Noted novelists, poets, and essayists, including Samuel R. Delany, Min Jin Lee, Joy Harjo, and Zadie Smith, consider how we are shaped by the past.It is rare now for people to stay where they were rai
How the tools and concepts for making games are connected to what games can and do mean; with examples ranging from Papers, Please to Dys4ia.In How Pac-Man Eats, Noah Wardrip-Fruin considers two quest
On Warhammer 40,000, Britain's most excessive sci-fi franchise, and its vision of a hellish postindustrial future.In the grim darkness of the British imagination, there is only Warhammer 40,000.... Fe
Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.From 1892 until 1954, three cabaret-restaura
A memoir by a member of the Incredible String Band that charts a journey from hippie utopia to post-Woodstock implosion.Between 1967 and 1971 Rose Simpson lived with the Incredible String Band (Mike H
Insights from the history of numerical notation suggest that how humans write numbers is an active choice involving cognitive and social factors.Over the past 5,000 years, more than 100 methods of num
The politics of race in British screen culture over the last 30 years vis-a-vis the institutional, textual, cultural and political shifts that have occurred during this period.This book considers the
The philosophy of psychosis and the psychosis of philosophy: a philosopher draws on his experience of madness.In this book, philosopher and linguist Wouter Kusters examines the philosophy of psychosis
From newborn galaxies to icy worlds and blazing quasars, a behind-the-scenes story of how Palomar Observatory astronomers unveiled our complex universe.Ever since 1936, pioneering scientists at Paloma
The engineering ideas behind key twentieth-century technical innovations, from great dams and highways to the jet engine, the transistor, the microchip, and the computer.Technology is essential to mod
Technology scholars declare an emergency: attention must be paid to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.This book sounds an alarm: we can no longer afford
Newly commissioned texts on the work of the artist Agnieszka Kurant by Anselm Frank, Caroline A. Jones, Franco (Bifo) Berardi, and others.Agnieszka Kurant: Collective Intelligence explores the artist'
How the world―and the world of visual culture in particular―creates itself in a creative act that knows no economic return.How does the world form itself? How does it create itself as a world? And how
The notion of time travel marked by both possibility and loss: making the case for cultural research that is oriented toward the future.Visual Cultures as Time Travel makes a case for cultural, aesthe
A comprehensive analysis of GATS that considers its historical context, the national preferences that shaped it, and a path to a GATS 2.0.The previous two volumes in The Regulation of International Tr
The first introductory textbook in the emerging, fast-developing field of computational psychiatry.Computational psychiatry applies computational modeling and theoretical approaches to psychiatric que
Exploring feminist social media tactics that use humor as a form of resistance to misogyny, the affective dynamics of shame, shaming, and shamelessness.Online sexism, hate, and harassment aim to silen
The recreation of a landmark in 1930s documentary photography.Berenice Abbott's Changing New York (1939) is the career-defining book by one of modernism's most prominent photographers and a landmark i
Gabriel Catren is a philosopher and a physicist working at the Institut SPHEREScience, Philosophie, Histoire (Universit Paris DiderotCNRS, Paris).The great poets and thinkers of modernity described a
A new and extensively revised edition of a popular textbook used in universities, coding boot camps, hacker clubs, and online courses.The best way to understand how computers work is to build one from
Why environmental learning is crucial for understanding the connected challenges of climate justice, tribalism, inequity, democracy, and human flourishing.How can we respond to the current planetary e
A comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the economics of the production, distribution, and consumption of wine.Wine economics is a growing subfield that examines the economics of the product
Theoretical reflections on memory and prediction, linking these concepts to the role of the cerebellum in higher cognition.What is memory? What is memory for? Where is memory in the brain? Although me
A day in the inner and outer lives of a college professor, blogger, divorced father, thinker, and yearner.What would it feel like to wake up inside the head of someone who writes about science for a l
Documents, photographs, and artwork from the archive of Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, including material from their small avant-garde press Gaberbocchus.This monumental three-volume set documents t
How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression. Big data can be used for good--from tracking disease to exposing human rights violations--and for bad--implementing surveillance and c
A short, rigorous introduction to intermediate microeconomic theory that offers worked-out examples, tools for solving exercises, and algebra support.This book takes a concise, example-filled approach
A diverse group of scholars redefine constructionism--introduced by Seymour Papert in 1980--in light of new technologies and theories.Constructionism, first introduced by Seymour Papert in 1980, is a
Detailed answer keys to all 140 self-assessment exercises and solutions to the 173 odd-numbered end-of-chapter exercises in Intermediate Microeconomic Theory.This book accompanies Ana Espinola-Arredon
Artists, scholars, filmmakers, and writers revisit the films of Danile Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.Jean-Marie Straub (b. 1933) and Danile Huillet (19362006) met in Paris in 1954. Straub wanted to ma
A dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland.Castle Faggot is Derek McCormack's darkest and most delicious book yet,
The creative collaborations of engineers, artists, scientists, and curators over the past fifty years.Artwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural real
An interdisciplinary analysis of human interactions with mercury through history that sheds light on efforts to promote and achieve sustainability.In Mercury Stories, Henrik Selin and Noelle Eckley Se
The second edition of a comprehensive introduction to machine learning approaches used in predictive data analytics, covering both theory and practice.Machine learning is often used to build predictiv
A book at the intersection of data science and media studies, presenting concepts and methods for computational analysis of cultural data. How can we see a billion images? What analytical methods can
An engaging introduction to human and animal movement seen through the lens of mechanics.How do Olympic sprinters run so fast? Why do astronauts adopt a bounding gait on the moon? How do running shoes
The Game Boy Advance platform as computational system and cultural artifact, from its 2001 release through hacks, mods, emulations, homebrew afterlives.In 2002, Nintendo of America launched an interna
A critical inquiry into the politics, practices, and infrastructures of open access and the reconfiguration of scholarly communication in digital societies.The Open Access Movement proposes to remove
An investigation of the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life.Infrastructures--communication, food, transportation,
The final iteration of Rainer's dance rant A Truncated History of the Universe for Dummies, accompanied by texts offering a real-time account of Rainer's creative process.Choreographer and filmmaker Y
