We live in an interoperable world. Computer hardware and software products from different manufacturers can exchange data within local networks and around the world using the Internet. The competitio
Using the liminality of design -- its unesasy position between creativiity and commerce -- to explore the network economy. The network economy presents itself in the transactions of electronic comme
Much of the business transacted on the Web today takes place through information exchanges made possible by using documents as interfaces. For example, what seems to be a simple purchase from an onlin
Numerical Techniques in Finance is an innovative book that shows how to create, and how to solve problems in a wide variety of complex financial models. All the models are set up using Lotus 1-2-3; so
Signs, artwork, stories, and photographs from the March for Science Movement and community.In January 2017, an idea on social media launched the global March for Science movement. In a few short month
How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn, and the very foundations of education? What controversies surround the int
Today anyone can purchase technology that can track, quantify, and measure the body and its environment. Wearable or portable sensors detect heart rates, glucose levels, steps taken, water quality, ge
Humans are no longer spectators who need to adapt to their natural environment. Ourimpact on the earth has caused changes that are outside the range of natural variability and areequivalent to such ma
A critical history of the modern tradition of documentation, tracing the representation of individuals and groups in the form of documents, information, and data.In this book, Ronald Day offers a crit
The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science andtechnology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travelunchanged from the globa
Climate engineering -- which could slow the pace of global warming by injectingreflective particles into the upper atmosphere -- has emerged in recent years as an extremelycontroversial technology. An
Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on thestate of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question, "What isdigital humanities?," it provides an in-depth examination of an
In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rightsactivists of the time in agitating for change. The engineers were fighting to remake theirprofession, challenging th
"Human dignity" has been enshrined in international agreements and nationalconstitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians torespect human dignity and to
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, Soviet Jews emigrated in largenumbers to Israel. Over the next ten years, Israel absorbed approximately 900,000 immigrants fromthe former Soviet Union,
In 2006, young people were flocking to MySpace, discovering the joys of watchingvideos of cute animals on YouTube, and playing online games. Not many of them were watching networknews on television; t
Geologists in the field climb hills and hang onto craggy outcrops; they put theirfingers in sand and scratch, smell, and even taste rocks. Beginning in 2004, however, a team ofgeologists and other pla
Midcentury America was governed from the center, a bipartisan consensus ofpoliticians and public opinion that supported government spending on education, the construction ofa vast network of interstat
Kosovo, after its incorporation into the Serbian Republic of Yugoslavia, becameincreasingly restive during the 1990s as Yugoslavia plunged into internal war and Kosovo's ethnicAlbanian residents (Koso
Health Economics combines economic concepts with empiricalevidence to enhance students' economic understanding of how health care institutions and marketsfunction. It views the subject in both microec
Why does reason matter, if (as many people seem to think) in the end everything comesdown to blind faith or gut instinct? Why not just go with what you believe even if it contradictsthe evidence? Why
The European Union began with efforts in the Cold War era to foster economicintegration among a few Western European countries. Today's EU constitutes an upper tier ofgovernment that affects almost ev
Recycling is widely celebrated as an environmental success story. The accomplishmentsof the recycling movement can be seen in municipal practice, a thriving private recycling industry,and widespread p
Children are among the most vulnerable citizens of the world, with a special need forthe protections, rights, and services offered by states. And yet children are particularly at riskfrom statelessnes
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) and Philosophical Investigations (1953) are among the most influential philosophical books of the twentieth century, and also among t
"Superbly narrated and richly illustrated, this book is an excellent place to learn how robots are starting to take on a life of their own that will ultimately improve ours. The authors, two pioneers
East Asian countries were notably uninterested in regional monetary integration until the late 1990s, when the Asian financial crisis revealed the fragility of the region's exchange rate arrangements
"Environmental issues often span long periods of time, far-flung areas, and labyrinthine layers of complexity. In Greening through IT, Bill Tomlinson investigates how the tools and techniques of infor
In ThermoPoetics, Barri Gold sets out to show us how analogous, intertwined, and mutually productive poetry and physics may be. Charting the simultaneous emergence of the laws of thermodynamics in li
The battle over health care reform has reached a turning point. We can try to fashion new policies based on old ideas—or we can acknowledge today's demographic and economic realities. In Health
Still little-known in the United States, Richard Hamilton is a key figure in twentieth-century art. An original member of the legendary Independent Group in London in the 1950s, Hamilton organized or
I will recklessly endeavor to scavenge materials from these various fields with the single aim of producing a coherent, but open-minded account of attention, or bias versus sensitivity, or how the act
How do radical religious sects run such deadly terrorist organizations? Hezbollah, Hamas, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Taliban all began as religious groups dedicated to piety and charity. Yet once they
One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health carereform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problemseem almost intra
Is the artist's monograph an endangered species or a timeless genre? This critical history traces the formal and conceptual trajectories of art history's favorite form, from Vasari onward, and recons
Gabriel Orozco's work is sometimes considered uncategorizable; but his sculpture, photography, drawing, collage, and installations are unified by their devotion to the antispectacular, to the everyda
For decades the semiconductor industry has been a driver of global economic growthand social change. Semiconductors, particularly the microchips essential to most electronic devices,have transformed c
The nuclear winter phenomenon burst upon the public's consciousness in 1983. Added tothe horror of a nuclear war's immediate effects was the fear that the smoke from fires ignited bythe explosions wou
When we play the ancient and noble game of chess, we grapple with ideas about honesty, deceitfulness, bravery, fear, aggression, beauty, and creativity, which echo (or allow us to depart from) the at
Guns and Butter examines the causes and consequences of war from a political economyperspective, taking as its premise that a consideration of the incentives and constraints faced byindividuals and gr
