This first book in English by Serge-Christophe Kolm provides an overview of hisfar-reaching vision of distributive justice. Kolm derives justice from considerations ofrationality. Justice cannot be de
In this groundbreaking collection of essays, historians and literary theorists examine how, between 1500 and 1800, pornography emerged as a literary practice and a category of knowledge intimately lin
Dissects aspects of the Principles and Parameters theory, arguing for a radically minimalist, nonderivational approach to syntax in which both the central conceptual systems and the lexicon have direc
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Connections and Symbols provides the first systematic analysis of the explosive newfield of Connectionism that is challenging the basic tenets of cognitive science.
In the absence of world government, effective national policy is essential to thesuccess of international environmental initiatives. Yet research on global environmental cooperationhas proceeded witho
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), one of the founders of critical theory and a sometimecolleague of Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin, has become a subject of renewedattention and appreci
Maud Lavin approaches design from the broader field of visual culture criticism,asking challenging questions about about who really has a voice in the culture and what unseeninfluences affect the look
These essays all focus on and present new work in areas of research that FrancoModigliani has developed during his career - corporate finance, savings behavior, and macroeconomictheory. They are subst
In 1925-26, the late Max Born gave two sets of lectures at M.I.T., one on thestructure of the atom, the other on the lattice theory of rigid bodies. Problems of Atomic Dynamicscontains the text of bot
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A collection of recent writings by and an interview with a scholar and economic advisor who has helped shape an innovative program for social change and economic development. He recounts formative mom
The Pan Am Building and the reaction to it signaled the end of an era. Begun when themodernist aesthetic and the architectural star system ruled architectural theory and practice, thecompleted buildin
Strategic Planning in Environmental Regulation introduces an approach toenvironmental regulatory planning founded on a creative, interactive relationship between businessand government. The authors ar
Marius de Zayas (1880-1961), a Mexican artist and writer whose witty caricatures ofNew York's theater, dance, and social elite brought him to the attention of Alfred Stieglitz and hiscircle at "291,"
Are Hegel and Nietzsche philosophical opposites? Can twentieth-century Continentalphilosophers be categorized as either Hegelians or Nietzscheans? In this book Elliot Jurist placesHegel and Nietzsche
