From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal, and philosophical principles of architecture. In The Glass State, Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transpare
Did someone say we need yet another anthology of essays? According to the editors of Did Someone Say Participate?, the answer is an emphatic--or hysterical--"YES!" In fac
The Culture of the Copy is an unprecedented attempt to make sense of our Western fascination with replicas, duplicates, and twins. Through intriguing historical analysis and case studies in contempor
More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze,
In Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950 Jeffrey Williamson examines globalization through the lens of both the economist and the historian, analyzing its economic impact on industrially la
Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher cognition, cognitive theories based on neural computation and those employing symbolic computation can in fact strengthen one another. To substant
The United States's post-World War II emphasis on activist fiscal policy forshort-term economic stabilization was called into question in the 1960s, and by the late 1980s wassuperseded by the view tha
Strategic Planning in Environmental Regulation introduces an approach toenvironmental regulatory planning founded on a creative, interactive relationship between businessand government. The authors ar
Strategic Planning in Environmental Regulation introduces an approach to environmental regulatory planning founded on a creative, interactive relationship between business and government. The authors
The evolution of the record producer from technician to auteur, from Phil Spector and George Martin to the rise of hip-hop and remixing. In the 1960s, rock and pop music recording questioned the conve
Empirical and theoretical studies on such questions as the desirability and optimal functioning of monetary unions, the enlargement of the eurozone, and the institution of monetary unions in Latin Ame
In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle looks at the computer not as a "tool," but as part of our social and psychological lives; she looks beyond how we use computer games and spreadsheets to ex
Lives of the Laureates offers readers an informal history of modern economic thought as told through autobiographical essays by eighteen winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. The essays not only pr
Many American families have not prospered in the new "knowledge economy." The layoffs, restructurings, and wage and benefit cuts that have followed the short-lived boom of the 1990s threaten our deepl
Cosmopolitan Modernisms explores various moments in 20th-century art where the encounter between different cultures has produced something distinctive and revealing about the lived experience of moder
The next great change in computer science and information technology will come from mimicking the techniques by which biological organisms process information. To do this computer scientists must draw
Throughout much of human history, changes to forest ecosystems have come about through natural climatic changes occurring over long periods of time. But scientists now find changes in forest cover dra
Innovation is rapidly becoming democratised. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. These innovating user
In this book, Peter Diamond analyzes social security as a particular example of optimal taxation theory. Assuming a world of incomplete markets and asymmetric information, he uses a variety of simple
In this analysis of one major philosopher by another, Gilles Deleuze identifies three pivotal concepts - duration, memory, and elan vital - that are found throughout Bergson's writings and shows the
Lives of the Laureates offers readers an informal history of modern economic thought, as told through autobiographical essays by eighteen winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. The essays not only p
The war in Iraq and the problematic military occupation of that country have called into question the adequacy of America's all-volunteer force. Politicians and others have expressed doubts about its
The economics of knowledge is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline of economics that has never before been given the comprehensive and cohesive treatment found in this book. Dominique Foray analyses the
Artificial life, or a-life, is an interdisciplinary science focused on artificial systems that mimic the properties of living systems. In the 1990s, new media artists began appropriating and adapting
The maps in this book are drawn with satellites, assembled with pixels radioed from outer space, and constructed from statistics; they record situations of intense conflict and express fundamental tra
Since the end of the Cold War, Turkey has moved from the periphery to occupy the verycenter of Eurasian security. It is a critical participant in NATO and aspires to become a member ofthe European Uni
Camouflage is an adaptive logic of escape from photographic representation. InHide and Seek, Hanna Rose Shell traces the evolution of camouflage as itdeveloped in counterpoint to technological advance
What is it that makes Nietzsche Nietzsche? In The Shortest Shadow, Alenka Zupancic counters the currently fashionable appropriation of Nietzsche as a philosopher who was "ahead of his time"
Growing up with the twentieth century, Alfred Barr (1902-1981), founding director ofthe Museum of Modern Art, harnessed the cataclysm that was modernism. In this book -- partintellectual biography, pa
To be involved in politics without aspiring to govern, without seeking to be governed by the best leaders, without desiring to abolish all forms of government: such is the condition common to practit
In this book Martha Buskirk addresses the interesting fact that since the early 1960s, almost anything can and has been called art. Furthermore, works of art that lack traditional signs of authenticit
This volume was written to help future engineers understand what they are going to be doing in their everyday working lives, so that they can do their work more effectively and with a broader social v
Reminding us that all media were once new, this book challenges the notion that to study new media is to study exclusively today's new media. Examining a variety of media in their historic contexts, i
From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal and philosophical principles of artchitecture. In "The Glass State", Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transpa
A symposium on noise, stressing mathematical theory and basic physical phenomena, and covering such topics as cathode noise phenomena, signal amplification in microwave tubes, solid-state noise, and m
This bibliography brings together a wide variety of materials relevant to the study of political elites, drawn from the literature in anthropology, sociology, political science, history, economics, so
Today's rapid growth in information technology has occurred without a full understanding of the human consequences of its use-on individuals, on organizations, and on society as a whole. As a result,
A symposium on the physical chemistry of iron and steelmaking held at MIT in 1956. This voluem contains the papers presented at the Conference on The Physical Chemistry of Iron and Steelmaking which
The system presented in this book consists of two more-or-less independent parts. The first is the system's parallel network memory scheme; the second part of the knowledge-base system presented here
Some methods of processing data recorded from the nervous system as developed at MIT, with a chapter on random processes. From the Preface:"The methods that one employs in processing data, are, of cou
