The new realities of economic globalization have created new conditions for cultural practice. At the same time, the information circuits, designed to promote the generalization of Western culture, ha
Political acts are encoded in medial forms--punch holes on a card, images on a livestream, tweets about events unfolding in real time--that have force, shaping people as subjects andforming the contou
Arthur Okun - teacher at Yale in the 1950s, member and later Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors in the 1960s, and Fellow of the Brookings Institution throughout the 1970s - was o
In the decades following World War II artists in Europe, North America and South America began experimenting with geometric forms. Rebelling equally against the mathematical purity of earlier geometri
Race and technology are two of the most powerful motifs in American history, but until recently they have not often been considered in relation to each other. This collection of essays examines the in
The United States in recent years has been abandoning its historical role as a leader in environmental regulation. At the same time, the European Union, spurred by political integration, has enacted m
In the 1960s art fell out of time; both artists and critics lost their temporal bearings in response to what E. M. Cioran called "not being entitled to time." This anxiety and uneasiness about time, w
This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia -- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using te
In this study of how daily newspapers in America have developed electronic publishing ventures, Pablo Boczkowski shows that new media emerge not just in a burst of revolutionary technological change b
Drawing together literature, media, and philosophy, GhostlyApparitions provides a new model for media archaeology. Stefan Andriopoulos examines therelationships between new media technologies and dist
Since the 1960s, researchers have made great strides in elucidating the laws of image formation, processing, and understanding by animals, humans, and machines. This book describes the state of knowl
A Guide to Econometrics has established itself as a preferred text for teachers and students throughout the world. It provides an overview of the subject and an intuitive feel for its concepts and tec
In 1824 a young Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel proved conclusively that algebraic equations of the fifth order are not solvable in radicals. In this book Peter Pesic shows what an important event t
Between A.D. 800 and 1450, the most important centers for the study of what we now call "the exact sciences" - including the mathematical sciences of arithmetic, geometry, and trigonometry and their a
A wide range of empirical studies is applied to various countries in this important collection. Bringing together the most recent work in econometrics applied to international trade, main sections of
When city planners and designers are given the ideal assignment -- to build a newcity in the wilderness, unencumbered by an existing urban matrix -- and, at the same time, the siteis located in the mi
The fifty-three contributions collected in this book present leading current research in one of the fastest moving fields of artificial intelligence. Organized around a view of robotics as "the intell
A case study that uses a new technique for comparing the locational advantages of different regions for a set of strongly interrelated industrial activities.
Originally published in 1967; back in print in 2003. As contemporary history in general, and political history in particular, this book will be of immeasurable interest to any student of East Europe
Who are you? And how can you prove it? How were individuals described and identified in the centuries before photography and fingerprinting, in a world without centralized administrations, where name
This is a book about the public display of death in contemporary culture. It consistsof a series of essays on specific cases in which death is displayed in museums and in photography.The essays focus
In the last two decades, people in a growing number of localities in the UnitedStates have developed grassroots ecosystem management (GREM) as a means to resolve policy problemsaffecting their environ
The Azerbaijani people have been divided between Iran and the former Soviet republicof Azerbaijan for more than 150 years, yet they have retained their ethnic identity. The collapse ofthe Soviet Union
Siegfried Kracauer's biography of the composer Jacques Offenbach is a remarkable workof social and cultural history. First published in German in 1937 and in English translation in1938, the book uses
The idea of the gene has been a central organising theme in contemporary biology, and the Human Genome Project and biotechnological advances have put the gene in the media spotlight. In this book Lenn
The Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio was one of the most influential figures that the field of architecture has ever produced. For classical architects, the term Palladian stands for a vocabular
In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal is a new history of voluntaryflagellation in Europe, from its invention in medieval religious devotion to its use in the modernpornographic imagina
The 1994-1995 Mexican crisis was the first in a succession of financial crises to hit emerging markets in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, and Turkey. In almost a
Although general equilibrium theory originated in the late 19th century, modern elaboration and development of the theory began in the 1930s and 1940s. This book focuses on the version of the theory d
The linguistic turn in German philosophy was initiated in the eighteenth century in the work of Johann Georg Hamann, Johann Gottfried von Herder, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. It was further developed in
How does the funeral oration relate to democracy in ancient Greece? How did the deathof an individual citizen-soldier become the occasion to praise the city of Athens? In The Inventionof Athens, Nicol
The relentless decline in the prices of information technology (IT) has steadilyenhanced the role of IT investment as a source of economic growth in the United States. Productivitygrowth in IT-produci
The Scottish urbanist and biologist Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) is perhaps best known for introducing the concept of "region" to architecture and planning. At the turn of the 20th century, he was one o
In recent years, object-oriented programming has emerged as the dominant computer programming style, and object-oriented languages such as C++ and Java enjoy wide use in academia and industry. This te
The Theory of Incomplete Markets provides a unified framework for analyzing the real,financial, and monetary sectors of an economy. It describes an innovative theory that takes intoaccount the fact th
In recent years, bioethicists have worked on government commissions, on ethicscommittees in hospitals and nursing homes, and as bedside consultants. Because ethical knowledge isbased on experience wit
The venture captial industry in the United States has grown dramatically over the last two decades. Annual inflows to venture funds have expanded from virtually zero in the mid-1970s to more than US$9
In "Conceptual Art and Painting", a companion to his "Essays on Art and Language", Charles Harrison reconsiders Conceptual Art in light of renewed interest in the original movement and of the various
