After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a "pledge and review" approach: countries pledge (almost anything), subject to (unenforced) review. This approach ignores every
Camping can make us feel a powerful connection to nature and our rugged backwoods forebears. Campers once confronted the elemental facts of life, but now, the millions of
Big data is ubiquitous but heterogeneous. Big data can be used to tally clicks and traffic on web pages, find patterns in stock trades, track consumer preferences, identi
Big data is ubiquitous but heterogeneous. Big data can be used to tally clicks and traffic on web pages, find patterns in stock trades, track consumer preferences, identi
Voice leading is the musical art of combining sounds over time. In this book, David Huron offers an accessible account of the cognitive and perceptual foundations for thi
Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. InAttunement, Alberto Perez-Gomez calls for an architecture that can
With the coming of the parallel computing era, computer scientists have turned their attention to designing programming models that are suited for high-performance parallel computing and supercomputin
Computing is not simply about hardware or software, or calculation or applications. Computing, writes Paul Rosenbloom, is an exciting and diverse, yet remarkably coherent, scientific enterprise that i
This book revives and reinterprets a persistent intuition running through much of the classical work: that the unitary appearance of Obligatory Control into complements conceals an underlying duality
This book revives and reinterprets a persistent intuition running through much of the classical work: that the unitary appearance of Obligatory Control into complements conceals an underlying duality
All sciences need ways to classify the phenomena they investigate; chemistry has theperiodic table and biology a taxonomic system for classifying life forms. These classificationschemes depend on conc
Secretariats -- the administrative arms of international treaties -- -would seemsimply to do the bidding of member states. And yet, Sikina Jinnah argues in Post-TreatyPolitics, secretariats can play a
Secretariats -- the administrative arms of international treaties -- -would seemsimply to do the bidding of member states. And yet, Sikina Jinnah argues in Post-TreatyPolitics, secretariats can play a
Bioethics emerged in the 1960s from a conviction that physicians and researchersneeded the guidance of philosophers in handling the issues raised by technological advances inmedicine. It blossomed as
America's post--Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspiredpundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America nolonger perceived
In Zen-Brain Horizons, James Austin draws on his decades ofexperience as a neurologist and Zen practitioner to clarify the benefits of meditative training.Austin integrates classical Buddhist literatu
The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largelyin reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, revealed at the Nuremburg trials, and theTuskegee syphilis
The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largelyin reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, revealed at the Nuremburg trials, and theTuskegee syphilis
Germany enjoys an enviably green reputation. Environmentalists in other countriesapplaud its strict environmental laws, its world-class green technology firms, its phase-out ofnuclear power, and its i
This book presents linkography, a method for the notation and analysis of the designprocess. Developed by Gabriela Goldschmidt in an attempt to clarify designing, linkography documentshow designers th
Today, global land use is affected by a variety of factors, including urbanizationand the growing interconnectedness of economies and markets. This book examines the challenges andopportunities we fac
The development and deployment of cleaner energy technologies have become globalizedphenomena. Yet despite the fact that energy-related goods account for more than ten percent ofinternational trade, p
Despite its theoretical elegance, the standard optimal tax model has significantlimitations. In this book, Joel Slemrod and Christian Gillitzer argue that tax analysis must movebeyond the emphasis on
Modern moral theories have crystallized around the logic of individual choices,abstracted from social and historical context. Yet most action, including moral theorizing, canequally be understood as a
Light Show explores the experiential and sculptural nature oflight, tracing a historical trajectory of artwork that uses light to create specific conditions ofviewership. The book, which accompanies a
The emerging field of action science is characterized by a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches that share the basic functional belief that evolution has optimized cognitive systems
Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and holdproportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male "computergeek" seems to be everywh
Bioethics emerged in the 1960s from a conviction that physicians and researchersneeded the guidance of philosophers in handling the issues raised by technological advances inmedicine. It blossomed as
In today's complex digital world, we must understand new media expressions anddigital experiences not simply as more technologically advanced forms of "writing" thatcan be understood and analyzed as "
What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectricalactivity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysical, subjective, consciousstates? Christof Koch has
The recent financial crisis was an accident, a "perfect storm" fueled by anunforeseeable confluence of events that unfortunately combined to bring down the global financialsystems. And policy makers?
In Plato's Camera, eminent philosopher Paul Churchland offers anovel account of how the brain constructs a representation--or 'takes a picture'--of the universe'stimeless categorical and dynamical str
In this spirited and provocative book, Edward Leamer turns an examination of theHeckscher--Ohlin framework for global competition into an opportunity to consider the craft ofeconomics: what economists
Disease eradication represents the ultimate in global equity and the definitiveoutcome of good public health practice. Thirty years ago, the elimination of smallpox defineddisease eradication as a mon
Using the tools of information technology to understand the molecular machinery ofthe cell offers both challenges and opportunities to computational scientists. Over the past decade,novel algorithms h
Although William James declared in 1890, "Everyone knows what attentionis," today there are many different and sometimes opposing views on the subject. Thisfragmented theoretical landscape may be beca
In today's globalized economy, firms often consider offshoring when confronted byrising costs and fierce competition. One mode of offshoring has continued to grow despite thecurrent global economic tu
Since the 1960s, Dan Graham's heterogeneous practice has touched on such disparatesubjects as tract housing, the Shakers, punk music, and architectural theory; he has made videos,architectural models,
A Bayesian approach can contribute to an understanding of the brain on multiplelevels, by giving normative predictions about how an ideal sensory system should combine priorknowledge and observation,
In The Syntax of Adjectives, Guglielmo Cinque offers cross-linguistic evidence that adjectives have two sources. Arguing against the standard view, and reconsidering his own earlier analysis, Cinque
