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
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
The project of all philosophy may be to gain reconciliation with time, even if not every philosopher has dealt with time expressly. A confrontation with the passing of time and with human finitude ru
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
The artist Francis Picabia—notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and polemicist—has emerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal, and one of the most enigmatic forces be
With her Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s, Cindy Sherman became one of the era's most important and influential artists. Since then, her metamorphosing self-portraits and appropriation of genres can
Activity theory holds that the human mind is the product of our interaction with people and artifacts in the context of everyday activity. Acting with Technology makes the case for activity theory as
An overview of approaches to working with musical scores in the age of computer-and especially Internet-applications. The Virtual Score examines a broad range of approaches to working with musical s
The fluidity of transboundary waters perfectly represents contemporary challenges tomodern governance. This book offers conceptual and empirical support for the idea that the humanrelationship with wa
"Long, intense years of immersion in the poetry and art of the Surrealist climate endow Mary Ann Caws' responses with what the Surrealists would have called authenticity -- a rare quality. Her present
Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture and Learning from Las Vegas (the latter coauthored with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour) are among the most influential books by any
This work elucidates the structure and complexity of human language in terms of the mathematics of information and computation. It strengthens Chomsky's early work on the mathematics of language, with
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
Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that there's not enough time to get our actual work done. At home, we are besieged by telephone calls on landl
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
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
Like any new parent, Joshua Gans felt joy mixed with anxiety upon the birth of hisfirst child. Who was this blanket-swaddled small person and what did she want? Unlike most parents,however, Gans is an
The past twenty-five years have seen a significant evolution in environmental policy,with new environmental legislation and substantive amendments to earlier laws, significant advancesin environmental
We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his
The artists of the seventeenth-century baroque period used spectacle to delight and astonish; contemporary entertainment media, according to Angela Ndalianis, are imbued with a neo-baroque aesthetic t
In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern world's unceasing demand for energy with the absolute necessity to preserve
The vast social apparatus of the computer network has aligned people with technology in unprecedented ways. The intimacy of the human-computer interface has made it impossible to distinguish technolog
with essays by Joseph Backstein, Iara Boubnova, Jurij Krpan, Ileana Pintilie, Kristine Stiles, Branka Stipancic, Igor Zabel, and others The earliest "body art" was created in Eastern Europe in the ear
In this technical monograph, Paul Postal deals with several issues that inexplicably have been treated only marginally in the development of current linguistic theorizing. He focuses on three problems
with photographs by Nigel Hicks China is a country of incredible diversity. Its widely varied habitats support a wealth of animals, birds, and plants that make this country biologically one of the ric
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
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
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
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
