Andreas, Copernicus took up the study ...

  • Parallax
    By Jon F Merz

    What happens when two professional assassins - one a Mafia hitman and the other a former German terrorist - kill at exactly the same moment in time?

  • Parallax
    By Steven Holl

    This book takes a look at the ideas behind the architecture of Steven Holl.

  • Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos
    By Alan W. Hirshfeld

    Blind Watchers of the Sky. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. Kopal, Zdenek. 1973. “Foreword”. In The Scientific World of Copernicus. Bienkowska, Barbara, ed. Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Company, vii-xii. ———. 1985.

  • Parallax: 13.1
    By Mark Dawson, Igor Cassar, Eve Kalyva

    ... of neuroTransmitter are located.10 neuroTransmitter (Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere) is an artist collaboration whose work fuses conceptual practices with transmission, sound production, and mobile broadcast system design.

  • Parallax
    By JAMES. CAIRNS MCMAHON

    Fatal accidents are rarely caused by a single mistake but are often the result of a series of errors.

  • Parallax: The Dialectics of Mind and World
    By Slavoj Zizek, Christoph Menke, Dominik Finkelde

    itself that retroactively enables the parallax view that makes it visible. This means that there is no epistemological barrier separating us from the thing in itself; we relate to it through the very inconsistency of our relation.

  • Parallax: And Selected Poems
    By Sinéad Morrissey

    A T. S. Eliot Prize–winning collection from one of Ireland's major contemporary poets PARALLAX: (Astron.) Apparent displacement, or difference in the apparent position, of an object, caused by actual change (or difference) of position of ...

  • Parallax: New Poems
    By Robin Morgan

    This is a story about storytelling-a set of shorter tales which, like Russian dolls, nest and fit together to reveal a larger one.

  • Parallax: The Dialectics of Mind and World
    By Slavoj Zizek, Christoph Menke, Dominik Finkelde

    Building upon Slavoj Žižek's The Parallax View, this volume shows how parallax is used as a figure of thought that proves how the incompatibility between the physical and the theoretical touches not only upon the ontological, but also ...

  • Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos
    By Alan W. Hirshfeld

    Lively, well-illustrated history of measuring the distance to the stars features fascinating historical characters, from ancient Greeks to 19th-century scientists.

  • Parallax
    By Maureen Mulhern

    A parallax (the apparent displacement or change caused by the position of observation; alteration—Oxford English Dictionary) is a perception.