Today, when computing is pervasive and deployed over a range of devices by a multiplicity of users, we need to develop computer software to interact with both the ever-increasing complexity of the te
The field of forest economics has expanded rapidly in the last two decades, and yet there exists no up-to-date textbook for advanced undergraduate-graduate level use or rigorous reference work for pr
The project of all philosophy may be to gain reconciliation with time, even if not every philosopher has dealt with time expressly. A confrontation with the passing of time and with human finitude ru
This book is a call for universal human rights and secular democracy in the Muslim world. It lays out why democratic change in Iran must be nonviolent, why womens' rights trump some interpretations o
We all know that we have to cut our "carbon footprint" and become more green-conscious. Farrelly (architecture, University of Sydney, Australia) admits that she is part of the problem, too. She puts f
In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public science. Chemical affinity played an important role in this process as a metaphor, a theory domain, and a subject of invest
The Gothic is the first anthology to survey the pervasive role of 'the Gothic' in current art and visual culture. Today's Gothic takes its cue not only from its historic themes - the supernatural, tra
In the 1990s, MIT began a billion-dollar building program that transformed itsoutdated, run-down campus into an architectural showplace. Funded by the high-tech boom of the 1990sand and driven by a pe
In Panpsychism in the West, the first comprehensive study of the subject, David Skrbina argues for the importance of panpsychism—the theory that mind exists, in some form, in all living and non
The provocative contention of the postmodernist and feminist essays in Ethics of the Body is that conventional bioethics is out of touch, despite its growing profile. It is out of touch with an ongoin
Everyone knows what the distinctive curves and lines of Frank Gehry's buildings look like. But where do they come from? Gehry has described drawing as his way of "thinking aloud"; Gehry Dra
World trade is governed by the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The WTO sets rules of conduct for the international trad
As the auto industry moves into its second century, it suffers from low margins and a sclerotic value chain that cannot evolve with customers' desires. Inventories of many weeks pile up in dealer lots
A systematic description of ideas, languages, and technologies that are central to the development of the Semantic Web, for use as a textbook or guide to self-study. The development of the Semantic We
The surge of inequality in income and wealth in the United States over the past twenty-five years has reversed the steady progress toward greater equality that had been underway throughout most of the
Wenda Gu is one of the leading contemporary Chinese artists of his generation. Known by some as "the hair artist" and remembered by others as the artist whose monumental installation
In this book Alice Amsden and Wan-wen Chu cover new ground by analyzing thephenomenon of high-end catch-up. They study how leading firms from the most advanced latecomercountries like Taiwan have incr
From 1973 to 1985, the Israeli economy suffered a deep crisis: the growth rate declined, foreign debt increased, and inflation soared to annual rates of a few hundred percent. This book analyzes the s
In the Guadalupe Dunes, 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of SanFrancisco, an oil spill persisted unattended for 38 years. Over the period 1990-1996, the nationalpress devoted 504 sto
Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attemp
Software agents are the latest advance in the trend toward smaller, modular pieces of code, where each module performs a well-defined, focused task or set of tasks. Programmed to interact with and pro
The philosophy of deep ecology originated in the 1970s with the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess and has since spread around the world. Its basic premises are a belief in the intrinsic value of nonhum
Encompassing Nathan Lyons's work from 1974 to 2000, this book consists primarily of a series of paired images. Found language, such as that on building facades and signs, plays a prominent role in man
This revelatory study is the most unexpected and vital piece of Le Corbusierscholarship to appear in years. Adolf Max Vogt looks to the early, formative years of thearchitect's life as a key to unders
The linguistic turn in German philosophy was initiated in the 18th century in the work of Johann Georg Hamann, Johann Gottfried von Herder, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. It was further developed in this c
An entertaining summary of the broad reshaping of U.S. corporate finance in the last decade and a half. The late 1980s saw a huge wave of corporate leveraging. The U.S. financial landscape was domin
This is the first volume of a new annual series that will present policy-relevant economic research on health care and health policy issues. The emphasis will be on less technical papers written prima
This is the first volume of a new annual series that will present policy-relevant economic research on health care and health policy issues. The emphasis will be on less technical papers written prima
The essays, selected from volumes 4-9 of the international journal Design Issues, focus on three themes: reflection on the nature of design, the meaning of products, and the place of design in world
You don't have to have a degree in computer science to enjoy this unique collection of funny stories, parodies, laughable true-life incidents, comic song lyrics, and jokey poems from the world of comp
Robert Morris is best known for his contributions to minimalist sculpture and antiform art, as well as for a number of influential theoretical writings on art. This collection of his essays from the 1
The legal foundation of the contemporary European security order is the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). Negotiated by NATO and the Warsaw Pact states as the Cold War was ending an
M. A. Adelman is one of the preeminent authorities on the economics of mineral resources. This book brings together his work, written over the past thirty years, on mineral depletion and the nature of
foreword by Martin Davis and Hilary Putnam In 1900, the German mathematician David Hilbert put forth a list of 23 unsolved problems that he saw as being the greatest challenges for twentieth-century m
This detailed analysis of a large, unified body of student drawings from the first public competitions of the Accademia di San Luca, held between 1675 and 1700, brings to light a critical juncture in
This is David Sudnow's classic account of how his hands learned to improvise jazz on the piano.David Sudnow is the author of Passing On and editor of Studies in Social Interaction. Since writing this
The essays in this book extend and elaborate on many of the important ideas Solow has either originated or developed in the past three decades. Robert Solow received the Nobel Prize in economics in
An Essay on Stress presents a universal theory for the characterization of the stress patterns of words and phrases encountered in the languages of the world. The heart of the theory is constituted by
Robots can play a major role in the service industries. And it is in that direction that robotics needs to turn, Joseph Engleberger asserts, not toward the routine factory jobs of the past. Engleberge
Robots can play a major role in the service industries. And it is in that direction that robotics needs to turn, Joseph Engleberger asserts, not toward the routine factory jobs of the past. Engleberge
