In the 1920s, the European avant-garde embraced the cinema, experimenting with themedium in radical ways. Painters including Hans Richter and Fernand Leger as well as filmmakersbelonging to such avant
Voters often make irrational decisions based on inaccurate and irrelevantinformation. Politicians are often inept, corrupt, or out of touch with the will of the people.Elections can be determined by t
In Operations Rules, David Simchi-Levi identifies the crucial element in a company’s success: the link between the value it provides its customers and its operations strategies. Operations Rules offer
In Digital Methods, Richard Rogers proposes a methodologicaloutlook for social and cultural scholarly research on the Web that seeks to move Internet researchbeyond the study of online culture. It is
In mid-twentieth century France, the term "social space" (l'espace social) -- the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricablylinked -- emerged in a variety of social science disciplines. T
A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or i
News stories report almost daily on the remarkable progress scientists are making in unraveling the genetic basis of disease and behavior. Meanwhile, new technologies are rapidly reducing the cost of
Louise Lawler has devoted her art practice to investigating the life cycle of artobjects. Her photographs depict art in the collector's home, the museum, the auction house, and thecommercial gallery,
Cyberspace is widely acknowledged as a fundamental fact of daily life in today'sworld. Until recently, its political impact was thought to be a matter of low politics--backgroundconditions and routine
Cyberspace is widely acknowledged as a fundamental fact of daily life in today'sworld. Until recently, its political impact was thought to be a matter of low politics--backgroundconditions and routine
What if Jacques Lacan--the brilliant and eccentric Parisian psychoanalyst--had workedas a police detective, applying his theories to solve crimes? This may conjure up a mental film clipstarring Peter
This anthology investigates the turn in art not only towards archives and histories,the relics of modernities past, but toward the phenomena, in themselves, of "haunting" andthe activation of memory.
The consideration of time or dynamics is fundamental for all aspects of mentalactivity--perception, cognition, and emotion--because the main feature of brain activity is thecontinuous change of the un
The use of open-source software (OSS)--readable software source code that can becopied, modified, and distributed freely--has expanded dramatically in recent years. The number ofOSS projects hosted on
Humans have bred plants and animals with an eye to aesthetics for centuries: flowersare selected for colorful blossoms or luxuriant foliage; racehorses are prized for the elegance oftheir frames. Hybr
What happened yesterday in the West is today being repeated on a global scale.Industrial society is replacing rural society: millions of peasants in China, India, and elsewhereare leaving the countrys
Voters often make irrational decisions based on inaccurate and irrelevantinformation. Politicians are often inept, corrupt, or out of touch with the will of the people.Elections can be determined by t
This book guides students through an exploration of the idea that thinking might beunderstood as a form of computation. Students make the connection between thinking and computing bylearning to write
Governing the Air looks at the regulation of air pollution not as a static procedureof enactment and agreement but as a dynamic process that reflects the shifting interrelationships ofscience, policy,
Governing the Air looks at the regulation of air pollution not as a static procedureof enactment and agreement but as a dynamic process that reflects the shifting interrelationships ofscience, policy,
Engineering, for much of the twentieth century, was mainly about artifacts andinventions. Now, it's increasingly about complex systems. As the airplane taxis to the gate, youaccess the Internet and ch
A Landscape History of New England takes a view of New England's landscapes that goesbeyond picture postcard-ready vistas of white-steepled churches, open pastures, and tree-coveredmountains. Its chap
Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement urges us to support sustainable agriculture by eating fresh food produced on
Roland Barthes's 1980 book Camera Lucida is perhaps the most influential book everpublished on photography. The terms studium and punctum, coined by Barthes for two different ways ofresponding to phot
Recent years have seen a series of intense, increasingly acrimonious debates over thestatus and legitimacy of the natural sciences. These "science wars" take place in thepublic arena--with current bat
The presence of sentience in a basically material reality is among the mysteries ofexistence. Many philosophers of mind argue that conscious states and properties are nothing beyondthe matter that bri
Much attention has been paid in recent years to the emergence of "Internet activism,"but scholars and pundits disagree about whether online political activity is different in kind frommore traditional
In the 1920s, the European avant-garde embraced the cinema, experimenting with themedium in radical ways. Painters including Hans Richter and Fernand Leger as well as filmmakersbelonging to such avant
Since the 1960s, Dan Graham’s heterogeneous practice has touched on such disparate subjects as tract housing, the Shakers, punk music, and architectural theory; he has made videos, architectura
In South Korea, online gaming is a cultural phenomenon. Games are broadcast on television, professional gamers are celebrities, and youth culture is often identified with online gaming. Uniquely in th
"Nervous systems do not live by the rate code alone. The ceaseless activities of groups of neurons are choregraphed into waves, oscillations, synchronized rhythms, and transient coalitions; it is thes
Environmentalists have always worked to protect the wildness of nature but now mustfind a new direction. We have so tamed, colonized, and contaminated the natural world thatsafeguarding it from humans
Marina Abramovic, the legendary performance artist, is legendary for a reason. Shehas spent four decades making traumatic and transcendent artworks using her own body as a material,breaking through th
The exchange rate is sometimes called the most important price in a highly globalized world. A country's choice between government-managed fixed rates and market-determined floating rates has signifi
The contemporary painter Gerhard Richter (born in 1932) has been heralded both asmodernity's last painter and as painting's modern savior, seen to represent both the end of paintingand its resurrectio
In this book, Norman Cantor analyzes the legal and moral status of people with profound mental disabilities—those with extreme cognitive impairments that prevent their exercise of medical self-
All organizations today confront data quality problems, both systemic and structural. Neither ad hoc approaches nor fixes at the systems level—installing the latest software or developing an ex
It has long been known that aspects of behavior run in families; studies show that characteristics related to cognition, temperament, and all major psychiatric disorders are heritable. This volume of
Many countries have experienced major economic changes since the mid-1980s as a result of the deregulation and liberalization of national financial systems—two key aspects of globalization&mdas
Scientists Debate Gaia is a multidisciplinary reexamination of the Gaia hypothesis,which was introduced by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the early 1970s. The Gaia hypothesisholds that Earth's ph
