A comprehensive and accessible account of the U.S. estate tax, examining its history and evolution, structure and inner workings, and economic consequences. Governments have been levying some form o
A foundational analysis of the co-evolution of the internet and international relations, examining resultant challenges for individuals, organizations, firms, and states.In our increasingly digital wo
A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities.
Accessible and essential coverage of today's challenging, speculative, cutting-edge science from Quanta Magazine.These stories reveal the latest efforts to untangle the mysteries of the universe. Brin
A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and language.Linguistic
A comprehensive textbook that integrates tools from technology, economics, markets, and policy to approach energy issues using a dynamic systems and capital-centric perspective.The global energy syste
Analyses of the international climate change regime consider the challenges of maintaining current structures and the possibilities for creating new forms of international cooperation.The current inte
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of new information technologies, including mobile phones, wireless networks, and biometric identification, in the global refugee crisis.Today's global refuge
How highly abstract quantum concepts were represented in language, and how these concepts were later taken up by philosophers, literary critics, and new-age gurus.The principles of quantum physics --
The body may be the object we know the best. It is the only object from which we constantly receive a flow of information through sight and touch; and it is the only object we can experience from the
The mathematization of causality is a relatively recent development, and has become increasingly important in data science and machine learning. This book offers a self-contained and concise introduct
The history of the commons -- jointly owned land or other resources such as fisheries or forests set aside for public use -- provides a useful context for current debates over sustainability and how w
This is the first textbook to teach students how to build data analytic solutions on large data sets (specifically in Internet of Things applications) using cloud-based t
Vaccination has long been a familiar, highly effective form of medicine and a triumph of public health. Because vaccination is both an individual medical intervention and
This textbook offers a thorough and practical introduction to inductive logic. The book covers a range of different types of inferences with an emphasis throughout on rep
This book offers an accessible guide to the financial aspects of launching and operating a high-tech business in such areas as engineering, computing, and science. It exp
The task of archiving was once entrusted only to museums, libraries, and other institutions that acted as repositories of culture in material form. But with the rise of d
The ventral visual stream is believed to underlie object recognition in primates. Over the past fifty years, researchers have developed a series of quantitative models th
People have had trouble adapting to new technology ever since (perhaps) the inventor of the wheel had to explain that a wheelbarrow could carry more than a person. This l
Government subsidies to energy are widespread and represent a heavy burden on public budgets in many countries. Both producers and consumers may be subsidized; the most c
This book addresses an often-neglected aspect of the creation of VHDL designs. A VHDL description is also source code, and VHDL designers can use the best practices of software development to write hi
Susan Leigh Star (1954--2010) was one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades. In her work, Star highlighted the messy practices of discovering science, asking har
In the 1930s a series of seminal works published by Alan Turing, Kurt Godel, Alonzo Church, and others established the theoretical basis for computability. This work, advancing precise characterizatio
The visual arts are rapidly changing as media moves into the web, mobile devices, andarchitecture. When designers and artists learn the basics of writing software, they develop a newform of literacy t
How will our increasingly digital civilization persist beyond our lifetimes? Audioand videotapes demagnetize; CDs delaminate; Internet art links to websites that no longer exist;Amiga software doesn't
In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed theassumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life,looking at them instead as pro
This book offers a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of analyzingelectrical brain signals. It explains the conceptual, mathematical, and implementational (via Matlabprogramming) aspects o
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger are two of the most important--and two ofthe most difficult--philosophers of the twentieth century, indelibly influencing the course ofcontinental and analytic
In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersectingutopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was Chile's experiment with peacefulsocialist change und
An accessible yet rigorous introduction to the influential French philosopher Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of individuation.Gilbert Simondon (1924–1989), one of the most influential contemporary Fren
In Indefinite Objects, Luis Lopez presents a novel approach to thesyntax-semantics interface using indefinite noun phrases as a database. Traditional approaches mapstructural configurations to semanti
In this accessible and engaging introduction to modern vision science, James Stoneuses visual illusions to explore how the brain sees the world. Understanding vision, Stone argues,is not simply a ques
A book with 260 full-color illustrations offers an intriguing history of how the chaotic hodge-podge of signs littering the New York City Subway System was standardized thanks in part to a little font
