Dolphin researchers have collected an impressive amount of data over the last twenty years, thanks to advances in technology for monitoring, recording, and analyzing dolphin behavior as well as increa
For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States. Provision of an essenti
In Digital Methods, Richard Rogers proposes a methodological outlook for social and cultural scholarly research on the Web that seeks to move Internet research beyond the study of online culture. It i
This book is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension, Colin McGinn links questions from science to philosophical concerns to consider something that we take for granted: the importance of the hand in everyt
During World War I, German soldiers shot down carrier pigeons for fear the birds were carrying enemy communiques; in Mexico, the United States, and other countries, mules were used for smuggling and s
In the era of "big data," science is increasingly information driven, and the potential for computers to store, manage, and integrate massive amounts of data has given rise to such n
Most of us are generally ill-equipped for dying. Today, we neither see death today nor prepare for it. But this has not always been the case. In the fourteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church publi
In this book, Whitman Richards offers a novel and provocative proposal for understanding decision making and human behavior. Building on Valentino Braitenberg's famous "vehicles," Ri
For too long, analytic philosophy discounted insights from the Chinese philosophical tradition. In the last decade or so, however, philosophers have begun to bring the insights of Chinese thought to b
Today educational activities take place not only in school but also in after-school programs, community centers, museums, and online communities and forums. The success and expansion of these out-of-s
Can money buy happiness? Is income a reliable measure for life satisfaction? In the West after World War II, happiness seemed inextricably connected to prosperity. Beginning in the 1960s, however, oth
The history of Tel Aviv, presented for a moment as an architectural history, can be seen as a part of a wider process in which the physical shaping of Tel Aviv and its political and cultural construct
The crisis in Ukraine and its implications for both the Crimean peninsula and Russia's relations with the West.The current conflict in Ukraine has spawned the most serious crisis between Russia and th
In the 1930s a series of seminal works published by Alan Turing, Kurt Godel, Alonzo Church, and others established the theoretical basis for computability. This work, advancing precise characterizatio
In No Medium, Craig Dworkin looks at works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent, writing critically and substantively about works for which there would seem to be not only nothing to see but nothi
In the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, employees of Internet startups took risks--left well-paying jobs for the chance of striking it rich through stock options (only to end up unemployed a year later
The mechanized assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both praised as a boon to workers and condemned for
Since the late 1970s, the Berlin-based contemporary artist Isa Genzken (b. 1948) has produced a body of work that is remarkable for its formal and material inventiveness. In her sculptural practice, G
Why do people who perform largely the same type of work make different technology choices in the workplace? An automotive design engineer working in India, for example, finds advanced information and
Since the late 1970s, the Berlin-based contemporary artist Isa Genzken (b. 1948) has produced a body of work that is remarkable for its formal and material inventiveness. In her sculptural practice, G
In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects--com
The mobility of students in developed countries has dramatically increased over thelast fifty years. Students do not necessarily remain in their countries of origin for highereducation and work; they
The current "spatial turn" in many disciplines reflects an emergingscholarly interest in space and spatiality as central components in understanding the natural andcultural worlds. In Space in Mind, l
For more than two decades, the U.S. Department of Justice, various states, theEuropean Commission, and many private litigants pursued antitrust actions against the tech giantMicrosoft. In investigatin
This book offers a practical guide to the advanced features of the MPI (Message-Passing Interface) standard library for writing programs for parallel computers. It covers new features added in MPI-3,
The United States ushered in a new era of small-scale broadcasting in 2000 when itbegan issuing low-power FM (LPFM) licenses for noncommercial radio stations around the country. Overthe next decade, s
Innovation and design need not be about the search for a killer app. Innovation anddesign can start in people's everyday activities. They can encompass local services, culturalproduction, arenas for p
For many years, researchers have studied visual recognition with objects -- single,clean, clear, and isolated objects, presented to subjects at the center of the screen. In our realenvironment, howeve
Ostension is bodily movement that manifests our engagement with things, whether wewish it to or not. Gestures, glances, facial expressions: all betray our interest in something.Ostension enables our f
Published for the first time in 1953, Playboy became not only thefirst pornographic popular magazine in America, but also came to embody an entirely new lifestylethat took place in a series of utopian
Fresh from a party, a teen posts a photo on Facebook of a friend drinking a beer. Acollege student repurposes an article from Wikipedia for a paper. A group of players in amultiplayer online game rout
As the global economic crisis continues to cause damage, some policy makers havecalled for a more Keynesian approach to current economic problems. In this book, the economistsPeter Temin and David Vin
In assigning blame for the recent economic crisis, many have pointed to theproliferation of new, complex financial products--mortgage securitization in particular--as being atthe heart of the meltdown
It is not so easy to take the long view of socioeconomic history when you areparticipating in a revolution. For that reason, Russian economist Yegor Gaidar put aside an earlyversion of this work to ta
The sonic has come to occupy center stage in the arts and humanities. In the age ofcomputational media, sound and its subcultures can offer more dynamic ways of accounting for bodies,movements, and ev
Most people would agree that the healthcare system in the United States is a mess.Healthcare accounts for a larger percentage of gross domestic product in the United States than inany other industrial
Economic models of empirical phenomena are developed for a variety of reasons, themost obvious of which is the numerical characterization of available evidence, in a suitablyparsimonious form. Another
In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place betweennumbers and perception; for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Makingof Modern Science, "liberal ed
Computers were first conceived as "thinking machines," but in thetwenty-first century they have become social machines. People use computers to meet friends, playgames, and collaborate on projects. Co
In the twenty-first-century digital world, virtual goods are sold for real money.Digital game players happily pay for avatars, power-ups, and other game items. But behind everyvirtual sale, there is a
