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This lively introduction to computer science and computer programming in Scheme is for non-computer science majors with a strong interest in the subject and for computer science majors who lack prior

Kathleen E. Welch explores the profound changes in writing and discourse brought about by electronic forms of communication."We are commonly not aware of the complex history of orality and literacy an

foreword by William S. Cohen, U.S. Secretary of Defense Biological weapons pose a horrifying and growing threat to the United States and to the world in general. Revelations about Iraq's weapons resea

The goals of the annual NBER Macroeconomics Conference are to present, extend, and apply frontier work in macroeconomics and to stimulate work by macroeconomists in policy issues. Each paper in the An

The goals of the annual NBER Macroeconomics Conference are to present, extend, and apply frontier work in macroeconomics and to stimulate work by macroeconomists in policy issues. Each paper in the An

The classical age of economics was marked by an intense interest in scientific methodology. It was, moreover, an age when science and philosophy were not yet distinct disciplines, and the educated wer

Analysis of consumption and saving decisions by households has always been one of the most active areas of research in economics-and with good reason. Private consumption is the most important compone

Recent years have witnessed one of the most exciting and wide-ranging debates in monetary economics as some of the largest and richest European countries decide whether to replace their national money

This anatomy of financial crises shows that the worldwide debt crisis of the 1980s was not unprecedented and was even forecast by many. Eichengreen and Lindert bring together original studies that ass

The Battle to Control Broadcast News chronicles the power plays, fights, betrayals, and skirmishes behind the use and misuse of both the Fairness Doctrine, which required broadcasters to air news on c

The effects of a government's budget on society and the political economy are of considerable concern to economists as well as to consumers and taxpayers. The original contributions in this book analy

Frank Lloyd Wright often expressed a passionate contempt for America's great cities, reserving a special wrath for New York. And yet, as Herbert Muschamp argues with verve and conviction in this book,

A theoretical physicist at Cambridge, Douglas Hartree is best known for his work in numerical methods and the machines that could be used to calculate them with increasing speed and sophistication. Th

One of life's mysteries is how all normal children come to understand and speak their native language as quickly, easily, and spontaneously as they routinely do. The Language Lottery theorizes that li

The fascinating story of Le Corbusier's first housing project; what happened as people moved in and proceeded to live their lives over, around, and against the architecture.In the mid-1920s, at Pessac

This new edition of Carl Ruck's text keeps its experimental approach and felicitous style, while including substantial changes that make the material easier to teach and learn. The book has been conso

A brief, simple introduction to the theory of radiation and its application in astrophysics and a manual for researchers. The purpose of this book is twofold: to provide a brief, simple introduction

The first volume of Polya's papers deals with singular points of analytic functions and with other broadly related topics, such as conformal mappings, entire functions, and the rate of growth of analy

Papers on the location and behavior of zeros, including some of Polya's most influential work.The papers in this volume cluster about the following topics: the location of the zeros of polynomials and

This concise introduction to the economic theories of taxation is intuitive yetrigorous, relating the theories both to existing tax systems and to key empirical studies. TheEconomics of Taxation offers a thorough discussion of the consequences of taxes on economicdecisions and equilibrium outcomes, as well as useful insights into how policy makers should designtaxes. It covers such issues of central policy importance as taxation of income from capital,environmental taxation, and tax credits for low-income families. This second edition has beensignificantly revised and updated. Changes include a substantially rewritten chapter on directtaxation; a discussion of recent research in the chapter on mixed taxation; the replacement of thechapter on capital taxation with a chapter on the "new dynamic public finance"; andconsiderations of environmental taxation in both theory and policy chapters. The book is aimed atgraduate students or advanced undergraduates taking public finance classes as w

Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity.Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed

Case studies, personal accounts, and analysis show how to recognize and combat pseudoscience in a post-truth world.In a post-truth, fake news world, we are particularly susceptible to the claims of ps

In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti takes ideas from the enactive approach developed over the last twenty years in cognitive science and philosophy of mind and applies them for the first time to

What is the best way for a company to innovate? Advice recommending "innovation vacations" and the luxury of failure may be wonderful for organizations with time to spend and money to waste.The Innova

The brain and the nervous system are our most cultural organs. Our nervous system is especially immature at birth, our brain disproportionately small in relation to its adult size and open to cultural

Dennis Gossen is dead, a career in economics cut short by the Harvard Promotion and Tenure Committee and an apparent suicide. When two members of that committee are killed, Gossen's fiancee, Melissa S

Buildings, although inanimate, are often assumed to have "life." And thearchitect, through the act of design, is assumed to be their conceiver and creator. But what of the"death" of buildings? What of

Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable.In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of designthat is used as a tool to create not

In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with thisdilemma: how can we speak of "new media" and at the same time write the histories of thesearts? These scholars and practitioners redefi

The Tea Party and its allies celebrate the rogue states of the Southwest as a modelfor the nation in their go-it-alone posturing and tough immigration-enforcement talk. In BorderWars, dogged investiga

John Cage (1912--1992) defined a radical practice of composition that changed thecourse of modern music and shaped a new conceptual horizon for postwar art. Famous for his use ofchance and "silence" i

All day, every day, Americans seek information. We research major purchases. We check news and sports. We visit government Web sites for public information and turn to friends for advice about our eve

The idea of fashion under socialism conjures up images of babushka headscarves and black market blue jeans. And yet, as Djurdja Bartlett shows in this groundbreaking book, the socialist East had an i

Today democracy is both exalted as the "best means to realize human rights" and seen as weakened because of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the nation-state. In this provoc

This volume examines the Dada art movement, offering a behind-the-scenes account of the French avant-garde's riotous adolescence, with a timeline that begins with Tzara and Picabia and stretches to in

The United States and other nations are facing large-scale risks at an accelerating pace. In 2005, three major hurricanes—Katrina, Rita, and Wilma—made landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast

This concise but wide-ranging monograph examines where the conditions of binding theory apply and in doing so considers the nature of phrase structure (in particular how case and theta roles apply) a

We live in a world that operates on bits and bytes. Reality has become synthetic, a convergence of the material and the immaterial. The synthetic power of new media art—integrative, interdiscip

Today democracy is both exalted as the "best means to realize human rights" and seen as weakened because of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the nation-state. In this provoc

Almost Heaven tells the stories of the remarkable women who have bravely met twochallenges: the risk of space travel and the struggle to succeed in a man's world. From ValentinaTereshkova in 1963 and