A collection of recent writings by and an interview with a scholar and economic advisor who has helped shape an innovative program for social change and economic development. He recounts formative mom
Lectures on operations research and its use of probability theory. A collection of lectures from a special summer program at MIT's Operations Research Center treats topics in operations research for
Semantics of Programming Languages exposes the basic motivations and philosophy underlying the applications of semantic techniques in computer science. It introduces the mathematical theory of program
This book describes a theory of memory representation, organization, and processing for understanding complex narrative texts. The theory is implemented as a computer program called BORIS which reads
This book takes a single line of code--the extremely concise BASIC program for theCommodore 64 inscribed in the title--and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenonof creative computi
This book, based on a Work Session of MIT's Neurosciences Research Program, presents a balanced account of a controversial topic--the relative importance of genes, hormones, and environment in the for
Experts address "the development puzzle"-unprecedented growth coupled with unequal distribution of that growth across different countries-and focus on the importance of institutional arrangements and
Deepak Lal outlines and assesses the validity of a set of beliefs about third worldeconomic development that underlies the thinking of many politicians, bureaucrats, journalists, andacademics in both
Author of two widely-read books on the defense industry, Jacques Gansler takes a hardlook at the need to convert the industry from an inefficient and noncompetitive part of the U.S.economy to an integ
Tracing efforts to control unwanted sound—the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft—from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.Since the late nineteenth cen
Many disciplines, including philosophy, history, and sociology, have attempted tomake sense of how science works. In this book, Paul Thagard examines scientific development from theinterdisciplinary p
Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) is a special case in art. His life and works were inextricably linked in a remarkable practice that centered on the role of the artist within both the culture and the s
Carried out within the framework of the theory of generative grammar originated withNoam Chomsky in the 1950s, this book should be of particular interest to those either active in orconversant with th
An ancient tradition holds that Pythagoras discovered the secrets of harmony within aforge when he came across five men hammering with five hammers, producing a wondrous sound. Four ofthe five hammers
This book provides a comprehensive and readable account of the American system ofcontrolling the private use of land -- the public control of private development. It explains thegeneral, social, legal
Dreams have attracted the curiosity of humankind for millennia. In A DreamInterpreted Within a Dream, Elliot Wolfson guides the reader through contemporary philosophical andscientific models to the ar
Within the field of logic programming there have been numerous attempts to transform grammars into logic programs. This book describes a complementary approach that views logic programs as grammars an
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are increasingly expected to address environmental issues in their economic development lending. Yet the banks have been accused of failing to implement their own
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
Suspensions of Perception decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neu
Looking at ways to encode prior knowledge and to extract, refine, and revise knowledge within a neurocomputing system.Neurocomputing methods are loosely based on a model of the brain as a network of s
In this detailed account of what was happening within Surrealism during the crucial years 1938-1947, Martica Sawin documents the cultural transfer that took place when the greater part of the prewar S
In this detailed study, tax policy analyst Jane Gravelle, brings together comprehensive estimates of effective tax rates on a wide variety of capital by type, industry, legal form, method of financing
Markets for Power provides an unusually complete analysis of the economic, technical, and institutional aspects of the electric utility industry. The authors evaluate four currently popular options fo
This timely book surveys and illuminates the recent literature on industrial organization by contrasting the analyses based on the idea of "natural" adaptation of industry to environmental conditions
These autobiographical reflections by a major contemporary philosopher offer an enjoyable and enlightening tour not only of his own intellectual development but of the rich and fruitful collaboration
In describing the technical experiences of one company from the beginning of the computer era, this book unfolds the challenges that IBM's research and development laboratories faced, the technologica
As the need for more substantial mathematical training has increased among social science students, the lack of any adequate textbook between the very elementary and the very advanced levels has becom
A close examination of Bob Dylan's songs that locates his transgressive style within a long history of modern (and modernist) art.The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature recognized Bob Dylan as a major mod
A roadmap for integrating mindfulness into every aspect of social change: how to lead transformation with compassion for the needs and perspectives of all people.Gretchen Steidle knows first-hand the
This book brings together the most important contributions to its development to date, focusing in particular on how advances in type systems and semantic models can contribute to new language designs
The research reported in this book fulfills both a general and a specific purpose. Linear programming models are developed in order to improve the process of planning for economic development, both sh
This volume of case studies serves as a guide and reference manual for the application of engineering science fundamentals in the solution of chemical development and process design problems. The intr
Increasing concerns about the future of humankind that arise from threats of terrorism, nuclear war, and environmental destruction dramatize the fact that we must begin working collectively to change
A case study that uses a new technique for comparing the locational advantages of different regions for a set of strongly interrelated industrial activities.
University libraries have a long tradition of sharing the information they house among themselves and of making it freely available to scholars generally. This volume extends this tradition to the mod
