Shifting the conversation about the "digital divide" from questions of technological access to questions about opportunities for being involved in participatory culture and acquiring the ne
Our intuition tells us that we, our conscious selves, cause our own voluntary acts. Yet scientists have long questioned this; Thomas Huxley, for example, in 1874 compared mental events to a steam whi
Eastern Europe's historically unprecedented and accelerated transition from late communism to late capitalism, coupled with media globalization, set in motion a scramble for cultural identity and a s
In the nineteenth century, horse transportation consumed vast amounts of land for hay production, and the intense traffic and ankle-deep manure created miserable living conditions in urban centers. T
The conceptual history of cognitive science remains for the most part unwritten. In this groundbreaking book, Jean-Pierre Dupuy—one of the principal architects of cognitive science in France&md
In the nineteenth century, horse transportation consumed vast amounts of land for hay production, and the intense traffic and ankle-deep manure created miserable living conditions in urban centers. Th
The field of forest economics has expanded rapidly in the last two decades, and yet there exists no up-to-date textbook for advanced undergraduate-graduate level use or rigorous reference work for pr
In this highly original reanalysis of minimalist syntax, Thomas Stroik considers theoptimal design properties for human language. Taking as his starting point Chomsky's minimalistassumption that the s
In this highly original reanalysis of minimalist syntax, Thomas Stroik considers theoptimal design properties for human language. Taking as his starting point Chomsky's minimalistassumption that the s
How to manage the unemployment that occurs in the process of the continuous job destruction and creation responsible for growth in today's economies: what recent economic research tells us about wage
Stephen Axilrod is the ultimate Federal Reserve insider. He worked at the Fed's Board of Governors for over thirty years and after that in private markets and as a consultant on monetary policy. With
Insurance companies routinely use an individual's medical history and family medical history in determining eligibility for life insurance; this is part of the process of medical underwriting. Insure
For over half a century, the biologist Barry Commoner has been one of the most prominent and charismatic defenders of the American environment, appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1970 as the
High inequality in incomes and assets and persistent poverty continue to plague Latin America and remain a central economic policy challenge for Latin American policymakers. At the same time, dramati
Public-private partnerships in education exist in various forms around the world, in both developed and developing countries. Despite this, and despite the importance of human capital for economic gr
Computer-generated effects are often blamed for bad Hollywood movies. Yet when acritic complains that "technology swamps storytelling" (in a review of Van Helsing, calling it "anexample of everything
Architectural Graphic Standards by Charles George Ramsey and Harold Reeve Sleeper, first published in 1932 (and now in its eleventh edition), is a definitive technical reference for architects - the o
For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our collective imagination with her insights about how technology enters our
Studies show that institutions play a role both in causing and in addressing problemsarising from human-environment interactions. But the nature of this role is complex and not easilydescribed. This b
Studies show that institutions play a role both in causing and in addressing problemsarising from human-environment interactions. But the nature of this role is complex and not easilydescribed. This b
An agument for the importance of equity as a criterion in evaluating water policy, with examples in wide-ranging case studies from North and South America and Europe.Many predict that by the end of th
For much of the first half of the twentieth century, meteorology was more art thanscience, dependent on an individual forecaster's lifetime of local experience. In Weatherby the Numbers, Kristine Harp
In 1931 distinguished economist John Maynard Keynes published a short essay,"Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren," in his collection Essays in Persuasion. Inthe essay, he expressed optimism f
This book develops a theory that radically reconceptualizes the economic forces producing regional change and tests it empirically for a set of fifteen sectors in the U.S. It offers a pioneering appro
Artist Mel Bochner became a writer, he says, almost by accident. In 1965, as a youngartist in New York, he was out of a job; Arts Magazine paid him $2.50 for every review he turnedin, whether they pub
The marginal cost of public funds (MCF) measures the loss incurred by society in raising additional revenues to finance government spending. The MCF has emerged as one of the most important concepts
As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, aprogram alarm in the guidance computer's software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrongresponded by switching of
"This is a book about science, technology, and love," writes Sherry Turkle. In it, we learn how a love for science can start with a love for an object - a microscope, a modem, a mud pie, a pair of dic
In 2002 Dr. Hans Blix, then chief United Nations weapons inspector, led his team on a search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. By March 2003, when the United States invaded, he had found no ev
This book is a call for universal human rights and secular democracy in the Muslim world. It lays out why democratic change in Iran must be nonviolent, why womens' rights trump some interpretations o
Demographic realities will soon force developed countries to find ways to pay forlonger retirements for more people. In Pension Strategies in Europe and the United States, leadingeconomists analyze to
World mass migration began in the early nineteenth century, when advances in transportation technology and industrial revolutions at home enabled increasing numbers of people to set off for other part
Young people today have grown up living substantial portions of their lives online,seeking entertainment, social relationships, and a place to express themselves. It is clear thatparticipation in onli
In the many studies of games and young people's use of them, little has been written about an overall "ecology" of gaming, game design and play—mapping the ways that all the various e
An exploration of how issues of race and ethnicity play out in a digital medialandscape that includes MySpace, post-9/11 politics, MMOGs, Internet music distribution, and thedigital divide.
Young people today have grown up living substantial portions of their lives online, seeking entertainment, social relationships, and a place to express themselves. It is clear that participation in o
Today's dominant fast-food franchises spend millions to persuade us that they do it all for us, that we can have it our way. White Tower, the pioneering hamburger chain founded in 1926, never felt th
Genetically modified food, art in the form of a phosphorescent rabbit implanted withjellyfish DNA, and robots that simulate human emotion would seem to be evidence for the blurringboundary between the
Neither socialism nor free-market neoliberalism has been a very helpful model for Latin America, writes Javier Santiso in this witty and literate reading of that region's economic and political condit
