In Fire and Memory, Luis Fernandez-Galiano reconstructs the movement from cold towarm architecture, from building fire to building a building with and for fire, through what hecalls a "metaphorical pl
This pioneering study reconceptualizes the impact of social organizations, economic conditions, and human agency on human reproduction in preindustrial communities in Europe and Asia. Unlike previous
Dolphin researchers have collected an impressive amount of data over the last twenty years, thanks to advances in technology for monitoring, recording, and analyzing dolphin behavior as well as increa
In recent years governments have paid increasing attention to weighing the socioeconomic benefits of regulations against their costs. Rules and regulations governing economic activity are typically fo
"Matthias Gross is in the business of rewriting modernity. Far from being a prescription for paralysis, not knowing becomes, in his telling, a springboard for wider participation, experimentation, and
It may have been true once that (as the famous cartoon of the 1990s put it) "Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet," and that (as an MCI commercial of that era declared) on the Internet
An exploration of how issues of race and ethnicity play out in a digital medialandscape that includes MySpace, post-9/11 politics, MMOGs, Internet music distribution, and thedigital divide.
While human capital is a clear determinant of economic growth, only recently hashealth's role in this process become a focus of serious academic inquiry. By marrying the separatefields of health econo
While human capital is a clear determinant of economic growth, only recently has health's role in this process become a focus of serious academic inquiry. By marrying the separate fields of health eco
Founded in the early nineteenth century by F. D. E. Schleiermacher, modern hermeneutics was designed as a means for interpreting texts in a way that emphasized the historical context of the interpreta
A comprehensive introduction to Support Vector Machines and related kernel methods. In the 1990s, a new type of learning algorithm was developed, based on results from statistical learning theory: t
The long-awaited new edition of a groundbreaking work on the impact of alternative concepts of space on modern art.In this groundbreaking study, first published in 1983 and unavailable for over a deca
A completely revised edition, offering new design recipes for interactive programs and support for images as plain values, testing, event-driven programming, and even distributed programming.This intr
In this book, Vaclav Smil argues that power density is a key determinant of the nature and dynamics of energy systems. Any understanding of complex energy systems must re
Many disciplines, including philosophy, history, and sociology, have attempted tomake sense of how science works. In this book, Paul Thagard examines scientific development from theinterdisciplinary p
A study of the labor market integration of highly skilled Soviet immigrants to Israel that formulates dynamic models of job search and human capital investment. After the collapse of the Soviet Unio
Over the past hundred years of urbanization and suburbanization, four key themes haveshaped urban and regional planning in both theory and practice: livability, territoriality,governance, and reflecti
The emerging metropolitan regional-equity movement promotes innovative policies to ensure that all communities in a metropolitan region share resources and opportunities equally. Too often, low-incom
In 1945, the United States was not only the strongest economic and military power in the world; it was also the world's leader in science and technology. In American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstru
In Cold War-era East Germany, the German tradition of science-based technology mergedwith a socialist system that made technological progress central to its ideology. Technology becamean important par
The purely philosophical concerns of Theodor W. Adorno's negative dialectic would seem to be far removed from the concreteness of critical theory; Adorno's philosophy considers perhaps the most tradi
In this book, Peter Diamond analyzes social security as a particular example of optimal taxation theory. Assuming a world of incomplete markets and asymmetric information, he uses a variety of simple
Researchers studying the role institutions play in causing and confronting environmental change use a variety of concepts and methods that make it difficult to compare their findings. Seeking to reme
As paper-based communication and transaction mechanisms are replaced by automated ones, traditional forms of security such as photographs and handwritten signatures are becoming outdated. Most securit
The bombings of the World Trade Center and the Oklahoma City federal building haveshown that terrorist attacks can happen anywhere in the United States. Around the globe, massacres,hijackings, and bom
Marius de Zayas (1880-1961), a Mexican artist and writer whose witty caricatures ofNew York's theater, dance, and social elite brought him to the attention of Alfred Stieglitz and hiscircle at "291,"
Covering a full array of topics in open economy macro and public economics, Fiscal Policies and Growth in the World Economy has been thoroughly revised and extended. The added material in this new edi
A detailed case study of how international environmental treaties can be made more effective. Combining theoretical analysis with a rigorous empirical evaluation of changes in the compliance process o
Mathematician, poet, philosopher, life scientist, playwright, teacher, JacobBronowski could readily be referred to as a Renaissance Man. But in the historical context thatwould do him a disservice: he
A book on human communication that is worthy of its subject must introduce the readerto the dynamic interaction of a number of diverse fields. Colin Cherry's book, over successiveeditions, has served
Our cities are “smart” and getting smarter as information processing capability is embedded throughout more and more of our urban infrastructure. Few of us object to traffic light control
The Pan Am Building and the reaction to it signaled the end of an era. Begun when themodernist aesthetic and the architectural star system ruled architectural theory and practice, thecompleted buildin
In the last two decades, people in a growing number of localities in the UnitedStates have developed grassroots ecosystem management (GREM) as a means to resolve policy problemsaffecting their environ
This is the first of two anthologies on international political economy drawn from articles published in the journal International Organization. The book is organized into four sections: Contending Th
In this detailed account of what was happening within Surrealism during the crucial years 1938-1947, Martica Sawin documents the cultural transfer that took place when the greater part of the prewar S
These essays all focus on and present new work in areas of research that FrancoModigliani has developed during his career - corporate finance, savings behavior, and macroeconomictheory. They are subst
These essays On Hegel's political philosophy are taken from Ritter's influentialMetaphysik and Politik. They discuss the importance of Hegel's evaluation of modernity by focusingupon his unique concep
Hiring financial help is a task that many otherwise savvy people approach the wrong way, opting to go on recommendations from family and friends, chance encounters, or advertisements rather than on so
Tracing efforts to control unwanted sound—the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft—from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.Since the late nineteenth cen
Throughout much of human history, changes to forest ecosystems have come about through natural climatic changes occurring over long periods of time. But scientists now find changes in forest cover dra
