City of Friends offers a practical, intelligent, and well-informed overview of what it means to be gay or lesbian. The authors seek to help gay men and women, as well as their families and friends, to
"If the automobile and airplane business had developed like the computer business, a Rolls Royce would cost $2.75 and would run for 3 million miles on one gallon of gas. And a Boeing 767 would cost ju
JUNE 18-22, 1990, JERUSALEM, ISRAELApplications. Implementation. Machines. Programming Methodology and Tools. Theory and Foundations. Deductive Databases. Languages. Parallel Execution. Relations with
Practical Parallel Programming provides scientists and engineers with a detailed, informative, and often critical introduction to parallel programming techniques.Parallel computers have become widely
Large transaction-processing applications, such as banking, flight reservations, telecommunications, and networking, demand increasingly high throughput and fast response times. Coupling multiple syst
Innovation is rapidly becoming democratised. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. These innovating user
This book examines why some international environmental regimes succeed while others fail. Confronting theory with evidence, and combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, it compares fourteen c
How do technology innovators, business executives and venture capitalists manage the technical elements of business risk when developing and launching new products? Overcoming technical risks requires
This collection explores the opportunities for and possible infrastructure in the United States: Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and the National Information Infrastructure (NII). The text i
An overview and critical analysis of the study of consciousness, integrating findings from philosophy, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience into a unified theoretical framework. The question of cons
An information ecology is a system of people, practices, technologies and values in a local environment. Like their biological counterparts, information ecologies are diverse, continually evolving and
These 13 essays by noted philosophers and social theorists continue a celebration and examination of Jurgen Habermas' unfinished project of reconstructing enlightenment rationality. Focusing on the cu
Fourteen articles by different authors describe digital audio and computer music systems made possible by advances in digital signal processing theory, hardware design, and programming techniques. The
The contributors take up applications of logic programming, logic programming and databases, theory of logic and functional programming, parallel executing of logic programs, implementation of logic p
Phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodolgy are two new and significant developments in modern sociological theory. Traditional sociology takes for granted that the social world has an objective ex
Recent work on the multimodal paradigm of speech processing examines such topics as the sensory integration of auditory and visual information and audio-visual speech processing by computers.
This is the most comprehensive English-language overview of the modern Chinese economy, covering China's economic development since 1949 and post-1978 reforms - from industrial change and agricultural
The projects and preoccupations of the Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson inspired this collaborative enterprise by artist, curator, scientists, and art critics. In his art, Eliasson explores our concep
This book explains the puzzling behaviour of exchange rates using models from microstructure finance and data from electronic trading. Historically, the fields of exchange-rate economics and microstru
According to Lars Lerup, architecture and architects must be rethought. The suburban metropolis has superseded the city and building materials are non-material: electricity, telephony, weather, time a
Recuperating a topic once central to philosophy, theology, rhetoric and aesthetics, this groundbreaking book explores the discovery of sameness in otherness. Analogy poses an intriguing ancient and mo
Economies evolve and are subject to sudden shifts precipitated by legislative changes, economic policy, major discoveries and political turmoil. Macroeconometric models are a very imperfect tool for f
During the Second Empire (1852-1870), Baron Haussmann and Emperor Napoleon III reconstructed Paris into the "City of Light". The government and other public institutions commissioned many photographer
During the Second Empire (1852-1870), Baron Haussmann and Emperor Napoleon III reconstructed Paris into the "City of Light". The government and other public institutions commissioned many photographer
Macroeconomics began as the study of large-scale economic pathologies such as prolonged depression, mass unemployment, and persistent inflation. In the early 1980s, rational expectations and new class
This book lays out the fundamental structural issues of concern to creators and commissioners of sculpture, from balance and geometry to the structural characteristics of different materials. Schodek
In this examination of the political economy of economic policy determination and evolution in developing countries, Anne Krueger provides concrete insights into the interaction of economic and politi
"Industrial Efficiency in Six Nations" continues the research begun in Caves and Barton's "Efficiency in U.S. Manufacturing Industries", extending it to the international sphere and laying the empiric
Today's suburban metropolitan development of single-family homes, shopping centres, corporate offices and roadway systems constitute what Peter Rowe calls a "middle landscape" between the city and the
"Introduction to Object-Oriented Databases" provides the first unified and coherent presentation of the essential concepts and techniques of object-oriented databases. It consolidates the results of r
McClelland and Rumelhart's "Parallel Distributed Processing "was the first book to present a definitive account of the newly revived connectionist/neural net paradigm for artificial intelligence and c
In this book, Cynthia Solomon takes a welcome look at the possibilities and issues of learning with and about computers in schools or in any other learning environment.
Volume 2, Dependence and Interdependence, deals with international or external problems and its 20 essays are in four parts covering North-South Issues; Developmental Strategy: Import Substitution ver
"A Social History of Engineering" shows how social and economic conditions in each age have precipitated advances in engineering. There are, in short, economic, political, and philosophical implicatio
Proceedings of an international conference on the atomic mechanisms of fracture. Papers on cleavage, ductile, fatigue, and high-temperature mechanisms of fracture for metals, ceramics, and polymers, w
Democracy is not in steady state and democratizations are open-ended processes; they depend on structures and functions in systemic contexts that idiosyncratically evolve in tone, tenor, direction, an
Philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer has made major contributions to aesthetic theory, Plato and Hegel studies, humanistic studies, and the philosophy of history. A student of Martin Heidegger, Gadamer took
The Support Vector Machine is a powerful new learning algorithm for solving a variety of learning and function estimation problems, such as pattern recognition, regression estimation, and operator inv
The term 'eco-efficiency' describes business activities that create economic value while reducing ecological impact and resource use. This book outlines the principles of eco-efficiency and presents c
Presents an introduction to industrial organization theory along with applications and non-technical analyses of the legal system and antitrust laws. Topics include: the basics needed to understand mo
