An expanding array of hazardous substances poses an increasing threat to public health. But what makes our society a toxic culture are the social arrangements that encourage and excuse the deteriorat
An expanding array of hazardous substances poses an increasing threat to public health. But what makes our society a toxic culture are the social arrangements that encourage and excuse the deteriorati
This book investigates how citizens in the United States and Russia have used the democratic process to force their governments to address the horrendous environmental damage caused by the nuclear arm
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Japanese Economy was the first English-language encyclopedia to cover all major aspects of Japan's postwar economy. The second edition has been fully revised and expanded,
To understand the Information Age one must understand the concept of information as a resource. Like other basic resources such as energy and materials, information resources are building blocks of so
foreword by William O. Baker To understand the Information Age one must understand the concept of information as a resource. Like other basic resources such as energy and materials, information resour
Krzysztof Wodiczko, an avante-garde artist, is perhaps best known for the politically charged images he has projected onto buildings and monuments from New York to Warsaw - images of rockets projected
Although others have written eloquently on the relationship of water to built form, until now no one has investigated the swimming pool as a quintessentially modern and American space, reflecting Amer
Treaties and other international accords are a primary means of dealing with environmental problems involving two or more countries. Despite this, we know very little about what happens after states s
Ranging from broad inquiries into the roles of economics and sociology in the explanation of technological change to an argument for the possibility of "uninventing" nuclear weapons, this s
This paperback edition is not available in the U.S. and Canada. Many undergraduatetexts treat macroeconomics as a set of distinct topics rather than as a unified body of theory andempirical findings.
The author claims that many people approach hiring financial help the wrong way, opting to go on recommendations from family and friends, chance encounters or advertisements, rather than on sound rese
Few modern technologies are designed to stand alone. Because most machines must now fit into systems and be compatible with other technologies, the creation of standards has become a fundamental eleme
During the 1970s and 1980s most banking courses focused on either management or monetary aspects of banking, with no connecting. Since then, a microeconomic theory of banking has developed, mainly thr
Most English-language writing on Theodor Adorno has attempted to place him in various contexts and to differentiate him from other thinkers. Such work, while important, marks our failure to appropriat
In 1795 Immanuel Kant published an essay entitled "Toward Perpetual Peace: APhilosophical Sketch." The immediate occasion for the essay was the March 1795 signing of the Treatyof Basel by Prussia and
Theodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, "asthetische Theorie," was published posthumously a year later. Few philosophers have been as well versed in contemporary art, especially music,
One response to the current crisis in medicine-indicated by large variations in practice and skyrocketing costs-has been a call for the rationalizing of medical practice through decision-support techn
In 1994, the Asia Foundation's Center for Asian Pacific Affairs began a two-year project to compare the transitions of selected East European and Asian economies from centrally-planned communist syste
Shipwreck with Spectator traces the evolution of the complex of metaphors related tothe sea, to shipwreck, and to the role of the spectator in human culture from ancient Greece tomodern times.
This new edition of the hacker's own phenomenally successful lexicon includes more than 100 new entries and updates or revises 200 more.This new edition of the hacker's own phenomenally successful lex
This second volume of The Details of Modern Architecture continues the study of therelationships of the ideals of design and the realities of construction in modern architecture,beginning in the late
"The Theory of Incomplete Markets" provides a unified framework for analyzing the real, financial, and monetary sectors of an economy. It describes an innovative theory that takes into account the fac
"Copublished with the Institute of International Visual Arts, London"This anthology, edited by Cuban art historian and critic Gerardo Mosquera, offers a wide selection of writings by some of the most
A compendium of articles originally published in The Washington Quarterly between 1991 and 1995. They describe the changing nature of the problem of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, d
This well-balanced collection takes up the important issues in enabling widely available access to the Internet at a time of rapid commercialization and growth.This collection takes up the important i
These lectures by Yegor Gaidar, former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, and Karl Otto Poehl, former Chairman of the German Bundesbank, provide insight into how these leaders assessed the risk
These lectures by Yegor Gaidar, former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, and Karl Otto Poehl, former Chairman of the German Bundesbank, provide insight into how these leaders assessed the risk
These eight lectures by noted economist William Cline provide a clear and concise account of some of the most important macroeconomic issues facing the world economy. Designed for the nonspecialist bu
In Jumpstart two well-known German economists synthesize a vast body of literature to present the first well-structured, clearly argued analytical account of the reunification process and the policy a
This hypermedia CD-ROM provides an ideal format for the visual explanation of complex algorithms contained in the text Introduction to Algorithms, by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, and Ronal
essays collected from issues of the Washington Quarterly focus on important questions posed by the end of the Cold War, a changed Soviet Union, changing alliances, regional instabilities, and new secu
This book describes a novel, cross-linguistic approach to machine translation that solves certain classes of syntactic and lexical divergences by means of a lexical conceptual structure that can be co
Programming by Demonstration is a method that allows end users to create, customize, and extend programs by demonstrating what the program should do. Until recently most programming power has been in
The Gaia hypothesis suggests that life is an active participant in shaping the physical and chemical environment on which it depends. Scientists on Gaia is a multidisciplinary exploration of this cont
Machine Models of Music brings together representative models ranging from Mozart's "Musical Dice Game" to a classic article by Marvin Minsky and current research to illustrate the rich impact that ar
This anthology is a significant contribution to the debate over the relevance of Martin Heidegger's Nazi ties to the interpretation and evaluation of his philosophical work. Included are a selection o
This book is the first to provide a coherent review of current research in shared memory multiprocessing in the United States and Japan. Shared memory multiprocessors are becoming the dominant archite
Based on a fifteen-year study of manuscript sources from Europe and North America, Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montréal focuses on the interrelationships of three key elements of Montréal'
"A major contribution to the most important American debate of the 1990s-a 'must read.'"The computer pioneers and strategic planners writing in Technology 2001 discuss the collection of technologies t
