These studies of Colombian economic, political, and social institutions offer not only theoretically grounded analyses but also practical recommendations for policy reform. Experts from the United Sta
This book addresses a fundamental software engineering issue, applying formal techniques and rigorous analysis to a practical problem of great current interest: the incorporation of language-specific
A comprehensive theory-based approach to the treatment of text meaning in natural language processing applications. In Ontological Semantics, Sergei Nirenburg and Victor Raskin introduce a comprehen
This textbook teaches VHDL using system examples combined with programmable logic and supported by laboratory exercises. While other textbooks concentrate only on language features, Circuit Design wi
The contributors to this highly original collection of essays explore therelationship between food and architecture, asking what can be learned by examining the (oftenmetaphorical) intersection of the
In Tracing Genres through Organizations, Clay Spinuzzi examines the everyday improvisations by workers who deal with designed information and shows how understanding this impromptu creation can improv
A Social History of Engineering shows how social and economic conditions in each agehave precipitated advances in engineering. There are, in short, economic, political, andphilosophical implications i
Rushworth Kidder conducts wide-ranging interviews with 22 of the world's most compelling thinkers - artists, scientists, statesmen, and philosophers - asking each one this fundamental question: What a
The field of knowledge management focuses on how organizations can most effectively store, manage, retrieve, and enlarge their intellectual properties. The repository view of knowledge management emph
Theoretical and empirical analysis of de jure dollarization. With the persistent instability of international financial markets, emerging economies are exploring new ways to reduce exposure to capit
Until recently, researchers in economics and finance paid relatively little attention to household portfolios. Reasons included the tendency of most households to hold simple portfolios, the inabilit
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the mathematical foundations ofeconomics, from basic set theory to fixed point theorems and constrained optimization. Rather thansimply offer a colle
The fluidity of transboundary waters perfectly represents contemporary challenges to modern governance. This book offers conceptual and empirical support for the idea that the human relationship with
Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In Uncommon Ground, David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years
The author's central argument is that built environment is universally organized by the Orders of Form, Place, and Understanding. These three fundamental, interwoven principles correspond roughly to
In The Springboard in the Pond, Thomas van Leeuwen looks at the domestic swimming pool and discovers an icon indispensable to the reading of twentieth-century modernism.
Charles P. Kindleberger's rich and distinguised career has spanned nearly sixdecades. The essays collected here reflect the author's shift in interests from foreign exchange tointernational trade, eco
"Settlement Patterns" Founded in the early 1950s, Perspecta is the oldest and mostdistinguished of the student-edited American architectural journals that have appeared in recentdecades. Perspecta 30
This book, published in celebration of the 35th anniversary of MIT's LCS, chronicles its history, achievements, and continued importance to computer science. The Massachusetts Institute of Technolog
This volume will enable graduate students, scholars of PTAs, and policymakers concerned with trade liberalization to grasp the analytical relationships among the sometimes disparate contributions of n
From 1957 to 1972 the artistic and political movement known as the SituationistInternational (SI) worked aggressively to subvert the conservative ideology of the Western world.The movement's broadside
This text bridges the gap between general equilibrium and applied general equilibrium modelling through a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical underpinnings of the applied models. Topics include
The enigmatic, polyglot Hypnerotomachia Poliphili -- the inspiration for the bestselling novel The Rule of Four -- has fascinated architects and historians since its publication in 1499. Part fictiona
Collates research on Internet engineering and economics with the intention of establishing metrics for economic analysis of Internet transactions. The text covers the following issues: Internet econom
Paul Shepheard's previous book, What is Architecture?, was about making real,material things in the world -- landscapes, buildings, and machines. The Cultivated Wilderness isabout those landscapes, an
Implementation of Solar Thermal Technology describes thesuccesses and failures of the commercialization efforts of the U.S.solar thermal energy program, from the oil embargo of 1973 throughthe demise
"Controlling Our Reproductive Destiny" covers today's revolution in reproduction-controlling and reproduction-aiding technologies. It focuses on the ways in which science can now provide real procreat
To address contemporary issues, industrial relations as a field of study will have to take an increasingly international and comparative dimension.Accordingly, Employment Relations in a Changing Worl
These two volumes present empirical studies that have permanently altered professional debates over investment and productivity as sources of postwar economic growth in industrialized countries. The d
These two volumes present empirical studies that have permanently altered professional debates over investment and productivity as sources of postwar economic growth in industrialized countries. The d
These two volumes present empirical studies that have permanently altered professional debates over investment and productivity as sources of postwar economic growth in industrialized countries. The d
The Structure of Typed Programming Languages describes the fundamental syntactic and semantic features of modern programming languages, carefully spelling out their impacts on language design. Using c
In an intriguing synthesis of current theories of international finance, trade, and industrial organization, Paul Krugman presents a provocative analysis of the extraordinary volatility of exchange ra
Written primarily from the perspective of computational theory, Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance presents a synthesis of some major recent developments in grammatical theory and its applica
A collection of Fidel Castro's chief statements—letters, articles,interviews, press releases, proclamations, and decrees—from the late 1940s to the fall ofthe Batista regime in 1959.
This book tackles the difficult subject of wage determination in the labor markets ofhighly unionized and concentrated industries where the standard models of competition, monopoly, andmonopolistic co
How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today.Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that
How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being -- from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch -- can enrich our emotional understanding and experience.Western psychology is rooted in the philosop
Transboundary natural resource negotiations, often conducted in an atmosphere of entrenched mistrust, confrontation, and deadlock, can go on for decades. In this book, Bruno Verdini outlines an approa
Concepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of eleven influential concepts ranging from "environment" to "sustainable consumption."Concepts are thought c
