Over 200 new terms have been added to this second edition, bringing the total to over 1,300 definitions. Many of the original entries have been revised, and comprehensive coverage is provided for fina
Sign Off takes on network coverage of Three-Mile Island, riots in Miami, sex, theselling of politicians, the "electronic church," hyped-up news programming, and more. It is thethird book by Ed Diamond
The essays in this volume offer a wide variety of fresh perspectives on the assessment of quality in science and technology. They proceed from the premise that while quantitative measures may be usefu
In this book, Granit explains the physiology of vision perception as an input system and motor control as an output system, with the goal-oriented brain mediating between. When Ragnar Granit was awa
From the time of its discovery, the new world was regarded by American settlers as a new Eden and a new Jerusalem. Although individual pioneers' visions of paradise were inevitably corrupted by realit
For some time it has been generally accepted by students of English grammar that a rule of Raising exists and that it functions to produce derived main clause subjects. Following Rosenbaum's work, it
Marine Hydrodynamics was specifically designed to meet the need for an oceanhydrodynamics text that is up-to-date in terms of both content and approach. The book is solidlybased on fundamentals, but i
The invited, original chapters by both American and British scientists make this an unusually up-to-date text which attests to the vitality of the present-day concerns of Earth scientists. During th
The objectives set forth by the passage of the Marine Resources and Engineering Development Act of 1966 marked a turning point in U.S. policy toward marine affairs, inaugurating a fresh set of active
A translation of Disneyland, by satiric Polish novelist Stanislaw Dygat. Stanislaw Dygat is known in Poland as a writer of gently satiric "light" novels and short stories. "His stance is one of deli
This haunting novel of Jewish, Polish, and Ukrainian partisans in German-occupied eastern Poland during World War II (originally published in Poland as Czarny Potok in 1954) tells a story of wartime r
Exchange-Rate Devaluation in a Semi-Industrialized Country analyzes the impact, of the exchange rate on the domestic economy and the balance of payments of Argentina during the period 1955-1961. It co
Essential texts on the work of the influential artist Michael Snow: essays and interviews spanning more than four decades. Few filmmakers have had as large an impact on the recent avant-garde film s
In the past, companies found success with a product-first orientation; they made a thing that did a thing. The Inversion Factor explains why the companies of today and tomorrow will have to abandon
Ignorance is trending. Politicians boast, "I'm not a scientist." Angry citizens object to a proposed state motto because it is in Latin, and "This is America, not Mexico or Latin America." Lack of exp
Let's say you're out of something, or you need something, or you want something. And, seemingly out of the blue, an ad pops up on your phone to say that very thing is now
The history-making development of the Chinese economy has entered a new phase. China is moving aggressively from a strategy of imitation to one of innovation. Driven both by domestic needs and by glob
This is a renaissance moment for video games -- in the variety of genres they represent, and the range of emotional territory they cover. But how do games create emotion? InHow Games Move Us, Katherin
In December 2009, the economist Kaushik Basu left the rarefied world of academic research for the nuts and bolts of policymaking. Appointed by the then Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, to be c
America is the world leader in innovation, but many of the innovative ideas that are hatched in American start-ups, labs, and companies end up going abroad to reach commercial scale. Apple, the supers
Gaming the System demonstrates the nature of games as systems,how game designers need to think in terms of complex interactions of game elements and rules, andhow to identify systems concepts in the d
After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized.There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo -- only a tacit agreement to disagree -- butthe debate now tak
For more than thirty years, Wu Jinglian has been widely regarded as China's mostcelebrated and influential economist. In the late 1970s, Wu (b. 1930) was one of a small group ofeconomic thinkers who b
Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it works -- not only as anartistic medium but also as a way of knowing. It matters because how we understand what photographyis and how it wo
In this book, two leading authorities on the thalamus and its relationship to cortexbuild on their earlier findings to arrive at new ways of thinking about how the brain relates to theworld, to cognit
Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as though it were a radically new phenomenon unmoored from history. Yet all works of art were once contemporary to the artist and
After a long period in eclipse, documentary has undergone a marked revival in recent art. This has been spurred by two phenomena: the exhibition of photographic and video work on political issues at D
This book takes a single line of code--the extremely concise BASIC program for theCommodore 64 inscribed in the title--and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenonof creative computi
Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that wecomplain that there's not enough time to get our actual work done. At home, we are besieged bytelephone calls on landlin
The intrauterine device (IUD) is used by 150 million women around the world. It isthe second most prevalent method of female fertility control in the global South and the third mostprevalent in the gl
When Alfred Jarry died in 1907 at the age of thirty-four, he was a legendary figurein Paris--but this had more to do with his bohemian lifestyle and scandalous behavior than hisliterary achievements.
We are material beings in a material world, but we are also beings who have experiences and feelings. How can these subjective states be just a matter of matter? To defend materialism, philosophical m
Can a blind person see? The very idea seems paradoxical. And yet, if we conceive of"seeing" as the ability to generate internal mental representations that may contain visual details,the idea of blind
Most neurons in the brain are covered by dendritic spines, small protrusions that arise from dendrites, covering them like leaves on a tree. But a hundred and twenty years after spines were first des
In 1964, at age forty, Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) proclaimed that his years of writing poetry---of being "good for nothing," in his words---were over, and a brief but dazzling artistic career bega
"Superbly narrated and richly illustrated, this book is an excellent place to learn how robots are starting to take on a life of their own that will ultimately improve ours. The authors, two pioneers
Vowel harmony results from a set of restrictions that determine the possible and impossible sequences of vowels within a word. The study of syntax begins with the observation that the words of a sent
Vowel harmony results from a set of restrictions that determine the possible and impossible sequences of vowels within a word. The study of syntax begins with the observation that the words of a sent
The job of an art critic is to take perpetual inventory, constantly revising her ideas about the direction of contemporary art and the significance of the work she writes about. In these essays, whic
The battle over health care reform has reached a turning point. We can try to fashion new policies based on old ideas—or we can acknowledge today's demographic and economic realities. In Health
