Good News, Bad News is one of the few recent works of press criticism in which substance and style are fully in harmony. The reader is neither overwhelmed with raw data nor dazzled by flashy opinions
Our thermal environment is as rich in cultural associations as our visual, acoustic, olfactory, and tactile environments. This book explores the potential for using thermal qualities as an expressive
Using the technique of prepared questions, Conversations with LukAcs is a brilliant gathering of thoughts and insights covering topics as ontology, the techniques of manipulative societies, the pitfal
The mathematical operation of quantization exists in many communication and control systems. The increasing demand on existing digital facilities, such as communication channels and data storage, can
In this book, David Temperley addresses a fundamental question about music cognition: how do we extract basic kinds of musical information, such as meter, phrase structure, counterpoint, pitch spellin
A study of the changing world of fashion, this book attempts to construct a history of modernity through sartorial expression. Drawing on the work of Parisian designers from the mid-19th to mid-20th c
Difficult to learn and awkward to use, today's information systems often change our lives in ways that we do not need or want. The problem lies in the software development process. In this book John C
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which allows researchers to observeneural activity in the human brain noninvasively, has revolutionized the scientific study of themind. An fMRI experimen
Ten Thousand Things explores the many forms of life, or, inancient Chinese parlance "the ten thousand things" that life is and is becoming, incontemporary Beijing and beyond. Coauthored by an American
The common rhetoric about technology falls into two extreme categories: uncriticalacceptance or blanket rejection. Claiming a middle ground, Bonnie Nardi and Vicki O'Day call forresponsible, informed
with Marcela Depiante and Arthur StepanovThisbook provides an introduction to some classic ideas and analyses of transformational generativegrammar, viewed both on their own terms and from a more mode
The Message Passing Interface (MPI) specification is widely used for solvingsignificant scientific and engineering problems on parallel computers. There exist more than a dozenimplementations on compu
Large transaction-processing applications, such as banking, flight reservations, telecommunications, and networking, demand increasingly high throughput and fast response times. Coupling multiple syst
In light of research during the 1980s on new ways of representing and performing computations, this book provides a reexamination of computer organization and computer architecture. It investigates th
"Numerical Techniques in Finance" is an innovative book that shows how to create, and how to solve problems in a wide variety of complex financial models. All the models are set up using Lotus 1-2-3;
These contributions discuss a number of important developments over the past decade in a newly established and important field of economics that have led to notable changes in views on governmental c
