This book brings together his work, written over the past thirty years, on mineral depletion and the nature of monopoly in world oil. M. A. Adelman is one of the preeminent authorities on the economic
Jindrich Toman is especially adept at showing how characteristics of the spirit of the age, such as the ideal of collective activity, the idea of a synthesis of knowledge, and an emphasis on a sociall
In this text, Robret Barro applies his free market arguments to a diverse range of issues. These include global problems such as growth and debt, as well as social issues such as the predictive value
The first book to trace in detail the relationship between pre-1948 Yugoslav deviant views and their full development after Tito's break with Stalin in 1948. This is the first book to trace in detai
In 1973, Fischer Black, Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton pointed out that securities issued by a corporation can be priced as claims whose values are contingent on the value of the enterprise as a who
The Digital Divide refers to the perceived gap between those who have access to the latest information technologies and those who do not. If we are indeed in an Information Age, then not having access
In the late 1990s, Americans for the first time found themselves in the position of being able to choose an electricity provider. In this book, Richard F. Hirsh explains how and why this radical restr
"Suspensions of Perception" is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything r
For all of its iconoclasm, the Dada spirit was not without repression, and the Dada movement was not without misogynist tendencies. Indeed, the word Dada evokes the idea of the male--both as father an
In the first century BC, Vitruvius Pollio narrated a myth of the origins of dwelling. In a forest clearing, previously isolated and savage people gathered about the embers of a dying fire; from this g
Originally published in 1979, the author has revised this survey of Western Civilization to take the reader back to Asia Minor, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. He has also extended it to include the recent y
foreword by Lester Thurow Per capita income in Singapore has gone from $500 to more than $20,000 in a little over twenty-five years. Edgar Schein, a social psychologist with a long and celebrated rese
foreword by Lester Thurow Per capita income in Singapore has gone from $500 to more than $20,000 in a little over twenty-five years. Edgar Schein, a social psychologist with a long and celebrated rese
Colin Rowe is one of a handful of studio teachers of architecture and question the modern architecture as propounded by the giants of the early 20th century. Divided into three books, in more or less
Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, Andre Breton,wanted it to be seen: as amovement of love and liberation. In Compulsive Beauty, Foster reads surrealism from its other,darker side: as an ar
Driven by a desire to create a new basis for the study of language, a heterogeneous group of Czech, Russian, Ukrainian and German scholars who found themselves in Prague in the mid-1920s launched the
Regulatory reform had its beginnings in the United States in the 1970s, and today it is taking place around the globe. One of the central questions for industrial policy is how to regulate firms with
This sequel to Reform in Eastern Europe is a report on one of the most pressing issues for countries with economies in transition and their neighbors. Focusing on the problem of East-West migration, t
This important monograph summarizes, rethinks, and extends a decade of the author's work on therole assignments—the ways in which the roles implied by verbs of a given type play out in terms of
A Small Matter of Programming asks why it has been so difficult for end users to command programming power and explores the problems of end-user-driven application development that must be solved to a
HANDEY is a task-level robot system that requires only a geometric description of a pick-and-place task rather than the specific robot motions necessary to carry out the task. The system-building proc
This timely reader focuses on the broad foreign policy agenda that is emerging in the 1990s. Traditional as well as new policy issues are considered in light of the recent and far-reaching changes tha
A book like no other. The author (who is attached to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utrecht) writes from a deep knowledge of those diverse branches of classical/modern ma
Understanding how the shape of a three dimensional object may be recovered from shading in a two-dimensional image of the object is one of the most important-and still unresolved-problems in machine v
Why do architects still use the classical orders? Why use forms derived from ancient Greek temples when ancient Greek religion has been dead for centuries and when the way of life they expressed is e
The mobile tentacles of the Sundews, the snapping lobes of the Venus Fly Trap, and the slippery, baited pitfalls of the Pitcher Plants seem the stuff of science fiction, yet these amazing plants do e
"The actuality of the revolution: this is the core fo Lenin's thought and his decisive link with Marx." This essay on Lenin, which appeared in 1924, was intended to head off the massive criticism leve
Marco Polo was the first Westerner to describe the old capital of China in its granddesign, and the early Jesuits were the first to appraise its architectural values. George Kates isone of the last We
What it takes to be a genius: nine essential and contradictory ingredients.What does it take to be a genius? A high score on an IQ test? Brilliant physicist Richard Feynman's IQ was too low for member
A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater changes to the earth than any period in h
When Alfred Jarry died in 1907 at the age of thirty-four, he was a legendary figure in Paris -- but this had more to do with his bohemian lifestyle and scandalous behavior than his literary achievemen
What do we think about when we think about play? A pastime? Games? Childishactivities? The opposite of work? Think again: If we are happy and well rested, we may approach evenour daily tasks in a play
In life, uncertainty surrounds us. Things that we thought were good for us turn outto be bad for us (and vice versa); people we thought we knew well behave in mysterious ways; thestock market takes a
Birdsong may seem to us to be the purest expression of joy, but in fact when a malebird bursts into melodious song, he is warning off other males and advertising his availability tofemales. He may als
Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that there's not enough time to get our actual work done. At home, we are besieged by telephone calls on landl
Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska and raised in Oklahoma, but he belongs to Los Angelesin a way that few other artists do. Since the 1960s, Ruscha's iconic images of the cityscape andculture of Los Angel
A person with synesthesia might feel the flavor of food on her fingertips, sense the letter J as shimmering magenta or the number 5 as emerald green, hear and taste her husband's voice as buttery gold
The world is made up of structures too small to see with the naked eye, too small to see even with an electron microscope. Einstein established the reality of atoms and molecules in the early 1900s.
Like any new parent, Joshua Gans felt joy mixed with anxiety upon the birth of hisfirst child. Who was this blanket-swaddled small person and what did she want? Unlike most parents,however, Gans is an
With the extinction rate at 3000 species a year and accelerating, we can now predict that as many as half of the Earth's species will disappear within the next 100 years. The species that survive wil
